Campers,

Get real. Kevin Ryan is going to look out for a fixed election? This is the Bush appointee who thinks Katherine Harris is cool? This is all a dog and pony show for an ugly hack whose entire staff hates him and quits in droves. He's trying to establish his anti-San Francisco stance with the national Republican party.

The only way to check out voting irregularities in this town is to check out the counting machines BEFORE they insert the first absentee ballot 3 weeks before the election. Oh yeah, Willie Brown, Jim Sutton and Jack Davis all agree on one thing. That would be that all close SF elections are won through manipulation of absentee ballots. They count them early, so's they'll know how many phony ballots to slide into John Arntz's counting room in the 72 hours before the live vote begins. The FBI, were they serious, would have been on the scene when the first absentee ballots were opened by the crew assigned by the Willie Brown appointed, DOE head, John Arntz. In a few hours they could have verified the count on the first thousand ballots by counting them by hand and then checking what the machines were saying. These voting machines are like the Hal 2000, they'll do whatever you want, including kill the crew.

The FBI lacks the smarts or will to really check out the SF ballot. This is strictly a PR move by a Bush clone. If they were serious, they'd have a team or two of roving programmers going to random polls and inserting dummy ballots to check how the machines are actually counting.

Go and vote anyway and, as they say at the 'Power Exchange': "Save your stub".

h.

"--District 6 candidate Manuel Jimenez confirms that he's not Latino, with a picture of his baptism."

BTW, with the exception of my Irish-American mother, and the Irish Priest, everyone in that picture is Mexican-American.

Just to clear things up for other readers: on Manuel's blog at http://district6supervisor.blogspot.com/2006/11/since-i-mentioned-it.html he writes "Jimenez is Latino the same way I'm British, that is, not at all." There's quotes around it, so it looks like he's quoting someone else saying that, but it's not clear who or what they're talking about, so it could be meant to refer to him. It's hard to tell.

yeah, between that quote and the quote in the earlier entry that said:

'Jimenez,' on the other hand is a lousy political name. Not only do I have to explain how it is pronounced, but also field questions about why someone who looks Irish, has a Hispanic name."

And hey, while we've got you here, we wanted to say that the stray cat style thing doesn't mean anything, we were just thinking about the Brian Setzer Orchestra when we were writing the entry. Is Brian Setzer Latino?