Subject: Tom Ammiano

• Sea Otters More Important than Roosevelt: SFGovernmentInAction 9.17-21

  September 17, 2007

• Chain Store Ban Proposed for Mission, Bernal

  February 20, 2008

• SF Health Care Facing Severe Budget Cuts

  March 3, 2008

• News & Booze Friday Edition - Absentee Mayor Puts ID Program on Hold, is Gavin Newsom Breaking Up with Us?

  September 5, 2008

• Get Yer Yuk-Yuks Out: Comedy Day Returns Once Again to Golden Gate Park

  September 16, 2008

• The Face That Launched A Thousand Quips: Tom Ammiano Bids Adieu to His Constituency

  Finally, a reason to visit Sacramento By Joe Eskenazi After eight years of racking up some of the world’s best off-color, gay-themed double-entendres – and, incidentally, governing San Francisco – Supervisor Tom Ammiano tossed a few last one-liners to his adoring public before opting to leave civilization as we know it (e.g. moving to Sacramento). On Friday night Ammiano celebrated his next occupation – likely the sole state Assembly Member with a turquoise stud earring. A jovial cr

  November 17, 2008

• SF Gov InAction Fire Sale: Supes Sell Their Legacies Off for Pennies on the Dollar

  By Benjamin Wachs Come on down to San Francisco, boys and girls, where the deals are hot, hot, HOT! That's right, I'm Crraaaaaaazy Gavin Newsom, and this week everything must go! We have an ENORMOUS deficit looming up after the holidays and our entire inventory must be cleared out! No deal too big, no savings too small! See the price tag on this vintage substance abuse treatment center? I'm slashing it in HALF! How about this neighborhood policing program? Yesterday it connected troub

  December 15, 2008

• Tom Ammiano Compares Capitol to "Alice in Wonderland" -- and He's Alice

  San Franciscans already know that Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger isn't the only Sacramento politician with a background in film. That was Assemblyman Tom Ammiano playing himself in Milk -- and while it wasn't a stretch for Ammiano to play Ammiano, his next project may call for a bit more range. When asked for his his impressions of Sacramento after a month and change as a legislator, the former supervisor immediately replied, "It's kind of like Alice in Wonderland and I guess I'm Alice right now." A

  January 16, 2009

• Ammiano: State Budget Possible Today

  The financial crisis has helped Tom Ammiano craft one of his best one-liners yetReached in his Sacramento office during a rare down moment, Assemblyman Tom Ammiano told SF Weekly he's hopeful the "Financial Armageddon" Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger warned about (apparently lifting liberally from his old scripts) may well be averted -- today. The San Francisco assemblyman said there is a light at the end of the long tunnel, though it may be a train. "And the conductor of that train is [Abel] Maldona

  February 16, 2009

• Legalize It: Ammiano to Introduce Legislation Monday to Allow Pot -- and Tax It

  UPDATE: Coverage of Ammiano's press conference here. The story SF Weekly broke on Friday is true: Assemblyman Tom Ammiano will announce legislation on Monday to legalize marijuana and earn perhaps $1 billion annually by taxing it. Quintin Mecke, Ammiano's press secretary, confirmed to SF Weekly that the assemblyman's 10 a.m. Monday press conference regarding "new legislation related to the state's fiscal crisis" will broach the subject of reaping untold -- and much-needed -- wealth from the

  February 22, 2009

• Get Up, Stand Up: Ammiano Introduces Marijuana Legalization Bill to the Press

  Assemblyman Tom Ammiano's press conference this morning announcing his marijuana-legalization bill started punctually and stayed relentlessly on-point -- thereby denying a barb to every journalist present.Ammiano and the assembled speakers at San Francisco's State Building also spoke calmly and methodically, at one point being drowned out by a floor-waxer. The famously funny lawmaker reined himself in, presenting "The Marijuana Control, regulation and education act (AB 390)" as a simple matter o

  February 23, 2009

• How to Lie, Cheat, and Steal Your Way to Influence at City Hall -- Legally

  July 5, 1995

• Marijuanupdate: What's Up Next for Ammiano's Legalization Bill?

  In the weeks following his introduction of an Assembly bill that would legalize -- and tax -- marijuana, the always quotable Tom Ammiano became one of the nation's most sought-after sources of quotes. His bill was discussed in every major paper in the state, and many nationally (including Zig-Zag, yes) and he even sat for interviews with French and Danish TV crews. An interview with CBS' national evening news was scheduled for last night.The fizz is finally going down a little bit -- Ammiano's p

  March 13, 2009

• Ammiano: Gavin Newsom has 'Tainted' Healthy San Francisco

  Assemblyman Tom AmmianoAssemblyman Tom Ammiano knows you're angry -- he's angry too! But as many members of the progressive community, his natural base, begin to gripe about the city's plan to plow ahead full-bore with Healthy San Francisco -- the city's universal health care plan -- while slashing the budget and workforce of the Department of Public Health and cutting programs aimed at aiding the most needy, Ammiano hopes to make a statement: Healthy San Francisco is not the problem. "It's n

  March 16, 2009

• Vote on Ammiano's Marijuana Bill Postponed Amid Difficult Time For S.F. Pot Fans

