Barbara Boxer

Berkeley's Marine Corp Hatred Not as Cheap as It Used to Be

We Won! Feinstein, Boxer Top 2009 Earmark List

To paraphrase Peggy Lee, Barbara Boxer brings home the bacon, and Dianne Feinstein fries it up in a pan, according to the most recently updated list of senatorial porkmiesters and mistresses compiled by Taxpayers for Common Sense, a Washington advocacy group. According to the list, California's ... More >>

Dog Bites

To paraphrase Peggy Lee, Barbara Boxer brings home the bacon, and Dianne Feinstein fries it up in a pan, according to the most recently updated list of senatorial porkmiesters and mistresses compiled by Taxpayers for Common Sense, a Washington advocacy group. According to the list, California's ... More >>

Potential Savior of South Bay Baseball May Be Politically Conflicted

Tick, tick, tick...As we noted earlier this week, hope springs eternal on Opening Day -- but the Oakland A's tenure in the East Bay may not be nearly as perpetual. For those of you who were unaware that Oakland owner Lew Wolff and the South Bay -- a region that craves Major League sports franchises ... More >>

Let the Gaming Begin

Has a labor boss in trouble with the feds joined a high-powered Democratic lobbyist to merge Konocti Harbor Resort with Indian gambling?

A Union Made in Political Heaven

A labor boss in trouble with the feds joins a high-powered Democratic lobbyist to merge Konocti Resort with Indian gaming

Talkin' Dirty

A labor boss in trouble with the feds joins a high-powered Democratic lobbyist to merge Konocti Resort with Indian gaming

A Time to Run

The good senator sure can write a sex scene -- between horses

Cat Food

Artist roasts hypocrisy

She's a Fighter

Bay Area represent!

Look Carefully

Art that goes bump in the night

Chard Into Memory

Food for when you're in danger of becoming a hopeless pessimist

Undercover Brother

What can a man do when he's constantly being mistaken for a woman?

Letters to the Editor

Week of May 22, 2002

Pointed Queries

Three California members of Congress are demanding information from the Navy about radioactive materials at Hunters Point Shipyard

Postscript

Mint Conditions

Uno Mas

Ed Rollins fights another round in California state politics

Unspun

Ed Rollins fights another round in California state politics

Slow Food Potluck Draws Hundreds to Civic Center on Labor Day

mental.masala/FlickrThe Civic Center event was one of several in the city.​Slow Food San Francisco president Dava Guthmiller estimated about 400 people showed up at a potluck in Civic Center yesterday. The event was one of more than 300 Labor Day Eat-Ins organized by Slow Food USA, a kickoff t ... More >>

Bay Links: Bike Saddles, Meryl Streep & Tequila

via BoingBoing​Bike saddles almost too nice to sit on. [BoingBoing] Senator Barbara Boxer has a piggy bank worth $6.3 million cash. [SFGate] Frank Chu hits up the Sanctuary City meeting. He. Is. Everywhere. [Sweet Melissa] Holy crap. They're remaking Red Dawn!!! [Burrito Justice] Ride along in an ... More >>

Blackwater: DiFi's Questionable H2O Moves Muddy Dems' Election Hopes

Will Sen. Dianne Feinstein's shady water deal shoot down Dems' election chances? ​Take one part frozen orange juice concentrate, mix it with three parts water, and you have a delicious morning drink.Take one sleazy political juice deal, and mix it with rotten water policy, however, and California' ... More >>

Carly Fiorina's Latest Insane Attack Ad Leaves Us Counting 'Demon Sheep'

Republican candidate for senate Carly Fiorina clearly feels the path to victory will be forged by depicting her opponents as Terry Gilliam-esque monsters -- or she's been snowed by cunning filmmakers who wanted to make crazy, crazy movies to amuse their pot-smoking buddies and get paid top dollar ... More >>

Adman Behind 'Demon Sheep,' Boxer Blimp Has No Idea How He'll Top This

Fred Davis' message is simple: "Carly Fiorina, in our opinion, is a more appealing and proper candidate than Barbara Boxer." The Southern California adman has chosen, intuitively enough, to convey said message by depicting Boxer's head swelling grotesquely like Jerry Quarry's after one too many salv ... More >>

It's Your Friday Morning News Quiz!

