I am processing the results of the recent election.

I got nearly 2,000 votes, which I think is great.

On a cost basis (dollars spent to votes received) I lead the pack by a wide margin, a factor of five.

I texted by colleague the newly seated council member Tom Dubois that I lead him all-time in votes, 10k to 9k or so.

I’ve said “compared to 5,000 or so sheep my supporters are more like jaguars who hunt in packs”. Not sure if jaguars hunt in packs or are like “lone wolfs” but you get the picture.

I think the Weekly does a huge disservice, more like Pravda or TASS than The New York Times. (Or the Times Tribune, for that matter, who trained me, 1984).

The PASZ is a crock. If you define the issues in such an arcane matter and push thru the tailored cure, you might be surprised at what you actually are left with.

The PASZ my experience (and dinner from Chenai Kings with Sea Reddy and Gerhard Holz last night reiterated this, he concurs) is more Trotskyite than Jefferesonian. What kind of movement ostracizes rather than cultivates a succession of co-leaders? I was disinvited to a pre-campaign event at Janet Davoe’s house in July, at 433 Kingsley when they learned that I was planning to pull papers and not merely be a good former-BAA sheep. Sea Reddy had an even worse experience, he says, and was expelled from an event.

(Coinky-dinky, but I am marveling not complaining, I was 86-d from the sidewalk outside Birch Street café Monday night, me on my way to parked gear nearby fresh from one drink and some fries watching Colts-Giants at The Counter, squinting to notice Mike McFaul an old acquaintance — and Condi’s purported protégée — in the window; secret service or just a strange bald man listening to a weird in-ear radio asked me to move along; I thought better of hitting the remote to pop open my trunk and pulling out a Mark Weiss For Council yardsign. Terry Shuchat and I the next day queried the staff and were told that “un general, el jefe” was there — Colin Powell? Or just Condi? Mike had no security as far as I could tell at either World Affairs Council or Amanda Renteria, and certainly not at The Greek Theatre back in 1982; this is eve of election, for me).

Read Steinbeck “In Dubious Battle” and re-read “Grapes of Wrath” from 1936 and 1939

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I think Doria should be on PATC, she has gotten several votes in her previous applications, and besides her Trostskyite participation in Self-Serving Politburo in Sensational Self-Service or what-not has an impeccable though mostly behind the scenes record here in public service.

She worked on the Schmid campaign in 2012, for instance.

Also, I was endorsed by Nancy Packer and not merely because I praised her son George Packer’s book and indeed ordered 11 copies of “The Unwinding” from Books Inc, at 10 percent discount or remaindered, and gifted or lent out 10 copies to random or more-deserving people; I also lent my copy of Bryan Stevenson “Mercy” to a man I met last night in parking lot of Mitchell Center Park, Sean-dick Dharap, I have him as, a Gunn 2006 waterpolo and 3L at USF I mean to instruct, if I hear from him again, to drop the book to Jeff Adachi and Matt Gonzalez office. Also, good to hear voice of Quentin Kopp, traveling so missed my campaign but gave me pep talk in 2009. Brian Stretch and Griffin Bonini of Our Constitution likewise sent vibes but could not endorse. Same with Ben Clements and Jeff Clements. I got an endorsement of John Elman about two hours after close of pplls, in front of i.e. leaving 433 Kingsley, which spells like turtles.

Any real change would have to include independent fourth estate.