COINCIDENCE?The Sentinel investigated -- again!
Publisher Pat Murphy received a phone call from San Francisco Ethics Commission staffer Paul Solis on March 14, 2007, (remember the date) to report the Sentinel is under investigation for Ethics violation.
(Complaint dismissed April 10, 2007)
Solis said a complaint of Ethics Code violation had just been handed to him.
The complaint revolved around an April Fool's Day Sentinel fundraiser held years back.
Chris Daly filed a similar complaint with the Ethics Commission in 2005 about the fundraiser.
Although this year's resurrected complaint came without the Ethics Commission legally able to release the the name of who complained once again -- Supervisor Daly, now chair of the Budget and Finance Committee, held a hearing on possible increase to the Ethics Commission budget on March 15, 2007.
One day after the Sentinel was informed by Ethics staffer Solis of new investigation.
Coincidence?
Reprinted below are two Sentinel articles.
One of the fundraiser, with host committee consisting of 10 San Francisco Supervisors.
The only Supervisor who declined to be named on the Host Committee was Daly.
The second article is an opinion piece from 2005 published by Sentinel editor Pat Murphy on the origial complaint going no where.
MEMORIES OF AN APRIL FOOL
Host Committee
State Senator Carole Migden
State Senator Jackie Speier
State Assemblyman Mark Leno
State Assemblyman Leland Yee
President of the Board of Supervisors Aaron Peskin
Supervisor Michela Alioto-Pier
Supervisor Tom Ammiano
Supervisor Bevan Dufty
Supervisor Sean Elsbernd
Supervisor Jake McGoldrick
Supervisor Fiona Ma
Supervisor Sophie Maxwell
Supervisor Ross Mirkarimi
Supervisor Gerardo Sandoval
President of the School Board Eric Mar
Vice President of the School Board Norman Yee
School Board Member Dan Kelly
School Board Member Mark Sanchez
Community College Board Trustee Johnnie Carter, Jr.
Community College Board Trustee Anita Grier
Community College Board Trustee Milton Marks
Community College Board Trustee Julio Ramos
Community College Board Trustee Rodel Rodis
Community College Board Trustee Lawrence Wong
City Attorney Dennis Herrera
District Attorney Kamala Harris
Public Defender Jeff Adachi
Treasurer Jose Cisneros
San Francisco Democratic Party
San Francisco Green Party
San Francisco Republican Party
Asian American Political Coalition
Alice B. Toklas LGBT Democratic Club
Harvey Milk LGBT Democratic Club
SF Neighborhood Network
FASTER THAN A SPEEDING BULLET QUICKER THAN A PLANE -- More truthful than a supervisor losing his reign
By Pat Murphy
Commentary
Wednesday, September 21, 2005
It was, in the end, landing with a thud, de minimis.
De minimis - only a pauper's pence was spent for the city to investigate the Sentinel, sum total less than $5.
I'd never heard of the phrase, myself - de minimis.
But I smiled as I gathered it was relayed in connection with that great lump of a fool who set the whole thing off.
Please forgive my name calling, as it was only hours ago Supervisor Chris Daly called Luke Thomas (and myself) "pieces of shit."
Fuck. Shit. Fuck you. Punk ass bitch. Get out.
Now immortalized in public discourse, these are the words, the soul, and the heart of Chris Daly.
Daly doesn't have a good heart.
Daly doesn't do good things for people.
Daly battles for the sake of battle, and for release.
That's the sum of the man.
Please forgive still, if you even will, another sketch of how Daly came to cause city pence spent.
He blustered, on the people's dime, that the Sentinel is an entity crying out for government regulation.
"The Sentinel is clearly a political committee and San Franciscans deserve to know who funds them as required by State law," Daly hurled from Chamber Floor of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors.
What a fool because he knows…that we know…he could have aimed his cell phone at the Ethics Department and gotten an answer in minutes.
The City Attorney, in fulsome disclosure, promises to send Daly a copy of the laws Daly mentioned…at de minimis cost, whew for you.
The San Francisco Ethics Department disclosed it tossed -- de minimis -- the whole thing to the City Attorney.
Poor bruiser, it was Daly who spent the five bucks, maybe less, on photocopying.
Prior to that bluster, he blistered me personally, backhanded. He did so with all he had, with all his personal knowledge of me, and with all that he knew to do.
I feel the defiance that Quentin Crisp tossed to fag bashers just before they throttled Crisp in The Naked Civil Servant -- "My worst has already happened."
Anyone sticking with Daly assures their worst is yet to come.
Daly hurts the progressive realm, and someone illuminating emperor nakedness could rescucitate that kingdom.
"What's the point!" Supervisor Ross Mirkarimi displayed empty hands right after Daly bluster.
And for all his talent to shimmy this way, then shimmy that way before the eye can catch it, Board President Aaron Peskin looks hobbled deadpanning Code of Conduct to Daly as Daly continues harangue.
Peskin deference will truncate Peskin dreams.
If Peskin can't preside effectively over ten strong willed people, how could he ever be trusted with $5 billion staff?
Yet, Daly's insular battles need not, not really, be accepted by the lefty bloc.
With Mission Bay development, demographics will continue to shift away from Daly's base of the unable.
There is a maxim, contrary to common San Francisco holding, which contends that without property rights, there are no human rights.
It's a maxim I've pondered as an unusual belief, never quite thinking I got it enough to think about it more.
The actions of people like Stalin and Daly keep that maxim running through the generations, I think.
State power. Enforcing the proper. Eliminating the improper. Licensing speech, approved wholesome not from within but from without.
I'm convinced that's the stuff of Chris Daly, and his stuff makes private property seem sanctuary.
The Sentinel is mine, I create it, and I'm not available to be questioned.
As for Stalin, I don't know.
I'm not sure I ever met that other asshole.
