From the moment you first plugged it in, your home telephone has been waiting for the moment when its existence would be justified. And now! At last! The Gavin Newsom '08 Phone Bank is ACTIVATING!

Six days a week, starting this weekend and running until November, the phone bank will will be harassing San Franciscans all over San Francisco: vote for Gav! As we know, he's got a pretty extensive collection of phone numbers, so this may take a while.

If you'd like to donate your time to the cause, call Gavin's campaign headquarters at (415) 351-0359 to sign up. In fact, go ahead and call them six days a week, starting this weekend and running until November.

If you do sign up to staff the phone bank, you'll be an unpaid volunteer; so it would be kind of tacky of them to ask you to resign. So feel free to go "off-book" and just start riffing: go ahead and mention Gavin's hostility to Healthy Saturdays, the Muni fare hikes imposed by his Chief of Staff, the soaring murder rate, and the utter failure of municipal WiFi. Hey, if you're going to be bothering people in their homes, you might as well bother them truthfully.