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Check it out, our new SF mayoral ballot, now with ranked-choice voting. It works like this: if for any reason Gavin Newsom cannot fulfill his reign as Mr. San Francisco...
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What of course nothing is a surprise, I'm happy that cocky asshole chicken john is not on there, act like a normal person and not like you mean something. That FOXNews thing was perfect because the nudist represents more time than that attention asshole deserves.
hahahaha, borninsf can write but not read apparently
Chicken John is listed on the ballot as "John Rinaldi".
At least by voting absentee, you don't have to keep reading those pestering pieces of political mail making you vote for people or propositions.
Bah. They should have at least listed "Chicken" as Rinaldi's middle name. Or something. I know he's a publicity hound, but you can't swing a dead cat in politics without hitting an attention whore. We have a long tradition of entertainers treating politics as performance art, from Dick Gregory all the way up to Stephen Colbert. Let Chicken John be listed as "Chicken John". Anything less is like saying Joshua Norton instead of "Emperor Norton. As some point the man becomes the sobriquet. Like Cher.
I may vote for the naked guy.
It all depends on how substantial his platform looks to me.
The reason he's not listed with a nickname is because after Jello Biafra ran for mayor in 79, Dianne Feinstein and her cronies changed the rules so that you could only be on the mayoral ballot with your legal name.
Yep! And Jello didn't do too badly, either. Not that I was around to see it, but I understand the campaign was quite the attraction. His slogan was "What if He Does Win?"
If that name rule is correct, then how is Quintin alowed to use that name? Surely it can't be his real name. No one in their right mind calls a kid Qunitin. Only people in Evelyn Waugh novels are called Quintin. I'm going to call him Tintin from now on, and pretend he's running on a fascist/colonialist platform.
I still suggest folks skip voting for the individuals and just vote NO on Prop. H (and whatever else flips your lid).
Yeah, why does Grasshopper get "Grasshopper" on the ballot but Chicken John doesn't get "Chicken?" I don't know about this legal name thing. I think maybe the city is biased against certain animals.
Can I write in Al Gore?
#9: Don't forget about Quinton "Rampage" Jackson, the Ultimate Fighting Championship light heavyweight champion. Slightly different spelling, but Rampage is definitly not an Evelyn Waugh character.
How did H. get away with not having to put his actual first name on the ballot?