You could tell Mayor Gavin Newsom came in expecting the full costumed brigade this morning at Fourth Fake Question Time-- we definitely saw Gavin flinch when SFist Elaine saw him coming into the Excelsior Boys and Girls Club right at 2 p.m.. this morning and shouted out, "Holler!" -- but it was as chicken-free as a lunch at Cafe Gratitude, for the latest installment of Gavin Newsom's town hall meeting, this one on the topic of Youth and Families.

Well, on the bright side, Gavin actually took questions at this event. On the down side, it ended up being heavy enough on the wonk side that a baby started shrieking as soon as Gavin Newsom moved towards his mother and we thought, "We totally know you feel, little one." Here's our impressions from the day:

--Gavin was totally upstaged by the adorable hip-hop dancers that kicked off the event.

--Note to Dan Noyes: Gavin is perfectly happy to take unscripted questions from children ("Why is it the Boys and Girls Club and not the Girls and Boys Club?"). If you want to ask Gavin hard-hitting questions about, say, Ruby Rippey-Tourk, can the ABC 7 I-Team hire a 7-year-old reporter?

--State Assembly Rep. Fiona Ma brought her dog again.

Pictures after the jump (including one of Fiona's dog), along with the Bumblebee status report!

SFist Jim is going to kill us, since he sent us these pictures on the promise that we'd write something up about the panel that Sen. Leland Yee (above) and Assessor Phil Ting appeared on the other day about the dangers of foreclosure and predatory loans -- but we just think this picture is awesome. Whatever happened to that website "Are You Kidding Mee," that was devoted solely to the various scrapes that Leland Yee had gotten into?

Okay, for you, SFist Jim: Hey kids! Don't borrow more money than you can pay back!

Ah, the Aliotos -- they run this town! Patriarch Joseph Alioto was the mayor of San Francisco from 1968-1976, in office not only during the building of the Transamerica Pyramid but also through the Zodiac murders -- while daughter Angela Alioto is a former Board of Supervisors president (and chicken-suit renter), while granddaughter Michela Alioto-Pier is a current Board of Supes member (and Hottest Supervisor emerita -- hm, maybe it's time for us to do another Hottest Supervisor poll!), and the rest of them are all lawyers.

Well, there's now two more vying for elective office -- and hey, check this out. According to Fog City Journal, Joe Alioto is running in District 3, and Joe Alioto is running in District 3. Whaaa? It's like a Doublemint ad!

No, seriously: so Angela Alioto's son and current Police Commissioner Joe Alioto-Veronese (at whose wedding you may remember Gavin met the second of his four bad choices of the heart, Sofia Milos) is running for the State Senate District 3 seat that Carole Migden and Mark Leno are currently pushing and shoving each other for -- while Joseph Michael Alioto, Michela Alioto-Pier's brother, is thinking seriously about running in San Francisco District 3, for Supervisor after current rep Aaron Peskin terms out.

Next up for us: convincing Boutros Boutros Ghali to run for both seats too!

Picture of Alioto's Restaurant on Fisherman's Wharf, started by Joseph Alioto's uncle.

Don't forget, the next Fake Question Time (or, as we call it around here: FQT4) is this Saturday, April 21 at the Boys and Girls Club in Excelsior (163 London Street, x Excelsior Ave, one block off Mission). The meeting starts at 2 p.m. (not the usual 10 or 11 a.m.) and the topic is Kids and Families. Gee, you think Gavin'll let people ask questions this time? Drinks are on us if he does!

We're planning on being there (of course!) -- but, as GavinWatch asks, will the star of the show? Here's their latest video clip, about the town hall meeting on crime that Gavin told everyone he was definitely, absolutely going to, the day after FQT 3.

Uno, dos, tres, quatro!: the mayor's office has announced the fourth installment of his traveling lecture series, or, as he prefers to call it "the town hall open meeting where the public is not actually permitted to ask direct questions." Or -- as we prefer to call it -- FOURTH FAKE QUESTION TIME!!!

Guess Gavin's still not going to do Actual Question Time before the Board of Supervisors, huh? Were all those sweet words to the contrary to Cecilia Vega a lie?

You've seen how well all the three previous lectures have gone -- so come by and see the next! Do you have the guts to ask a question about Ruby Rippey-Tourk? Will the Bumblebee make another appearance? Only one way to find out!

Here's the stats: The meeting's in Gerardo Sandoval's District 11 (the Fightin' Eleven!), for Sat. April 21 at 2 p.m. Location? The Excelsior Boys and Girls Club (.pdf), at 163 London Street. London Street is one block off Mission and one block down Excelsior Avenue -- you can take the 14 Mission bus (.pdf). Our burning question: When will it be District 6's turn??????

