Okay, okay, okay, okay -- we hear you about Laughing Squid's scoop that Chicken John running for mayor, folks! We were totally slammed at work today, that's why we're getting this up late.

Who's Chicken John? He's a local countercultural legend! He's a Burning Man guy, the former owner of the Odeon Bar, and he hosts Ask Dr. Hal on Pirate Cat Radio. We had absolutely no idea! (Steve Jones at the Guardian knew, though.)

And now he's running for mayor! On the platform that San Francisco needs more whimsy and art. Yay fun! Chicken John'll get along great with Chris Daly! Click here and here (you must use both pages) if you want to sign Chicken John's petition to qualify to run, and then email him so he can pick them up. He needs 1000 10,000* signatures by July 26th to avoid having to pay the $5000 fee.

Also, Josh Wolf wants to run for mayor. He says he'll wear a webcam 24 hours a day to promote open government.

After the jump: excerpts from Chicken John's mayoral campaign manifesto.

*Noted per the comment in our tips line from candidate C. John himself! Sorry about the mixup (.pdf, page 9) -- you need 1000 to run for supervisor, which is why we got confused.

Picture of Chicken John by Scott Beale/Laughing Squid. More info on the event this illustrates here.

With all the recent hoopla regarding national immigration legistlation, now might be a great time to get a perspective on immigration here close to home.

We're not sure how many SFist readers are the "stay at home on Friday nights" type, but if you are, you might consider checking out KQED Channel 9 at 8:30 p.m. on June 29. KQED, of which we're unabashed fans, has a documentary airing that should be really interesting.

Immigration Calculations is a film that examines the economic impact of immigration, specifically in the Bay Area.

The documentary follows four immigrants, all of whom are dealing with different challenges: a small business owner that originally from Mexico; a pair of Indian H-1B visa holders that are software engineers; and a chemist at a biotech company from Eritrea. Their respective situations will be analyzed by economic experts.

The program will run a few more times (check KQED's Web site), but, as they are often doing these days, the channel is also making it available for streaming, which you can access here (though it requires the dreaded RealPlayer, so we're hoping it shows up in our Comcast On-Demand as well)..

It is available en espanol, via second audio programming (SAP).

Hey, why is Gavin Newsom's face pasted onto an Oscar the Grouch body in that graphic? Because he's taken over 300 trash cans off the streets. Why? Because they had too much garbage in them. We know! It's nutty!

Newsom, in his defense, says that SF has more garbage cans than any other comparable city, and he thinks people are using them to throw away personal or commercial trash instead of signing up for garbage service. (We're looking at YOU, Ed Jew!) "I'm still pro garbage can!" Gavin says, hastily.

Supervisor Jake McGoldrick, though, isn't so pleased, calling for legislative hearings on the issue after getting a bunch of calls from angry constituents wanting their trash cans back. "What's next? Is he going to stop street sweepers from coming around because people are throwing their trash in the street?"

And business folks like always-popular sidewalk hangout Mitchell's Ice Cream say that after their garbage can got taken away, they've been forced as good neighbors to put out a big cardboard box by the store to pick up all the cups and napkins that their customers would otherwise leave behind. "For 35 years that can was there. It was a good can. Now it's gone completely. It doesn't make sense," he lamented.

The city says they'll leave garbage cans by hangout spots like MUNI stops and the like, but want to encourage businesses like Mitchell's to get garbage service instead. Why don't they just have rule-breakers (cough--Ed Jew--cough) get garbage service, but also leave some trash cans outside for folks like us who want to throw our finished cup of Mitchell's Mexican Chocolate ice cream away without going back into the store?

An old crank's written a piece for the SFGate today either decrying or praising (we must confess we can't quite tell) our current crop of city supervisors as "a clown show."

A clown show? Why? Just because one guy who doesn't even live here owns every single kind of business that's being investigated by the city (oh, Ed Jew, a taxi medallion too?), another was spotted at the Drunk-n-Horny party, yet another posed in a local magazine in a Speedo, a fourth got made fun of on the Daily Show, and a fifth accidentally got himself sued? We're not even counting the sixth one, who doesn't ever show up to meetings except to tsk-tsk at the seventh. What makes that a clown show?

Of course it's a clown show!! That's why we love it! By contrast, the Bay Guardian, always the serious older sibling to our wacky youngest-child antics over here on the Internet, says the board is not a clown show, and the article wasn't funny. Okay, we'll admit we didn't really quite get the point of the Chron's article, except to rehash some wacky tales about the gays from an article the author wrote about the 1995 Board of Supes -- but ha ha ha! Clown show.

You can read the Chronicle's reader comments here.

Picture from Flickr by JEM Photography.

SFist Christopher Rogers sends in this picture he got outside the bar Shanghai Kelly's (in District 3) last Thursday.

No other news to report, it's just a fun picture.

Sorry we're late on this one! Not much to report, just that Board of Supes president Aaron Peskin has named himself the chair of the Budget and Finance Committee after firing Chris Daly from the position, and proclaimed his intent to make it a "no-drama" budget approval process this time around.

Peskin and the rest of the gang then went ahead and approved a bunch of the proposed budgets for various departments, including Rec and Parks, the City Attorney's Office, the Elections Department, and the Assessor-Recorder's Office. Did the Friends of the Urban Forest make in it?

However, the new committee is also putting $5 million on hold for public housing until the next public meeting. That'll be quite an event! Did you say "drama-free," President Peskin?

There's Mary J. Blige above, singing No More Drama live.

We're hearing word about today's Board of Supes meeting!

So apparently Michela Alioto-Pier, without naming Chris Daly specifically, was going on and on about the need for civility at the Board of Supes, and introduced her code of conduct for members, like she's been saying she would.

Then Chris Daly gets up, and proposes his own code of conduct -- namely, one that 1) prevents fraternization between any city official and a person directly under their supervision; (2) provides penalties for intoxication at meetings, forums, and the like; and (3) sets tougher requirements for officials who do not attend or miss public meetings. Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!!!!!

Though -- Chris, Chris! You forgot one! What about a code that (4) requires all supervisors to show the press immediately the location where they shower?

Update!: Other folks chiming in: Chris Daly himself is blogging about it (along with some dish on Michela Alioto-Pier's childcare suggestions to him), the Guardian's on board, and so is Fog City.

Thanks to our civically-minded readers who passed this info along! The meeting is scheduled for Channel 26 at 9 p.m., right at the roll call for introducing new matters and before public comment.

Picture by Steve Rhodes.

For those of you still a few SFist obsessions back (before Ed Jew, around the same time as Jennifer Siebel, and after the District 6 election), Gavin Newsom's Fake Question Time neighborhood lecture series is still plodding along. Even the chickens aren't bothering to show up anymore!

