{"id":1986,"date":"2010-05-22T13:57:26","date_gmt":"2010-05-22T21:57:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fogcityjournal.com\/wordpress\/?p=1986"},"modified":"2010-05-23T17:05:45","modified_gmt":"2010-05-24T01:05:45","slug":"new-mayor-and-district-attorney-visit-prog-supes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fogcityjournal.com\/wordpress\/1986\/new-mayor-and-district-attorney-visit-prog-supes\/","title":{"rendered":"New Mayor and District Attorney Visit Prog Supes"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fogcityjournal.com\/images\/photos2010\/BOS_art_parties_20100521\/_w2w0978_std.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pay to play under the Dome: Interim mayor in waiting, former BOS Prez Aaron Peskin, with District Attorney candidate in waiting Randy Knox, attended a supervisors collective art party hosted yesterday at City Hall. Photos by Luke Thomas.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>By <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fogcityjournal.com\/wordpress\/author\/hbrown\/\">h. Brown<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>May 22, 2010<\/p>\n<p>(talk about a potential upgrade)<\/p>\n<p>You know me.\u00a0 Low key.\u00a0 Don&#8217;t like to make waves.\u00a0 Modest, yet somehow arrogant at the same time.\u00a0 Firm, but with the capacity to be a wishy-washy douche.\u00a0 Always seeking the truth but able to lie for years on end with a straight face.\u00a0 It&#8217;s a wonder, actually, that I&#8217;ve never been elected to public office! Sometimes, when I&#8217;m clipping my nasal hairs, I look deeply into my eyes and address myself. &#8220;Self&#8221; I always begin &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>So, I understand what it takes.<\/p>\n<p>My first political campaign was in 1952.\u00a0 My candidate was Adlai Stevenson and I was 8 years old.\u00a0 I met Randy Knox in my night club 25 years later.\u00a0 That was 33 years ago.\u00a0 You do the numbers.<\/p>\n<p>The first time I met Aaron Peskin, I stood him up.\u00a0 It worked out though.\u00a0 I was supposed to meet him at <em>Wild Awakenings<\/em> coffee shop on McAllister down the street from City Hall. He&#8217;d just been elected to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors and I liked the cut of his jib and wanted to interview him, but I got delayed at a press conference where Jim Reid was announcing the filing of his papers to recall Mayor Willie Brown.\u00a0 It was January 2001.\u00a0 Luckily I ran into Aaron on the sidewalk as I hurried tardily to our meeting.\u00a0 We talked about Willie Brown and how I wanted him gone.\u00a0 Peskin told me off-the-books that he wanted Willie gone too.<\/p>\n<p>These guys are your next Mayor and D.A.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Let me just give you the rumors instead of the facts.\u00a0 I&#8217;m sure you&#8217;ll agree that rumors are always more fun and more often than not, more accurate than facts.\u00a0 Facts are static.\u00a0 Rumors are flexible.<\/p>\n<p>Rumors are that former BOS board prez, D-3 supe, and current DCCC chief, Peskin, has seven of the six votes he needs from the Board to be SF&#8217;s new Mayor when Mayor Gavin Newsom steps up to become California&#8217;s next Lt. Governor.<\/p>\n<p>Rumors are that the ever-affable Knox, with his beyond-Hollywood and into Mt. Olympus good looks and charm (again, I&#8217;m not gay but I&#8217;m not blind either), is a lock to be the City&#8217;s next District Attorney.\u00a0 If he wants.<\/p>\n<p>The two power players came together at a lightly noticed joint art opening hosted by the new powers-that-be on the BOS these days.\u00a0 It&#8217;s no accident that these four &#8230; Board prez and D-3 supe, David Chiu; D-11 supe and Board Budget and Finance chair, John Avalos; Board Rules chair and D-9 supe, David Campos; and the quiet guy, yet always in the swing-vote ultimate power position, D-1&#8217;s Eric Mar who also is chair of the Board&#8217;s Government Audit and Oversight Committee&#8230; What you notice these guys have in common and who wasn&#8217;t invited to join this quartet?<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fogcityjournal.com\/images\/photos2010\/BOS_art_parties_20100521\/_w2w0928_std.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Supervisor David &quot;man of the people&quot; Campos and aide, Sheila Chung Hagen.<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fogcityjournal.com\/images\/photos2010\/BOS_art_parties_20100521\/_w2w0920_std.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Supervisors Eric Mar (center) and John Avalos (right).<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fogcityjournal.com\/images\/photos2009\/public_def_panel_herrera_budget_efca_090506\/_w2w7763_std.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Board Prez David Chiu<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Well, these guys are going to be here for another 7 years.\u00a0 Unless one of them becomes Mayor or D.A. once Peskin and Knox move on to higher office.\u00a0 That&#8217;s the way that it works.<\/p>\n<p>Daly wasn&#8217;t there.\u00a0 Sophie Maxwell wasn&#8217;t there.\u00a0 They&#8217;re termed out and no longer part of any long range planning equation.\u00a0 Bevan Dufty wasn&#8217;t there because he&#8217;s the opposition.