Wed Aug 19, 2009 at 22:27:28 PM PDT
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Will Harper over at SF Weekly went on a pretty funny rant today about the sort of pathetic attempt by the SF Bay Guardian to exert its "influence" in the CA-10 race via its endorsement of John Garamendi:
The Bay Guardian loves to complain about a certain Chronicle columnist from Walnut Creek criticizing San Francisco policies. The Guardian essentially contends that suburbanites cannot be expected to understand the complexities of life in a teeming urban metropolis. Don't you get it, Suburb Boy? Being mugged by a homeless crackhead in the Tenderloin or shot by an East Bay club-goer in North Beach is what makes this a world-class city!
So it's amusing to see the Guardian vainly inserting itself into suburban politics by endorsing John Garamendi in the 10th Congressional District special election. [...]
This isn't anything new for the Guardian; the paper has been butting into East Bay politics for decades even though its editors often have no clue about bridge-and-tunnel life. Three years ago, for instance, the Guardian recommended that Andy Katz be re-elected to the EBMUD board and that Courtney Ruby replace Roland Smith as "county auditor." The problems with those endorsements: Katz had never been on the EBMUD board so he couldn't be re-elected and Ruby was running to be Oakland's city auditor.
What's now new is the advanced level of hypocrisy. The Guardian has been ranting ad nauseam lately about the illegitimacy of out-of-towners' opinions about the city. So how is the Guardian weighing in on a suburban race any different? Yeah, we're sure the "suburban twits" were waiting for the editors of San Francisco's radical alt-weekly to tell them how to vote.
What's especially funny about the Bay Guardian's endorsement and indicative of how little relevance it has in CA-10 is the fact that two of the three front-runners (Joan Buchanan and Mark DeSaulnier) didn't even bother to show up for an interview with the SFBG's editorial board.
So when the SFBG says "Garamendi has a forceful presence, progressive values, long relationships with key power brokers and knowledgeable advocates, and an unmatched history of intensive work on the most pernicious problems that Congress is now wrestling with, including health care reform and resource issues," what they really mean is, "He's the only one who would talk to us." |
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