Breaking News:
Showman-Gone-Politician, Chicken John Rinaldi, returned to his roots, stage a mock debate with Gavin Newsom at Chet Poulet, entertaining questions regarding credibility, “artists cocaine connect” and “progress by the numbers” statistics… and “winning second place.”
Newsom invited the audiance to visit Gavin Newsom.com featuring an Accountability Matrix with over 200 election promises to the citizens of San Francisco. "I am proud to say, 84% of these initiatives have been completed or ongoing or in the process of er… ah oh. Next question?"
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Monday, November 5, 2007
Chicken John Debates Newsom
Tuesday, October 16, 2007
Sean Penn: Anyone, But Newsom!
The timing is a little speculative as the fling deadline for the mayoral election has passed; nonetheless, Wonkette just posted that Sean Penn has offered to stake Matt Gonzalez a $5 million dollar war chest to run against Gavin Newsom with the caveat Gonzalez hop to the Democratic Party.When Spicoli says, “Let’s Party,” he means Gonzo and a Donkey Show!
John Clark Jr. goes on to write; Matt really wasn't sure if his Hollywood pal was serious and we’re not sure if Wonkette is stretching the truth either. We're still trying to finish off our last serving of gossip - fresh off the hot stove:
Saturday, October 13, 2007
Newsom Ducks Debate
The reigning Chump, Gavin Newsom, climbed into the ring less than willing to spar with serious unknowns like Quintin Mecke, Dr. Ahimsa Porter-Sumchai, Lonnie Holmes and Harold Hoogasian.
Yet, with 78% Approval Ratings and a roomful of backward Progressives:
Why give a pretender a shot at the title?
GavinWatch Report Card:
- At least nine of Gavin’s challengers are serious candidates capable of making strong arguments for why we need a new Mayor. The audience was generally engaged and impressed.
- Gavin has little respect for his challengers. He sauntered in 45 minutes late, eating into the time of the only forum he’s agreed to attend.
- Gavin only participated on the condition that ABC7 not broadcast the debate, thus depriving a large audience of seeing how he stacks up to the competition.
- Gavin refuses to participate in any real, televised debates that gives candidates more than 30 seconds to speak or allows for rebuttals.
Though she described Gavin as tardy and superficial – Ouch! Hearsay has it, Cecilia's pulling her punches (and breaking my heart) as the rumor mill spins:
While gossipers are gullible, this blogger remains uncompromised (by the facts). Let me assure you, I have the utmost integrity and given the opportunity to get up close and personal, I promise to keep a professional distance - that'll be $50.00 Gav!"The striking reporter is romantically linked with the handsom mayor."
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Thursday, October 11, 2007
Candidate Forum: Mayor
Thursday, October 116 to 7:45 pmSan Francisco Public Library, Koret Auditorium,
100 Larkin Street, San Francisco
6 to 7:45pm, Incumbent Mayor Gavin Newsom and challengers will respond to questions posed by the public.
Scott Shafer, host and reporter with KQED radio’s California Report Magazine, will moderate.
The League invites community members to email the League your suggested questions for the candidates.
The League will select questions from this pool as well as those submitted via comment card on the evening of the forum. Please email your suggestions to lwvsf@lwvsf.org by 5 pm on October 10.
Wednesday, October 10, 2007
Roast Chicken
Sorry to those of you who missed Chicken John's lunchen today, because we posted too late.
Chicken John roasted a whole pig. Perhaps, symbolic of the Elections Commission (appointed by Newsom) which chose not going to give Chicken matching funds, as they are refusing to acknowledge real donations by real San Franciscans.
Think it's time to return the hospitality by roasting Chicken John?
Whether you're a comedian or just want to make a donation and help the showman gone mayor call: Chicken John /415-215-1632.
Video: Chicken Goes to City Hall
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Monday, September 17, 2007
Top Five Growing Blogs
Pop the Champaign!Inspired by the 59th Emmy Awards, we're pleased to announce Wordpress voted Gavin Newsom Sucks.com to the Top Five Growing Blogs.
We want to thank the ManUpstairs in City Hall. Without Gavin none of this would be possible.It's not often we get to stand here next to dazzling celebrity blogger, Beth Spotswood. Doesn't she look absolutely radiant in Gucci?!
