(1-19-12)

Hey y’all. Just a progress report here. As you know, I’ve done a complete
restructuring of my life since the last election in an attempt to get my body in shape,
finish my novel on the Class of 2000 and, hopefully, get laid.

The physical fitness part of the range of goals is going nicely. That, and my
redecoration of my SRO room on Skid Row. But, that’s another story. One Luke
Thomas will help me tell with pictures hopefully, when the project is finished in a
week or two.

The idea was to get in shape while creating an assembly line/locker room that makes it
easy to process my manuscripts and move smoothly from one athletic endeavor to the
next. The outrageous goal is to compete and complete (last place is fine, least I’d
be alive) … to complete the ‘Escape from Alcatraz Triathlon’. It’s a bold goal
cause I can’t swim or cycle worth a lick and just walking in my 67th year can be a
chore.

Anyway, I laid down a three step program length of 162 days from the day after the
November election til my birthday on April 17th (always accepting gifts of whiskey and
cigars for the even year-round).

Just finished the first phase of 10 weeks/70 days and dropped 20 lbs. Not bad at
all. To do that I walked in the neighborhood of 680 miles. I started with one
push-up, one sit-up and 12 leg-ups (got great legs, always been able to count on my
legs) … now I do 2 sets daily of 15 push-ups, 20 sit-ups and 15 leg-ups.

Nothing Olympic here. My walking includes the Hyde Street Hill headed for the Bay
and returning and includes the complete Marina walk from Fisherman’s Wharf to the base
of the Golden Gate Bridge.

Kids, it’s Paradise with a capital ‘P’. Y’all buried in the day-to-day of local
politics should try time by the Bay. I mean, you pass literally thousands of
tourists some days and you know that they all spent at least a couple of thousand
apiece to see and enjoy what you’re seeing and enjoying for free.

I’ll get back to you with another progress report at the end of my Intermediate
Training period which is 8 weeks and lasts til March 14th. In this phase I’ll be
jogging more of my 10 mile course and adding 30-40 minutes a day in the gym
concentrating on my BB and my TT’s. You know, beer belly and thunder thighs.

That will be (Allah willing) a lead into my final 34 days before my birthday (68th
thank you) of ‘Advanced Training’ in which we toss Aaron Peskin into the mix as my
swimming coach (maybe a dash of Bonnie Ora Sherk in pool initial phase) …

Bottom line is that I’m fine and will be at City Hall to watch a friend seek
confirmation for a commission post and wade in the shark infested waters of Ross’
private Amazon basin for an hour or two. Not writing on that issue.

Niners are best show in SF stadium since … ?

(9-27-11)

Anyone get laid last night? If so, good for you and don’t be so friggin’ smug about
it. Personally the only thing I’ve experience that approximated sex was watching a
voluptuous blonde in a hotel window across the way (God bless exhibitionist tourists
and the Renoir hotel!) … so, she’s there an equally endowed black female friend and
if their boobs weren’t so big I’d think they were a pro volleyball pair but like I
said, the boobs were too big and they’d keep falling but at least they’d have a cushion
to soften their falls and they stayed 3 days and teased the 60 or so tenants with front
windows (plus the crackheads and winos on the street in front who aren’t blind mostly)
… so, they attracted an audience in my building by appearing first partially dressed
(a little less clothing each day) in their window and by the third day the blonde was
doing one of those totally nude things where she rubbed lotion over her entire body a
bit at a time while I divided my time between gawking and reading taunts from Eric
Brooks on the Bay Guardian website. And, Nevius reports this morning that Chicken
John has a book coming out this Friday about the 2007 mayoral campaign.

“Chicken John wrote a book?” you say?

Yeah, and you can start voting in the basement poll at City Hall two weeks from today
on October 11th from 8am til 5pm Monday thru Friday and the new Mayor will take office
on January 8th and … there’s the $10,000 washing machines which is steep but not as
steep as the washer the RBA gave to Amy Brown when she was on the DBI Commission and
hers had 20 grand inside but she gave it back along with the washer. Say huh?

Full Board 9-27-11

There are 48 items on today’s agenda and the first 22 on the Consent Agenda contain
several items that total about 10 million bucks in grants from the Federal Emergency
Management Agency (FEMA to you) … which tells me that they have a very good grant
writer cause they call a washing machine that costs 10 grand a, “Heavy-Duty Washer
Extractor” and they write that without even a ‘lol’ or an emoticon with a wink.
That’s Item #7.

An aside on the washers. Hayes-White is the worst fire chief in the United States and
a couple of years ago she pushed through an appropriation to get everyone on the
department an extra set of boots and helmets and coats and the whole mess and I done
never heard of such a thing and I was a firefighter for 5 years and the ‘turnout’ gear
lasts for an entire career and what a dildo to waste money on that when they didn’t even
have the locker capacity to store it.

