August 27, 2007
The Latest Progressive Hope
Man, this dull-as-dishwater mayoral "race" is getting us in the blogging doldrums. Someone do something funny, quick!
Meanwhile, we'll pass along the news of the latest progressive hope for the Newsom mayoral steamroller juggernaut, Quintin Mecke. Mecke's the director of the Safety Network Partnership, active on homelessness and public safety issues, praises Project Homeless Connect, and has worked on Chris Daly's, Matt Gonzalez's, and Ross Mirkarimi's campaigns. His first order of business is going to be to implement uniform standards for homeless shelters and community policing initiatives.
Daly's endorsed him, as has Tom Radulovich on the BART board. (Does BART run to Alamo Square?) Matt Gonzalez, though, is holding off, saying he's not sure if any of the candidates have a comprehensive platform and wants to wait to endorse until he figures that out.
Meanwhile, the thing we found the most entertaining about this article was that the Chron called Daly "an archenemy of Newsom." "Arch enemy"? Who has arch enemies these days, besides, like, Batman? If that's how it's going down, Daly totally needs to regrow that mustache of his really, really long, so he can twirl it when he talks about Newsom.
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To be a good archnemesis, Chris Daly needs a Riddler costume, but with a bunch of exclamation points in lieu of question marks. And maybe not predominately green.
Does he wear Birkenstocks with dingy old white socks?
Does the carpet match the drapes? Damn!!!!!! He's SEXY (without the coke, Italian light whites, friends' wives, political machines, government kick backs, etc)!!!!!!!
Great, another single issue candidate supported by a limited constituency. At this point I'm starting to think that Chicken John is the unfortunate best hope for generating any interest in opposition to Newsom.
First order of business...some sort of thing for the homeless....Er, what about the other 750,000 people who live here dickhead?
if this clown was serious, why didn't he get in the race sooner? like way way before filing week?
he could have used the time to get to know voters better, and perhaps put together a real campaign. oh but wait he's supported by matt gonzalez who doesn't know how to run a winning campaign, or behave like an adult.
instead he's another joke candidate we're gonna have to listen to. thank GOD he won't make the cut for taxpayer dollars, so we won't have to pay for his nonsense. When Newsom kicks his ass, and he's crying for his mommy, let me know so I can laugh.
unfortunately chicken john might get the money, and that means we'll be paying for his "imported figs and top shelf booze" (his words) that he "cant figure out how to spend."
this "clown" is probably just getting some name recognition for a supervisor campaign in the future... a reasonable strategy...
oh god, a whole spawn of useless candidates, God please save us from these morons.
one good thing - all those stupid progressive gimmicks are going to be thrown out becuase when you tell people who are paying big taxes and getting lousy police, fire, and city services that now they gotta pay for a pack of fringe candidates' stupid campaigns, well then we can finally repeal all that crap and the rigged voting system too!!!!
bye bye "regressives" see you in heck.
Um. Wow. Another handsome progressive in San Francisco. Gotta love living here. Like his platform too.
"Arch-enemy"? Did the Chron even cover Daly and Newsom's semi-reconciliation?
Yeah! Who cares about homeless people! It's not like the homeless problem costs the city money, right? I mean who are we, as taxpayers, to care about other human beings? Why in heck should we have to help anyone goll dangit? The only way to handle it is to either ignore it and hope that they just disappear or we throw everyone in jail. I'm sure that won't cost anything, not to mention clogging the jails. I mean it's not our fault they might have a mental illness and no insurance in our great compassionate country. Jail is the best place for mentally ill people, right?
Why would we ever elect someone with direct experience with the barriers that mentally ill homeless people have to overcome? That would be silly. It's not like he was President of the Mental Health Association of San Francisco. Well, actually he was.
And as far as crime in the city, why would we elect someone who's Program Director for the Safety Network Partnership, a citywide public safety program that tries to develop community-driven responses to crime and violence? That would be silly.
I think we should all vote Newsom back in because of the stellar job he has done in reducing the homeless population by charging them and throwing them into jail. It has been so effective !
I think we should all vote Newsom back in because of the stellar job he has done in reducing crime in the city. He has been so effective !
I think we should all vote Newsom back in because of the stellar job he has done in maintaining affordable housing and rent control so that we all can actually afford to live here. After all, San Francisco should only be for wealthy people. Wh should San Francisco remain a compassionate, progressive, and equitable place to live?
That would be silly.
Dear anonymous guest number 11: You sarcastic rant ingnores one major thing: There are 435 more important concerns to the city above homelessness. The lack of priorities in this town's ploitics boggles the mind.
What marvellous ideas. Chris Daly in a riddler suit twirling his enlongated moustacio is possibly the only way the SF Board of Supervisors can become even more absurd!
Dear fizzandpop: 435? wow. that's alot. Is whining about the smell of urine and constant complaining that the homeless are making the city "ugly" among them?
I'd say that homelessness, crime, and affordable housing are hardly un-important priorities and are at least in the top ten along with MUNI.
BTW, affordable housing also includes homeowners/property taxes because you practically have to be a millionaire to buy anything here now.
What if instead of making the police lock people up for pissing, they were allowed to pursue gang activity and real crimes that endanger the public?
It costs the city far more in police wages, legal processing, and jail infrastructure than it does to provide drop in centers that provide bathroom facilities.
There is not a lack of priorities, they just might not be YOUR priorities. What exactly ARE your 435 more important priorities?
Or are you one of those, "everything is wrong" people who don't provide any possible solutions?
I don't know much about Quintin Mecke, but it seems quite apparent from his bio that he has spent A LOT of time devoted to helping people and being involved.
What do you do to help others?
What's that, you say? A rising star of San Francisco's homeless industrial complex is running for Mayor?
The city does have a homeless problem, and I believe reducing it should be a priority. However, another homeless activist, another poverty pimp, is not the answer. People like him make their livelyhoods from perpetuating homelessness. They are the people who turn this city into a mecca for bums all over the country. Ya, man, go to San Francisco. They give you free food, free clothes, free needles, and you can shoot up in the park and nobody hassles you! That's not what we need.
I'll second what guest 16 said! Must "progressive" necessarily mean "stupid?"
This city is a mecca for bums because they have easy access to herion, the police don't harrass them (unless they're in a super-rich-white hood) and the weather won't kill them.
I used to live in Chicago and whenever we saw a homeless person we'd think, if the winter doesn't kill 'em, the summer sure will. That's how the rest of the country takes care of their homeless problems.
Quintin is HOT. I'd jump his... er vote for him any day!!!!!