{"id":1365,"date":"2009-07-25T14:44:40","date_gmt":"2009-07-25T22:44:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fogcityjournal.com\/wordpress\/2009\/07\/25\/court-jesters-class-of-2000\/"},"modified":"2009-07-26T10:23:06","modified_gmt":"2009-07-26T18:23:06","slug":"court-jesters-class-of-2000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fogcityjournal.com\/wordpress\/1365\/court-jesters-class-of-2000\/","title":{"rendered":"Court Jester&#8217;s Class of 2000"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fogcityjournal.com\/images\/photos\/fresno_071125\/mw2w5231_std.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><br \/>\nh. brown<br \/>\n<strong>Photos by Luke Thomas<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>By <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fogcityjournal.com\/wordpress\/author\/hbrown\/\">Harold Brown<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>July 25, 2009<\/p>\n<p><strong>D-2&#8217;s Gavin Newsom<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Presently the Mayor of the City and County of San Francisco and a leading candidate for the position of Governor of the State of California.<\/p>\n<p>Reality?<\/p>\n<p>Gavin is a numb nuts cardboard cut-out who can&#8217;t think on his feet. His only values are his own image and money. He has no friends who are not on the payroll of the Downtown cabal that created him.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fogcityjournal.com\/images\/photos2009\/dave_jones_google_maps_090715\/_w2w5423_std.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><br \/>\nGavin Newsom<\/p>\n<p><strong>D-5&#8217;s Matt Gonzalez<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Presently he heads his own law firm, Gonzalez and Leigh, headquartered in an architecturally and artistically resplendent converted factory near the Downtown waterfront. If you get a chance to visit, dig the decor by Matt of the half block long legal eagle nest. He ventured out to run for Vice President of the United States as his friend Ralph Nader&#8217;s running mate.<\/p>\n<p>Reality?<\/p>\n<p>Gonzalez is a genius on too many levels to deal with outside of a biography. While Newsom came in as a machine appointee decrying the very district elections that put him in City Hall, Gonzalez was busy giving San Francisco the highest minimum wage in the country (good, cause Newsom&#8217;s handlers were\/are intent upon making it the most expensive place to live in the country) &#8230; Gonzo gave us the highest minimum wage and he placed restrictions upon &#8230;<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fogcityjournal.com\/images\/photos\/Peace_Vigil_080316\/mw2w6864_std.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nMatt Gonzalez<\/p>\n<p><!--more--> <strong>D-11&#8217;s Gerardo Sandoval<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Just call him &#8216;Your honor&#8217; if you don&#8217;t mind. Newly (and forever to be) elected Superior Court Judge.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fogcityjournal.com\/images\/photos\/bos_070731\/mw2w0403_std.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" \/><br \/>\nGerardo Sandoval<\/p>\n<p><strong>D-8&#8217;s Mark Leno<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s the State Senator for the eastern portion of San Francisco. He is and will always be a toadie for Downtown business interests (check out his latest effort to give away the largest park in the black Bay View to the out-of-town Lennar) &#8230; but, Mark is very affable and always has a wonderful tan.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fogcityjournal.com\/images\/photos\/d3_debate_hastings_080318\/mw2w7130_std.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><br \/>\nMark Leno<\/p>\n<p><strong>D-4&#8217;s Leland Yee<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The State Senator for the Southwestern neighborhoods of San Francisco. Yee is an opportunistic swine who lies like a carpet.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fogcityjournal.com\/images\/photos\/hr_4437_protest_060410\/mw2w1802_std.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"331\" \/><br \/>\nLeland Yee<\/p>\n<p><strong>D-9&#8217;s Tom Ammiano<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We don&#8217;t know what Harvey Milk could have done had he not been assassinated. I do know he&#8217;d have had to work some long hours to match what Ammiano has done for SF and Queers world-wide. Not just Queer issues.<\/p>\n<p>Tom brought back district elections which gave a voice back to the neighborhoods. He gave San Francisco the first Universal Health Care of any city in the United States. And on, and on.<\/p>\n<p>Tom is a rookie State Assembly member representing San Francisco.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fogcityjournal.com\/images\/photos\/homeless_shelters_080220\/html\/mw2w4690_std.jpg\" width=\"333\" height=\"500\" \/><br \/>\nTom Ammiano<\/p>\n<p><strong>D-3&#8217;s Aaron Peskin<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Aaron is head of the local Democratic party&#8217;s Central committee and has some kind of firm that handles water rights for Indians in an area where present D-3 supe, David Chiu&#8217;s company advocated for a nuclear waste dump.<\/p>\n<p>Peskin gave every piece of land he could to his wealthy friends from the first day he joined the Board. The fact that most Progressives consider him to be one of them is a matter of hilarity. Chiu&#8217;s the same only smarter.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/fogcityjournal.com\/images\/photos\/bos_ohio_debate_080226\/html\/mw2w5018_std.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nAaron Peskin<\/p>\n<p><strong>D-7&#8217;s Tony Hall<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s a retired grandpa with a brood of kids and many stories to tell. Although he held office as a Democrat, his values are those I&#8217;ve always associated with moderate Republicans. A fiscal conservative at all times he nevertheless joined with Prog Super-star, Matt Gonzalez, in convincing the voters to take back a share of the power of the SF &#8216;strong mayor&#8217; system. The people got a voice on the Planning Commission and the Police Commission and the Board of Appeals and the Elections Commission and the Department of Building Inspections, and more.