Item #27 Mirkarimi further alienates Sheriff’s deputies

Hey, be real, these guys are NRA types and this legislation which would require secure
gun storage (good idea, no argument from anyone that I know of) and bans hollow point
ammunition (bad idea, jacketed bullets go through walls and kill kids on the other
side) … and, the City will spend a couple of hundred thousand or so losing this
fight in court but he’s just rallying his base which I can understand although I’m
supporting Captain Paul Miyamoto for Sheriff and pushing to keep Ross in D-5 as supe
for another year until he can run for Assembly or even go directly for State Senate.

Items #29 and #30 Will Elsbernd screw small West Portal merchants?

This is to establish a CBD (’Community Benefits District’) which is where the City uses
their control of non-profits in a neighborhood who pay nothing to make the small
merchants kick in thousands each a year to hire off-duty SFPD officers for $150 and
hour to moonlight doing something they won’t do on regular duty which is walk a foot
beat (or, just stand there staring into the distance thinking about God and the future
of America and how about those Niners?) …

Sean told me last week that if the City’s votes in the proposed district were the
deciding votes that he wouldn’t favor forming the district. We’ll see. The votes
will be counted today.

Items #35 and #36 Getting rid of Public Financing of candidates

Jane Kim is taking it to the back room on #35 where she’ll get advice from the City
Attorney saying that the SF Public Finance model is just fine even in spite of the
recent Arizona decision (what a beautiful state full of such a large number of racist
barbarians) … Arizonans don’t like Public Financing cause the rich people don’t
want an independent candidate to even have enough bread to buy a few buttons or signs –
did you know that the State House in Arizona is owned by unknown investors in Eastern
Europe? - Arnie tried the same thing here with the best State buildings in Civic
Center …

Item #36 is from Elsbernd and conjoined twin Mark Farrell newly minted as the D-2 supe
and deeply in political hock to Ron Conway for over a hundred grand but that ain’t
nothing cause Conway’s giving Ed Lee a million.

Anyway, #36 is an attempt to cap public matching funds in the upcoming election which,
of course, favors the wealthier candidates or rather those anointed by the likes of
Conway.

That’s good for now cause there’s a meeting of some part of the Board’s Transportation
Authority and that’s always good for a laugh.

May all of your windows be full of big-breasted naked blondes.

And, of course …

Go Giants!

h.

(7-15-11)

In 2006 after years of struggle Supervisor Tom Ammiano’s Health Care Security Ordinance
went into effect. The plan contains 3 options for the 4,000 affected employers with
‘Healthy San Francisco’ being one. Even giant groups like Kaiser have agreed to
accept its members as patients in their facilities. This option is working just
fine.

Another option is for employers to simply purchase health insurance for their
employees. The Office of Labor Standards Enforcement reports that 90 percent of
the 4,000 businesses chose this route and spent 829 million dollars last year in doing
so. The option is also working fine.

It’s the third option that contains the loophole that has the potential to bring down
what is essentially the country’s first ’single-payer’ health plan house of cards.

That’s the one where the employer sets up an in-house account to pay for employee
health care needs. Problem with this one is that at the end of each year the
employer can take all of the money that wasn’t used and put it in their own pockets.
Which includes, of course, the surcharge they levied on you (up to 4% or more and
noted on their menus). That means that if you get sick in January under this plan
there won’t be enough money to pay for your treatment. They just tell you, some of
the employees said, to come back once they’ve collected enough or to pay it yourself
and they’ll reimburse you later. Of course, you end up in the emergency room.

That’s the loophole and right now the businesses using this plan (7% of total) are
gaming the system (they took back over 50 million last year) and effectively shifting
the cost of the mandated care back to the City and County of San Francisco. The
General Fund pays for it and the bastards laugh all the way to the bank. It’s this
loophole that David Campos is seeking to close. At risk is the entire Health Care
Security Ordinance.

Ominous thing here is that the word is getting around town and more and more businesses
are opting out of purchasing insurance and going for their own (obstacle course maze
like) HRA’s (Health Reimbursement Accounts).

In summary, greedy businessmen and their flunky politicians are moving on every front
from the White House to the SF Board chambers to roll back every gain the working class
has amassed since the first term of Franklin Roosevelt.

From Social Security to Obamacare to the minimum wage and on to Healthy San Francisco
people like Mitch McConnell and David Chiu work tirelessly snipping away the safety net
of the masses and transferring more and more wealth to the already rich.

Folks, while Ammiano is certainly the father of Healthy San Francisco, all 11
supervisors voted for it and the Mayor (Newsom) signed it with great fanfare.
Hell, in fact, Newsom even adopted it as his very own creation when he was on the
campaign trail and often forgot to mention that Ammiano had anything to do with it.
I watched him at a press conference with Michael Moore once and when Moore gave Newsom
the credit for Healthy SF the Gavster just kind of looked at his feet and said, ‘aw
shucks’ or something.