And the topic? "SF Children, Youth, and Families." We're sure the chicken families will be out in force, anyways. (bonus points for any chicken that comes to 4FQT with a child dressed up as an egg!)

Picture of a 3FQT chicken from the District 9 health care non-town hall meeting by rock star Jerry Jarvis.

After weeks of playing coy, Danny Glover finally addressed the question about running for Mayor and said nyet to the whole idea. In a statement released to the press, Danny said "I have not considered, nor am I entertaining, the idea of running for mayor." That sounds pretty definitive, actually, not the usual kind of wishy-washy statement candidates make when they kind of sort of want to run but don't want to commit just yet. The Examiner's kind of funny but mainly not "San Francisco's Next Mayor?" bit had Glover listed at 450-1 odds anyways. That's slightly better odds than Wolfgang Puck but not nearly as good odds as Clint Eastwood or Larry Ellison.

We always thought the Glover thing was merely wish fulfillment for a lot of people wishing that someone, anyone, would run against Gavin and carry the progressive flag. But Luke Thomas said the whole thing was a bluff anyways, used to get people's attention away from a Matt Gonzalez campaign.

Still, the rumor was kind of fun and we feel sorry for the poor people who spent all their time coming up with a web site trying to get Danny to run. Just think what they could have done instead. They could have spent all that working on more important things, like a snarky site about celebrities or speculation on cylon mythology.

We gotta say, we got chills watching this video. Entitled "Walkaway Mayor," GavinWatch has compiled a collection of all the times a certain city official refuses to answer direct questions from the press. (And it's not just when Dan Noyes is talking too!)

Given that Gavin doesn't do press conferences where he actually takes any questions either, what's the reason for ignoring the questions he doesn't like? GavinWatch posits two theories: either the mayor's afraid to answer them (the "chicken Gavin" theory), or he just doesn't think he has to (the "jerk Gavin" theory).

Well, maybe Gavin, or least his press office, should start doing daily or weekly briefings or something -- just so we can get some kind of answers around here -- but meanwhile: mmmm, jerk chicken.

Update: When we originally called this post "Gavin's Rubber, We're Glue," we didn't mean THAT kind of rubber. How the hell did we miss this? Check out the first few seconds of anti-Gavin gumshoe Dan Noyes's ABC 7 video -- what the heck's Gavin doing with that Channel 2 mike?

Thanks to a faithful reader (and you commenters!) who pointed it out, via the Drudge Report (which labels it: "CAUGHT ON TAPE: SF MAYOR SIMULATES ORAL SEX ON TV CREW'S STICK MIC."). And we just want to say that SFist Jon is making us run the picture, despite both of our better judgments to the contrary.

--Original post: The hotness that is Dan Noyes! Everyone who's anyone is totally crushing out!

Well, except for one certain someone -- check out the latest video footage of the ABC 7 I-Team at a mayoral "press conference" yesterday, where a certain light-blue-tied city executive studiously ignores all of Hot Dan's questions about deaths at Laguna Honda Hospital with an increasingly tight smile, finally culminating in a no-eye-contact clipped conversation where Gavin for some reason will only talk to Dan in the third person, about how he's not going to talk to him anymore.

Mature! We can't wait for the next confrontation, featuring Newsom going, "I know you are but what am I?"

Picture still from the ABC 7 I-Team Blog footage. Video's 6 minutes long.

There's going to be some more clipboard-wielding petition signature gatherers near Burma Superstar, as a group of Geary Street merchants filed the official paperwork to launch a recall campaign against District 1 (The Richmond) supervisor Jake McGoldrick, for being insufficiently car-friendly. Insufficiently car-friendly? He only just biked to work for the first time in 2006!

The recall campaign, which is spearheaded in part by one of the six candidates who ran against McGoldrick for the Board of Supes seat and lost (David Heller), is focusing primarily on McGoldrick's support for closing down car access to Golden Gate Park for Healthy Saturdays and his failure to solicit community input on adding an extra bus lane to Geary. If the recall succeeds, Mayor Newsom picks the replacement. Man, bike- and bus-lovin' SF PartyParty's gonna go nuts about this.

The Committee To Recall Jake McGoldrick (as they're called; doesn't it sound like a bunch of people scratching their heads and being like, "Jake McGoldrick.... now who is he again?") is going to have to get 10% of Richmond registered voters to sign their petition in order to get the recall process started. That's about 3000-4000 people in the district, which is harder to get than you'd think. You may remember that Sophie Maxwell of District 10 faced a similar recall effort that fizzled out when almost 50% of the 6000 signatures gathered were found to be invalid.