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fogcityjournal.com\/images\/photos2008\/va_tony_hall_ethics_080609\/mw2w8058_std.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><br \/>\nTony Hall<\/p>\n<p><strong>D-1&#8217;s Jake McGoldrick<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s a retired grandpa with a brood of kids.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fogcityjournal.com\/images\/photos\/womens_health_biodeisel_060518\/mw2w7227_std.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><br \/>\nJake McGoldrick<\/p>\n<p><strong>D-10&#8217;s Sophie Maxwell<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Sophie&#8217;s still a sitting supervisor but terms out with the last other remaining member of my Class of 2000 in January 2011. She seems to have garnered some real estate over the years as she&#8217;s begun to recuse herself on votes that pertain to renters. When she ran in 2000 she was a union electrician. I doubt she&#8217;ll have to go back to that. She&#8217;s been a real friend to developers wanting to tweak projects in any neighborhood for the last few years and I&#8217;m betting she&#8217;ll get some consultant work.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fogcityjournal.com\/images\/photos2009\/bos_swearing_in_090108\/_w2w8621_std.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nSophie Maxwell<\/p>\n<p><strong>D-6&#8217;s Chris Daly<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the kid in the motorcycle jacket. Still a sitting Supe, he&#8217;s fought the rich and the monied interests so hard for so long that he may be virtually unemployable in SF when he finishes up in January 2011. Newsom hatchet man, Eric Jaye, has done everything within his power to destroy Daly for the last decade and I seriously doubt that&#8217;s ever gonna end. Or, respect county boundaries.<\/p>\n<p>Chris is not going to get elected judge and he&#8217;s no lawyer anyway. His reputation has been so tarred and feathered over his political career that he probably can&#8217;t win a City-wide office. Now, anyway. But, he&#8217;s so young and so smart and charismatic and gifted. He was 28 when he was elected. He&#8217;ll be only 38 and with 10 years of intense political experience. A place to run again?<\/p>\n<p>State or national campaigns take too much money. Besides, Leno and Ammiano have the local state offices sewn up for the next decade. But, Fairfield? Chris mentioned last evening over a couple of drinks and some rock and roll music with me and Luke Thomas that Fairfield had more black people than San Francisco. He didn&#8217;t expand (they&#8217;re a big part of his base) and neither I nor the Fog City boss asked but &#8230; he has to have looked at the offices and office holders in his area.<\/p>\n<p>He could certainly cover the SF political scene better than anyone (including me) working for any publication. He didn&#8217;t just sit around, he learned all the details and knows absolutely everyone. He&#8217;d make some TV station a hell of a political anchor\/consultant.<\/p>\n<p>My thoughts?<\/p>\n<p>I think that Chris Daly, as usual, is telling the truth. He really is taking every step possible to soften the effects of being without a near 6 figure income very soon (keep in mind that when he was elected supe&#8217;s got $37,500 a year and were considered part-time cause the Mayor ran everything).<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m guessing (no inside info here) that when Jim Meko is sworn in as D-6&#8217;s next representative to the SF Board of Supes that the Dalys will be down to one house (the one next to the grandparents). He said last evening that there were 17 members of he and wife Sarah&#8217;s family in town last week for some kind of reunion. I chided him for not inviting Luke to take pictures. It hadn&#8217;t occurred to him.<\/p>\n<p>Yeah, Daly will be OK. He&#8217;s taken one hell of a pounding from a legion of hired no-talent hacks over the years but he signed on for it. His family did not and they have an equal voice in these decisions (else he&#8217;d have run for Mayor). Now his family can weigh in again. He can stay in a dwelling bought on top of the bubble that has already burst or he can hedge his and his family&#8217;s bets.<\/p>\n<p>Hey, I ran against Chris in 2000 and I hold every political and media figure in SF to the highest standards possible. I&#8217;ve lived in Chris&#8217; district for all of his years of service and after January 2011 he owes me nothing. And, I owe him thanks for everything he did for me and people like me (you used to have to pay the desk clerk to have a guest in SF SRO&#8217;s for one thing &#8211; now I run an online TV show out of one).<\/p>\n<p>Let me end this by tying into a lesson I learned dealing with Matt Gonzalez. In the end, we don&#8217;t own the people whose campaigns we&#8217;ve worked for. One of my readers wrote that: &ldquo;we needed him more than he needed us.&rdquo; Lots of truth in that. It&#8217;s the same with Chris Daly. And, notice that it isn&#8217;t just the Progressives who are broken-hearted at the loss. You know how many people are being paid to write bad things (mostly anonymously) on the Internet and other media this week? They&#8217;re gonna miss him too.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fogcityjournal.com\/images\/photos2009\/bos_090224\/_w2w1933_std.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><br \/>\nChris Daly<\/p>\n<p>Go Giants!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>h. brown Photos by Luke Thomas By Harold Brown July 25, 2009 D-2&#8217;s Gavin Newsom Presently the Mayor of the City and County of San Francisco and a leading candidate for the position of Governor&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinion","category-politics"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.1.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Court Jester&#039;s Class of 2000 - 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