This is not a Board that’s going to close this loophole 11-0 and Ed Lee is not a Mayor
who will support closing any loophole that channels more money to the rich. And,
it’s going to get far worse.

This morning’s Chronicle’s lead editorial praised a ballot measure in the works from
Supervisor Scott Wiener that will give the newly conservative Board majority the power
to roll back up to 100 of the reforms that more liberal legislative bodies enacted over
the past decade or so. He and his handlers are seeking to destroy the legacy of the
Class of 2000 and the benefits it created for working San Franciscans.

Willie rides again!

Where’s the outrage?

Why isn’t Newsom weighing in?

Bulldog Salon at Daly’s in 10 minutes.

Go Giants!

h.

(7-12-11)

When Rules Committee chair, Jane Kim twice voted to remove Bonnie Sherk from the Urban
Forestry Council I said that Kim had deserted the environment and that those chickens
would come home to roost (like she gives a shit). Well, yesterday they did.

The hearing was before the Land Use Committee and the subject (much as Scott Wiener
tried to hide it) was a parliamentary ruse by Wiener to get approvals on record from
the City’s Planning Department and DPW and … you get the drift.

So Wiener, he tells the packed room that they aren’t allowed to talk about the AT&T
boxes because they are the subject of an unresolved closed-door session of the Full
Board. What a tall hill of steaming poop is this guy.

Well, the Public agreed with me and 50 of them streamed up to raise hell about the AT&T
plan to deposit 726 additional utility boxes (those huge gray things they already have
all over the City – does AT&T do the graffiti themselves or do the neighbors pitch
in?). Every member of the Public who spoke opposed the boxes except for one guy.
Uh huh, Jane Kim’s guy.

An out-of-town realtor named Dan Flanagan. Dan’s thing is passing out his broker’s
card to people whose buildings he wants to sell. It helps if he can offer them free
trees or shrubbery from the City. Cause it says right there on the card that he
just gave you that he’s not only the Executive Director of the Urban Forestry Council
but also a member of that revered body.

Flanagan goes on and on about how he’s certain that the boxes that the Planning
Department are approving are going to fit in just fine and no one should worry about
that, thank you. It was disgusting drivel presented by the smarmy, snickering
snake, Wiener and made possible by Jane Kim.

Today’s Full Board

This will be a fast meeting. Prepare for the upturned and expectant face of prez,
David Chiu repeating over and over: “Same house, same call?”. When I asked Chris
Daly why Avalos went along with so much of this shit, Chris answered: “He doesn’t like
to be the only one voting against things all the time.”. Well, I still gave my
monthly $20 to the John Avalos for Mayor campaign last week cause right now he’s the
only Progressive in the race. Sad ass state of affairs.

There are 2 items on the agenda that will rock everyone’s boat:

Item #8 Mayor’s Faux Pension Reform

With Jeff Adachi’s ‘Son of B’ Pension Reform signatures turned into the Department of
Elections don’t be surprised if the Public Defender tosses his hat into the mayoral
race. If he doesn’t, be equally unsurprised when Matt Gonzalez joins the SF hat
dance. Either can defeat Ed Lee who’s entry is a certainty. There are rumors
of a candidates poll that shows Lee running leagues ahead of all the present entrants.
Willie’s gonna insist he run and Ed ain’t saying ‘no’ to Willie and Rose Pak.

That said, I wouldn’t expect much in the way of discussion on the Lee/Hellman plan
today. As a proposed Charter amendment it needs a couple of more hearings for final
approval before it’s put on the ballot to challenge the Adachi measure. This baby
won’t be leaving the Board crib until July 26th.

Item #34 Wiener’s attempt to repeal 30 years of Progressive legislation

Someone ask Calvin Welch to make available the list he presented to a Board committee a
couple of weeks back in which he itemizes the legislation that Wiener’s ballot proposal
would make susceptible to repeal.

Again, faux-Progressive Jane Kim joined Wiener and Moderates, Sean Elsbernd and Mark
Farrell to pass this ‘Terminator’ (it goes back in time and kills your momma)
bullshitski. This move is simply a smart move by a newly Moderate Board majority
to overturn the work of the Class of 2000 which was Progressive.

Two irritating items:

Item #12 Elsbernd pushes round of golf at Harding to $200

Did you know that non-residents have preference for ‘T’ times at Harding because they
pay more? Oh yeah, it’s true. It’s also true that ten years ago you could play
a round of golf at Harding 365 days a year for $30 or less before Sean began and then
completed his ‘renovation’ and giveaway of the links.

Item #29 Report from South of Market/North Tenderloin CBD

I’m just curious to see if Elaine Zamora is still the Executive Director of this group.
We’ll see how getting stomped in her race for supervisor affected her.

