June 27, 2007
The SF Board Of Supes Clown Show
An old crank's written a piece for the SFGate today either decrying or praising (we must confess we can't quite tell) our current crop of city supervisors as "a clown show."
A clown show? Why? Just because one guy who doesn't even live here owns every single kind of business that's being investigated by the city (oh, Ed Jew, a taxi medallion too?), another was spotted at the Drunk-n-Horny party, yet another posed in a local magazine in a Speedo, a fourth got made fun of on the Daily Show, and a fifth accidentally got himself sued? We're not even counting the sixth one, who doesn't ever show up to meetings except to tsk-tsk at the seventh. What makes that a clown show?
Of course it's a clown show!! That's why we love it! By contrast, the Bay Guardian, always the serious older sibling to our wacky youngest-child antics over here on the Internet, says the board is not a clown show, and the article wasn't funny. Okay, we'll admit we didn't really quite get the point of the Chron's article, except to rehash some wacky tales about the gays from an article the author wrote about the 1995 Board of Supes -- but ha ha ha! Clown show.
You can read the Chronicle's reader comments here.
Picture from Flickr by JEM Photography.
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not like Killer Clowns from Outer Space...More like Shakes the Clown where he takes a swig and proceeds to scare the kiddies
Without question, the Board is colorful. That's a good thing. Your number 7, though, is a petulant child, who makes the entire enterprise a laughing stock. WORST.SUPERVISOR.SINCE.DAN.WHITE.
Of course they're a bunch of clowns. That's why we love 'em.
How boring would it be if they were quietly managing day-to-day city affairs? I might as well move to Topeka. And Newsom is as a guilty as any of them (perhaps he learned it in his Supervisor days).
Kinda ironic that Ed Jew marketed himself as the get down to business anti-clown type. Lo and behold he's created the biggest three ring circus of the year. I love this city.
More like I*C*P. Chop,chop,sweng.sweng.