Anyhow, chickens or no, they've just announced this month's session (.pdf), in Aaron Peskin's District 3, and it's on everyone at SFist's favorite topic -- MUNI! It's this Saturday June 30th at 10 a.m., at the Jean Parker Elementary School on 840 Broadway (x Powell). Your MUNI buses: the 30 and the 45 are your best bets.

Here's the press release in Chinese too (.pdf), just because it's cool.

Picture of an F Market by Jerry Jarvis from the SFist Flickr stream.

Matier and Ross have both our obsessions covered in tomorrow's column! (The column's dated for tomorrow's paper, but went live this evening which is why this is going up now.)

First off: Ed Jew! The Chron finally runs the story that accompanied the pictures of them being denied access to Ed Jew's alleged shower in his flower store from last week that were taken down. Alas, the pictures don't make another appearance, but M&R do say that they made an appointment to see the shower. The photographer came at the appointed time (unclear whether M or R showed up with the photog or not), at which point Ed said, "I don't know anything about this!" and bolted. Run, Ed, run!

In response, Jew's attorney told M&R again (no doubt with a deep sigh) that he's been advising his client not to talk to the press.

And next up: C. Daly!: What's cooking here? Well, did you guys read that Chron Two Cents "Career Advice for Chris Daly" that we told you guys about the other day? Did you notice the second piece of advice, from a "Josh Low" in the Mission, that Daly had good ideas, but should work on his communication skills? That's Chris Daly's brother-in-law!!!! Oh dear.

Picture from a reader, of someone trying to cover up the anti Ed Jew poster at Thursday's pro-Ed Jew rally.

Hey, newsflash! Gay people vote!

Taking advantage of this breaking news, Elizabeth Edwards, the wife of Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards, will be addressing the Alice B. Toklas LGBT Democratic club at their Sunday breakfast the day of the Pride parade.

On the bright side, that's great that national politicians are finally recognizing the power of the gay-friendly voting bloc! On the down side -- well, it's not like John Edwards is coming to speak. Everyone does really love Elizabeth Edwards, though, so it's cool.

Picture of the Edwardses from the John Edwards 2008 campaign

Yay! Tapioca Ed's back!

Puckish commenter KWillets passes along this picture, from yesterday's Ed Jew Open House in District 4. Originally posted on Craigslist, it's somehow gotten included on Ed Jew's own webpage.

KWillets has done everything on our Oh No, Ed Jew! coverage -- coming up with the name Tapioca Ed, dreaming up the LOLJEW pictures... we're just going to let KWillets cover the Ed Jew beat from here on out!

Thanks, KWillets! We're so excited not to be covering the Newsom cocaine thing, we can't even tell you.

We're already getting tired of this story. Can we please get back to the Ed Jew investigations? The only coverage we're enjoying is Bad Reporter's! (We're enjoying Bad Reporter's coverage very, very much, though. "No oxygen: He could die.") Here's the latest in Daly Fight 2007:

--Supervisor Michela Alioto-Pier is going to reintroduce a code of conduct for behavior before the Board of Supes. You may remember she introduced a motion to censure Daly for saying "f*** off" at a board meeting back in 2004, but it failed. The Chron's called for censure too.

--Aaron Peskin says he's already told Daly the whole thing was uncool and wants to leave it there. Yes, please. We can't take much more of this!

--Will this latest scandal take away district elections? Probably not.

--People around town seem less interested in the Newsom coke thing than they were in the Newsom sex/drinking thing, and kind of annoyed with Daly for bringing it up in the first place. Daly says (we imagine somewhat poignantly), "My [poll] numbers are already low. Now they'll hit rock bottom." Aw, we still love you, Chris! (though we understand he's not so happy with us right now.) Who else are we going to write about on the 'Fist? (Besides Ed Jew, of course.)

--The Chron also looks at other nasty political fights around the area, like in Oakland and Antioch. They blame the Internet.

--BeyondChron, by contrast, blames the Chron. (Thank you for the nice compliment about our Ed Jew coverage, Randy Shaw! Though we think the Chron's Ed Jew coverage has been awesome.)

--And while everyone else is talking about coke, people affected by Newsom's budget are still trying to get your attention. Affordable housing or the Friends of the Urban Forest? Is there no way to have both?

Picture by Jerry Jarvis.

In flipping through today's Examiner, SFist Jim snapped a picture of this picture, underneath the article about the Newsom-Daly drug use fight. We recognize Gavin Newsom, sure, but who's that other guy? That doesn't look like Chris Daly at all!

Look what we just got in the SFist editor's inbox!! Jury Duty with Ed Jew! This juror, being a good citizen, had to wait two days before the case resolved before being able to talk to us about it. We love you, juror reader!

By now, you’ve heard it reported that Ed Jew got called up for Jury Duty on Monday. Well, I was actually in his juror pool and got to see the whole thing go down! I was selected (he wasn’t. Something about residency, I guess?) so I have been unable to discuss it. But the parties settled yesterday, so the story of My Jury Duty With Ed Jew can now be told!

I started seeing him several times early Monday morning waiting his turn in the basement Juror Assembly Room at 400 McAllister. Every time I walked by him, I thought, "Haha! That guy totally looks like Ed Jew. Haha!" It’s kind of dark down in that basement area, and I had trouble distinguishing things. And why wouldn’t I? I had just smoked an enormous doobie walking from Civic Center to the Superior Court house.

But when we both got called up in the afternoon, to the bright lights and smaller quarters of an individual court room, it was unmistakable. Granted, he has gotten remarkably good at glancing back discouragingly at people who stare at him thinking, "Holy f***! Is that Ed Jew?" But I got in enough stares to know it was him. Hilariously, there was actually a moment at which the judge asked aloud, "Is anyone here not a resident of San Francisco?" Of course at that moment, Ed Jew doesn’t do or say s***.

And then the bomb that everyone in that court room who reads the papers or just loves his name is waiting for finally drops.

So what happened??? Click on the jump!

As this Sesame Street YouTube clip asks, who are the people in your neighborhood, Ed Jew? And -- good idea, commenter Apioca Ted! Here's a summary of the declarations filed by Ed Jew's neighbors:

--Barry Hermanson: Barry was the State Assembly candidate for the Green Party, and has lived a couple houses down from Ed Jew's "address" for 17 years. Barry met Ed when both of them were running for District 4 back in 2002. It was "somewhat of a shock" for Barry to learn that Ed Jew had been claiming to live on his block for the last few years. He's never seen lights on, garbage bins, or anyone parked outside of Ed's house after the tenants left.

--Neighbor Daniel: Has lived on the block for 20 years. Walks his dog twice a day every day past Ed Jew's "house," and on the late-night walk, has only seen one light on, which looks to be on a timer. Also noticed in early 2007 that the water was running continuously at Ed's place and called it in to the PUC.

More neighbors and neighborhood service people after the jump. Who are the people in your neighborhood? In your neighborhood? In your neighborhoooooooood?

