June 12, 2006
What's Green and Bangs the Drums?
Like a lot of you, we stumbled into the election booth last Tuesday and discovered much to our surprise that we had to vote for Nancy Pelosi. Did we know that? Does she actually ever campaign here? We can't really recall ever seeing any ads or posters or even bumper stickers promoting Pelosi, like, ever. Is there anyone out there who could challenge her?
Well, have no fear, the Green Party is here.
Last week, the Green candidate for Congress, Krissy Keefer kicked her campaign into full gear after receiving the official vote in the Green Party primary. She did it the traditional way-- a speech and rally followed by lots of hand shaking and baby kissing. Eh, just joking. She baked a bunch of cookies ("Cookies for Congress!"), hopped in an RV with some friends, and drove around the city with her "Art Army" to bang taiko drums at various places. You can check out the Flickr account for more action packed photos. Didn't JFK start his congressional career in an RV full of taiko drum banging women? No wait, maybe we shouldn't have used JFK, women, and banging in the same sentence. Sorry.
And yes, we realize this story happened last week, but we were in Tahoe and, well, we just couldn't let the story slip pass. We mean, what if Keefer does put up a challenge to Pelosi and Pelosi has to respond by putting together her own "Art Army" to bang even bigger drums?
Keefer is an artist/activist who once sued the San Francisco Ballet School over size discrimination when they refused to let her daughter take classes because she was too big, thus officially cornering the Fat Ballet Dancer vote (side note-- we once tried to sue a soccer school for discriminating against us for not being very good, but the case was thrown out). She was also the source of a little internal Green conflict in that there were charges that the Greens were about to shunt her aside the moment Matt Gonzalez announced his intention to run for congress. Which he has yet to do and for which he keeps on denying that he will do.
We here at SFist can only hope Ms. Keefer stays in the race if only for the copy she is sure to bring.
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Keefer looks like a man. She's totally manish. She is also a total embarrassment.
Is that Man Ray manish or Manfred Man and the Earth Band manish?
Actually, I've met Krissy once, precisely at the same time I was dogging on the uber-gross "Not In Our Time" front group for the automaton, homophobic, anti-democratic RCP (Revolutionary Communist Party) to a mutual friend of ours. As a somewhat seasoned leftist, I was pretty impressed with some of her history and observations of these sects.
Not sure that makes her a good candidate, but she sure as a hell makes a good, political San Franciscan of the Raise Hell kind.
And I like that.
Considering Pelosi only got 30 percent approval ratings from the YearlyKos liberals, perhaps people like Krissy, in all of their very real style and down-to-earth flavor, represent a future more optimistic than the Democrats.
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Optimistic, sure. Practical? Eh ... put down the taiko drums and we'll talk.