Diverse community of S.F. voters erases school board members' lived experiences

A little over a year ago, the New Yorker published a rather hilarious interview with Gabriela Lopez, president of the San Francisco School Board, which I wrote about here. 

Lopez, whose media relations approach appeared to be consulting a Say 'N' Say keyed to D.E.I. buzzwords, was dismissive of parents' concerns that renaming schools to conform to current notions of social justice should be a lower priority than, say, reopening them.

With Ms. Lopez and two of her colleagues, San Francisco voters were unimpressed. Voters ousted them  by blowout margins in yesterday's recall election.

 

Political backlash like this -- for locality-specific issues like schools administration -- is sure to spark speculation for the upcoming Congressional mid-term elections. And even though Governor Gavin Newsom easily won his recall election, it is interesting that an area as left-leaning as San Francisco wholeheartedly rejected officials' furtherance of an important aspect of the progressive project.

What says the Commenteriat? Has Tip O'Neill risen from the grave? Are all politics local again?

Stop the presses! Candidate for Prez couldn't hack it in Big Law for six months

It seems Dorkocrat Andrew Yang did not last long as a first-year transactional associate at Davis Polk's New York office before squandering all his preftige (Phillips Exeter, Brown, Columbia Law) in exchange for a series of ventures in the unseemly field of do-gooder tech startups.

The Post's puff piece has the deets.

Question! Given that he has now lost the crucial formerly-closeted-Asian-failed-blogger-amateur-photographer vote, does this fact hurt or improve his chances at the Democratic nomination? Would you feel differently if Yang wrote you a check for $1,000 right now?

"Nazi-Era Symbol" in Katie Hill Images?

Perhaps out of sensationalism, the Daily Mail suggests in its headline that the Iron Cross shown tattooed on Katie Hill's groin in one of her recently-leaked nude images is a "Nazi-era symbol."  Far down into the article, the author admits that the symbol was also used by the Imperial German Army in the Great War of 1914-1918, and cannot be determined to be a "Nazi-era symbol" unless it is the variant with a superimposed swastika (this one was not).  So, I doubt this goes anywhere politically.  Of course, the sexual relationship with a staffer was technically improper, but it likely qualifies as LGBTQ, so Hill gets offsetting fad points with Democratic voters (Hill apparently denies allegations of another relationship with a male staffer).  This will be one to watch, simply because it adds a bit of entertainment to an otherwise mortifyingly depressive election cycle.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7609835/Katie-Hill-seen-showing-Nazi-era-tattoo-smoking-BONG-NAKED.html

Warren: 'Did I stutter?'

Questions about Elizabeth Warren's background have arisen once again, this time having nothing to do with her ancestry or of where in Oklahoma one can find "traditional Cherokee crab meat omelettes."

Instead, new evidence gives lie to her story about how she got canned in her 20s from her job as a public school speech therapist for being preggers.

https://freebeacon.com/politics/county-records-contradict-warrens-claim-she-was-fired-over-pregnancy

Warren, of course, is sticking by her story, or at least 1,064th of it.

Passing the Buck

Well, Ed Buck is in trouble, and his federal arraignment and bail review hearing was passed to 11 October, after he waived speedy arraignment.

Meanwhile, the media raises the question why it took so long for officials to act, as local homeless men commonly referred to Buck as "Dr. Kevorkian."  I am sure that whatever it was, it had nothing to do with him being an LGBTQ "activist" or a major democratic donor, in California.  Probably the people who investigate the deaths of marginalized homeless gay black men were just busy with other things.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/homeless-men-called-democratic-donor-ed-buck-dr-kevorkian-why-his-did-arrest-take-so-long/ar-AAHBfDj?li=BBnbfcL#page=2

The Kavanaugh Thing is Back

It seemed to me that the effort to lynch Justice Kavanaugh during the confirmation proceedings actually cost the Democrats bigtime in the midterm races.  Nevertheless, several of the current Democratic hopefuls in the presidential race are hanging their hats on the "impeach Kavanaugh" issue.  Maybe this is simply a sign of our times, illustrating how, once some people in the media give the order, the politically correct, whatever their station, have no choice but to charge for the guns.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-defends-brett-kavanaugh-democrats-call-for-impeachment-amid-new-sexual-misconduct-claims/ar-AAHkxf5