This is all Ed Jew's fault. We were so distracted by updating you on the latest in his woes that we totally missed the news that we just got from a favorite reader that previous SFist obsession District 6 Supe Chris Daly threw one of his famous fits at the Board of Supes meeting today! NO! How did we miss this?

Over what, though? Over what?? All we've got is a news item from CBS 5 that says Daly introduced his Blue Angels ban resolution, claiming that the planes are dangerous, waste jet fuel in a time of climate change, and "traumatize people who have fled war-torn countries for the safety of San Francisco." Was this it? Or something else?

We're going to go watch SFGov TV and see if we can catch it live, since we've never been able to get the streaming video to work right on our computer. But if you've got the info on what went down, tell us! Tell us tell us tell us!

Update: Our source says it wasn't over the Blue Angels, it was over some budget item, around agenda item 30. Now what channel is SFGov TV on again? (26.)

Update again!: Okay, after reading descriptions of the speech, we agree, the title "meltdown" is probably an unfair characterization. We'll go with "oratory," and the folks who actually watched it can debate whether it was righteous or self-righteous in the comments.

Third Update!: Thank goodness for objective journalism -- there's accounts online now. On the one hand, Daly lamented the slashing of the budget for the neediest, and the Police Officers' Association is mad. On the other, Daly also implied that Gavin Newsom uses coke (which Newsom has denied), and the Newsom campaign and Aaron Peskin are mad. And there was nothing on the Blue Angels?

Picture of Chris Daly by Steve Rhodes.

Mayor Gavvy-Gav's finally gotten through the City Attorney's report about Ed Jew, and he's none too happy about it! This is cutting into Jennifer Siebel cuddle time!

Newsom told the Chron that Tapioca Ed better cowboy up on these residency questions if he wants to stay in office, challenging Ed to "prove it," characterizing the City Attorney papers as "very damning" and "quite condemning," and calling the evidence that Jew doesn't live in San Francisco "overwhelming." (We really have to urge you to read through these neighbors' statements if you've got a moderately-fast .pdf downloader on your browser, they're excellent. We totally want to move to this block of 28th Avenue, it sounds very friendly.)

Jew's lawyer says his client would say something if he wasn't so afraid of the DA, and furthermore, if he did, he's totally sure Newsom would have been satisfied. Yeah, since that whole "my father forgets to do things" explanation did so well when this news first broke. (Meanwhile, M&R report that the DA offered Ed a plea bargain, but Ed refused to take it.)

Ed showed up at City Hall today and voted on a bunch of things, but refused to take questions and had to be escorted out by the deputies because of the crush of reporters. Meanwhile, Newsom's like, how hard is it to prove you live in San Francisco, and furthermore, notes that he still wants to know what happened to that $40,000 in Quickly cash that the FBI's looking into too.

Picture by SFist Jim.

Thanks to SFist reader Captain Disco for investigating the truth about the Mike Gravel presidential campaign: the dangerous lunatic shot his horrifying commercials in our very back yards.

If you haven't been following along: Mike Gravel is an Eskimo or whatever who wants to spend the next couple years hooting and hollering at the country. His presidential campaign hasn't been doing so keen, so he's turned to the one medium guaranteed to have mass appeal: interpretive video art! In response, the country furrowed its brow; in part because the campaign ads make no sense, but mostly because they've never heard of this joker.

But Captain Disco, his keen senses no doubt honed during his rise through the ranks of the Disco Army, noticed a few clues in the ad. That crooked tree ... that windy beach ... the clammy atmosphere ... the stink of hobo ... why, that's none other than San Francisco's very own Spreckels Lake that that madman's just tossed a boulder into! The evidence, as indicated here and here and on Google street-view, is irrefutable.

So now the only question is ... who'll be the first one out to the lake to retrieve the stone, crack it open, and retrieve Mike's heart?

What's Ed Jew doing today, now that he's been excused from jury duty? This has got to be the first time anyone's been trying to get San Francisco jury duty, ever.

--The Chron's got the news on the City Attorney's quo warranto petition. Among the tidbits revealed: Ed Jew's wife has been taking a deduction on the Burlingame house as her primary residency for San Mateo County tax purposes -- and, hey, remember how Jew said the reason why no one saw him in the Sunset is because he left for his daily shower at the flower shop early in the morning? Well, it turns out Jew's next-door neighbor (.pdf) wakes up around 5-6 a.m. every day and has never seen anyone at Ed's house. Hey neighbor, if you're up, do you mind getting all those free papers littering Ed's driveway?

--Ken Garcia at the Examiner's been asking around too -- he brushes aside rumors that Jew was growing pot at the Sunset house but does report that he talked to a woman who sold a furnace to Jew earlier this year and said Jew was very open about not living in San Francisco. "I never thought anything about it except he had a weird name, until I read about him in the newspaper," she said.

--And we're busy reading the extremely-thorough papers and declarations filed by the City Attorney on Jew's residency. Late-night dog-walkers, eager would-be renters, folks who remembered the shooting at the tenants a few years back... and who knew Green Party State Assembly candidate Barry Hermanson (.pdf) lived on that block of 28th Avenue too? (most links in this paragraph .pdfs.)

Picture from Friday's pro-Ed rally by SFist Jim.

Hey, did you hear? City Attorney Dennis Herrera referred Ed Jew's case to the State Attorney General (Jerry Brown) for disciplinary action (.pdf). One of Jew's three lawyers is hoppin' mad. The picture's from SFMike and the two sound clips (30 seconds apiece) are from SFist Jim. Thanks, guys!

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What we're even more excited about, though, is the following Tapioca Ed sighting we received word of, from a reader from the San Francisco courthouse jury summons room!

Many were a-twitter today when Ed Jew showed up at the Hall of Justice this morning for jury duty. Apparently he received his summons at his Sunset "home" address. And apparently, he had to explain why he had not responded to his last four (4) jury duty summonses.

Oops! Ed must've missed those earlier summons letters in his bimonthly SF mailbox checks!

Send your Ed Jew tips this way -- we love to hear 'em!

Good thing we've got so many awesome Ed Jew rally pictures from last week -- so we can keep you up to date on the latest on Tapioca Ed!

--Matier and Ross report that it looks like everyone's going to punt to Jerry Brown to make the final decision about whether to throw Ed Jew out of office or not over the residency issue. Update!: City Attorney Dennis Herrera has punted. Hike!

--Meanwhile, Leah Garchik gets in on the fun, reporting that a reader asked her if Ed Jew's Canton Flower Shop sells..... forget-me-nots! Ha!

--Over in the blogosphere, Left in SF reports a case of spoofing in their comments where someone claimed to be commenting under the email address ed.jew@sfgov.org (with the comment "I'm going to jail."). We've had our own issues with spoofery, so please note that it is illegal to claim to be affiliated with a governmental entity when you're not, and as a result, we have to take action if we see something like that on our site.