\u00a0 Same with Michela Alioto-Pier, Carmen Chu and Sean Elsbernd.\u00a0 Naw, this was a bumping of the fists of the new Democratic Party inner circle.\u00a0 Who else made it to the exclusive event?<\/p>\n<p>Probably the two best political minds in the City (other than mine when I&#8217;m drunk) were there.\u00a0 That would be the Dems new rising star, Hope Johnson, whom Peskin embraced after months of opposing her DCCC candidacy, and the Green Party&#8217;s Marc Salomon who announced to a stunned audience that he&#8217;ll be leaving the Green Party Monday to register as a Democrat.\u00a0 And, that as his first act as a Democrat, he&#8217;ll be endorsing the aforementioned Hope Johnson for DCCC.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fogcityjournal.com\/images\/photos2010\/BOS_art_parties_20100521\/_w2w0953_std.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Political svengalis Marc Salomon and Hope &quot;Vote for hope&quot; Johnson.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Of course, like myself, Salomon also announced that he&#8217;d be returning to the Green Party after the June 8th election to support their ideals and candidates.\u00a0 This politics thing can be so confusing.\u00a0 Remember what Churchill said when he was criticized for changing political parties so many times?<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;To improve is to change. To be perfect is to have changed a lot.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1987\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1987\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1987\" title=\"winston_churchill\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fogcityjournal.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/plugins\/2010\/05\/winston_churchill.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"376\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.fogcityjournal.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/plugins\/2010\/05\/winston_churchill.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.fogcityjournal.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/plugins\/2010\/05\/winston_churchill-239x300.jpg 239w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1987\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sir Winston Churchill, circa 1951. Photo by Alfred Eisenstaedt.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I think Winston and I had the same humility teacher. And, incidentally, in case you didn&#8217;t know it, David Campos has a fabulous bulldog named after Churchill &#8217;cause he looks just like him.\u00a0 He&#8217;s called &#8216;Winston&#8217; and David has agreed to let Fog City&#8217;s Luke Thomas photograph the real dog bulldog, who fills the Campos household with love, and the online dawg being me my very self.\u00a0 Luke thinks it&#8217;s important we do the pics now while Winston and I are both perfect physical specimens.<\/p>\n<p>Knox lent his star power to a photo with DCCC candidates Hope Johnson and Rick Hauptman who was in the Milk Club when Moses still had a mailing address in Egypt, and new David Chiu staffer, Cat Rauschuber. Cat&#8217;s young but in no way new to the Dome having previously worked as a number-crunching budget analyst for Harvey Rose.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fogcityjournal.com\/images\/photos2010\/BOS_art_parties_20100521\/_w2w0984_std.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hope Johnson, Cat Rauschuber, Rick Hauptman and Randy Knox.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>As always, Giants fanatic and D-11 top guy, John Avalos, had the kids in to meet the other giants who weren&#8217;t nearly as impressive to them as the baseball types.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fogcityjournal.com\/images\/photos2010\/BOS_art_parties_20100521\/_w2w0972_std.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Supervisor John Avalos and progeny.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>You think I&#8217;m wrong?<\/p>\n<p>When I say we were looking at the faces of the new Democratic Machine?\u00a0 We&#8217;ll see I guess.\u00a0 I only know one thing for certain.\u00a0 I spoke to a janitor after everyone had gone home and he said that Peskin and Knox called all of the supes into a chamber in his old office and they addressed the one question they knew had to be answered if any of their dreams were to come true:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat do we do about h. brown?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Go Gigantes!<\/p>\n<p><strong>More photos<\/strong><\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fogcityjournal.com\/images\/photos2010\/BOS_art_parties_20100521\/_w2w0975_std.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Community Choice Aggregation champion Tom Taylor, Hope Johnson and SEIU 1021 honcho Gabriel Haaland, discuss machine &quot;clique&quot; politics and its divisive impact on  independent partisan candidacies.<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fogcityjournal.com\/images\/photos2010\/BOS_art_parties_20100521\/_w2w0939_std.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Supervisor John Avalos and son having a fun time.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first time I met Aaron Peskin, I stood him up.  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