October 30, 2006
Insert Clever Feature Title Here
Since we've been doing a bunch of postings about our super-exciting congressional race, we'd love to come up with some clever title along the lines of "Everybody Hates Chris" but we are coming up with nothing. Sorry-- we're a little jet-lagged these days.
Needless to say, we do have some Pelosi & Pals news today as the Washington Post has a big feature on some anti-lobbying bill she's been working on for awhile that could see the light of day if she does become Madame Speaker. Lots of bans on travel and gifts are involved and we'll see what happens the moment she does become Madame Speaker. Our guess is that it'll pass with loopholes a' plenty.
Meanwhile, that weird disconnect between SF and the rest of the country over the "alleged" liberal-ness of Ms. Pelosi is becoming a national story as the LA Times is now reporting on it and from there, it made it's way to Wonkette. We love reading people snarking on the Bay Guardian from all the way in D.C.
Meanwhile, the Ignored Three-- Krissy Keefer (Green Party), Philip Berg (Libertarian Party) and Mike DeNunzio (Republican Party)-- are going to have a debate despite the lack of attendance on the person they're trying to replace. It will be Nov. 1 at 4 PM at the Luggage Store. The Luggage Store? Couldn't they at least pick a place that says political seriousness? Was the bowling alley at the Metreon booked? And at 4? Who's around at 4 to attend a debate anyways.
Afterwards, Krissy and her Krissy Korp are going to be headed to the Warfield where a fund-raiser will occur featuring Pelosi and the Man from Hope himself, Bill Clinton. The vigil is a "Funeral for Democracy" rally and everyone will wear black and light candles. Democracy's death, of course, is the result of a "dance-activist" who attends rallies for Fidel Castro and Hugo Chavez not being deemed serious enough to be asked to an official debate. If that isn't the death to democracy, we don't know what else is.
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Title suggestions:
- Nancy P and the Irrelvant Three
- Pelosi Watch - for Whom the Taiko Drum Tolls
- Crazy Eyes vs the Little Guys
- A Green, a Libertarian and A Republican Walk Into a Bar..
- The Limosine Liberal and The Hoopdie Three
Jon,
You're simply ignorant. You have no idea what the Luggage Store is because, like your reviews of local art and history, you don't know shit about anything.
Try and grasp this. The debate is at 4pm because the only person anyone is trying to get to debate is appearing across the street at 6pm. Thus, if she can be across the street to raise millions with a shill ex-prez (he appeared for Newsom too) at 6pm, couldn't she spare a few minutes at 4pm or 5pm for her opponents and the people of SF?
How's your new job working out? Were you surprised when you leaped from sports editor to boss in chief? How'd that happen?
h.
We snark on SFBG because there are a lot of former SFers in DC. It's what happens when you have the fastest growing job market in the country and the best job market for technology jobs. Not to mention all of us that left California to work for nonprofits. Take all the boring careerists parts of SF and put that into a swamp with sh*tty bars and the best indie music of 2001, and you have DC, mix in heaping piles of of underpaid Republican 20-something staffers living on mommy and daddy's money (because political jobs don't pay) and that's DC! (Can you tell I need to go back to California?)