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Nov.06.2011
In the waning days of the 2011 San Francisco mayoral campaign, I would like to offer some thoughtful words of wisdom. If anyone has any, please write them down on a $20 bill and mail them to me at:
Don’t Quit Your Day Job Productions PMB #120 236 West Portal Avenue San Francisco, CA 94127-1423...
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Oct.27.2011
Things are heating up in the Occupy Wall Street, Oakland, Atlanta, etc. movement. Not since the appearance of the CSI television franchise has America seen such rapid spread of a cultural phenomenon. Activists are camping and marching everywhere. Meanwhile, the Congressional Budget Office announced...
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Oct.02.2011
Recently, in a blatant effort to get attention, I announced that I was running for mayor of San Francisco. And it’s working! Today the San Francisco Chronicle sat up and took notice, as Emmy-winning radio personality and columnist Ben Fong-Torres trumpeted my candidacy in his column Radio...
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Sep.10.2011
I am a big-picture guy. I say big-picture guy because “big-picture man” sounds like a job description:
The Pope: We need someone to clean the Sistine Chapel ceiling. The Pope’s Secretary: I know a guy who knows a big-picture man. You want me to send up a smoke signal?
Anyhow, when I say I am a big-...
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Jul.31.2011
We are facing a political crisis. My campaign for mayor of San Francisco is not getting enough attention, and frankly, attention is half the reason I got into politics. (The other half is the pleasant camaraderie.)
Like other Americans, I’ve been watching the wrangling over the debt...
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Jun.08.2011
First of all, let me say that I am not resigning from office.
Secondly, there is a perfectly logical explanation for those photos.
But I am not here to deny things. I am here to deny things, and then come clean and propose a plan for the future.
I want to begin by saying that I have made mistakes....
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May.14.2011
This year is the 100th annual Bay to Breakers run in San Francisco, the oldest consecutively run footrace in the world today.
Founded five years after the great San Francisco earthquake of 1906, the race is named for the fact that the course runs from the Embarcadero, on the bay side of the city...
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Apr.18.2011
There have been moments of doubt in my run for mayor of San Francisco. It’s a big job. At times I wasn’t sure I was the right person for the job. There are others candidates—good candidates—people like Leland Yee, Bevan Dufty, Dennis Herrera, Phil Ting, Jeff Adachi, Kamala Harris, Tim Lincecum...
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Apr.10.2011
Many of San Franciscans have been asking me where I, Sam Barry, future mayor of San Francisco, stand on the budget mess. Perhaps you feel I have been ignoring this looming problem—playing my harmonica, as it were, while Rome burned.
Fellow Romans, I have this to say about that: I am really sorry...
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Jan.28.2011
As mayor of San Francisco I intend to teach every man, woman, transgendered person, and child how to play the harmonica. But I won’t stop there: I will teach the seals how to play. “A harmonica in every pocket and a box of Rice-A-Roni in every cupboard” will be the motto of my administration,...
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