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Last night, SF Mayor Gavin Newsom "officially kicked off his campaign" for governor of California 2010. That is to say, you'll see even less of Newsom over the next year or so. If that's even possible. Which is fine with us. Because "Mayor Nathan Ballard" has a nice ring to it. Oh, come now. Ballard is a funny guy. Period. And a smartypants too. And that's good enough for us.
Anyway, Newsom is the only Democratic candidate to officially throw his hate into the ring. Other likely Democratic contenders are Attorney General Jerry "Moonbeam" Brown, 71, and Los Angeles Mayor Antonio "Telemundo!" Villaraigosa, 56. But since Newsom is being hailed as "catnip for young Democratic voters," or so says Bill Whalen, research fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution, we want to know who you would pick out of the three.(We removed any possible GOP candidates because Republicans are, of course, PURE, UNADULTERATED EVIL WHO MAKE THE BABY JESUS WEEP.)
Oh, and feel free to voice your opinion with a pointless write-in candidate in the comments. (Oh, Frank Chu, you say? Wow. You're a scream.)
POLL CLOSED. Brown wins by a landslide.
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Newsom makes baby jesus puke.
Apparently we want Governor Moonbeam back.
With all the other shitty governors/governators we've had, are you really surprised?
Gavin Newsom is a turd. I'd sooner stick needles in my eyes than vote for HIM!
JERRY BROWN!
Wake me up if anyone gets within 10 points of Brown.
"..Newsom is the only Democratic candidate to officially throw his hate into the ring."
ha.
Dr. Freud, paging Dr. Freud...
I nominate whoever makes the best Artisan Cocktail.
As long as they don't call themselves a "mixologist."
Brown for governor.
. . . anyone who dated Linda Ronstadt has my vote. That woman could and can sing! Ooh! Baby Baby. How many babies were made when that song played?!
Now that I live in California, I was really hoping to choose between 135 candidates...
Let's see, morally bankrupt, puppet mayor of San Francisco, morally bankrupt, idiot mayor of LA or the kooky old guy with more experience in his pinky than the other two combined.
Newsom better get his Plumpjack busboy uniform pressed or get used to being a socialite - again.
Gavin Newsom: Coming soon to a dog park near you, Mill Valley.
Uh, that is kinda lame for Brock to not include any GOP candidates. I realize he loathes Meg Whitman and all, but her or the Bay Area's Tom Campbell -- and I guess Steve Poizner, too -- shoulda been included. If anything, it would demonstrate how (un)popular the GOP is among SFist readers. And what about John Chiang, the Democrat state controller? And I'm sure the Greenies have someone we've never heard of who we'll have fun mocking next year. (Matt Gonzales?)
Uh, calm down, my child. Uh, we'll have one for GOP ilk at some point in the future. Uh, ones that will include some of your favorite CA republicans.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Campbell_(California_politician)
Socially liberal like a democrat, but without all the taxes. SCORE!
Yikes! Campbell voted to impeach Clinton. For a blowjob.
Maybe he's evolved?
Campbell and Poizner are god-damn hippie tree hugging commie atheist liberals. Now that the republican's leadership are all Rush Limbaugh's bitches the chances of them nominating anyone who doesn't have complete shit for brains is pretty much zero. Which is a shame, really.
Assuming McCain isn't completely whipped from the election I could agitate for him and Colin Powell to start a New Bull Moose party and put some life back in conservative politics.
Amen. Kinda.
I don't really have any favorite Republican CA politicans -- well, I liked Richard Riodan enough when I was in college -- but I'm just a sucker for fairness. And whiskey.
california! uber alles!
Somewhere I remember reading that Jello Biafra admitted he thought Brown was okay in retrospect.
Just once, for one term, would someone non-political with brains and the gumption (did I just type that word?) just get in Sacramento and fucking clean shit up? I mean, fuck, can't we just wipe out all those pathetic small time, small minded fucks and start again? Fuck thinking about that damn little park for your constituents back home in Redding or the Inland Empire or the Sunset. I was born here, I will die here, but it's the "living here" part that's getting to be a weeeee bit frustrating.
For once, for one term, no more tree hugging, no more prisons, no more nothing. Just fix the EFFIN system. Someone just get in there and see if Prop 13 really is crippling CA. Look at Prop 98 while you're at it. Hey, hey, what about a constitutional convention? And redistricting? Let's talk about whether term-limits turned out to be good or shitty. Let's take 4 fucking years and talk about this shit, ok? Then, once the books are balanced and the house is in order, we can recommence with the hugging of trees (I likey trees).
I know, not gonna happen. But a boy can dream.
Where's mn Prozac?
Where's my Prozac?
Jerry Brown is the man for the job, out of the potential Democratic candidates.
Sid Tyler, the tough-as-nails councilman from Pasadena just retired this year. Maybe we can bring him back!
After dividing CA into two parts, northern and southern, Brown for the north and Villaraigosa for the south.
Any chance we can get Grey Davis back? The State was only partially f'd with him around.