Who Wants To Run For Mayor?
We'd have a sad face too if the Chron came out against our position on Question Time, some mayoral pipsqueak in Santa Clara was out to eat our Niners lunch, and our chief of staff had just resigned because he'd been clashing with our minder Peter Ragone! (Though for full disclosure, this picture's almost two years old.)
The latest news on the 2007 mayoral front? The Examiner went down to City Hall and got a list of the people who've currently declared their intent to run against Gavin. You've got:
--Rodney Hauge: who declared against Chris Daly for District 6 but didn't follow through. He ran for mayor in 2003 too, but seems to have dropped out before the actual election. Meanwhile, Hauge's been running (unsuccessfully) for the D-triple C.
--Robert McCullough: He lists his occupation as "homeless/champion of Jesus Christ."
--and Frederick Renz: a former mayor of New Jersey. We tried to look him up on Google but only found entries for a Frederick Renz who's active in early music circles.
Sadly, our candidate of choice, Joanna Newsom, has not yet thrown her whimsical knit cap into the ring -- but we can still hope!
More candidates after the jump, including the notorious Malinka Moye -- along with an explanation of the goat joke that Alex Clemens made on Usual Suspects this morning!
Picture off Flickr by kodama. Thanks to Digga Slidwell for pointing it out to us!
Other candidates who've declared:
--Matthew Mengarelli: a paint and drywall consultant. All we could find on him is a Google listing where he made public comments before the EPA.
--Antonio Mims: A slam poet from Hunter's Point who was profiled by the Chron six years ago. Here's a KQED profile of him too.
--and Malinka Moye: who ran against Daly for District 6 in 2002, and came in sixth. Moye got in some trouble with the Ethics Commission back then for accepting anonymous contributions. He was also featured in a Chron article last year about African-American men on the down low.
And the goat references? Well, commenter Kevin remembers Malinka and his incident with the goat cruelty claims. Moye was arrested for beating and killing a goat on Arkansas Street. He claimed he killed the goat and ate its meat to make himself stronger at the gym. Moye was also arrested for possession of cocaine, but claims he was framed.
We can't wait for the debates this time around! (You think Newsom'll actually show up, or will he try to hold them in "open forums" as well?)
FYI: Usual Suspects is running a helpful 2007 mayoral race page, which we plan to check frequently. They've also made their 2003 mayoral race page available for those of you who are either new in town or just want to reminisce.