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In Goodwill Gesture, Gavin Newsom Sending More Than 60 State Police to Republican Convention

In the wake of Saturday’s assassination attempt on Donald Trump, Governor Gavin Newsom is sending five dozen Highway Patrol and state police officers to help keep the calm at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee.

SF Attorney Harmeet Dhillon Might Be Elected Chair of the Republican National Committee This Week

“San Francisco Values,” hmmm? Local attorney and longtime Republican gadfly Harmeet K. Dhillon is running against Ronna McDaniel in Friday’s race for RNC chair, but her reported “unity ticket” with the MyPillow Guy might doze her odds off.

The SF GOP is Bringing Marjorie Taylor Greene to Town

The San Francisco Republican party welcomes the crackpot QAnon Georgia congressional rep for their Saturday, November 6 dinner, but her unknown vaccination status may be forcing them to hold the event outside city limits.

California GOP Putting Out Bogus Ballot Boxes In At Least Three Counties

Republican party operations in Fresno, Los Angeles, and Orange County get busted for bamboozling voters with phony ballot drop boxes, which is totally a felony.

Gavin Newsom Goes On Epic Twitter Rant About Trump And The Republicans' Anti-LGBT Platform

As some predictable chaos is erupting on the floor of the Republican National Convention over rules votes by the anti-Trump faction on Day 1, Donald Trump is trying to sound a positive, characteristically

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Kink.com Offers Free Access To Republican Delegates As They Vote To Label Porn A 'Public Health Crisis'

In preparation for the Republican Party's national convention, that party's delegates have unanimously adopted an amendment to their highly conservative draft platform referring to pornography as "a public health crisis" and a "public

Apple Won't Give Computers Or Donations To GOP Convention, As It Traditionally Does, Because Trump

CBS 5 calls it a "boycott," which might be an extreme way of looking at it, but yes, Politico reports that Apple will not lend any help to the GOP convention over the

Openly Gay Venture Capitalist Peter Thiel Comes Out As Trump Supporter

Local smartest-man-in-the-room VC Peter Thiel has apparently applied his contrarian tendencies to this election year as we learn today that he's signed on to be a delegate for Donald Trump. Like some of

Five Arrested, One Injured At Anti-Trump Protest; Stanley Roberts Does Segment About It

In the wake of Friday's big protest outside the state Republican convention in Burlingame where Donald Trump made an appearance, we're getting word via ABC 7 that a total of five protesters were

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Photo Du Jour: Trump Pinata Burned In Effigy

Trump burning in effigy at the protest outside of his speech to the GOP state convention pic.twitter.com/XubbrLZym7— Jose A. DelReal (@jdelreal) April 29, 2016 This guy, dressed as a Mexican

[Update] Donald Trump Arrives In Burlingame As Protesters Block Freeway

#Trump protestor told me she's willing to get arrested blocking traffic to get her message across pic.twitter.com/quVqeMIAhP— Maria Medina (@mariaCBS5) April 29, 2016 Ladies and gentlemen, the Donald has landed.

Ted Cruz Picks Carly Fiorina As Running Mate Ahead Of Indiana Primary

Clearly not looking to give up this fight, Senator Ted Cruz is set to announce today that he's already got a vice-presidential pick, and it's Carly Fiorina. The announcement comes just as Donald

Is Ted Cruz The Zodiac Killer? Internet Ponders Important Theory

United States Senator Rafael Edward "Ted" Cruz, a suspected Canadian, today faces darker speculation as he campaigns to become the Republican Presidential nominee. Fusion, The Daily Dot, other reputable Internet content engines and

A Challenger Rises: Former GOP Chair Announces Run Against Gavin Newsom

Former SF Mayor, now California Lt. Governor Gavin Newsom has been busy this month, what with hanging out with the French President, pulling his support from CA's high-speed rail project, and encouraging everybody

If You Can't Beat 'Em: Change the Rules

Thomas Hiltachk, a Sacramento lawyer with connections to the California Republican Party, is working on getting an initiative on the 2008 ballot that'll divvy up California's electoral votes by congressional districts. So the

Republicans Also Want You To Cut Your Hair, Hippie

Associated Press' Scott Lindlaw reports that at yesterday's federal building grand opening, as Nancy Pelosi was in the middle of playing the time-honored role of ribbon cutter, "anti-war protestors" audibly chanted such gems

Here Comes Da Judge

For those who don't know how these things work, essentially if someone gets a citation for any number of "quality of life" type issues, they'd be sent immediately to a community court. At

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Needless to say, we do have some Pelosi & Pals news today as the Washington Post has a big feature on some anti-lobbying bill she's been working on for awhile that could see

Debate the Power

Special props go out to Berg who in giving his comments about there being no debate, compared the whole thing to Martin Luther King, Jr.'s march from Selma to Birmingham. He then

Fight For Your Right To Party Party

One of our readers just forwarded along an email announcing the creation of a new political animal in town -- not the Green Party, not the Democratic Party (and the press release seems

Fox News Hearts San Francisco

The big show was Tuesday night when Hannity & Colmes not only had our very own Gerardo Sandoval on their show to be lamb to the slaughter and discuss the possibly earth-shattering news

SchwartzenWatcher Redux: Stuck in the Middle With You

This week he got rid of his previous Chief of Staff, a Republican, and brought in one of Gray Davis' old aides, Susan Kennedy. The move has gotten conservative's panties all in a

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Blogger Powers, Activate

So the left-wing bloggers, with Berkeley’s own Daily Kos leading the way, did some digging. They found out that Talon News Service is pretty much a house organ of the Republican Party

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...And Boy, Are My Loins Tender

We're not normally in the habit of endorsing tribe.net - it's a little too Burning Man for our tastes - but no SF-geek should go without reading this blurb about the origins

Gaming the System

As the days to the November 2nd elections wind down, many folks are getting anxious over the potential for impropriety at the polling stations. After the debacle in Florida in 2000, many people