Sue You, Sue Me, Sue It Together, Naturally

The spitball fight between the business community and the Board of Supes escalated recently as the Committee on Jobs and the Chamber of Commerce took things up a notch and sued the Board of Supervisors. Oh, why can't those crazy kids get along? Should we bring in Dr. Phil? The nature of the lawsuit is over the implementation of Prop I in 2004, or more like the lack of implementation of Prop I. Prop I, for those who can't remember and really who would, called for the creation of an economic impact report on any sort of law to be assessed before being voted on by the Board.

Well, the business types are saying that so far, no economic impact report has been reported and that the Board is still doing what it does so well, proposing this and proposing that without any sort of attempt at considering the impact. To make matters worse, the Board also passed a rule saying that the Board President, which would be Aaron Peskin, can decide himself when and when not to follow the rule. We the voters must have gotten confused on that proposition too.

In responses, Peskin told the Chron that the Chamber of Commerce is "woefully out of touch with reality" and that the suit will be quickly dismissed. Other city officials, including the man who is in charge of such things, City Controller Ed Harrington, also say there's nothing to any of this and that they're trying to follow the law. Gavin, of course, is AWOL-- probably holed up in some gin joint, listening to Sinatra, and bemoaning the fact that one ex is getting remarried and another decided to try and convert somebody else to Scientology.

See, Scientology jokes never get old.