From Ron Turner:
I get some good internet fun in my inbox most every day, but this is really a Classic – labeled “Political Spin – this is a real classic” and sent by one  ‘George Tsotos’:
Judy Wallman, a  professional genealogy researcher here in southern California , was doing some personal work on her own family [...]

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Followers of San Francisco political warfare will savor the following:
There has been a spot of a Cold War for some time between former Chronicle editor Phil Bronstein and legendary campaign manager Jack Davis – who first elected Mike Hennessey Sheriff, defeated incumbent Mayor Art Agnos for reelection with political neophyte Frank Jordan, then defeated Jordan [...]

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 Art by Sandow Birk,
From “In Smog and Thunder: Historical Works from The Great War of the Californias.”
(Published by Last Gasp of San Francisco)

 
{ The following front page editorial in the Nov-Dec print edition of The Argonaut has prompted considerable comment, as well it should. San Francisco voters agreed with the Argonaut, and approved by a [...]

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As a threatened SEIU national takeover of the Oakland-based Healthcare Workers West appears imminent; the national press is beginning to pay attention.
The Wall Street Journal reported that SEIU national president Andy Stern met privately with Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich around the time that federal prosecutors say the embattled governor was discussing ways to sell the [...]

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