SF News Gavin Vetoes Foot Patrol Legislation Part II Gavin's main bone of contention is that he thinks the police chiefs should get discretion to do what they want to do. The Board of Supes main bone of contention is they've had
SF News Political Junkie: Chris Daly Mustached 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
SF News Can Someone Explain The Significance Of This To Us? 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." Okay, an announcement made at
Arts & Entertainment Actual Celebrities Come To San Francisco! Yeah, we know, we're stuck here at SFist fetishizing weirdo wonks like Gavin Newsom and Ross Mirkarimi because we don't have any actual celebrities in town that we can follow around and talk
SF News I'm Sorry, Did You Have A Question? Ques-tion TIME! Ques-tion TIME! Wow, Gavin doesn't want to take your questions -- he won't even take live questions on this morning's Energy 92.7 commute-time show. (We tried listening to the .mp3s
SF News Who's Newsom Attacking Now! It's a slight variation on our Who's Attacking/Defending Newsom Now columns -- Gavin goes on the offensive! The gay-focused Bay Area Reporter runs a column this week in their Political Notebook about
SF News Mayoral Poll Update So here's the poll (after the jump) again and remember, last day to vote is by Friday morning. There's been some wonky issues with the site that's hosting the contest so if something
Arts & Entertainment Caption Action Ed Jew: I heard Vanessa Getty talked smack about you in W Magazine. Gavin Newsom: Oh, no she didn't! Ed Jew: Oh, yes she did. Gavin Newsom: Then I'm telling everybody how she
SF News Mayoral Race Poll Now that Gavin has stopped playing coy and moved ahead with his re-election plans, the question is who will step up to run against Mr. 80% Approval Ratings? It's the parlor game anyone
SF News That's Amore The rest of the story is a bit Rashomon-like in a "Men are From Mars, Women From Venus" kind of way. The other people in the restaurant were two people on a first
Arts & Entertainment The Glide Red Carpet is based on the true story of a homeless man in San Francisco named Chris Gardner who turned his life around in the 1980s with the help of Glide Memorial and became a
SF News Question Time Will Not Be Denied The BoS Rules Committee has placed an item on the agenda (item 2) for next week's board meeting, for a motion to convene a special board meeting on.... Saturday January 13, 2007 at
SF News Avoiding The Question (Time) Ques-tion TIME! Ques-tion TIME! Gavin Newsom sees your "immature" comment and raises, Board of Supervisors! Now the mayor's announced that his first non-Question Time "community panel" will be in Jake McGoldrick's District 1
SF News Who's Got Questions? As you know, this correspondent is unabashedly in favor of this election season's Proposition I Question Time -- because we're in favor of anything that makes local politics entertaining! (We can discuss offline
SF News ...And A Protest In A Pear Tree Hark! The herald angels at Left in SF heeded our plea and forwarded along some pictures of last night's singalong Christmas carol protest of the Golden Gate Restaurant Association's holiday party. As you
SF News Everybody STILL Hates Chris!: The District 6 Election Redux We're baaaaaack! (Did you think we'd ever left?) Well, we've moved on to relentlessly houding Gavin Newsom to show up for Question Time and we're also starting to gear up to cover the
SF News Now Bring Us Some Figgy Pudding Well, never let it be said that the progressives in town don't come up with some entertaining protest ideas! So get your top hat and/or velvet bonnet, warm up those vocal cords,
SF News Typhoon Just Misses Gavin Yes, the typhoon was named after the pungent fruit with the spikes on it -- do they not name typhoons in Asia after people? (The typhoon is also being referred to as Reming
SF News Where's Gavin? 8:00am The President's mansion to pick up a pair of Imelda Marcos' shoes for Jennifer. 8:35am A sit-down interview with notorious gay blogger Bryanboy about same-sex marriage. 10:00am US Naval
SF News Random Political Odds And Ends We can't be bothered to type up all these intriguing little political news tidbits into that many separate posts for the day! So we're compiling them all here. --That map above is from
SF News Aaron P. Is President Where's Rakim to cut Aaron Peskin's single? The progressively-aligned District 3 representative is widely expected to win another term as the president of the Board of Supervisors in the wake of Newsom's Election
SF News San Francisco Values, In Song A "political cabaret" group called the Auditorials has written their own Capitol Steps-like tribute song to "San Francisco Values." We can't decide if this is frightening or hilarious! (Also -- special cameo appearance
SF News Brittanie Mountz Wins! Your results are in pie graph form above -- but if you can't read the names and numbers in those little wedges, here they are in legible form: --Brittanie Mountz -- 68.3%
SF News Political Junkie: Gavin's Blue Tie 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
SF News Don't Forget To Vote.... ....for your favorite Gavin date! As you'll see, Brittanie Mountz has a commanding lead (perhaps with some assistance from her sorority?), but that shouldn't discourage you from sounding off with your opinion either!