Big props to the nominees: Chris Daly Blows, SF Party Party, Laughing Squid and SF Crime as well as supporting cast members Peter Ragone, Brittanie Mountz, Ruby Rippey-Tourk, Jennifer Siebel and Chris Daly and all the other Chickens.
Of course, we want to thank GavinWatch for always believing in us. What a class act! What else can we say...
[Queue the music]
... Except, we apologize for leaving anyone out. Ooops! Our friends at SFist and Cecilia M. Vega at the Chronicle. We're just so nervous. Good night and God bless!
This one's for you Mom & Dad!
Breaking News: Congratz to Conan O’Brien for bring home another award!!!
Sunday, August 19, 2007
Gavin is Shaking in his Cole Haans
SfGate Culture Blog's own Beth Spotswood delivers a humorous account of mayoral candidates who met Friday's deadline as well as a few who are conspicuously did not:Gavin is Shaking in his Cole Haans
Mayor Gavin Newsom confuses his opponent Chicken John with his favorite hobo, Patches.
So I guess now we know who is officially running for Mayor of San Francisco, as Friday was the filing deadline. Looks like we've got incumbent and love of my life Gavin Newsom, who, because it's God's will, is obviously going to win.
And then a total freak show.
That little Josh "Jailbait" Wolf is running, and actually, I find it kind of charming because he uses just as much hair product as Gavin. Josh claims that if elected, he's going to wear a video camera to work, which I'm envisioning being attached to some kind of helmet, thus ruining his faux-hawk.
Supervisor Tony Hall of 'Tony Hall and the Hallmarks' is running. I have no idea what his platform is, but the man rocks one hell of a bunny-hop.
Then there's some dude named Chicken John. I think that kinda speaks for itself.
Grasshopper Kaplan, the hobo taxi driver, thinks he's got a shot. I just don't get how he can prove he lives in San Francisco. We've also got a nudist, a sex club owner and h. brown, who wears his medicinal weed badge like a prom corsage.
The hottie contingent includes Lonnie Holmes and Quintin Mecke, and I'll admit a weakness for the pretty boys. I've just never heard of these two and I'm got to see them in a couple more outfits before I take them seriously.
Finally, there's Wilma, Ahimsa and Billy Bob. Who? What? Why? Really, San Francisco?
Let me just give a shout out to Chris Daly and Matt Gonzalez right now.
You both are bitches.
I mean it.
You know I love Gavin. He's my total boyfriend/future ex-husband. But come ON. Put your (not very much) money where your (hippie, smelly) mouth is.
Some dude named "Chicken John" is running against your nemesis for Mayor of the very city to which you claim to be so deeply and selflessly devoted. When push comes to shove, you both -- appropriately enough -- chicken out.
Lame. Seriously. Lame.
I'm unimpressed. I never want to hear another word from either of you again. Tho, Matt's been kinda quiet lately anyway. Maybe he's been focusing on his art.
So, Chris Daly, who I SO looked forward to writing about, you are a big, chicken-s--- tease who can apparently give it, but not take it.
If you are going to flip out at Board meetings and accuse Hottie McRehab of being a crack whore, then at least have the balls to drop 5K and prove you can do it better. Otherwise, what's the point? You kinda remind me of that guy from the Sopranos. What's his name? Oh, yeah...
Beth Spotswood describes herself as "The 29-year-old equivalent of Dorothy from The Golden Girls." She spends her free time pretending not to stare at crazy people screaming on San Francisco's sidewalks. Originally from Marin, Beth now lives in the Mission and doesn't get why people are so into burritos. You can find Beth here every Wednesday at noon, and at I'll Flip You. Flip You For Real, where "The opinions expressed are ridiculous and in no way reflect anything of value. Do not take them seriously..."
SFGate Post By: Beth Spotswood (Email) August 15 2007 at 12:00 PM
Photo Credit: Deanne Fitzmaurice / The Chronicle
Monday, August 13, 2007
Cecilia M Vega Is One Smoking Hot Journalist!
