Watching City Hall #467
Watching Krissy run for Kongress VII
(8-6-06)
“Krissy’s campaign won’t take off.
She’ll have a couple of events and
that will be the extent of it.”
(Jim Dorenkott … 3 weeks ago)
Yesterday was friday. I talked to Krissy early and couldn’t follow the meetings and events she had going for the one day. … She, Susan King and a number of members of the Peace and Freedom Party along with ANSWER and Code Pink tried to crash another closed-studio Pelosi event. “Invitation only!” Thus spake the guards who kept the people with the hard questions out of the gathering. Inside, Pelosi ripped off Keefer’s Art Army’s taiko drum contingent (”we need a strong, strong drumbeat coming out of California”).
You’re right in hearing drums, Nancy, but they’re not playing ‘for’ you … they are coming ‘after’ you. Randy Shandovil of channel #2 pulled the Green Party congressional candidate aside to talk about the Israeli invasion of Lebanon. She noted that the bunker mentality Pelosi, was allowing American foreign policy in the Middle East to be run by Israel and their American/Israeli Political Action Committee (AIPAC - spends 65 million yearly purchasing congression support). The interview was on the 6pm news.
Keefer moved on for an hour interview on KPFA, then for another hour with IndyMedia. She arrived early to Bulldog Salon with her ‘three witches’ contingent who huddled in the corner taking notes and planning. Down the center tables sat myself, Kimo Crossman, Richard Knee, Marc Salomon, Joe Lynn, Janet Tandy, Michael O’Connor, Charles Kalish, Jim Meko, Michael Strickland, Mike Denny and several more I forget. It was a great gathering. Knee told us about Josh Wolf’s vacant apartment and that Josh needed help to pay the rent while he’s incarcerated for our cause.
Most of the people at the Bulldog Salon are writers of one type or another. I’ve done nearly a thousand columns and I’m a baby at publishing with this group. The Feds attack on the 24 year-old Wolf is just a starting point. We all agreed on that. I suggested a fundraiser. Knee agreed, as did Michael O’Connor sitting across the table (there’s always more than one conversation going) and nodding. I carried the idea to the Keefer coven in the corner and Krissy immediately volunteered Dance Mission for the event (it will be August 19th … details will follow). O’Connor promised to scout for appropriate talent for the production. I blasted the idea to my ‘A’ list and Julian Davis emailed back to join the effort and establish funding goals (he thinks 12-15k which is lots, I thought, but within 24 hours I had pledges of 500 bucks). We agreed to offer the MC honor to Ross Mirkarimi who already has a hearing on the matter scheduled for August 10th at Rules Committee and has, also, been lead at the Board for halting the SFPD assault on the very existence of Press Passes and credentials (they’ve cut over a thousand of seventeen hundred passes). We’ve no firm committment there but we’ve just begun. We could ask Gonzo who along with his partner, Whitney Leigh stood behind Bulldog passes when the City shut us out.
Printer par excellence, Jim Meko and I went over plans for a little printing project I’ve had in mind and I ran back over to the corner for an approval from Krissy who acts as her own campaign manager. The conversation turned to a surprise birthday party Ross’s (much, much more than) significant other … the party that Evelyn Nieves had planned at the Fly on Divisadero at Fulton. I gave out invitations to an intriguing show that evening at the Great American. My daughter, Mona, cadged 15 tickets for Jens and I to distribute.
The evening brought the ‘Bjorkestra’ concert and a bevy of friends … Luke Thomas and Aimee Iura and her guy, Art and Jens Nielsen and Jeremy Bates of the Haight Ashbury Beat and Dr. John and Beth and Ania Wierzbowska and Robert Manes and Krissy and Charles Kalish … and proceeded to Ross’ event and back again to the Great American and there was Savannah Blackwell in a corner talking to Bruce Brugmann and Matt Gonzalez was there and Boris Delapene and Nicole Derst who’s headed to law school and Evelyn and Krissy and Bruce Wolf and John Rizzo who is your choice for the Community College District Board if you please, … and … Rosalind Lord and Julian Davis and Joe Lynn and Marc Salomon and Charles Kalish …
That was one day and I didn’t get it all down. Soooo, I just wanna say 3 things to Jim Dorenkott:
1. The Keefer campaign is not a joke. We’re going to win and we have a spot for you pulling a plow anytime you’re willing to admit this and join in. The sooner the better. Redirect your Green energy.
2. Stop diverting resources and spreading discontent. That’s no way to conduct a soccer team.
3. We love you and we want to ask you: “What are you dooooing to yourself!?!”
Go Green … Krissy for Kongress!
John Rizzo for Community College Board
‘Three Kims’ for SFUSD School Board
Todd Chretien for United States Senate
Jim Dorenkott for Mule
I’m thirsty
