Subject: U.S. Democratic Party

• Nader and Gonzalez Stump in Marin

  August 4, 2008

• Last Night: District 9 Supe Candidates' Debate

  October 8, 2008

• Third Party Ideas Don't Damage Voters at VP Debate

  November 3, 2008

• SF 2008 Election Winners & Losers

  November 5, 2008

• A turn on the GOP therapy couch

  S.F. Republicans’ prescriptions for an ailing party By Peter Jamison I spent the momentous night of Tuesday, Nov. 4, 2008, in an unlikely place — among Republicans in San Francisco. To observe the city’s longtime political minority watching their party recede to a minority nationwide, I ventured down to Jones Roadhouse, a bar in the Marina. There I found an election night bash put on by the San Francisco Republican Party and San Francisco Young Republicans, lots of TV screens tuned to FO

  November 13, 2008

• Newsweek: Gavin 'Has Become a Joke to Democratic Insiders'

  As part of its "Obama's America" package this week, Newsweek included a profile of San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom and his "crazy" crusade to legalize gay marriage and become governor. Reporter Jonathan Darman portrays Newsom as one of those all-too-rare politicians willing to stand on principle even if it hurts his career ambitions. Still, there are some unkind passages in the 2,100-word piece, especially when invoking the conventional wisdom of Democratic Party elders. To wit:"In 2003, when h

  January 21, 2009

• Letters

  September 13, 1995

• Letters

  March 20, 1996

• Bidness as Usual

  Firm that won $26 million contract donated to campaigns tied to supervisors and the mayor.

  March 18, 2009

• The New Kid

  Despite crossing party leadership during the campaign, new state Senator gets plum posts.

  January 21, 2009

• The Class of 2000

  Eight years after being swept into office, a once-disorganized band of neighborhood leftists tries to create a citywide political machine.

  October 29, 2008

• SF Weekly Letters

  March 26, 2008

• Demo Sale

  The party's leaders are putting their lack of ethics on display once again

  December 19, 2007

• Democratic Party contest pits bad boy Chris Daly against dark-past-lugging August Longo

  April 22, 2009

• Sealed With a Dis

  May 23, 2007

• Face It

  February 7, 2007

• 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?

  January 17, 2007

• A Union Made in Political Heaven

  January 10, 2007

• Porkmistress Pelosi

  Madam Speaker says she wants to tame pork-barrel spenders. Takes one to know one.

  January 3, 2007

• Dropping the F-Bomb

  Women make and take the noise

  December 6, 2006

• Beer: 1, Dufty: 0

  May 24, 2006

• Letters to the Editor

  Week of Wednesday, February 22, 2006

  February 22, 2006

• Greening the Left

  Tycoons will pay to generate leftist ideas in voters' minds, but now they want to see results

  February 15, 2006

• Housing Democrats

  Why Democratic mayors must build America's cities by establishing an urban real estate cartel

  December 15, 2004

• Letters to the Editor

  Week of Wednesday, March 24, 2004

  March 24, 2004

• Letters to the Editor

  Week of Wednesday, March 10, 2004

  March 10, 2004

• Pumping Irony

  Gavin Newsom should look to Sacramento for political inspiration

  December 17, 2003

• Letters to the Editor

  Week of December 3, 2003

  December 3, 2003

• Unintended Consequences

  Right-wingers cooked up the Gray Davis recall only to see it hijacked by a political moderate named Arnold

  August 20, 2003

• Dem Blues

  The left, turning right, was plain wrong to attack pop culture

  May 28, 2003

• An Alias for All Seasons

  January 15, 2003

• The Last of the Burtons?

  They have dominated state and local politics for 50 years. Now, for the first time, the future of their "family business" is in doubt.

  February 6, 2002

• Letters to the Editor

  November 29, 2000

• Revenge of the Wimp

  Why Miami's Democratic mayor abandoned Al Gore and cost him all the votes he needed to be president

  November 15, 2000

• Pop Philosophy

  Political Song Contest

  November 1, 2000

• Letters to the Editor

  March 29, 2000

• Political Economy

  How a Willie Brown real estate venture snagged tens of millions of dollars in government subsidies and opened the way for Democratic heavyweight Angelo Tsakopoulo to make even more money

  August 25, 1999

• Intriguing Matchup for Next Democratic Regional Director: Chris Daly (Hothead) vs. August Longo (Convicted Felon)

  FacebookAugust Longo believes his criminal past will not influence the coming race for Democratic Party regional directorWhen Supervisor Chris Daly tossed his hat into the ring for the low-profile position of Democratic Party Regional Director earlier this week, much of the ensuing media coverage focused on Daly's history of polarizing and combative behavior. In short, was this man constitutionally capable of handling a job that, essentially, calls for him to bring together various segments of t

  April 17, 2009

• La Nueva Fuerza

  With attacks on immigration and affirmative action, the GOP has fueled a new Latino political apparatus. But can the Democrats master the machinery?

  January 1, 1997

• The Grid

  November 6, 1996

• State and National Candidates

  October 30, 1996

• What's Your Preference?

  S.F. voters may really get a choice

  October 23, 1996

• Judging Matthew Rothschild

  Why is the Democratic Party elite backing an underqualified party operative for the local judiciary?

  February 28, 1996

• Dog Bites

  May 10, 1995

• Sorry, S.F.: Gavin Newsom's just not that into you

  (with apologies to the authors of He's Just Not That Into You)

  April 29, 2009

• SF Enviros Blast Obama's Swiss Cheese Lobbying Rules

  Barack Obama kicked off his presidency by limiting his administration's vulnerability to lobbyists. By May, however, it seemed clear that resourceful Democratic Party insiders would circumvent the limited ban. San Francisco's Amazon Watch has just denounced former Clinton Administration trade representative Mickey Cantor for violating the spirit of the Obama rules by lobbying his old bureaucracy on behalf of Chevron Texaco. Cantor has been lobbying the U.S. government to help quash $27 billion i

  May 12, 2009

• It's Your Friday Morning News Quiz!

  It's the law...​Cops! Compost! Conspiracies! Killers! The Board of Supervisors has voted, 8-2, that we should have a quiz right now (Michela Alioto-Pier abstained -- but we won't hold it against her). 1. The San Francisco Police Department announced that DNA evidence could tie an unsolved 1984 murder to what infamous killer(s)? A. The Zebra KillersB. The Zodiac KillerC. The Night StalkerD. The Committee of Vigilance 2. True or False: Though the city's mandatory composting law went into effect

  October 23, 2009

• No Justice

  October 28, 2009

• And the Most Partisan District in California Is ... Compton? San Francisco Doesn't Even Crack Top-10.

  We may not be his best friend after all​San Francisco may be the national Democratic Party's ATM. But, counter-intuitively, it does not flaunt the most lopsided percentage of registered Democratic voters in the state. Or the second-highest. Or third. Or tenth. According to the city's Department of Elections, just 56.6 percent of San Francisco's 451,861 voters are registered Democrats (it's not as if the party is sweating bullets; only 42,089 are Republicans, 8,776 are Greens, while 133,577 are

  November 3, 2009

• Supervisors Try to Save Jobs of Those Who Got Them Their Jobs

  ​For the past two weeks, the progressives on the Board of Supervisors have been falling all over themselves to protect the jobs of health department workers who belong to SEIU Local 1021. Why are lefty board members going to such lengths to protect these jobs in the midst of a financial meltdown? Part of it is ideological: The leftist supes are philosophically simpatico with a union representing health care and social-service workers. There's also a reasonable argument to be made that more

  November 24, 2009