{"id":1334,"date":"2009-07-07T22:49:07","date_gmt":"2009-07-08T06:49:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fogcityjournal.com\/wordpress\/2009\/07\/07\/san-francisco-supes-reflect-on-life-of-michael-jackson\/"},"modified":"2017-05-29T12:18:11","modified_gmt":"2017-05-29T20:18:11","slug":"san-francisco-supes-reflect-on-life-of-michael-jackson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fogcityjournal.com\/wordpress\/1334\/san-francisco-supes-reflect-on-life-of-michael-jackson\/","title":{"rendered":"San Francisco Supes Reflect on Life of Michael Jackson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fogcityjournal.com\/wordpress\/author\/luke\/\">Luke Thomas<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>July 7, 2009<\/p>\n<p>On the day of Michael Jackson\u2019s memorial in Los Angeles, members of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors today couldn\u2019t resist an opportunity to reflect on the life of the legendary King of Pop.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI can\u2019t get him out of my head,\u201d said Supervisor John Avalos, recalling his younger days when he couldn\u2019t overcome the temptation to dance to a Jackson tune.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDon\u2019t ask me to do the Moonwalk,\u201d said a smiling Supervisor David Campos, causing an involuntary chuckle in the press box.<\/p>\n<p>And just as meeting attendees were beginning to think each of the Supervisors would continue to wax poetically, Supervisor Bevan Dufty dropped an unexpected bomb.<\/p>\n<p>Michael Jackson \u201cwas the child of an abusive household who then went on to use wealth and privilege to do questionable things, and to basically purchase children,\u201d Dufty intoned.<\/p>\n<p><em>Purchase children?<\/em> (You could have heard a pin drop).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSorry,\u201d Dufty continued, \u201cI can\u2019t absent myself from that responsibility. 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