All-Star Game 5pm

h.

(7-7-11)

Reports continue to roll in of on-duty uniformed SF police officers interfering with
the 100 signature gatherers working on Jeff Adachi’s ‘Son of B’ Pension Reform ballot
measure.

I spoke to a petitioner working in front of the new federal building on 7th this
morning and he said a uniformed cop accosted him in front of the Safeway store in
the Marina. Says the cop interfered with his work and wanted to arrest him but
when the cop called it in the cop was told he couldn’t arrest him, “Unfortunately”.

POA president, Gary Delugnuts was quoted yesterday as saying that he was encouraging
off-duty cops to shadow the petitioners and correct, “lies” he claims they were
telling. Of course it’s Delugnuts and the cops who are the liars.

Hey, who do you call when the cops are the criminals? I asked a lawyer friend this
morning and he said that he has clients phone 911 when they are hassled. Then at
least there’s a phone record. Get badge numbers and film the officers if possible or
call on citizens to film them. People will help you because they are pissed.

The cops are stealing evidence and the police chief says it’s no big deal. They’ve
stopped recruiting from inside the City because they don’t like the kind of values San
Francisco residents tend to have. They recruit from other departments and choose
lateral transfers who are typically truncheon swinging bullies.

And, they charge the City $100,000 for every recruit who attends the SFPD academy (780
hours required) when top community colleges charge $2,400 (see Allan Hancock College of
Santa Maria).

We’ve all seen the videos of narcotics officers entering SRO rooms without permission
and with no warrants. Then, they lie about it and the POA and command staff give
them cover.

The POA of the SFPD is a classic example of the tail wagging the dog. Acting Mayor
Lee was pressured into accepting an old school cowboy police chief in Greg Suhr who’s
been indicted more times than Barry Bonds. Politicians are terrified of the cop
union. And, the prison guards’ union. It’s a bad bad situation.

Now we have them hassling unarmed petitioners with gun toting uniformed cops. This
is third world shit. You see it happening, please film it if you can. And, phone
911 and complain. I’m not exaggerating when I say that our very democracy is at
stake. When men with guns interfere with an electoral process, the men with guns
should be disarmed, arrested and jailed. Even if it has to be the FBI who does it.

Kim set to torpedo another veteran voice?

When Jane Kim removed Bonnie Ora Sherk from the Urban Forestry Council, Supervisor Kim
said that she wanted, “fresh blood”. Kim replaced the nationally renowned
landscape architect (over 30 years building gardens and planting trees and dealing with
all stakeholders in San Francisco) … Kim replaced her with a real estate broker.
When Sherk had the temerity to apply for the body again, Kim blew her off again and
chose a corporate representative. Again, Kim was rude enough to make references to
Sherk’s age.

When Allan Goldman applied to be the BOS representative to the Ethics Commission (he
was endorsed by the entire Progressive community) … Kim basically said that he was
too old too. Again, she chose a political hack. But, a young one.

This afternoon Kim has senior SOMA/Entertainment Commission guru, Jim Meko in her
sights. Meko is the community representative on a commission that is heavily
weighted toward the industry. Jim represents the neighbors and he’s one of the most
level headed negotiators in town.

Giants won in 14 last night.

Panda passes .300 and Schierholtz hits a pair of homers including the winner.

Zito against Padres here at 7:05pm tonite

h.

Christ, wasn’t it just a couple of years ago that Progressive voters installed David
Campos and David Chiu because they told us that they were Progressives? Then just a
few months back the same gullible Progs voted for Jane Kim because they thought she’d
be a solid Progressive vote to replace Chris Daly?

How the times change. First Campos votes Downtown to make Bevan Dufty head of the
Transportation Authority with a couple of billion dollars in contracts up for grab in
the Doyle Drive and ‘Railroad to Rose’s’ projects coming to fruition. David said
that he did that because he didn’t think the head of the Authority was a “political”
job (yeah, and ‘Pope’ is not a religious position). He puts the icing on the cake by
saying that another big reason he’s voting for Dufty instead of a Prog is cause Bevan
is his, “friend”.

Well, today on the Full Board’s Item #29 David will be voting for another Downtown
“friend” for the Police Commission. A guy (Julius Turman) who paid off a lover he
beat the shit out of to keep from going to jail? A guy (Turman) who has one of the
worst attendance records in town for a commission appointee (Human Rights Commission).
So, friendship supercedes ethics and morals and sloth? Hey, what the fuck, I
still love you as a friend, David. I’m just kinda doubting I’ll be voting for you
for anything soon. But, you never know. A couple of weeks afterVice President
Aaron Burr shot President Thomas Jefferson’s best friend (Alexander Hamilton) to death
in an mismatched duel, Jefferson was asking Burr’s help to break a tie vote in the
Senate.

