Of course a contractor (like BBI, the builder behind Municipal Boathouse Restaurant restoration) is going to feel comfortable crossing a palm (of Nancy Nadel) with cash (see her campaign financials) and just wait a few months to ask for 1.5 million dollars for the project. The amount he has given NN is chump change to what he is going to receive in the end once she pushes a resolution to give him the money he wants.

What bothers me is Nadel seemed to be so clueless as how it appears to others — ie taxpayers.

She really does live in a bubble.

Thanks, V, for publishing the financial statements. I still hear the NN propaganda — that she is not the developer candidate and therefore is free from that type of financial influence as opposed to her challengers — being reiterated by loyal supporters.

Martyrhood is one thing, not being truthful is quite another.

‘Way to play the martyr card.

Rebecca has personally been very nice to me, and I’ve really enjoyed the opportunities I’ve had to talk to her. But it did disturb me that two separate people I know, neither of whom know one another and one of whom isn’t involved at politics at all, felt the need to tell almost the exact same story without any prompting. It seemed worth mentioning.

In the end, I agree with you, and all the points you hit on your blog about Sean. Kaplan can get things done. When I had coffee with her, I think that my favorite thing out of everything she said was when I was talking to her about some of my frustrations with inefficiencies in our government due to mandates in the City Charter. Almost the second I finished speaking, she spat out “Well then, the solution is to change the City Charter. We can do that!” Yes! That’s exactly what I was going to say. I should have realized then and there she had my vote, but it’s taken my a long time to feel like I’d made a firm position. I’ve been waffling like Don Perata over here.

And just like you said, if District 3 doesn’t go to a run-off and At-large does, I’ll be volunteering for Rebecca in the fall.

I’m a bit surprised that people have complained to you that Rebecca’s campaign has not been accessible. I see her personally campaigning just about everywhere, and I’ve been impressed at how knowledgeable her volunteers are about her campaign. When I was phoning for her last week it was great to hear my fellow volunteers answering pretty detailed questions about what she was going to do for the city. Regardless, I think Rebecca will be incredibly accessible to her constituents – she comes to this position after being a community activist fro many years so she knows what it’s like to be on the other side.

It was pretty clear to me that the comments section was just a sloppy mistake. But In this day and age, screwing up your website that badly is the same thing as putting out grammatically incorrect literature. It’s careless.

Josh, I know the other candidates have no comments sections. Probably an unwise thing to do. Although Q&A would be a brave thing to do… Still, Hamill offered the chance to comment, then recinded it as soon as it provoked disagreement. It’s one thing to not offer discussion. It’s far worse to offer it and then walk away when it turns out it’s not the discussion you wanted.

Actually, I made that observation because in general Hamill has been a reluctant candidate (although she is quite happy to have $125,000+ spent on mailers for her), and the use of a blog template, with little of the elaboration that V has given hers, seemed to be another little sign of that.

The reason that Hamill’s website removed comments is simple, and that reason is…

Me!

Hamill had posted a link to the endorsement article in the East Bay Express. Early this morning, in the comment section, I posted links to the two Robert Gammon articles which called attention to her potential campaign finance violations. If what you’re saying is true, and she removed commenting, I claim full responsibility.

See, the urls for those articles were so long that they ran out of the comment box. You couldn’t tell they were unfavorable without clicking on them. Clearly, a supporter or two went to her site, clicked through, and got an unpleasant surprise!

Muhahahahahahahaha!

PS, Uhuru did the same thing when I posted critical comments on their McCullough-hatefest video on youtube. Deleted me and blocked me.

V Smoothe believes in democracy, and in the word of the people. Hamill and Uhuru, not so much.