--And finally! The SFJunto chatboard asks if we've got a Cantonese Mike Litoris incident in the Chron!

Picture by SFist Jim.

Man, we're bummed the Chron still hasn't put back up the pictures of the Canton Flower Shop and their stymied attempts to inspect the legendary shower in the back -- but we do have a new Matier and Ross column to summarize from the Tapioca Ed perspective: we call it M&R and Everyone We Know.

--First up -- Ed Jew himself: M&R repeat what faithful SFist readers recalled earlier this week: DA Kamala Harris hired Ed Jew as a consultant in her 2003 race against current Ed Jew attorney Bill Fazio.

One choice tidbit, though: M&R asked Harris's campaign manager where they mailed the checks for Jew's work, and he replied, after laughing, "I think we handed the checks to him. I don't think Ed's the kind of guy you mailed things to." Hey, Tapioca Ed picked up his mail every two weeks!

--Next, Chris Daly: Got so mad at District 5 Supervisor Ross Mirkarimi for not backing him up on the budget showdown with Newsom that other folks joked that they'd need to call in the SWAT team. Ed Jew connection: BoS prez Aaron Peskin was going to reassign Daly's position on the Budget and Finance Committee earlier in the week but got too busy with the Ed Jew arrest.

--And finally, Carole Migden: Has a condo at 3rd and Harrison (and reps SF and Marin), but has been reputed to live in the East Bay with her long-term partner for years. Oh no, C. Mig!

Picture from Friday's rally by SFJim.

Quick, what was yesterday? Besides a lovely day -- it was also the deadline for Ed Jew to respond to the City Attorney with additional documentation of his residency.

Did he do it? No! Jew failed to produce any of the requested documents, and also refused to submit to an in-person interview. His attorney, Steve Gruel, says it's because any statements he gives could be used against him in the criminal proceedings. Wasn't that true before, though? Hasn't stopped Tapioca Ed from running off at the mouth to anyone who'd listen!

Meanwhile, the charges of racism at yesterday's rally seem to be falling on skeptical ears, with Rose Pak saying, "Our community leaders should not bury their head in the sand and try to blame it on somebody else. I wish these people would stop talking so everybody doesn't think we're all morons."

And -- darn it! The Chron's taken down the hilarious pictures they had of Ed Jew's Chinatown flower shop, where an employee refused to show them the shower that Ed Jew says he uses in the back. Maybe they'll run it tomorrow.

There's an intriguing conspiracy theory afoot on the SFJunto, about the drive-by shooting at Ed Jew's "house" on 28th Ave. and that pot club he rents to.

And here's our new favorite quote! From rally organizer Calvin Louie. "You cannot judge a man by the amount of water he uses. I know Ed Jew. He is a very frugal man." Yeah, $40,000 can go a really long way these days!

A picture we got from SFMike that we've unfairly cropped.

You guys are THE BEST. Thanks for all the great pictures of today's Ed Jew rally outside City Hall!

We can't find any coverage of it online yet, but your reports to us say that it was a media circus, and moderately-well-attended by pro Ed Jew folks. Joe O'Donoghue seems to have gotten over his whole "pregnancy brain" thing with Amy Lee enough to give a stemwinder of a speech, accusing various other elected officials of not living in their districts either. Of our DA, he said, "Kamala Harris is the Duke prosecutor of San Francisco."

Other totally amazing pictures from SFist Jim and readers SFMike and Angela after the jump, including some excellent signage, some anti-Ed Jew protesters, and Pat Murphy in an SFist shirt! We're having a terrible time deciding which pictures to use; they're all awesome.

Picture by SFist Jim.

More LOLJEW pictures!!! Ha ha ha ha!!! Keep 'em coming, folks -- keep 'em coming! More of these fine LOLJEWs at The Sweet Melissa. WUR AT ZWEET MELIZA, LAFFING AT JOO!

Here's your evening Tapioca Ed update:

--Do you live in District 4? Do you want to be a plaintiff in a lawsuit to get Ed Jew out of office? Prerequisites for this job include: running water, garbage pickup service, a cable bill.

--There's two pro-Ed Jew rallies scheduled tomorrow, at the same time (11 a.m.) -- one in Chinatown, and one at City Hall (in SF, not Burlingame). Can someone please go and send us pictures?

--The Chron has a copy (.pdf, 48 pages) of the affidavit the DA's office filed about why they don't think Ed Jew lives in San Francisco. Also, Ed Jew is an Aries. His Guardian horoscope says (no joke): "the best solution is surrendering."

--The only non-partisan person they could find who didn't want Ed Jew to resign? Lives in Burlingame too.

--Someone had an "ED JEW -- TIME TO RESIGN" poster at Thursday's City Operations and Neighborhood Services meeting. We like Sweet Melissa's signs better!

We'll be making a $20,000 donation to reader Andrew's Sunset neighborhood playground of choice for passing this picture along!

And the hits keep on coming! The Chron reports that when they stopped by Ed Jew's City Hall office yesterday, some wag had taped a "Gone Fishing" sign to the door. Fish do love tapioca, we hear.

Meanwhile, Peskin really thinks Tapioca Ed needs to go: "This is a stain and it's making the operation of government very difficult. I'm worried that the residents of the Sunset are being denied an effective voice at City Hall and the longer this drags on, the worse it is for everybody." Ed's lawyers refuse to let him resign, though, saying it would be tantamount to an admission of guilt. But it's perfectly okay by them for him to keep commuting in from Burlingame? Can't they work out some kind of plea bargain here?

The Chron's editorial page, meanwhile, breaks out the big guns and says Ed should resign, along with a mocking cartoon. We probably would have gone with some kind of no water theme on this comic, but that's a minor quibble.

And the New York Times gets in on the game too! They've got Tapioca Ed's lawyers explaining that Ed turned himself in in Burlingame because "it was more convenient." Why do they even let anybody associated with the Ed Jew team talk to anyone these days?

Video still of Ed Jew's door (without the "Gone Fishing" sign, alas), from ABC 7.

It's the Ed Jew San Francisco calendar for 2007! We want the Burlingame one too. Thanks to reader Jake for sending it along -- we may use the back cover for the Day Around The Bay post we're going to write up next.

The Chron's gotten a copy of the 44 page affidavit that the DA investigator filed in support of arresting Ed Jew, and, wow, it does not look good:

--Okay, to start with, Jew, through his attorney, says he didn't move into the 28th Ave. house until June 2006. However, the investigators found evidence that he's voted using that address seven times since 2003. You can only vote where you live, obviously, so there's your first problem.

--It gets worse. Neighbors say they've never seen anyone living in the house, though someone comes by every few weeks to pick up the mail and the free papers. There were never any lights on, and the spot outside the house was known as a good place to park your car because there was never anyone there.

