SFist: Behold: Your SF Mayoral Ballot

Kay

Thu, 18 Oct 2007 12:35:10 -0800

How did H. get away with not having to put his actual first name on the ballot?

eightslosh

Thu, 18 Oct 2007 12:10:14 -0800

#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.

Ciaran

Thu, 18 Oct 2007 10:58:56 -0800

Can I write in Al Gore?

agirlsgirl

Thu, 18 Oct 2007 10:45:16 -0800

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.

RinconHillSF

Thu, 18 Oct 2007 10:15:29 -0800

I still suggest folks skip voting for the individuals and just vote NO on Prop. H (and whatever else flips your lid).

fizzandpop

Thu, 18 Oct 2007 09:25:08 -0800

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.

jwb

Thu, 18 Oct 2007 09:08:48 -0800

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?"

pancakebreakfast

Thu, 18 Oct 2007 08:35:56 -0800

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.

mariconsoy

Thu, 18 Oct 2007 08:01:20 -0800

I may vote for the naked guy. It all depends on how substantial his platform looks to me.

sangfroid826

Thu, 18 Oct 2007 00:51:15 -0800

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.

Akit

Thu, 18 Oct 2007 00:23:05 -0800

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.

Brock Keeling

Wed, 17 Oct 2007 22:20:31 -0800

Chicken John is listed on the ballot as "John Rinaldi".

pancakebreakfast

Wed, 17 Oct 2007 22:08:31 -0800

hahahaha, borninsf can write but not read apparently

borninsf

Wed, 17 Oct 2007 22:03:54 -0800

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.