Yeah, we want to fly through that airport! ​It's easy, friends! Just answer the five questions correctly, send us an e-mail and you win a damn prize. What could be better? 1. Which of the following isn't featured in San Francisco International Airport's wicked new ad? A. The Brown twins! B. A flig ... More >>

The Week in Gay -- A Nation of Uppity Fags

​ A blogswarm was launched on March 18 to encourage the community to contact Nancy Pelosi's offices about her lack of effort behind the passage of the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA). In addition to the pressure on the phone lines, her offices in D.C. and San Francisco were visited by ... More >>

Are Gays Losing Patience With Obama? Don't Ask.

Has Barack Obama enacted all the sweet talk he directed toward the gay community? Well...​Some people are so desperate for leadership that they will cling to anyone that gives them the time of day - even when they know the heart-shaped boxes they are given are always empty. If certain gay Demo ... More >>

Boxer, Feinstein to Call for Permanent Moratorium on Offshore Oil Drilling

Good riddance? ​California Sens. Barbara Boxer and Dianne Feinstein -- along with their counterparts from both Oregon and Washington -- will tomorrow officially introduce legislation calling for a permanent ban on oil drilling off the West Coast, Boxer's office has told SF Weekly. The call for a m ... More >>

Obama in San Francisco -- Will it Ruin Your Commute?

San Francisco voted overwhelmingly for Barack Obama. And now it's changing around its bus routes for him, too.​President Barack Obama will today return to the city where he made reference about small-town folks "clinging to their guns and religion." When he leaves San Francisco, he hopes to be cli ... More >>

Obama in San Francisco -- Nightmare Town For Many Presidents

President Warren Harding left his heart in San Francisco -- and everything else​President Barack Obama's agenda in San Francisco today: Get in, raise money for Sen. Barbara Boxer, safeguard the Senate's Democratic majority, and get out. But just because Muni will stop for him doesn't necessarily m ... More >>

Obama Rakes in $1.7 Million in San Francisco, Takes On Heckler

Jason KinneyHeeeeeeeeeeeeeeey, Barack! How's my second-favorite Democratic presidential candidate? ​Nice work if you can get it: President Barack Obama hit up San Franciscans yesterday to the tune of $1.7 million. Sen. Barbara Boxer's vulnerable re-election campaign will benefit to the tune of $60 ... More >>

Video Breakdown: Obama's Heckler Death Scowl

As noted earlier, a heckler urging President Barack Obama to move faster repealing Don't Ask Don't Tell disrupted his San Francisco speech yesterday. We've found a better video (above). We're also a bit tickled by the president's initial reaction:

Wiped-Clean Slate: The Bay Guardian's (fake) election endorsements

As noted earlier, a heckler urging President Barack Obama to move faster repealing Don't Ask Don't Tell disrupted his San Francisco speech yesterday. We've found a better video (above). We're also a bit tickled by the president's initial reaction:

You Think Carly Fiorina Gives a F*ck About Global Warming?

Soft on terrorism, just like Barbara Boxer​Republican Carly Fiorina has launched a doozy of an attack ad (view after the jump) against incumbent Democratic Sen. Barbara Boxer, managing to make herself look like a wannabe national-security hawk and something of an ecological cretin in just over 30 ... More >>

Election 2010 Results: Demon Sheep, Gavin Newsom, Open Primaries Triumph

Meg Whitman never liked voting, but plenty of Californians voted for her​Results are starting to roll in from today's voting on ballot initiatives and primaries for statewide office. Wanna know the latest, greatest bad decisions California's electorate has chosen to impose upon itself? SF Weekly h ... More >>

GetEqual Grilled! Good for the gays?

by Patrick Connors www.fixitordeal.wordpress.comEveryone loves the shish​ For those of you not keeping up, the hot gay dish this Pride season is the GetEqual shish kebab. The group responsible for the attention grabbing stunts at the White House and at Barbara Boxer fundraisers in California h ... More >>

The Week in Gay - Vaughn Walker returns! Obama serves cocktails! Elton rims Rush!

Lennon then Limbaugh -- why not?​ OK ok ok ok...Elton John didn't really perform anal-lingus on Rush Limbaugh - technically - but he was paid $1 million to sing at Limbaugh's 4th (FOURTH) wedding last weekend and as far as I'm concerned Elton's breath will always smell like Rush's ass from now o ... More >>

Barbara Boxer Helps Score $36.8 Million for California Counties. S.F. Gets a Piddling $5,668.

