{"id":2298,"date":"2010-08-23T14:05:24","date_gmt":"2010-08-23T22:05:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fogcityjournal.com\/wordpress\/?p=2298"},"modified":"2017-05-28T15:54:06","modified_gmt":"2017-05-28T23:54:06","slug":"overheard-in-fog-city-the-willie-browan-non-cootie-endorsement-factor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fogcityjournal.com\/wordpress\/2298\/overheard-in-fog-city-the-willie-browan-non-cootie-endorsement-factor\/","title":{"rendered":"Overheard in Fog City: The Willie Brown Non-Cootie Endorsement Factor"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fogcityjournal.com\/images\/photos2010\/jane_kim_d6_kickoff_20100624\/_w2w5776_std.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Candidate for District 6 Supervisor Jane Kim greets former Mayor Willie Brown at her campaign launch party, June 24, 2010. Photo by Luke Thomas.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>By <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fogcityjournal.com\/wordpress\/author\/luke\/\">Luke Thomas<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>August 23, 2010<\/p>\n<p>Some supporters in the Debra Walker for Supervisor camp are publicly associating former Mayor Willie Brown&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fogcityjournal.com\/wordpress\/2010\/06\/kim-campaign-kickoff-draws-two-former-sf-mayors\/\">attendance at Jane Kim&#8217;s campaign kickoff event<\/a> as an official endorsement of Kim&#8217;s campaign.\u00a0 Those whispers are being disseminated on Facebook.\u00a0 Of course, Brown has not officially endorsed any candidate to date in the D6 race and efforts to pry a comment from the elusive former mayor are next to futile.<\/p>\n<p>Nevertheless, neither Kim nor Walker would reject Brown&#8217;s endorsement, FCJ can affirm.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I wouldn&#8217;t reject anyone&#8217;s endorsement,&#8221; responded Walker when asked if she would reject a potential Brown endorsement.<\/p>\n<p>Walker also condemned the spread of misinformation for political gain, including from her supporters.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We need to stop the whisper campaigns and stop attacking each other,&#8221; Walker said, adding she is &#8220;running a positive campaign.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Something smelly in the D10 race to get Matier and Ross airing<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A prominent candidate in the race for District 10 Supervisor may soon be heading for the exit signs.\u00a0 That all depends on the veracity of a recent rumor suggesting the candidate in question is a tax dodger, a candidate some downtowners are supporting.\u00a0 Keep an eye out for Phil Matier and Andy Ross&#8217; column.\u00a0 The scoop de la scoop duo are expected to expose all the details this week.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Daly to get roasting<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Supervisor <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fogcityjournal.com\/wordpress\/author\/cdaly\/\">Chris Daly<\/a> would like to go out in style and be the victim of a humorous roasting before his ten-year tenure on the Board of Supervisors ends in January. Several potential names for emceeing the roast are being bandied about including Jeff Ross, Gilbert Gottfried and comic Dave Chappelle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Walker also condemned the spread of misinformation for political gain, including from her supporters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[222,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","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>Overheard in Fog City: The Willie Brown Non-Cootie Endorsement Factor - Fog City Journal<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fogcityjournal.com\/wordpress\/2298\/overheard-in-fog-city-the-willie-browan-non-cootie-endorsement-factor\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Overheard in Fog City: The Willie Brown Non-Cootie Endorsement Factor - 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