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  • Ron Conway: Buying Our Democracy
    and Squashing San Franciscans Like Ants

    October 13, 2011
    Last year, Conway gave $35 thousand to the Yes on L campaign to criminalize sitting on a sidewalk. This year, Ethics Commission filings show that Conway has already spent $218,500 in San Francisco to support various conservative causes. A San Francisco Bay Guardian article notes Conway has given more than $320 thousand to Republicans since 1999. Like the Gettys, Warren Hellman, Dede Wilsey, Michael Moritz and the late Donald Fisher, Conway appears to be the latest member of the “1%” class who is spending exorbitant gobs of cash on a San Francisco election. All this is very interesting, of course, given that Conway is a Palo Alto venture capitalist.

  • Who’s Really Behind the Tony Hall Ethics Commission Investigation?

    Who’s Really Behind the Tony Hall Ethics Commission Investigation?

    Former District 7 Supervisor Tony Hall. Photos and Videos by Luke Thomas By David P. Waggoner September 10, 2008 Editor’s Note: Article first published in West of Twin Peaks Observer. Republished with permission. Long before…

  • Nader-Gonzalez ticket and the Green Party

    Nader-Gonzalez ticket and the Green Party

    Ralph Nader and Matt Gonzalez Photo by Luke Thomas By Susan King, special to Fog City Journal Editor’s Note: Susan King is an elected member of the San Francisco Green Party County Council and a…