unless my wires are crossed today, this is the same photo I used for the poster

That alone gets my vote.

(Also, in 1999, I used a photo Richie Allen or Dick Allen from his White Sox days, from I think a 1974 Sport Magazine calendar I had saved 25 years, for a show involving Pansy Division, the Peechees, The Electrocutes (aka The Donnas) and J Church -although Kemura from Japan filled for the ailing Lance Hahn and company, although Lance hung side stage nonetheless; actually his illness might not have presented yet, but merely personel problems–yes, there was some kind of sublet joke between the all-gay headliners and the phallic nature of the baseball player and photo, he of the big stick and all that).

If this poster is not posted above I will swede it in later today. Please vote for Dick.

and1: this has nothing to do with a private joke between Ken Dauber, who is being sworn in as PAUSD trustee Tuesday his wife and I and a reference to Mel Brooks. Don’t let your dauber down, ken. And its not often that someones wife says I was thinking exactly what you were thinking. Another version: Ken’s not hens’.

and1:
The Golden Era Committee of the National Baseball Hall of Fame rejected all 10 candidates on its ballot Monday, denying election to former players like Dick Allen, Tony Oliva and Gil Hodges.

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