Jane Kim’s worse. First, she sponsors a measure for the November ballot that would
pay SFUSD School Board members around 30k a year and then turns around and moves to
take the measure off the ballot (#41 on today’s agenda). There’s a story behind the
Kim move that’s not pretty.

You see, the School Board members deserve to be paid just like the Board of Supes
deserve to be paid. Until Matt Gonzalez put equitable pay for BOS members on the
ballot they were paid a grand total of $37,500 a year. Shit, their aides made more
than they did. The voters kicked them to around 100k which is much more equitable
(could keep them from accepting too many bribes?).

Heart wrencher here is that the salary for School Board members proposal grew out of
the fact that a recently elected member (won’t name her, but she works her tail off)
has an autistic child and it’s hard for her to pay for sitting while mom represents the
kid and all SF students’ interests. So, word get’s around and someone says, hey,
let’s get at least a minimal salary for these people. We should have years ago but
didn’t, so let’s do it now. Now, after giving this woman hope, Kim’s telling her to
take a hike because the pittance it would take to fund the salaries (around 200k
divided amongst the 7 members) is just too much in hard budget times. This is the
same Jane Kim who just pushed through millions in tax breaks for billion dollar
corporations who don’t need it. Another thing.

Cold hard fact is that Jane Kim is lots like Pine Street. One way all the way.
Now that Kim is making a hundred thousand a year (not counting bribes – whooops, I
mean, ‘campaign contributions’) … now that Kim’s pockets are lined with hundred
dollar bills from Willie Brown and Rose Pak she could care less for her colleagues back
on the School Board. Cold hearted bitch, that one.

I have a new toy (small computer with wireless and camera) I want to use at the Board
meeting today. It has a built in camera and I’m hoping to get my picture taken
with some of my friends on the Board. Maybe I can get one with Campos and Kim to
put over today’s column?

Go Giants!

h.

(6-7-11)

David Chiu is a complete asshole. But, you already knew that. What you didn’t
appreciate was the extent to his assholedness. I mean, this mother fucker is truly
evil incarnate. He and Scott Wiener are the children of a very very proud Satan.

After barely meeting (David prefers backroom government) for a year, the Board will
take up billions of dollars and over 30 years of development in a single afternoon.
That would be this afternoon.

Chiu figures that if you overwhelm them with numbers that lie and baffle them with
mind-numbing speakers, this version of the SF Board of Supervisors will happily vote
for the proverbial, “overhead sewer line down Market Street”).

Today’s ‘overhead sewers’ are the Treasure Island/Yerba Buena Island and the Parkmerced
developments. Together they give virtual Medieval development rights to
out-of-town developers who will likely not be around when the first shovel hits the
ground (companies like Lennar typically work for years paying off politicians and
officials to amass enough entitlements to make projects more attractive for transfer to
shadowy foreign investors home ported in the Cayman Islands).

The Parkmerced project alone will destroy 1,500 units of rent-controlled housing and
displace over 8,000 people. As Beyond Chron and the Bay Guardian (in rare
agreement) have noted, this is Chiu’s last shot at getting any tenant votes in his run
for Mayor. He’s simply got to change his vote on Parkmerced and to them, he’s a
good guy again. Guess what? He won’t.

By the time these hearings are finished there will be cobwebs growing on the audience
and most of the Board will be asleep. I hope they’ve all been diagnosed as ADD
(’attention deficit disorder’) cause thataway they can get a legal prescription for
speed and have half a chance of at least being conscious when they vote to destroy the
SF that attracted most of us.

Treasure Island/Yerba Buena Island … Items #8 thru #17

Parkmerced … Items #18 thru #21

Item #29 Chiu and the Mayor legalize ‘Smoothing’ for City budget

Subtext here is that they’ll use the numbers flowing from this (phony rosey
projections) to justify Lee and Chiu’s faux Pension Reform plan.

Item #30 A quarter billion dollars in road contracts to outside companies who have
been paying off the Mayor’s Office since the streets were full of horses.

We should NEVER use bonds to pay salaries or do normal maintenance. Any public
official who supports this should be run out of office.

Right now? That’s the Mayor and 8 members of the Board. Only supes, Elsbernd, Chu
and Farrell have shown any economic common sense by refusing to sign on to this handout
that encourages the Department of Public Works to do nothing while the streets crumble.

Items #46 thru #51 Chiu’s plans for a new library to replace a perfectly good library
in North Beach. There was lots of public opposition (led by Aaron Peskin – there’s a
surprise … he also did a drunk-dialing call to Rich Hillis who’s shepherding the TI
project and threatened to sue him “personally” for doing his job) … Chiu has these
items down here because he figures there won’t be a live brain cell in the audience
after the Parkmerced and TI testimony finishes.