--No one's ever seen a garbage can outside the house until two weeks ago (May 25, 2007), when a new garbage can was delivered. The raid on Ed Jew's office took place on May 18.

--The water and electricity bill at the 28th Avenue house was around $18 per three-month billing cycle. By contrast, the water bill in Burlingame showed usage of around 2700-5700 gallons of water per two-month billing cycle.

--And -- okay, this one's the worst. At the same time that Ed Jew was registered to vote at the 28th Avenue address (and thus claiming to live there), he was renting out the house. The first tenant, who moved in around 2003, said Jew was not living in the house at the time. (Also, there was a drive-by shooting into the house around that time, and a few years later, a leaky toilet created a $1900 water bill. Not relevant to the residency inquiry, but interesting!)

Conclusion: Not looking so good for our boy Tapioca Ed! On the bright side, at least we know he showers.

Keep those LOLJEW pictures coming! We can't get enough!

What's the latest? Poor Tapioca Ed! His legislative aide Barbara Meskunas spoke to the media this afternoon to let them know that her boss took the day off work and was "explaining the tragedy to his family." What's he got to explain? Don't they already know they don't live in San Francisco?

How's Ed doing? "As well as can be expected," Meskunas sighed. She added, "It's overwhelming. It's very hard for him. Is he going to cave under it? I don't think so. I'd never put money on Ed being a quitter." Sounds like you shouldn't put money on Ed for anything!

Ed's also hit the AP, which described San Francisco as "a place that masks its provincialism with a cachet of sophistication," and quotes a source as calling Ed Jew "not ready for prime time." Ouch! Fiona Ma also talked to the AP, being all like, "I told yalls so." In describing Jew's race against her in 2002, she says, "He bought a house, ran the campaign out of the garage, and when he lost, he sold the house." TOLDJA!

Meanwhile, pet-indifferent Aaron Peskin told ABC 7 that he's talking to the mayor about whether to bring misconduct charges against Ed Jew, and ABC 7 talked to a bunch of people in District 4, one of whom was like, "Of course he should resign. You can't represent a district you don't live in." True!

LOLJEW pics by reader Melissa (left) and reader Christine. Hee hee!

We got some pictures from today's Daly versus Newsom rally on the steps of City Hall! Looks like attendance was high -- though not that many people seem to be writing about it online. All we could find was a report by non-progressive Chryssipus on the Wall, saying that it looked like about 80-100 people on Gavin's side but no one on Chris's. The pictures we got show some Daly-supporter-esque signs, though, so we're not sure how accurate that report is. Any other reports folks want to share?

After the jump -- guess what color tie Gavin's got on???? And also -- the return of SFist's favorite commenter -- Peter "Byorn" Ragone! Yay!

Picture above by reader elihuh2001. More pictures by elihuh2001 after the jump, as well as the usual gorgeously-gimlet shots of SFMike.

Ha ha ha ha ha!! Isn't this LOLJEW picture excellent? We got it from reader Cior. Send us your LOLJEW pictures too! (Here's commenter KWillets's two pictures too.)

So what's on tap(ioca) in Ed Jew news this afternoon? Here goes!

--Ed will not resign.

--Ed's taken today off work, which would explain why the Chron can't find him either at City Hall or at the flower shop (where all the shower magic happens.)

--Ed's "neighbors" on 28th Avenue say that the Jew family did not put their trash out for garbage pickup today.

--Ed posted 10% of his own bail ($13,500 -- good thing the Friends of the Sunset Playground refused that $10,000 check he sent over!) and a bail bondsman made up the other 90%.

--Gavin Newsom, for now, isn't asking Ed to resign. Best quote from this ABC 7 story: "Ed Jew turned himself in to the Burlingame Police Department, that looks a little suspect."

--Sean Elsbernd's commenting now. He asks whether Jew's going to be able to serve his constituents since he seems so busy with the investigation. Plus -- all that commute time from Burlingame!

Yeah, pretty much the only thing everyone's talking about is Ed Jew's arrest. But here's some other news!

--The SF Dept. of Elections tossed out the Recall Peskin papers for procedural defects. As we probably could have guessed after seeing the plethora of signs at their rally the other day, they listed too many different reasons why he should be recalled. Stick with one, guys! We LOVE this "Peskin doesn't care about your pets" platform.

--Watch out, mayoral spokesperson Nathan Ballard! You said Chris Daly backed down on the budget. He hates that.

--See what a difference having a progressive candidate in the mayor's race makes? Michael Moore isn't going to prank-call Gavin Newsom this time.

--Is High Noon at the OK City Hall Corral between Team Daly and Team Newsom still on? Can someone please send us pictures (either way)???

Nothing too new to report on the Ed Jew got arrested front this morning, but the Chron did survey all the other Board of Supervisor members for their reactions. Let's go in order!

--District 1 (Jake McG): "The appearance is so bad, we don't need a trial."
--District 2 (Michela Alioto-Pier): Considers Jew a friend, "Let's remember he's not been found guilty of anything."
--District 3 (Aaron Peskin): "If I was in his place, I would [resign.] .... unless he has some remarkable story that he has not told yet to give people confidence." Peskin told the Examiner that Jew was in "a pickle."
--District 4 (Tapioca Ed): left work early yesterday (3:30 p.m.).
--District 5 (Ross the Conquistador): They had to cancel a meeting yesterday because everyone was so distracted about Ed.
--District 6 (C. Daly): Has apparently been calling for Jew to resign for weeks; busy issuing statements about the budget showdown.
--District 7 (Sean Elsbernd): no comment.
--District 8 (Bevan Dufty): "Only Ed and his conscience can tell him what to do at this point."
--District 9 (Tom Ammiano): "A resignation would be the best thing."
--District 10 (Sophie Maxwell): Innocent until proven guilty.
--District 11 (Gerardo Sandoval): "I'm in a state of shock."

After the jump, a collection of links and some tidbits about Ed Jew (including some of the ones folks are asking about in the comments). We totally did not realize Kamala Harris had hired Jew as an advisor in her DA campaign! Awkward!

Picture of Ed Jew's San Francisco house, by Chris Stewart from the Chron.

10:30 p.m.: We went out to dinner and missed Ed Jew's surrender to the authorities.... in Burlingame!!! Awesome. Hey, that way he could just go straight home afterwards. Jew posted bail and was released on his own recognizance. His first court appearance is scheduled for July 16.

7:42 p.m.: KCBS has an audio clip (3:53) of their interview with Bill Fazio up. Jew found out a warrant was being issued at around 4 p.m. today, though Fazio's been talking with the DA's office for about a week now. Fazio's arguing that Jew lived on 28th Ave. before, moved out briefly, and then moved back, and says the DA doesn't have any evidence to support their claims. Jew will probably turn himself in tomorrow morning.

7:35 p.m.: Tom Ammiano has compared Ed Jew to Paris Hilton.