… Aside from Cecilia's obvious good looks, brains and cl ass, we hope she'll swing by Thursday’s Happy Hour at Balboa Café to swig Plumpjack and help us commemorate our 100th posting on Gavin Sucks.com, created in the aftermath of San Francisco’s City Sex Scandal, as well as to thank her for kickstarting our blog with her coverage in the Chronicle just six months ago.Today's piece by Cecilia observes Gavin Newsom cautioning a crowd of cheering supporters (a thinning heard with climbing approval ratings) against prematurely celebrating his re-election victory, saying that despite the absence of a challenger who comes close to matching his campaign war chest or popularity, the race “is not over.”
"We've got work to do. Don't let anyone think this race is over. It's not over - we've got a dozen candidates."
Conspicuously, none of which include Chris Daly, Ross Mirkarimi, or Matt Gonzalez. Each participated in the Regressive Convention (the biggest assembly of salad-eaters since the Nixon era) only to fold their cards at the sight of Newsom’s 78% approval ratings.
With nothing but static to the Left of the radio dial and lonely Conservative Tony “The Tiger” Hall to the Right, Gavin may be tempted to chase the Tiger by the tail, locking up a few taggers, pimps, hos and homeless. While effective, those tactics could wake up the sleeping "Fruit Flys" hatching two Chicken votes for each swiped from the Tiger.
November will be another story. Gavin is just four years away from a bigger office with a constituency far outside the City limits, not to mention infinitly more conservative and far less forgiving. In other words, we can finally tackle chronic Quality-of-Life issues worsening daily. Reactionaries Unite!
Sadly, Cecilia goes on to report of a Vegan victory as incumbant District Attorney Kamala Harris is also running unopposed. In my opinion, she deserves a Life Sentence for poorly defending fallen police officers including Isaac Espinosza by prosecuting without a Death Penalty. Shame.
Complete Article: Mayor Newsom Says He’s No Shoo-In: ‘It’s’ Not Over’ by Cecilia M. Vega, Chronicle Staff Writer
Photo Credit: Luke Thomas, Fog City Journal
Friday, August 10, 2007
Hi My Name Is Chicken John
Posted by Scott Beale of Laughing Squid.comChicken John has placed the following full-page ad (here’s a larger version) on page 19 of the August 8th edition of the San Francisco Bay Guardian. Chicken, who is running for Mayor of San Francisco, needs to raise $5000 by 5pm this Friday, August 10th in order to be on the ballot.
In the ad, Chicken is asking our current mayor, Gavin Newsom, to help contribute to his campaign, so that Gavin will have an opponent in the election (Chicken promises not to win). Do you think Gavin will go for it?
Here’s Chicken’s write-up on his fundraising efforts, including his recommendations for donation amounts.
To drive the point home, I’ve been writing some random things. I’ll include a few here. These are some ideas on why or how you should nudge some greenbacks my way:
- If you had a friend that had to move away from SF because it was too expensive, send me $20 per friend.
- If you are an artist and never considered that the Arts Commission of SF represents you, send me $10.
- If you or someone you know lost a car to being towed and you owed too many parking tickets send me $25 per lost car.
- If you or someone you know was involved in an art space that was shut down by the city send me $37.
- If you would like to make a few busses run on gasified coffee grinds send me 10 bucks.
- If you don’t like that bow and arrow bullshit on the embarkadero send me 10 cents. (that’ll be a few hundred thousand dollars.).
- If you think that our mayor needs to be challenged on issues involving the arts, too many cars and being intolerant to inovation and new ideas send me $20.
- If you feel like you are disenfranchised and unrepresented send me $40.
- If you feel like the green campaign that the city is force feeding SF is actually greenwashing, send me $10.
- If you want to help Chicken with his campaign to become Mayor of San Francisco, you can donate online via PayPal.
Monday, August 6, 2007
Art Imitates Life
Both Josh Wolf ($5,000) and Chicken John ($4,300) need a considerable amount of donations by Friday or, as Chicken says, "This journey will be over."Neither would debate they have no shot of beating the incumbent Mayor Gavin Newsom who enjoys 78 percent approval, $1.5 million in campaign funds. The people of San Francisco have spoken, homeless, homicides and hypodermic needles in the park are just fine by us… as long as we get our daily fill of Gavin’s pearly whites splashed across the 11:00 O’clock News.
