{"id":2887,"date":"2011-06-17T10:36:51","date_gmt":"2011-06-17T18:36:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fogcityjournal.com\/wordpress\/?p=2887"},"modified":"2019-02-08T18:54:33","modified_gmt":"2019-02-09T02:54:33","slug":"tony-hall-gets-some-necessary-conversation-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fogcityjournal.com\/wordpress\/2887\/tony-hall-gets-some-necessary-conversation-love\/","title":{"rendered":"Tony Hall Gets Some Necessary Conversation Love"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/25116668?title=0&amp;byline=0&amp;portrait=0&amp;color=ff9933&amp;autoplay=0\" width=\"398\" height=\"299\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p>June 17, 2011<\/p>\n<p>Tony Hall is the target of Melissa Griffin and Beth Spotswood&#8217;s latest episode of <a href=\"http:\/\/sfnecessaryconversation.blogspot.com\/\">Necessary Conversation<\/a>, poking a little fun at the former District 7 Supervisor and mayoral candidate, best known for his stand against <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fogcityjournal.com\/wordpress\/2008\/758\/inside-the-tony-hall-ethics-investigation-whos-really-behindthe-ethics-commission-investigation\/\">corruption on Treasure Island<\/a>, successfully defending himself against <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fogcityjournal.com\/wordpress\/955\/hall-guilty-on-two-counts-of-campaign-finance-violations\/\">trumped-up allegations of money laundering<\/a>, and for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fogcityjournal.com\/wordpress\/1480\/brown-hall-pritikin-bedazzle-guests-during-mural-unveiling\/\">his silky-smooth, swooner voice<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tony Hall is the target of Melissa Griffin and Beth Spotswood&#8217;s latest episode of Necessary Conversation, poking a little fun at the former District 7 Supervisor and mayoral candidate, best known for his stand against corruption on Treasure Island, successfully defending himself against trumped-up allegations of money laundering, and for his silky-smooth, swooner voice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[257,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts-and-entertainment","category-politics"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.1.1 - 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