6:35 p.m.: Peskin's called for Jew to resign. You know, we understand that guy doesn't care if you have pets.

6:25 p.m.: More stuff! Fog City has copies of the correspondence between the City Attorney and Steve Gruel (.pdfs, just keep scrolling through the document), and reports that Bill Fazio (the guy who Kamala Harris beat for the DA's office) is representing Jew in the criminal proceedings and has Newsom's statement too (blah blah, very serious, blah blah, continue my careful investigation, blah blah, Chris Daly sucks. Okay, we made up that last part.)

A warrant's been issued for Ed Jew's arrest! More news as it happens; previous updates are after the jump.

Before we launch into today's Ed Jew news, we just want to say -- have you guys seen this awesome debate on the political chatboard the Wall about whether our use of the term "Tapioca Ed" is racist towards Asian-Americans? Here's the line we love! "Instead of leveraging a bull*** website on what's offensive, why don't you ask someone Asian American?" Let's!

Okay, onto the latest! Tapioca Ed's had enough! His lawyer, Steven Gruel, has fired back a two-page letter to the SF City Attorney's office in response to yesterday's request, calling the City Attorney's office biased (was it the use of the word "tapioca"?), saying they were "sandbagging" poor Ed (why would they need sandbags? Guy has no water.), trying to score "public opinion points" at the supervisor's expense, and concluding:

Not only has your office displayed a degree of unprofessionalism which I have never witnessed, but the City Attorney's actions further underscore what is discussed on the streets -- that this 'investigation' is politically driven against the supervisor. (emphasis added)

Discussed on the streets? All we hear discussed on the streets about Ed Jew is: ha ha ha ha ha ha!!

Still from a video clip of Ed Jew from SF/Unscripted.

You know we'd never say Chris Daly backed down from a fight, especially not in the title of a post!

However, we did just get an email from the Gavin Newsom 2008 people noting that the Board of Supes Budget Committee meeting scheduled for tomorrow has been cancelled. That was the meeting that was supposed to be the proxy mayoral race over Daly and Newsom's competing visions of the city (i.e., whether we were going to fund affordable housing or the Friends of the Urban Forest.)

So what happened? Who blinked? Don't ask us!

If we had to guess, though, we'd assume either or both parties decided it wasn't worth the increasing firepower being expended and the ensuing political collateral damage, and are trying to meet in the middle. You know, the way the political process is supposed to work.

Does that mean Daly's not introducing his promised No On The Blue Angels proclamation tomorrow either? Also, it's unclear whether the dueling Newsom and Daly rallies that were scheduled for the same time tomorrow are cancelled. You got your chocolate in my peanut butter!

Update: We've gotten it confirmed that the Newsom rally tomorrow at noon is still on! Daly folks, be there or be square.

Another update!: (and we promise not to turn the whole site bold again, sorry about that.) Daly releases a statement saying that Newsom pulled strings to schedule their rally for the same time as his, and says that's why he cancelled the budget meeting. So many updates! We can't even focus on our Oh No Ed Jew post (which is coming shortly, we promise). The Guardian's got something up now too.

YouTube clip of Tom Petty performing "Won't Back Down" at Berkeley in 2006.

The City Attorney's gone through all the residency documents that beleaguered Burlingame boy and erstwhile supposed San Francisco Supervisor Ed Jew provided last week, and ---- baaaaaaaaahmp -- (that's supposed to be a buzzer sound like when you guess something that's not on the board on Family Feud): the City Attorney has concluded that the documents currently on file are insufficient to demonstrate that Ed Jew lives in San Francisco. Oh no, Ed Jew!

Namely, of the documents that Tapioca Ed provided last week, the City Attorney did not receive: any tax returns from 2006, any phone bills from the SF residence, any cable bills from the SF residence, any information about magazine or newspaper subscriptions, or any information about the address for which the Jew family takes their homeowners' tax exemption. Hey, maybe Ed Jew 1) took an extension on his 2006 returns, 2) makes all calls on a cell phone, 3) reads the Chron online at work, and 4) got someone to tape the Sopranos finale for him last night!

The operative date by which Ed Jew is required to have lived in San Francisco is 30 days before filing to run for office, or July 12, 2006 (Jew filed on August 11, 2006. Can someone check our calendaring?) As for the operative date to prove up, Jew's got until Friday to give the City Attorney the rest of the documents and sit for an interview. As the deputy city attorney's letter sternly notes, "If your client is able to make statements to the press regarding the status of his residency, then we do not understand why he is unwilling to make statements on the record to this office." ABC 7 has a copy of the letter if you want to read it yourself.

Unrelated, but amusing: Leah Garchik points out that July 15 is National Tapioca Day. The 15th is also Respect Canada Day, for what it's worth.

Over the weekend, San Francisco's very own Princess Fiona had her first Town Hall meeting since joining the CA State Assembly. In addition to the everyday, pedestrian issues addressed, there was some talk about transportation safety issues of citywide interest. Read about them after the jump.

The entries are coming in fast and furious on the Photoshop Frank Chu's Sign challenge! Here's our top two so far -- send yours in too!

And while we have you here, we might as well give you some news updates too.

Oh No, Ed Jew!: Turns out the money that the Quicklys paid off to Tapioca Ed was marked bills from the FBI. The whole money swap was probably bugged too.

MOOOOOM!: Apparently Paris Hilton was so paranoid that someone would take a picture of her on the can in the joint that she hasn't gone for three days.

Thanks to kerbot2000 for the pic on the left and Robert for the pic on the right. After the jump, one more entry from Robert!

Original picture by Scott Beale/Laughing Squid.

Remember yesterday, when Supervisor Ed Jew told the city attorney that the reason why his water bills were so low at his purported house in the Sunset because he showered at his flower shop, and we said we wanted to see the water bills for the store?

Well, lookee here! The Bay Guardian's gone and done it -- and there is no running water in the flower shop. NO!!!!

Well, to be precise, the flower shop (at 117 Waverly in Chinatown) does not have an active SFPUC account. The Guardian thinks maybe Ed's mooching water off the residential building next to the flower store which Jew also owns, or maybe he just washes himself with a hose. Orrrrr.... maybe he fills a tub with water in Burlingame, drives it up to the city, and then takes sponge baths from it all week. Sure!

We're really looking forward to seeing what he says in response to this one. Tapioca Ed, the questions are mounting!

Quick, look out your window! Are pigs flying? Mark this day on your calendar, because pugnacious Supervisor Chris Daly has actually backed down on something he's proposed (other than running for mayor, that is).

After getting inundated with calls from the media (presumably right-leaning) about his statement the other day about introducing a resolution before the Board of Supes calling for a permanent ban on the Blue Angels' noisy air shows over San Francisco, Daly's conceded defeat and decided not to bring up the issue next week after all.

