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Archive for October, 2007

Golden Showers Rain On Castro

You don’t need to be a weatherman to which way the wind blows and Citizens for Halloween are forecasting golden showers, predicting a thunder clash of party revelers and cops with no port-a-potties in sight.
Co-founder and SF Party Party blogger, Ted Strawser, reached out to Castro resident and Port-a-potty guy, Michael Staley, in an effort [...]

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Tent City

While San Francisco’s Mayor Gavin Newsom roundly criticizes the war on drugs of robbing jails of precious cell space, Sheriff Michael Hennessey echoed his sentiments by quietly freeing violent prisoners onto the streets.
That is, until Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio rides into town with some old fashioned justice.
Last week, Hennessey said, “his hands are tied” by overcowding; and I say [...]

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Turf War In The Tenderloin

Haight Drugs, Heart Newsom!
Mayor Gavin Newsom launched another operation targeting the drug trafficking in the Tenderloin, Mission and Market Street with a weeklong crackdown in which SFPD arrested over a hundred suspected drug dealers!!!
The latest sting went Monday to Sunday and involved officers posing as drug users seeking heroin, crack cocaine and methamphetamine.
Captain Tim Hettrich [...]

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Gavin Newsom’s Report Card

By Chronicle’s Cecilia M. Vega:
From behind the desk in his stately City Hall office, San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom looks back on his first term and says the “chattering class” – his term for political insiders – got it all wrong when they thought they had him figured out.
When he was elected in 2003, Newsom [...]

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City’s New Sit Down, Shoot Up Drug Cafe

The Associated Press reports about 150 people gathered in the Mission District to build community support for a city-funded safe-injection center, including backing from Mayor Gavin Newsom and the Board of Supervisors.
Heroin and Cocaine aren’t cheap and sort of addicting. Good luck keeping a job to support your habit. Shooting drugs is a real slippery slope:
A) [...]

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No Vacancy!

Full Jails
Tight Budgets
Jailbirds Fly Free.
Gavin’s got no room and no budget to house the homeless (behind bars).
San Francisco Sheriff Michael Hennessey says overcrowding is forcing him to let theives and addicts go free – essentially reversing the Mayor’s “services or citation“ programs into arevolving door “catch and release“ reality.
Only, Homelessness, Drugs and Homicides aren’t going away.
Nor are [...]

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Newsom Suspends Whistle Blowing Cop

San Francisco police officer, Sgt. John Lewis of Park Station, wants to turn back time to get a jump on the homeless.
Lewis is under departmental investigation and could be suspended for writing a letter to The Chronicle criticizing the way Mayor Gavin Newsom and the Police Department are handling the homeless problem in Golden Gate [...]

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Grasshopper, Chicken On FOX

What, no Wolf?
Watch candidate Josh Wolf’s interview with formidable opponent Stephen Colbert.
Breaking News: Grasshopper Receives 9-Month Jail Sentence by SFist

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Sean Penn: Anyone, But Newsom!

The timing is a little speculative as the fling deadline for the mayoral election has passed; nonetheless, Wonkette just posted that Sean Penn has offered to stake Matt Gonzalez a $5 million dollar war chest to run against Gavin Newsom with the caveat Gonzalez hop to the Democratic Party.
When Spicoli says, “Let’s Party,” he means [...]

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Vote For Your Favorite Gavin Newsom Gaffes

Down Goes Newsom.
Down Goes Newsom.

With Mayor Gavin Newsom’s only debate appearance in the rearview mirror and snooze control ahead – Election Day, it’s time to look back and reflect on Newsom’s biggest blunders.
I’m certain Senior Adviser, Eric Jaye, not only warned Newsom off debating; in addition, he has directed him to an underground bunker at an [...]

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