Items #55 thru #59 Appeals of the TI/Yerba Buena EIR

Is there an echo in here? Didn’t we just do these projects a couple of hours ago
listed as 10 items numbered #8 thru #17?

Giants won in 13 and both dailies were at press by then.

I hate not having a box score to look at in the morning.

My box score guess on today’s meeting is:

Parkmerced passes 6-5 with Chiu again providing swing vote against tenants.

TI/Yerba Buena passes 7-4 and not one supervisor will remember why they voted which way
or why when the cock crows tomorrow.

h.

(6-2-11)

Y’all remember when Mayor Newsom double-crossed Tony Hall after Hall resigned from the
Board of Supervisors to take the top position on Treasure Island? It was ugly as
hell.

First, Newsom appoints former Hall Chief of Staff, Sean Elsbernd to Tony’s old seat,
then Tony questions why a couple of million a year from his Island budget is going to
Newsom’s fundraiser, Darius Anderson when Anderson isn’t doing shit and the Mayor get’s
furious and not only fires Hall but also drums up some bogus charges against him and
get’s him brought up on charges before the Newsom controlled Ethics Commission.

It was a fucking mess. Ethics is a cesspool anyway on its best days but they were
really flailing around in the pig crap on this one. Their ‘lawyer’ wasn’t even a
lawyer. Some kid with ties to sleazy Deputy Director, Mabel Ng. I asked Ng why
her ‘lawyer’ wasn’t a lawyer and she said that all the commission required is that he
be a law school graduate. He proved at the trial why he couldn’t pass the
California bar.

The chief piece of evidence in the case against Hall was a check for $12,000 from the
husband of an Elsbernd staffer, the use and purpose of which was in dispute) (after
Tony took him under his arm and nurtured him, Sean turns on him for Newsom) … and
the Ethics ‘lawyer’ presented a copy of the check and not the check itself. Then,
Hall’s attorney demands that the original check be put into evidence and when it is
finally produced it shows clear evidence of having been altered. Where? Well,
the use of the check line has been deleted with white-out and Tony is right after all.
Hell of a piece of lawyering for Hall by his baby faced young attorney (who was and
is a staunch Progressive while Tony was most conservative member of BOS during his
tenure).

And, in the most humiliating scene that any lawyer can imagine in a courtroom (keep in
mind that Sean is a real lawyer who did pass the bar but has yet to try a case) …
Elsbernd sits in the back of the room and listens to his star witness take the 5th
amendment over and over: “On the advice of my attorney I refuse to answer on the
grounds that my answer could incriminate me.”. What a horrible experience for the
poor staffer whose name I won’t mention because they’ve suffered enough and they’re a
good person (though a judge in Superior Court might have had them arrested for
tampering with evidence).

My point?

The young lawyer who defended Hall and humiliated Elsbernd and the entire Ethics
Commission was David Waggoner and today at the 1:30pm meeting of the Board’s Rules
Committee Sean is Vice Chair and has a vote on Waggoner’s fate. That just don’t seem
right. It’s item #3 and I’d imagine it will be heard around 1:45 to 2pm. Tune in
to SFGTV.org and catch the cat fight.

Here’s a short video Tony De Renzo made of Waggoner and Hall in the docket before the
commission (again, we filmed the ‘5th Amendment’ thing but won’t show it.

It’s just over 4 minutes long and as a little aside, the black dude on the far left of
the panel threatened me when I asked him a question in the hall. That’s always a
rush for me. Beats being ignored.

Here ya go:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHEyLAZfJAM

Giants win in 11 innings last night and after terrible week beginning with the Posey
injury they are still only a half game outta first place.

And, my daughter and son-in-law are bringing my grandkids up from Fresno tomorrow
evening and taking me to the Giants game. Cruise by Daly’s Dive to meet em around
5pm?

Again, purpose of the column today is to suggest that Supervisor Elsbernd cannot be an
impartial judge of David Waggoner.

I won’t even mention that Waggoner’s chief competition for the commission seat is a guy
named Turman who tried to get on this same Ethics Commission in the film clip but was
turned down when charges that he severely assaulted a former lover came to light.

h.

Sneaky Sean savages sick seniors

San Francisco will lose 1,500 units of solid rent-controlled housing today in the
culmination of a series of sleight-of-hand moves designed to screw the mostly senior
community who live in Parkmerced.

David Chiu is an accomplice, of course. You’d have figured that, right? He’s
driving hit-man Elsbernd’s getaway car to and from the scene of this dastardly deed.

Chiu’s part is to schedule a rare 9am meeting of the Board’s Land Use and Economic
Development Committee which David has stacked to favor the Downtown forces of
gentrification. While committee chair, Eric Mar is certainly an advocate of rent
control, he is in the minority (though he’s Chair) and will be voted down by
conservative Downtown tools Malia Cohen and Scott Wiener.

