Who Should Run Against Newsom

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There was a time when I had nothing good to say about the Supervisor.

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by: Bob Brigham @ Sun Jun 03, 2007 at 22:53:26 PM CDT

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Come Jake, if this is just going to be a debate, teach us what could be done.

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by: Bob Brigham @ Sun Jun 03, 2007 at 23:00:35 PM CDT

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Jake would make an interesting candidate (0.00 / 0)

And he's already facing the possibility of an election, with the Golden Gate Restaraunt Association and their ilk talking about recall. So, why not?

I'm proud to work for Kamala Harris for AG.

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by: Brian Leubitz @ Sun Jun 03, 2007 at 23:35:07 PM CDT

twice the accounts (0.00 / 0)

Twice the maximum contribution.

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by: Bob Brigham @ Mon Jun 04, 2007 at 00:16:39 AM CDT

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The question should be (0.00 / 0)

Who has the cajones to step up? They are talking a big game but when it's time to follow through, they defer. Well, they should think about this the next four years before they criticize Newsom.

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by: randymi @ Sun Jun 03, 2007 at 23:51:20 PM CDT

Jake is termed out (0.00 / 0)

Newsom is going to win, but McGoldrick could provide for great debates.

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by: Bob Brigham @ Mon Jun 04, 2007 at 00:14:07 AM CDT

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I saw Willie Brown (0.00 / 0)

I dod not make it to the convention, but I saw on the news that Wlllie Brown showed up wearing a green jacket no less. What gives?

By the way, looks like Kamala Harris had a kick-ass rally.

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by: randymi @ Mon Jun 04, 2007 at 00:19:39 AM CDT

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I didn't see Brown (0.00 / 0)

I heard great things about Kamala's rally. She's a class act and I also thought this was very gracious:

A spokeswoman for Harris said the office, while interviewing the 26-year-old for his potential promotion, discovered he had not passed the bar exam.

Further, spokeswoman Debbie Mesloh said, he had lied about attending law school in San Francisco and had forged a document that proved he was a student and qualified him for the law clerk job in the summer of 2005, for which he was paid $2,000.

"It's a sad story," Harris said. "He had a reputation as being a very nice person, and every time I saw him he had a smile. Unfortunately, it appears he didn't have the credentials to be working here." [...]

"We've seen movies about this," Harris said. "People pretend to be physicians and other things. I think being a prosecutor is one of the best jobs people could have, and the fact that someone would try to be a prosecutor at any and all costs doesn't surprise me.

"We wish him well," she said.

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by: Bob Brigham @ Mon Jun 04, 2007 at 11:09:16 AM CDT

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a pity her class act doesn't include fighting crime (5.00 / 1)

a pity her class act is all about looking good and attending society parties, and not about fighting crime....a criminal could come to town and commit crimes and Kamala won't prosecute..and for low level nuisance crimes, she doesn't even bother..but I guess fighting crime is bad on the nails.

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by: gregdewar.com @ Mon Jun 04, 2007 at 12:07:12 PM CDT

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mayhem keeps things interesting (0.00 / 0)

Otherwise I'd live in the burbs and have a yard.

It was only two weeks ago, some totally crazy guy all attacked me (of course, I'm virtual so he couldn't do any damage) and ran off. I followed a good ways back and saw him go into the 25 cent bathroom on Market at the Embarcadero station. When he went in, I called the cops and assumed they would be there waiting when he came out. Nope.

Next thing you know, he walks out, sees me a block away and runs at me. The 911 operator tells me to run in the hotel. He chases. The hotel security does nothing and next thing you know I'm being chased down some hallway at the back of the lobby and praying it doesn't dead-end at an elevator or something. But there is a door, I run out and he chases me around the block twice (I'm lugging my laptop and a huge camcorder and giving play-by-play to 911).

Twenty minutes later the cops finally showed up. I gave them my info, they never called back to ID or anything.

I'd start reform in of the justice system with the SFPD -- for a reason.

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by: Bob Brigham @ Mon Jun 04, 2007 at 13:36:39 PM CDT

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Jake can raise unlimited money (0.00 / 0)

Apparently, the recall is treated as an initiative, not a candidate race. So there are almost no restrictions on raising money. If there were political will behind his candidacy, Jake could use the recall as a serious springboard.

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by: sasha @ Mon Jun 04, 2007 at 18:14:20 PM CDT