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with this one for his own blog -- the Chronicle Local News Blog gleefully reports that, at Sunday's Celebrity All-Star game at AT&T Park, former college baseball player Mayor Gavin Newsom:

As we were waiting to pick up our lunch today at the excellent Chinese food place across the street from our office at the to-go table, we were idly flipping through this month's issue of Costco Connection magazine, the in-house publication of everyone's favorite roast chicken/toilet paper/gigantic muffin supplier, that they had lying around.

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!

Gavin Newsom, why won't you just do a Question Time before the Board of Supervisors? Was it not enough to force all those citizens into renting chicken suits and drag all those innocent bloggers out at obscenely early hours on the weekends (read: 10 a.m.), just because you've unilaterally decided you don't like to take unscripted questions? Was it really worth it? Now just look what you've made Question Time originator Chris Daly do!

Chris Daly's super excited about his Progressive Convention on Saturday June 2, right? He's telling everyone! He even crashed Gavin Newsom's party last Saturday to tell him! June 2! June 2! They're going to nominate a progressive mayoral candidate on June 2!

We gotta say, we got 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!)

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?

As the political season starts to heat up, there's so many bloggers monitoring politicians' activities that we're thinking we need to start a new column, the _____Watch. There's so many people needing to be assessed these days!

When we last left the Leno vs. Migden contest, there was much gnashing of the teeth over these two progessive titans matching up. As SFist Rita put it, What Would the Progressives Do? Should they side with Leno or with Migden? It's like when two really good friends have a party at the same time and one guy has a keg of Meisterbrau and another of Sierra. You want to drink the Sierra, but if you go to that party, would your other friend get pissed at you? So, to make sure the campaign didn't get too nasty a peacetreaty of such was signed with both Leno and Migden pledging to be all cute and cuddly during the campaign. And so within days, a Migden ally went all NAMBLA on Leno.

in the Noise Pop Film Festival was scheduled to start, and we bought the fourth-to-last ticket for the movie. The line was nuts! All the way down 16th Street and wrapping around the check-cashing store down Valencia. While waiting to get in, we yvesdropped that the man in front of us was also a music documentary filmmaker, and he had just interviewed the Smithereens about a documentary he's making about the song Louie Louie.

From yesterday's Chronicle article about Newsom stalker Han Shin:

As we've mentioned, better watch this clip (or upload it to YouTube) before ABC 7 takes it down -- media hound Dan Noyes from the "I Team" (we think the I stands for "investigation") works his magic on Gavin Newsom yet again!

Sulky, sulky -- Gavin Newsom was sober and mad after yesterday's Board of Supervisors inaugural ceremony, which the Chronicle tactfully described as having a "tone of political contentiousness running just beneath a veneer of polite ceremony."

It's a bad sign when the Oakland City Council (and its participating public -- see notes in the comments below) takes the "worst behaved political activity" award on a day where not only were Chris Daly and Gavin Newsom scheduled to be in the same room but there was a Taiwanese political protest in town. (We didn't think anyone could outfight a Taiwanese politician!)

The rumors are confirmed! Supervisor Chris Daly has indeed grown a mustache. That's good progress on the handlebar we were suggesting, Chris!

We went to our very first Ross Mirkarimi Third Friday art show yesterday, and had a very nice time -- loved the eggnog! We also picked up the following piece of gossip: Chris Daly is growing a mustache.

Breaking news on a Friday afternoon -- Gavin Newsom's chief of staff Steve Kawa has resigned. Stated reason: "I want to spend more time with my amazing family."

We are really in no position to judge Gavin Newsom for wearing the same blue tie to numerous events, since we wear black pants and a gray sweater like every single day of the week -- but thanks to commenter Richmond Dem for giving us the idea of putting together a Gavin Newsom Blue Tie collage! Yeah, we know, after we finished it, we were like, wow, this is a little sick on our part.

? Is there even any doubt? We are throwing our blogger weight (such as it is) behind -- getting Gavin Newsom to show up for QUESTION TIME!!!

The only two things Gavin Newsom is required to do as the mayor of San Francisco are 1) propose a budget and 2) give an annual speech about the State Of The City. Gay marriage, gelling and ungelling his hair, and gadding about town are all entirely optional!

Ha ha ha ha -- they threw Chris Daly into a swimming pool! Commenter El Greco and photographer Drew Altizer earn a sweet spot in our heart for passing along their pictures of the Tenderloin Neighborhood Development Center Pool Toss event on Tuesday. As promised, Daly wore a suit.

Chris Daly's having a party! Look at the elaborate evite he's designed, inviting Gavin Newsom to appear before the Budget and Finance Committee meeting tomorrow today [we forgot today is Wednesday!] at 1 p.m to explain why he needs extra money for the police department. "Please join me for an exciting Budget and Finance Committee meeting tomorrow to discuss your 'Violence Response' supplemental appropriation!" Ha! We bet it will be exciting.

We're begging for your help here, readers -- begging! Can someone with a digital camera PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE go to this event and send us your pictures of Chris Daly getting thrown into a swimming pool? We'll throw in some SFist swag if you do! We'd go ourselves, but admission is $125 (and we don't have a digital camera anyways).

If you read the comments on this blog closely, you'll see that we suggested that, in light of Gavin Newsom's new Matt Gonzalez-influenced coffure, the next obvious thing would be for us to find a picture of Matt Gonzalez brushing his hair like Gavin's.

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