The schedule shows all but one item of the early meeting to be occupied with
legislation that must be approved to allow giant and evil outta towners, Stellar
Development to tear down the nearly 1,500 units at Parkmerced and replace them with new
housing that will be market rate. Of course, they’re lying.

They’re lying when they say that they guarantee that the units they’re demolishing will
be replaced with new rent-controlled housing. Experts testifying before another
Board committee already told us that provisions of this deal claiming to assure this
are not enforceable.

Elsbernd’s items are fast-tracked by Chiu’s calendaring wizardry and once the 9am
meeting ends they’ll be in front of the Full Board for approval within a couple of
hours at their regular Tuesday 2pm session.

It’s a travesty for those of us who prefer a diversified population with a healthy
percentage of low income and affordable housing. Elsbernd’s developers only want
the cash (Sean was also key in reducing the number of beds for poor and disabled
seniors at Laguna Honda from 1,200 to 750).

About all you can hope for today is that Mar will once again call upon the City
Attorney to reiterate the stance his office took at townhall meetings at Parkmerced
where he warned that the developers’ guarantees were specious.

Hellman snagged by own reporters!!

I done been to French whorehouses and Texas rodeos and I ain’t never seen anything like
the piece that the Bay Citizen online newspaper published last evening. Get on over
there to BayCitizen.com and read their lead story. Lesly Stevens and Gerry Shih
totally disassemble their own newspaper’s chief benefactor by exposing his role in the
continuing scandal of the totally compromised office of City Attorney Dennis Herrera.
The subject is Pension Reform and the role their own paper’s prime benefactor
(internationally famous billionaire financier, Warren Hellman) … they asked Hellman
the really tough questions about his role in the matter and he don’t sound none too
happy.

Giants back at it tonight vs the equally hot, Florida Marlins at our China Basin palace
with Matt Cain on the mound.

Enjoy the blood letting.

h.

(4-19-11)

“How’s your cancer, Mesha?”

(Deputy Chief Greg Suhr addresses distraught mother.)

Mesha Monge-Irizarry’s son, Idris was 23 years old when the SFPD shot him to death.
They shot him over 20 times. The setting was the Metreon Threatre in downtown San
Francisco. It was empty because Idris was having a psychotic episode. The cops
knew he had mental health issues. They admitted it.

Stelly had told all of the people who were in the theatre (’Swordfish’ was playing) to
go home to their families because the cops were coming and he was going to die. He
kissed his girlfriend goodbye and sent her away. And, waited for the SFPD.

9 cops came through the doors with guns drawn. Stelly had a knife on a key chain.
The knife had a 2 inch blade. The cops all had bullet-proof vests. They
slaughtered him. Then they paid a settlement to his mother to shut her up. That
was in 2001 and it didn’t work.

Since her only child’s murder, Mesha has been in regular attendance at meetings of the
Police Commission. She covers the cops when they are brutal. People contact
her because she speaks out for them. She’s able to do this because she used the
settlement money from CCSF to found the Idris Stelly Foundation which focuses on cases
of police brutality.

The cops don’t like this. They often send patrol cars to sit in front of her house.
And, they harass her at the Commission meetings. Greg Suhr is the worst of the
worst. When he made the comment with which I headed this column, he laughed.
What a prick!

Ed Lee’s gonna make this guy Police Chief?

Suhr’s also the cop who directed the cover-up in the Fajita-Gate scandal when Deputy
Chief, Alex Fagan’s son (a rookie cop who hated blacks and homosexuals almost as much
as Suhr – it’s an Irish thing they tell you) … Mesha is black and a lesbian and
that’s plenty for the top brass at the SFPD … Fagan’s son (who’d been cited for
disrespecting and being insubordinate to a superior officer who is female – he was also
written up for assaulting gay citizens for, well, for being gay). That was while he
was on duty. On the night Fagan Jr. and his two goon buddies stole the gay guys’
fajitas they were blind drunk (coming from a cop function) and just doing a little
‘Clockwork Orange’ kind of cruising to find some faggots to bash. Suhr was
suspended for orchestrating the cover-up and he didn’t like that coming from anyone,
let along a tiny Asian female Police Chief.

Suhr was also the commanding officer at the scene of the Anarchists demonstration in
the Mission that Josh Wolf filmed. Suhr and the cops demanded Josh’s video. He
refused. He’s a journalist. Supposed to be protected by the constitution and
all that shit, ya know?

So, they sent him to prison for a year until he gave up the videos which, as he told
them all along, contained nothing of value to them. It was the principle of the
SFPD expecting independent journalists to record crowds for them. Believe it or
not, some people won’t talk to you in front of a camera if they think you’re going to
give the video to the cops.

