Posted on 02/16/2010 5:48:16 PM PST by SmithL
Supervisor Chris Daly's seat in District 6 is open this November, and both moderates and progressives consider it a key swing district. That's why, a veteran local politico told me several months ago, it would be approached with a careful game plan, a thoughtful slate of candidates, and a narrow, well-focused field.
So much for that.
With a little more than nine months to go, we've got candidates coming out of the flower planters on Market Street. If anyone else enters, we may have one candidate for each of the roughly 8,000 votes it will take to win.
For the progressives, the original idea, as I understood it, was to promote Tenderloin artist Debra Walker, a longtime Tenderloin resident voice of the left. I was told that Jane Kim, president of the School Board, was going to be politely asked not to enter the race.
She may have been asked, but on Jan. 19, Kim, a Stanford grad with a law degree from Boalt Hall, declared her candidacy. Throw in Jim Meko, and you've got a crowded field for the far left. Which is exactly what they said they weren't going to do.
The moderates have the same dynamic. Theresa Sparks, the former president of the Police Commission, had all the early buzz. Sparks was married twice and fathered three children before undergoing sexual reassignment surgery and moving here to live as a transgender woman in 1997. She's an impressive public speaker and a well-connected political advocate in the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender community. So she may be a moderate, but it seemed pretty hard to attack her from the left.
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Progressives? In SF?
I thought all they had were out of control, right wing extremists called “Rabid Socialists” and moderates called “Rabid Marxists”....
/sarc
Moderate? ROTFLMAO! I am surprised some of these candidates aren’t holding their press conferences in public bathrooms.
parsy, who figures he hasn’t seen it all
Can you imagine the run-ins Harry Callahan would have with Theresa Sparks?!
There’s two kinds of political figures in SF. “Moderates”, which are the Marxist ultraleft. “Progressives”, which are the Stalinist ultraultraleft. Believe it or not, Pelosi hails from the former faction. In the rest of normal-people land, she’s still far removed from the political mainstream.
What? No Maoist wing? No Shining Path branch?
parsy, who guesses they would have to have guns to go that way
You can put those under the “Progressive” wing.
Yes it’s funny (by funny I mean sickening).
Gavin Newsom when he first ran was the more conservative guy in the race (his opponent was a Green party member) cause he was against allowing the homeless to defecate in the street.
This is totally fubar.
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