Hey, thanks a lot!​Sen. Barbara Boxer, in a tight re-election contest against Republican Carly Fiorina, has helped largely poor and rural California counties to a vat federal funds. Boxer has lent a hand in hastening this year's installment of government payments showered upon counties to com ... More >>

Willie Brown Oh-So-Fashionably Late To Transbay Transit Center Groundbreaking

High speed rail: more aerodynamic than my hair​Groundbreaking ceremonies might just be the most mind- numbingly predictable of all political events. Yet this morning's christening of the imminent demolition of the Transbay Terminal and seven-year construction of the new Transbay Transit Center was ... More >>

Republicans' Love/Hate Relationship With the Gays

Is pink the GOP's color after all? ​The Week in GayRepublicans are much more entertaining than Democrats, don't you think? They make the most outlandish and flamboyant statements without a hint of irony about the incredible insincerity of their positions. Democrats usually just bite their lips wai ... More >>

Barbara Boxer Aide Marcus Stanley Busted for Pot

​Marcus Stanley, a senior economic adviser to Sen. Barbara Boxer, was busted for alleged marijuana possession as he walked into the Hart Senate Office Building in the nation's capital yesterday. He was, remarkably quickly, an ex-senior economic adviser. "Marcus Stanley is no longer with this offic ... More >>

Carly Fiorina Hospitalized

No campaign pit stop...​In a role reversal from having angry nurses follow her around the state, Carly Fiorina has opted to visit them instead. The Republican Senate candidate's campaign confirmed that the breast cancer survivor was undergoing treatment due to an infection related to reconstructiv ... More >>

Election Results Show Tea Party Fails to Gain Traction in Western States

Is that Harry Reid in the middle?​Some of you might have found it particularly hard to greet the Red Dawn of Nov. 3. We admit that it's difficult to face the idea of Tea Party-propelled candidates marching off to Washington with plans to combat imagined New World Order conspiracies within the vaul ... More >>

Recession's Latest Victim: Plans to Restore Old Mint

Were local tycoons too cheap to bankroll this? ​Nine years after Mayor Willie Brown put in motion a plan to turn the 136-year-old San Francisco's Old Mint at Fifth and Mission Streets into a "21st-century mixed-use cultural center dedicated to the residents and visitors of the Bay Area," the San F ... More >>

Which Comes First? DADT Repeal or Target Store in San Francisco?

Bad dog! Homophobic! ​The Week in GayDid you miss me? I spent the last week in Buffalo, N.Y., visiting family and NOT getting groped by anyone at any of the four airports I visited. Granted, I had to pass inspection at only two of the four airports, but I kept an open mind about being fondled and ... More >>

The Year in Gay, 2010 Edition

What a year it was​Who Will Be The Uppity Fag Of The Year?Let's face it -- this was a messy, messy year for the gays. Much of the news was good, ultimately, but shit dragged on! There were three major federal trials (four, technically -- but two were sorta merged in Massachusetts), promises ... More >>

Feinstein and Boxer Crack Down on Pipeline Safey After San Bruno Blast

This sucks​It's kind of hard to imagine that any agency could be more disorganized than San Francisco's Housing Authority which can't keep its records straight long enough to collect a month's worth of rent. But it appears that Pacific Gas and Electric Co. might be surpassing the SFHA's notoriousl ... More >>

Royal Wedding Is Over: Bombastic Weddings We Want To See

The bride wore white - and oil drilling boots. The groom wore freedom.​We're rather relieved that the royal wedding happened while we were sleeping and the media pandemonium is coming to a ceremonious close. Did anyone this side of the Atlantic even care to begin with? Now that the bedlam is over, ... More >>

John Boehner, GOP House Speaker: Does He Truly Define Silicon Valley?

Represents the Silicon Valley?​When we read in the Chronicle today that supporters of our very own Democratic Sen. Barbara Boxer were rolling out the red carpet for GOP House Speaker John Boehner, we had to give it a second read -- just to make sure that we hadn't misunderstood. And then we gave i ... More >>

Tras Gustav Karlsson Berg Jailed for Threatening to Shoot Senator Over Wolf Legislation

Loves wolves​Readers might recall the angry wolf man who threatened to kill a California Senator for not taking enough action to protect the carnivorous beasts from being dropped off the list of endangered species. Tras Gustav Karlsson Berg, a registered sex offender and active environmentalist, s ... More >>

Nancy Pelosi, Dianne Feinstein Are Stinking Rich

Put your money where your mouth is​Here is something that might inspire the dwindling Occupiers to return to their tents: While our very own Nancy Pelosi was pushing to extend unemployment  benefits that will, ideally, keep Spam on the tables of the 99 percent -- and provide a boatload of job ... More >>