I can count three SFPD radio cars and there were more about the area of 6th and Market this AM, just after another family of Eurotourists got victimized.
See?
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Can you recall last year when Mayor Ed Lie had his campaign HQ in the Mid-Market to prove some point about something?
It looked like this:
Can you match up the photos?
What did Ed Lee Gets It Done actually get done here?
Oh, and our previous mayor also had a political HQ in this area not too long ago.
This what what you would find on California Street in the Financial District since last year – a manhole* cover hole right in the path of cyclists on Davis Street:
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I don’t know, I thought that San Francisco could have handled things a different way. So I made this post.
OK fine, I guess that’ll do, but I wondered why this half-assed solution took months and months.
Anyway, here’s the scene from just one day later, last night, actually:
See? Somebody actually cared enough to implement a better, temporary solution. Let’s call this a three-quarter-assed approach.
After four fucking months, that is.
Now down in Mexico City, a man in a sombrero would have looked at similar hole in the street and he would have said, “Mañana. We’ll fix it tomorrow.” And then, you know what? They would have actually fixed things the next day! They would have put up cones or safety sawhorses or whathaveyou.
Which, of course, is what eventually happened in the heart of San Francisco’s Financial District but only after months and months.
“Mission District resident and blogger Kevin Montgomery, Greg Dewar of the N-Judah Chronicles, and former SF Weekly Colunist, Patrick Connors launched stopedlee.com listing four reasons to vote for anyone but Ed Lee. None of them are connected to any candidate in the 2011 San Francisco mayoral race, the website notes.”
“We have to beat Ed Lee on his own medium. Using millions in donations from out-of-town millionaires and billionaires, he has gamed social media to spread the deceptive message that he represents San Francisco’s best interests.
Let’s get the message out there that Ed Lee the next chapter in a 16-year-old political machine that has notgotten it done for SF. Join us in making #EdLeeNot4Me a trending topic right before Tuesday’s election.
Tell your friends and followers on Twitter, Facebook, and Tumblr why you are not voting for Lee. If you cannot think of what to say, copy and paste what we said—we won’t mind.
If you’ve already decided who you’re voting for, volunteer on election day for the campaign. And most importantly, VOTE!”
Why GSK would want to target those interested in the Mayor of San Francisco, well, that escapes me…
(Oh, and the first non-sponsored result is wrong. It should say, “SF Mayor Ed Lee says he changes mind…” Cause, like how does the Chronicle know that Ed Lee didn’t plan on running for Mayor as early as, I don’t know, January?)
Look what Bill Barnes, Campaign Manager, Ed Lee for Mayor, is sending out this AM to people.
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Are they sending it out to those who registered at the “Progress for All” “Run Ed Run” website.
Mmmm. I might have thought so, but upon further review, I just can’t say for sure.
Yeah, and what happened to all those email addresses gathered by those paid signature gatherers? Did Run Ed Run just throw them away? Or maybe, just maybe, that list of Ed Lee for Mayor boosters was forwarded to the Ed Lee for Mayor campaign. I mean, what else would anybody use it for?
Mmmm….
Epilogue:
Hey, remember in Kelly’s Heroes when Kelly, Oddball, and Crapgame had to make a deal with that German Tiger Tank commander in order to get access to the bank with all that gold in it? Well, the tank commander was just like David Chiu back in January 2011, you know, somebody with the power to shut down the entire operation, the power to end the 15-year Willie Brown, Gavin Newson, Rose Pak dynasty right then and there. But David made a deal.
