Not Gonna Happen

After weeks of playing coy, Danny Glover finally addressed the question about running for Mayor and said nyet to the whole idea. In a statement released to the press, Danny said "I have not considered, nor am I entertaining, the idea of running for mayor." That sounds pretty definitive, actually, not the usual kind of wishy-washy statement candidates make when they kind of sort of want to run but don't want to commit just yet. The Examiner's kind of funny but mainly not "San Francisco's Next Mayor?" bit had Glover listed at 450-1 odds anyways. That's slightly better odds than Wolfgang Puck but not nearly as good odds as Clint Eastwood or Larry Ellison.

We always thought the Glover thing was merely wish fulfillment for a lot of people wishing that someone, anyone, would run against Gavin and carry the progressive flag. But Luke Thomas said the whole thing was a bluff anyways, used to get people's attention away from a Matt Gonzalez campaign.

Still, the rumor was kind of fun and we feel sorry for the poor people who spent all their time coming up with a web site trying to get Danny to run. Just think what they could have done instead. They could have spent all that working on more important things, like a snarky site about celebrities or speculation on cylon mythology.