Why?, asked the Examiner. "Because of YOU, I haven't gotten any work done today, and because of YOU, I am not going to introduce it on Tuesday [the next Board of Supervisors' meeting]." (emphasis added by us, because we like imagining Daly snarling this into a phone as he chomps down on a cigar on the other side of his mouth, and then SLAMS down the receiver! The phone makes a little ringing noise from the impact.)

We've checked in with SF PartyParty on this issue, because we're not really sure how to go on this. Why is it okay to ban Halloween (or the How Weird festival, or any other of the bazillion street parties that Gavin Newsom has cancelled), but not okay to ban the Blue Angels? If fun-loving progressives want their fun-loving urban life street parties, shouldn't they in return support other people's parties, even if they're in the Marina and kind of loud and maybe in favor of a lifestyle they don't support (the military)? In exchange, can the Newsom-supporting Blue Angel-loving citizens out there help scruffy Mission-dwelling folks keep street fairs open too? Deal?

Picture of the Blue Angels from 2005 off flickr by kumasawa.

Here's some hints.

Photoshopped picture by Tim Daw -- thanks to the reader who forwarded it to us! If you want to Photoshop some messages onto Frank Chu's sign too, we'd love to see 'em!

Original picture by Scott Beale/Laughing Squid, and the link in the picture itself goes back to Laughing Squid for letting us use the picture in the first place! -- thanks for letting us know, Scott!

Yes, we know, we know, we made that exact same joke about the Recall Jake McGoldrick movement underway in District 1 -- we're going to keep making this joke until people stop trying to recall elected officials. We do not need more things on the ballot.

The Examiner confirms the reports we'd been hearing that someone's decided to start a recall campaign against District 3 Supervisor (and Board of Supes president) Aaron Peskin. So according to the Ex, this guy named Rex Reginald, who doesn't even live in Peskin's district, has kick-started this off because he's mad that Peskin refused to consider this guy's proposal to let landlords charge more rent per pet. Reginald lives in the Sunset! Tell it to Tapioca Ed Jew!

It turns out there's a motley crew of disaffected Peskinites who actually live in District 3, including people who are unhappy about some anti-development positions Peskin took in Chinatown, and some complaints about how Peskin bought his house. About 40 people signed a petition saying they want to start a recall and filed it on Wednesday. To get the recall petition on the ballot, they'll need to get 10% of District 3 residents to sign on, which is a little less than 3400 people.

At any rate, the District 3 recallers seem a little more organized than the ragtag Recall Daly team over in District 6. (We love the "we need a webmaster" plea for help on this page.) Does everyone have a recall team now?

Picture of Peskin in shorts and bike helmet from SFBike.org.

Tapioca Ed Jew's made public the statement he provided to the SF City Attorney in response to their request that he submit paperwork demonstrating his residence in District 4, the district he's supposed to be representing on the Board of Supes.

Ed Jew's latest excuse for the low water levels in his District 4 house? He showers at the family flower shop. Also, he works very, very late at City Hall. Weeeeeeelllllll.... and also, he admits he lives in Burlingame. Ding ding ding! Jew says he's living in both houses, though, and cited as evidence the fact that he's repainted the walls at the District 4 house and installed a new fake fireplace. We can't wait to see the water bills from the flower shop next.

Jew also says he's been "living" in SF since July 2006 (he's required to have lived in the district at least 30 days before filing to run for office), but the City Attorney's Office specifically noted there wasn't conclusive evidence in the record yet on that point.

In other Tapioca news, the SF Ethics Commission rejected Ed Jew's filing about that $20,000 (of the promised $40K) he donated to the Sunset Playground people, and the Chron runs a profile of Ed Jew's consultant buddy (along with a funny-sounding $30,000 fundraiser Ed Jew and the consultant ran back in 2001).

It's KWillets's lolEd picture!

First of all, a big sloppy THANKS! to SFist MattyMatt for yesterday evening's Oh No Ed Jew news update! We were out.

So what's the latest on Tapioca Ed for today? Well, he did make it to the Board of Supes meeting yesterday, where he said he wouldn't resign and refused to take any other questions unless they were about his trip to China. At the meeting, Jew was the only person who voted against banning parrot-feeding in city parks (look for $40,000 in bird seed in the safe), before leaving the meeting early. Hey, that commute down 101 to Burlingame gets really bad around 5 p.m.!

Meanwhile, Matier and Ross report that even though Jew told everyone three weeks ago that he had given $20,000 of the $40K of alleged Quickly-shakedown cash to a local community playground (the other half went to his consultant friend), the community group (Friends of Sunset Playground) only just got a check in the mail yesterday. Oddly enough, the check they got was only for $10,000. Is the other $10K going to attorneys' fees? [No! It was seized by the FBI! That's even worse! Thanks for the reminder, commenter Pen!]

The Friends of Sunset Playground are kind of upset about getting dragged into this whole thing, saying they hadn't even heard about this until it broke in the news. They're going to send the check back, saying they don't want any trouble with the FBI.

Picture from the Chron of Tapioca Ed at his brief appearance at the Board of Supes meeting yesterday, by Liz Hafalia. We are loving that picture of Ross with his glasses pushed up!!!!!

We're sure many of you received letters from Carole Migden, as did we. They serve as yet another medium for excusing her recent poor driving -- and offer up a short list of accomplishments, presumably to let her constituency know how horrible we'd have it without her.

Hurrumph. A note on the envelope makes it clear that this missive was not paid for out of taxpayer dollars or whatnot -- there's nothing out of bounds here, except perhaps the bounds of good sense. Anybody that gives a hoot is keeping up with this in the news. Anybody that cares already knows you've pledged to the DMV that you won't drive anymore, Senator. We're not sure we buy your excuse -- and we're certainly willing to keep our ears open as definitive news comes out -- but we found this letter extremely patronizing. We're not so easily manipulated.

We'll offer some unsolicited advice: when you're in a hole, stop digging.

All keeping your name in the news cycle does is help to dredge up weird stories about what a kook you are.

Ed Jew! How we've missed you. After getting back from China, the first thing Tapioca Ed did was give only Chinese-speaking members of the media a tour of the place he calls his Sunset home. Man, our relatives were right that we would regret not having gone to Chinese school as a child.

Thank goodness the Chron got those pieces translated! The Chinese newspaper Sing Tao reported that the Sunset house appeared "sparsely decorated and furnished." On Monday, when the Chron drove by the Sunset house during Jew's nap, the shades were drawn and they saw four pairs of shoes outside the house.

By contrast, the Chron then drove down to Ed Jew's alleged weekend home in Burlingame -- where they found a huge pile of shoes outside the door and a couple of children's bicycles in the yard. Hmmmmm.