Wolf: "Everything I put forward I'm serious about as a candidate... But I'd be out to lunch to think I'm going to win this thing."Therefore, why debate the public health system? The economy? Or, why run?
Chicken: "This is a performance. You're in the city of arts and innovation right now!"
Wolf: "I'd rather you make art than watch the crap on television."Wolf wants open city government. He'll wear a video cam. Chicken encourages more dramedy in board meetings. "The whole Jerry Springer element (Chris Daly) is bringing to City Hall is long overdue." Suggests a juggler for five minutes at each meeting as well as the sound guy, K-Rob, produce a soundtrack for each meeting.
Chicken John regarding the murder rate:
"I don't feel qualified to answer this question. I have no idea. There are experts out there... I don't know [Much stammering]. If art became our focus people would be nicer to each other."He should have quit there as the next question regarding the homeless problem produced this gem:
"If what you're interested in is not seeing homeless people, then go f---yourself."No, he should go sleep with the homeless. I don't sleep with men, but far prefer Josh's comments regarding gay marriage:
"Gay marriage doesn't exist, and he did that a long time ago--and not much more. Some one needs to call him to the carpet."At this point art imitates life (the candidates) as the audience regresses with lame questions like: Do you prefer DC or Marvel Comics? Or, is the City too expensive for creative people?
Chicken: "Don't need to spend money. All that needs to happen is have moreAll right, I was a little harsh, but I'm still pissed off by the Chicken and the Homeless quote. My point (actually their point) is, they’re not to be taken seriously. They’re artists and very entertaining! As much, each has an opportunity to influence the minds of the many and thus government policy - plus, the balls to run!
people support arts by becoming an artist."
Wolf: "I don't have the answer right now." Co-ops are a start. Communal living cab cut costs, especially if city helps dole out low cost loans."
My vote is Chicken should stick to making a car run on coffee grinds. God forbid he uses a sidewalk and visits this homeless epidemic up close and personally. Josh Wolf wins by default.
Good luck to both. I hope they stick around. Say hello and send some dough!
Complete Article: Chicken (John) v. Wolf (Josh) Mayoral Debate By: Justin Berton (Email)
Saturday, August 4, 2007
Graffiti Party at Chicken John's
Today, as promised, San Francisco's Warm Water Cove, aka Tire Beach, aka Toxic Beach got a fresh new coat of paint. Mayoral candidate, Chicken John Rinaldi, weighes in on the whitewashing.I completely disagree. My retirement plan includes a three-wheeled bicycle with a basket-full-o-paint... sponsored by Frazee to "white out" careless mistakes intended to voice protest or tag ones's ego to a wall, but only serve to erode the esteem, hearts and minds of the community with each step towards the playground, work or worship.
Graffiti is as welcome as a sidewalk Jesus with a megaphone. If we want it, we'll pay for it. Chicken John should step off his soap box and put his walls where his mouth is… home sweet home. This is our (The City) house. We will protected our house! I say we pay John a visit at the Chicken Ranch to stencil, pen and paint what we want, when we want, where we want. I doubt very much he'll enjoy my genius at work (mural above the headboard).
If one's confused about a graffiti and art, a good rule of thumb is too look for a price tag. Graffiti costs us all. Real graffti art is framed and hung on a wall. Check out Brian B’s work at Rye at 688 Geary Street or rent the movie Basquiat or swing by my place and I'll show you my Bornacelli.
Mayoral Debate: Chicken or the Wolf?
With little more than a week before the filing deadline, mayoral candidates “Chicken John” Rinaldi and Josh Wolf have announced a joint fundraiser to help raise the necessary money to secure their status on the ballot. The highly anticipated Chicken v. Wolf debate will square off two of the most talked about, most controversial mayoral candidates and be moderated by permit consultant Jeremy Paul.The debate will feature questions from the audience and streamed live over the Internet for those unable to attend.
· Where: Chez Poulet 3359 Cesar Chavez St. (near Mission).
· When Monday at 9:00 PM
· When Monday at 9:00 PM
A $10 suggested donation will be taken at the door, but supporters are encouraged to donate up to $500 to either or both candidates at the event.
See you there.
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