I don’t know what to say. I wore a Jeff Adachi button today. I did a couple hours of work for Adachi, handing out flyers in front of Whole Foods in SF. I met the man three times during his campaign and was impressed. I heard that Matt Gonzalez made a video for Jeff, and saw that it was viewed about 8,000 times.
But the Ed Lee Joint has about 200,000 views. It has cameos from very fly-looking baseballer Brian Wilson, Will I Am of BEP and more. In small print, it says it was paid for by multi-millionaires Ron Conway (the former Palo Altan – or is he still registered here?) and Sean Parker (Justin Timberlake in the movie).
Maybe we can have a real cool video for Palo Alto 2012 elections. When fascism returns, it will at least have a cool new soundtrack. And that Google chick looks like she can kinda sorta shake it. Fear the mustache indeed.
Plastic Alto with Mark Weiss 
i posted this on D website:
On Monday I watched Cubberley grad Doug Keith proclaimed for his public service and I can look up that he will get a pretty hefty pension; he’s only 51. But Sunday at his step-dad’s memorial I met James Kaplan, a millionaire hotelier from Cub class of ’77. I doubt that Palo Altans really envy the easy street of Lieut. Keith. Who wants to be shot at?
I am a pro-worker pension reformist. Maybe the people on this site can come listen to Jeff Adachi, SF’s anti-developer, pension reformist, speak. I invited Jeff to come to Foothill College to talk to Brian Evans’ macroeconomics class, I am auditing. I worked for Jeff’s campaign for Mayor, alongside the unlikely bedfellows Matt Gonzalez and Quentin Kopp.
I voted No on D and am concerned we will get less for our money now.
Jeff Adachi on the arts from Chron:
As mayor, I will pledge consistent City support for the arts and entertainment. Funding the City’s arts and entertainment endeavors can be cost-neutral over time, since a robust art and entertainment scene brings tourism and jobs to San Francisco.
I will work with leaders in the arts community to update and implement the recommendations made by the San Francisco Art Commission’s Arts Task Force in their 2006 report. To increase funding, I will do the following: restore hotel tax revenues that were once dedicated to the arts industry, or locate an alternative public funding source; solicit private foundations and donors to help bridge any funding gaps; and create a 5% reserve fund to be used for emergency assistance to struggling arts organizations.
To increase public participation in and support for the arts, I will work to create new and more robust neighborhood cultural centers and arts programming. Robust neighborhood arts centers accomplish several important goals: Areas plagued by urban blight, like the mid-Market area, can transform into arts and entertainment hotspots. New immigrant groups in neighborhoods like the Tenderloin can express and share their cultural heritage. Children and teenagers can participate in activities that foster creativity and teach tolerance.
I will encourage artists to work and live in San Francisco by creating affordable live-work space for “starving artists.” To make these spaces economically viable, they will incorporate public exhibition spaces for artists to display their work, and I will build private sector partnerships with profitable local arts entities, like the Academy of Art University.
I am a member of San Francisco’s art community. In 1995, I founded the Asian American Arts Foundation to provided funding for emerging artists, and produced the awards show, “The Golden Ring Awards” known as the Asian American Oscars for three years. I wrote, directed, and produced two documentary films that aired on PBS’ The Slanted Screen and The Jack Soo Story.
I have developed a comprehensive, 10-point plan for the arts which can be found on my website.