So, Greg Suhr was demoted for his incompetence and his insubordination to then Top Cop,
Heather Fong. He was banished to the hinterlands to patrol the Hetch-Hetchy Dam and
Josh went to prison. National news organizations from the New York Times on down
lobbied to have Josh released. George Bush’s Department of Justice said, ‘No’.
Suhr bided his time and drank heavily with the old boys network of Irish cops. And
now?

Ed Lee is going to make this asshole Police Chief?

Today’s Full Board agenda

Item #10 Aegist, Jane Kim weakens Urban Forestry Council

Landscape architect Bonnie Ora Sherk has been creating gardens in schools for nearly 40
years. Not just in San Francisco. New York City too. She’s planted
thousands of trees and created entire parks. She’s SF’s top expert on the Islais
Creek watershed and has worked for decades to ‘daylight’ sections of this and other
creeks rather than divert them into sewage pipes.

So, last month Jane Kim acting as Chair (with the acquiescence of Rules Committee
member, Mark Farrell – Vice Chair Sean Elsbernd left the room) … D-6’s Kim tossed
Sherk off the Urban Forestry Council because she wasn’t, “fresh” enough. Kim
replaced the veteran environmentalists with an Irish realtor.

You gotta hand it to Sherk though. She bounced right back and applied for another
seat on the council (where she’s served for a couple of decades) this month. And,
of course, there’s the bright young Jane Kim telling her again that she’s too old.
Oh, she didn’t say that. She said that she, (Kim) was dedicated to seeing that the
Council had, “new blood”. To emphasize the point she did not encourage Sherk to
reapply when another opening occurred on the Council.

Jane Kim is a prima donna bitch who could care less about the environment. She’s a
kiss ass lackey to Willie Brown and Rose Pak and a no talent incompetent to boot.

This time Sean Elsbernd was present and he added nothing to the conversation whatsoever
despite the fact that he’d heard Sherk and several other environmentalists in his
office (thank you Sean, really) and knew that Sherk is a virtual icon in the Urban
Forest community. I later asked Sean why he didn’t say anything and you know what
he said?

“They can’t hold your words against you if you don’t say anything.”

Kim is a disaster not only to the environment but also to open government. A few
weeks ago she led the charge to place a corporate lawyer as the BOS representative on
the Ethics Commission. In the seat held by Joe Lynn and then by Eileen Hansen.
Now the seat is held by one Dorothy Liu who said she doesn’t want the work of the
commission on SFGTV because it’s too sensitive.

Liu’s competition for the spot was a retired attorney named Allen Grossman who
emphatically called for televising the body’s hearings. He’s actually sued the
Ethics Commission and won a Freedom of Information suit when they refused to, you know,
free up information. Anything else?

Well, we know that Chiu’s an aegist. We know that she’s a lackey to billionaires
and crooked politicians and representatives of the Chinese Communist government.
She’s definitely against the environment and open government. And, since both
Grossman and Sherk are Jewish I guess we have to conclude that Kim is also an
anti-semite.

But, she must be a Progressive. Cause, the Guardian endorsed her.

Other than that, she rocks.

Item #13 Kim gives millions to billionaire Twitter

This item worked its way through the system as a tax break for the Twitter corporation.
Somehow now, the name ‘Twitter’ appears nowhere in the agenda description (Chiu’s
learning from Dennis Herrera?).

Could it be because Wall Street has been busy downgrading the value of Twitter for the
past week or so? Could it be that this dog won’t hunt and this race horse broke its
leg?

Item #13 David Chiu in bed with Dede Wilsey and Phil Ginsburg

This item is the privatization of the Arboretum in Golden Gate Park. It’s 55 acres
and is virtually the only public facility in the park that was free up until a year
ago. Now Wilsey’s society friends have installed toll booths full of rude box
office staff and they’re building more serious fences around the entire facility.
They don’t want your sorry ass in there with the rich people who consider it their own
private possession.

The ’swing vote’ on this matter (6-5) was (and, will again be), David Chiu. When
asked why he wanted to continue to expand the failed one year trial program of charging
fees to out of towners (the Chronicle wants to charge everyone) Chiu said: “In a
perfect world I’d give poor people a fair shake but I’m running for Mayor and I want to
see the money.”

OK, he didn’t say (at least to me) that last bit about the money. He did give his
tired old saw about, “In a perfect world … “ and a friend called and said that if he
said, “In a perfect world … “ again that she was going to puke so I told her that I’d
try to get the message across to the the Downtown boot licker that we are tired of
hearing him say, “In a perfect world … “ again.

You know, in a perfect world I wouldn’t have to tell David that.

Item #19 Sean Elsbernd’s annual ‘Taunt a Turk Day’

Well, the Giants are putting it together big time. We are no longer the weak kids
on the block. Did you see Nate Schierholtz’s home run into the 3rd deck last night?

I’m going back to bed cause it’s 4:30am and you’ve heard enough.

h.