  In what is perhaps the best news of late for aficionados of marijuana legalization, a scheduled March 31 committee hearing of Assemblyman Tom Ammiano's legalization bill was postponed likely until 2010 (drag) -- which gives marijuana advocates some time to reverse what would have almost definitely been a no vote (groovy). On the whole, however, these are the days that try pot men's souls: Last Wednesday witnessed a jaw-dropping raid of a San Francisco marijuana dispensary, seemingly in stark con

  March 29, 2009

• Marketing Marijuana

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  March 18, 2009

• Making (Radio) Waves

  The mayor's Wi-Fi plan is about to have its signal blocked by a group of activists

  March 28, 2007

• Goin' on a Ninja Hunt

  August 23, 2006

• Reeferzilla Meets NIMBY-Ra

  And unfortunately it's not science fiction. It's San Francisco politics, and the winner used some interesting jujitsu.

  October 12, 2005

• Unbalanced Budgeting

  February 16, 2005

• Of Asterisks and Small Pols

  October 27, 2004

• Fiber-Optic Illusion

  Why Tom Ammiano's plans to create a city-owned broadband network are a boondoggle-in-the-making

  October 13, 2004

• The Great Left Hope

  Matt Gonzalez wants to be mayor. And he doesn't mind climbing over fellow progressives to get the gig.

  October 8, 2003

• Best Way to Put a King and Queen in City Hall

  May 14, 2003

• Political Relativity

  July 17, 2002

• The Revolution is Canceled

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  August 30, 2000

• Dog Bites

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  April 5, 2000

• Closed Shop

  March 15, 2000

• Unexcused Absence

  School leaders snub supervisors, refuse to show at parleys

  March 8, 2000

• Mecklin

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  December 8, 1999

• Dog Bites

  December 8, 1999

• Rage Against the Machine

  Tom Ammiano's mayoral bid: inside the campaign that has become a cause

  December 1, 1999

• Dog Bites

  November 24, 1999

• Breaking Ranks

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  November 10, 1999

• Mecklin

  November 10, 1999

• South to the Future

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  November 3, 1999

• Cut-and-Paste Pols

  August 4, 1999

• Bay View

  July 28, 1999

• Cothran

  April 7, 1999

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• The Grid

  February 5, 1997

• Dog Bites

  June 19, 1996

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  June 21, 1995

• Cops Watching Cops

  Police watchdog agency the Office of Citizen Complaints braces for its fifth lame director

  June 14, 1995

• Groovy: Marijuana Advocates Feel Validated by Latest Field Poll -- 56 Percent of Californians Support Legalizing and Taxing Pot

  Tom Ammiano -- the voice of the mainstream? With all of the propositions on the ballot for this month's special election polling about as well as mandatory enemas, it warrants mentioning that the results of the latest state Field Poll indicate a hefty majority of Californians actually favor  imposing a new tax on themselves. A full 56 percent of residents polled support legalizing -- and taxing -- marijuana. "Right now people in the Capitol are laughing off the idea of taxing and regulating

  May 1, 2009

• Willie Brown Declares London Breed a Contender for Mark Leno's Seat

  October 3, 2007

• Ammiano: Schwarzenegger's Legacy 'In the Toilet'

  There are worse things than having your legacy land 'in the toilet.' In Conan's realm, they didn't even have toilets.Reached a couple of minutes ago on the floor of the Assembly, Tom Ammiano said that Californians who woke up this morning and were shocked by the news that the budget stalemate has resulted in billions of dollars of anticipated savings being whisked away should not be angry with Republicans. Ammiano suggests directing anger toward a Republican -- Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger. 

  July 1, 2009

• Sacramento's Dem, Republican Leaders Schedule Caucus Meetings to Sell Legislators on Budget Deal

  Cutting billions from health and education while 'borrowing' from local governments -- the California dream!Some of the haziness surrounding the state's tentative budget deal will burn off this morning, as party leaders have scheduled 9 a.m. caucuses to outline the finer points of a plan that promises not to thrill anyone.The broader strokes of the pact to stave off California's $26.3 billion shortfall were published late yesterday. Perhaps most concerning to those fortunate enough not to rely o

  July 21, 2009

• Ammiano: Bi-Partisan Budget 'The Worst Kind of Make-Up Sex'

  As we reported earlier today, Democratic and Republican leaders in the state legislature huddled with their respective caucuses this morning in an attempt to pitch the feasibility of the current budget compromise. Depending on how much money you and your interest group stand to lose, initial descriptions of the budget range from "crappy" to "draconian" to "Malthusian." Assemblyman Tom Ammiano has a different label for it: "In a sense this was a bi-partisan compromise, but it's the worst kind of

  July 21, 2009

• Ammiano: 'Kiss My Gay Ass' Commentary Didn't Bite Him in the Ass

  His ass is intact...​When Rep. Joe Wilson bellowed "You lie" at President Barack Obama, most folks thought it was pretty uncouth. Still, the ones who were impressed were really impressed: The South Carolina Congressman quickly saw his fund-raising efforts skyrocket.So when Assemblyman Tom Ammiano bellowed "you lie" in mock-homage to Wilson at Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and bolted out of a Democratic party event with the memorable exit line "Kiss my gay ass," we wondered if  those words ha

  October 20, 2009