Watching City Hall #464
Watching Krissy run for Kongress IV
(7–6-06)
“It doesn’t pay much, but you’ll get
more pussy than Frank Sinatra.”
“We played this place in Texas.
Huge place. Roof burned off.
That’s why they called it the ‘Skyline’.
There were 3 people in the audience,
plus, a one-armed go-go dancer
and two drunk waiters.
And, a fight broke out.”
(Martin Scorcese interviews Robbie Robertson)
I don’t know what the hell that has to do with local politics, but I loved the work Scorcese did in ‘The Last Waltz’, the documentary he did on ‘The Band’s’ last show at Winterland. I unwind most evenings at my buddy Jens (’the General’) Nielsen’s and his dvd collection is growing. Let me give you some homework. Buy ‘900 Nights’ (story of Big Brother and the Holding Company) and ‘Festival Express’ and tell me the core relationship of the two stories.
Pat Murphy and Ken Garcia lust for Daly
(silver beads send a message)
I picked up a set of ‘Daly’ beads at Chris’ kick-off last friday. I’ve been watching him wear them on sfgtv for the last couple of months and wondered what they’re about. I went to Eileen Left for an interpretation.
Eileen: “The green beads mean you support Chris. You know, re-elect Daly, that kind of thing.”
h.: “What do the silver ones mean? I’ve only seen Murphy and Garcia wearing those.”
Eileen: “They mean that the person wearing them wants to have sex with Daly.”
h.: “Reallly!?!”
Eileen: “Absolutely. And, notice that Murphy also keeps a yellow hankie hanging out of his rear pocket.”
h.: “Yeah, I’ve noticed that. What does that mean?”
Eileen: (shakes her head, pours a glass of chardonnay & kicks back in large swivel chair with a smile) “You are just too precious. (takes a joint and fires it up - blows smoke at the ceiling) You ask your friends at Salon tomorrow about that. (considers) Or, better yet, wear one.”
h.: (knows she’s playing him) “What about you? You always wear those cheap bright red beads when you dress funky. What do those mean?”
Eileen: (smiles) “Those are for showing your tits on the Jerry Springer Show.”
h.: (surprised) “What were you on Springer for?”
Eileen: (nods in thought as she sips her wine and smokes the joint) “I think the segment was called something like: ‘Imaginary literary hotties who hate their creators’ … something like that.”
Test trigger-happy cops for drugs
‘Steroid rage’ is real. People who do steroids are more aggressive. They are irrational. They have balls the size of marbles. And, they’ll drop the hammer on you in a heartbeat. So, why doesn’t the SFPD test its officers for steroid use?
Cause the POA is too strong
Every single City department operating emergency equipment subjects their employees to random drug tests. Every single one with the exception of the PD, I mean. There is absolutely no excuse for this. Let’s see a Police Commissioner broach the topic of drug testing at their next meeting.
All the cops’ problems in one breath
SFPD runs their entire operation as a physical and cultural disconnect from the citizens they are sworn to serve and protect. I submit that this is intentional so that members of their force won’t hesitate to shoot citizens. The 50’s ‘Copping by cars’ and ‘2 year rotation’ policies have resulted in cops who don’t know the people. It’s easier to shoot someone you’ve never met and have been taught to distrust. Oh, the department dresses their windows with programs that are lies. After expensive ‘public outreach’ within the City during recruiting, the red-neck selection committee regularly chooses 80% of new recruits from outside the City. More disconnect. Hiring alien mercenaries with no cultural affinity to the population they are paid to protect is never a good idea. Add to that, the POA’s opposition to civilianization, the willingness of the ‘brotherhood’ to lie and ignore evidence and turn an eye to rampant steroid use in the ranks … cutting the ranks of ‘Police Specials’ who actually do walk beats … refusing to hire a full compliment of officers because others need the overtime they’ve gotten for years to pay their mortgages in Walnut Creek. Poor leadership. Poor oversight. Arrogance. Drugs. Guns.
Let’s forget total reform. That’s not possible with Newsom as mayor. Let’s just make one single reform. Every cop on the department needs to know that if they shoot at someone, both they and the person they shot at will be tested for drugs. Even if you miss! Discharging a weapon while high on drugs and on duty should result in an instant dismissal from the department. Around here, the cops are higher than the crooks.
Odds and ends and odd ends
Reader asks about absentee ballot scams
Well Tony:
1. They mail them to vacant apartments.
2. Out of town executives, register from their Downtown offices.
3. They damage entire skid loads of ballots (Willie liked to hose em down), then
do ‘remakes’ behind closed doors.
4. They throw the evidence of fraud into the ocean.
5. The Executive Director is a total Downtown tool.
6. The Commission president is a major Uncle Tom.
Anyone who votes absentee is wasting their vote.
“I got on the 49 at 21st and Mission around midnight.
Of course, there was a Broadway show going on.”
(Jens)
Keefer works ‘Mime Troupe’s’ audience of 5,000
(Pelosi still stonewalls call to debate)
“Why does Housing Authority commission have 4 of 7 vacancies?”
(easier for Lennar to make 3 phone calls?)
Jim Gillespie to be indicted by SEC?
(Yellow Cab Mgr. biggest crook of all?)
Bay Guardian finally scores
“I don’t think you can say too much about
the impact on our national security.
Plug-in hybrids would probably make
as much difference as any weapons
we can come up with.”
(Bay Guardian’ Diana Scott interviews David Freeman)
“by 2013, when the trust is scheduled
to sever ties with the US Treasury.
It has already exhaused the $50 million
borrowing power it was also granted,
so for the next seven yers it only has
what it can raise philanthropically or
attract economically to rehabilitate
the remainder of the park.”
“What kind of bank finances loans
on property that can never be foreclosed?
Only enormous real estate firms
with very deep pockets
such as Forest City
(they’re the ones who destroyed Emporium Capwell - my insert)
can afford the Presidio scenario.”
(sfbg’s Amanda Witherell continues great edition)
Tim Redmond (who blocks my email - way to go pansy waist) and his staff had their best week of the year. If you haven’t read it, go get it. ‘Presidio bust’ by the aforementioned Witherell is a great x-ray of the continually developing Pelosi giveaway of the most valuable land on the face of the planet (and, the - hopefully - unintended consequence of creating a blueprint for the privatization of all nation parks) … witherell does a masterful job of describing the arrogance of the park’s developers but misses the point that these are the same developers working at other locations in our fair metropolis and that we, thus, definitely have some hammer with them. These are the people who handed Willie Brown 100k when Ammiano was breathing down his neck in ‘99.
Thing that Witherell didn’t get into is that the Trust can sell the 90% of the park containing all of the development. All they have to do is to fail financially by 2013. How hard can that be for Pelosi? You think she spent 25% of the money Congress gave her on building an inaccessible ‘tidal pool’ along the Bay because she thought that residents and tourists needed a third body of water to complement the San Francisco Bay and the Pacific Ocean? Nope, all designed for failure. They should call the useless little lagoon (high maintenance too), ‘Nancy’s Money Pit’.
It will work for what it was designed for. To turn the entire interior of the national park over to Pelosi’s rich developer friends. The woman is a snake and it is going to be just Ohhhh, so sweet to watch a true American patriot (Krissy Keefer) clean up the floor with her this fall.
Raise your hand if you think the Examiner is now, a complete pile of shit.
