Entries from SFist tagged with 'robertjordan'
November 10, 2006
Exhausted ballots and exhausted bloggers -- in the District 6 race! This week's episode: Everybody Hates RCV. District 6 -- DALY WINS. Check here. Congratulations, Chris! And in other RCV news -- Ed Jew wins. And in obsessive refresh ability -- SFIST WINS!! We got our post up first over everyone else -- up by 3:47 p.m. MUST CREDIT SFIST! Updated numbers are here. Results below. Rob Black got to 40%. We're cranking through the......
Continue Reading "Everybody Hates Chris: The District 6 Election RESULTS"November 9, 2006
The absentee and provisionals are in for today -- in the District 6 election! This week's episode: Everybody Hates It When We Do A Numbers Post. Hey, the YouTube footage of Chris Daly's victory speech is up! See above. (Warning: It's about 15 minutes long. Plus, some R-rated language) You'll have to click after the jump to find partial footage of Sarah's (we gotta have something to make you keep reading.) --- So the updated......
Continue Reading "51.53% Of District 6 Hates Chris After Absentee Count"November 9, 2006
The suspense is killing us -- in the District 6 election! This week's episode: Everybody Hates The Absentees. Okay, time for a new District 6 post! We're going to try putting updates on the top of the post again, as news comes in. --Update -- we're busy at work so no commentary, but here's the latest numbers from sfgov.org. MEMBER, BOARD OF SUPERVISORS DIST. 6 VOTE FOR 1 CHRIS DALY . . . . .......
Continue Reading "50.34% Of District 6 Hates Chris Before The First RCV Pass"November 7, 2006
We vowed we wouldn't do it, but since we're obsessively hitting refresh on our browser every five minutes anyways, we might as well! We may take off in a bit to hit some of these election parties we've been hearing about, but here's where we are for now. Updates on top, like a mini-blog. 12:10 a.m.: Okay, we're calling it quits for today. The stats are: Daly at 49.66% with 5,471 votes and Black at......
Continue Reading "Liveblogging District 6"September 19, 2006
SFist Rita has been going on and on about the District 6 City Life Supervisor Candidate Forum, or, as we refer to it at SFist HQ, "Everybody Hates Chris: Special Debate Edition!" See District 6 candidates Rob Black, Chris Daly, Matt Drake, George Dias and Robert Jordan (sadly, neither George nor Robert agreed to interview requests from SFist, so no links for you!) answer to The Usual Suspects' Jaime Rossi, as he poses quality-of-life questions......
Continue Reading "SFist Tonight"August 18, 2006
It is kind of silly to assign politics to restaurants or diets. But Cha-Ya, a relatively new Japanese restaurant serving only vegan food, struck us as a magnet for people left of the Kucinic wing of the Democrat party. Maybe Green party supporters or unrepentant Chomskyists. Or just basic wanna-be commune-living combi-driving Berkeleyans, as Cha-Ya is the sister restaurant of the similarly named Shattuck Ave eatery. Of course, this being SF, the place is packed.......
Continue Reading "Gastronomique: For Whom the Onion Rings*"