Willie Brown got lost in New York over the long holiday weekend. "I couldn't find the subway in New York," the avid city walker mentions in his Inside Scoop column, but Willie Brown's instincts about public transit have never really been that great to begin with. And anyway, we're not entirely sure that wasn't a typo missed by Willie's editors over at the Chronicle. He could have meant he couldn't find a Subway sandwich location, which would explain why he ended up waiting nearly two hours for a table at Scalinatella instead of eating fresh.
After being told his table would be ready in less time than it takes to toast a meatball sub on hearty italian bread, Willie ended up waiting an hour and forty minutes for the opportunity to dine with his three companions at a bathroom-adjacent two-top. Since nobody puts Willie in the corner, the former mayor pulled out the cronyism card again and suggested SFFD Chief Joanne Hayes-White should call her counterpart in New York and make sure this crowded fire hazard of a restaurant gets cleared up.
Back in San Francisco, Willie devoted a few more column inches to defending Mayor Ed Lee's election. His analysis this week is that the public clearly prefers their elected leaders to come from outside the political realm — folks like Mayor Lee, the lifetime bureaucrat. Of course, if that were true venturecrat Joanna Rees should have placed well above her 10th place finish in the mayor's race. What Willie really means here is that people would rather not have to think so hard about who to vote for (evidenced by the miserably low voter turnout), which makes it easy to insert a hand-picked appointee like Ed Lee.
Next Week: Willie is off to Beijing to sell San Francisco to China conduct some important business or something. He won't be blogging next week, but we expect to hear exactly how the food in Beijing measures up to Tommy Toy's as soon as he gets back.