The CHP is recommending to the Solano County DA's office that they press reckless driving charges against State Senator Carole Migden, for her wild, lane-changing, simultaneous cell-phone-talking and paperwork-reading 30-mile drive in Fairfield, culminating in a fender-bender. Reckless driving is a misdemeanor and has a max penalty of $1000 and/or 6 months in jail.

Migden was found at fault not only in rear-ending the other car, but also in hitting a guardrail earlier in the drive due to an unsafe turning move. Migden's cell phone use was found to have played at least a partial role in the situation. (Note here that Migden voted in favor of the hands-free cell phone requirement in cars.)

Migden, who says she doesn't remember a thing about this and says it might be from her leukemia medication, released a statement that "I am very sorry about the accident which I caused, I am not driving, I am in the process of undergoing a medical evaluation, and I will in no way shirk my responsibility for what happened," and refused further comment.

Guess Lumpy's not doing it after all -- Pat Murphy, the guy who came up with the catch phrase "Do It, Lumpy" to goad local progressive ringleader and District 6 Supervisor Chris Daly into running for mayor in the first place, has posted a press release from Camp Daly. Contrary to Chris's prior bold statements that he'd jump in the race if no one else did, Daly now says:

Family is the most important part of my life. I was fortunate to spend all day Sunday with [wife] Sarah and [son] Jack. Sarah and I talked late into the evening about a possible campaign for Mayor. After a tough campaign last Fall and expecting a new baby in late October, I plan to spend more quality time with my family this year. A campaign for Mayor would not allow that.

To be fair, Chris had always been pretty open about Sarah's strong objections to him running for mayor -- and with the new baby girl (!!!!) on the way and all, we can't really say we blame 'em for the decision.

We are sorry to have to retire the column name "Do It, Lumpy," though -- before we even got it started! We were already planning a singalong contest for it -- were you singing it to the tune of "Hang On Sloopy" or "Do The Hustle"?

[Here's the link to Luke Thomas's Fog City Journal scoop of the news! Sorry we missed it the first time, Luke -- we were too busy reading your fun summaries of the Prog Con!]

Picture of Daly helping put tables away after lunch at Saturday's Prog Con, by Steve Rhodes.

The Chronicle called Ed Jew's office today, and his legislative aide Barbara Meskunas said he wasn't in because he was sleeping. Jet lag, you know.

According to the Chron, Tapioca Ed, did, however, have the time to pen an essay for the Sunset Beacon (which has not yet put Jew's essay online, but you can read last month's), in which he says he wants to "clear the air" about the allegations. In the essay, he says he now lives on 28th Avenue with his family. (yes, the one that the neighbors say has been vacant for years.) And that Burlingame house that everyone sees him in? Oh, no no no no no! That house is "a gathering place for [his wife's] side of the family on weekends and holidays." Pesky in-laws!

Jew concludes by saying, "I believe in our country's system of laws and know that the truth will come out about all of the matters you've read about in the papers recently." He plans to meet with his lawyer later today about the residency requirement paperwork he has to submit, once he wakes up and gets himself to City Hall. Does he take the MUNI or 101?

Driving directions from Burlingame to City Hall from Google Maps.

It's time for fun again! ABC 7 is reporting that District 4 Supervisor Ed Jew is back from his trip to China. Is he staying in Burlingame or District 4 tonight?

To recap where we are: Tapioca Ed has said all along he had timed his trip so he could make this Tuesday's Board of Supes meeting. He's got until Friday June 8 to provide paperwork demonstrating to the City Attorney that he lives in San Francisco. The feds are still looking into the alleged shakedown of the Quicklys. No word on how the repairs on that burned-out house on Sutter Street are going or the status of his pot club's permit applications.

Welcome back, Ed! We missed you!

That's a YouTube video of Eminem's "Without Me." It DID feel so empty, without Ed Jew!

Check out how awesome SFist Jim's pictures of today's Frog Prog Con are, without all of our tedious snark getting in the way of your enjoyment!

After the jump: More of SFist Jim's keen eye, plus Josh Wolf and the DPT.

In the taunting words of non-progressive Pat Murphy: do it, Lumpy! We stopped by the Progressive Convention where basically, on a schedule running about 90 minutes behind, everyone who's anyone in local politics stopped by and, after some exciting build-up in the form of a campaign speech by Ross Mirkarimi..... -- no one ended up deciding to run against Gavin Newsom. As Calitics puts it: Exasperating.

Afterwards, a fellow blogger irritatedly reported that he had stopped by Gavin Newsom's coincidentally-same-timed rally up the street a little earlier, where Sean Elsbernd had told a snickering crowd, "I gotta leave soon, the progressives are down the street and they asked me to run for them since they can't find anyone to run against Gavin." We all groused about that, and then we were all basically like, "It's true." Maybe the progressives should get Elsbernd to run for them.

Since there's nothing to really report about the convention, we'll give you our impressions of the event itself, after the jump. Tidbits include: Frank Chu, green and blue beads representing the unity of the Green and Democratic parties, and the sex of the newest Daly-to-be! Also, some of the pictures everyone's been nice enough to send to us!

Picture of Daly inflating a balloon by SFist Jim. His pictures are sufficiently awesome that we're putting a bunch of them in another post after we finish this one.

There's nothing pedestrians love more than running into groups of college students clustering on the sidewalk with clipboards and messagey t-shirts, making intense eye contact and hollering, "HI OKAY WOULD YOU LIKE TO SAVE THE WORLD AWESOME YAY." Now at last you can be one of those dreadful people, and on behalf of Barry "The Mad Bomber" Hussein Mussolini Obama!

The campaign's San Francisco Walk for Change starts this Saturday, the 9th, in Dolores Park. "...hit the streets for the Walk for Change National Canvass being organized by grassroots supporters of Barack Obama. Bring this movement of change to the front doors of your neighbors," the invitation goes. Awesome! What time should we show up? Oh, nine am on a Saturday? IT JUST GETS BETTER AND BETTER!

Guess where we went for dinner last night? That's right -- we went with friends to support our local public corruption whistleblowers, the fast food bubble tea and salty fried foods empire of Quickly. And of course, we had to go to one of the Quicklys in Tapioca Ed Jew's district! (there's two -- this one on Irving and 22nd, and another on Taraval. Extra bonus: check out that last picture at the link for Quickly Irving and let us know your thoughts on it!)

They have a grand opening sign at this Quickly even though it's been open for almost two years. Know how much it cost 'em to be able to put up that sign?

As promised, we got an almond snow and popcorn chicken, and tried out the fries as well. Dear Lord, those fries were salty. We snapped some pictures, which are after the jump -- but the highlights of the trip were 1) the cheese sticks and 2) THE LETTER FROM ED JEW THAT THE STORE HAD TAPED UP TO THEIR WALL!!!!!!!!!! Do you hear the sound "sprooyoyoyoyoyoyoyng"? That's our irony meter exploding.

You gotta see this letter from Ed Jew!!!! After the jump.