Sunday Open Thread

by Brian Leubitz [courtesy of Calitics - Front Page]

  • So, next week I'm headed to DC, in part to attend the Take Back America Convention. If you're interested in making the trek out to DC, you can register here.

  • Congrats to Bill Foster, who claimed a pretty darn Republican seat in IL-14, Dennis Hastert's old seat. Charlie Cook had it at R+5. For those keeping score, that's the same as CA-50, Bilbray's seat. And by the way, Foster, a physicist,  opposes telecom immunity. Barack Obama did an ad for Foster a few days ago, that seems to have moved a few people.

  • Here in SF, this weekend seems to be weekend of endorsements for the June primary. We always have competitive races for the county central committee. Well, this year it's even more crazy with Supervisors Chris Daly and Aaron Peskin deciding to hang out with the farm team and throw the whole race into chaos. Fantastic. Freaking fantastic.

  • As a somewhat unrelated sidenote, it appears that Ross Mirkarimi just might become the most powerful Green Party politician in the country one of these days. Or, well, I guess we might actuallyneed a ramp in the Board of Supervisors Chamber. I normally go for the Dem when given a choice, but Mirkarimi is a pretty darn good guy. He'd be successful and help the city in whatever capacity he serves.

  • And then there's this: a front page story in the Sunday Chronicle about Gavin Newsom's possible bid for Governor in 2010. Time flies when you're having fun, and 2010 isn't actually that far away now. It could be an interesting race for the Democratic nomination. Maybe the Republicans will throw up Tom McClintock for it. He runs for everything else, anyway. Or maybe they'll draft some really, really rich person with no history in politics. Hey, it worked in 2003!

    • Anything else going on?

    Posted March 9th, 2008 by Syndicated