Followers of San Francisco political warfare will savor the following:<\/p>\n
There has been a spot of a Cold War for some time between former Chronicle editor Phil Bronstein and legendary campaign manager Jack Davis \u00e2\u20ac\u201c who first elected Mike Hennessey Sheriff, defeated incumbent Mayor Art Agnos for reelection with political neophyte Frank Jordan, then defeated Jordan for re-election with Willie Brown, and went on the re-elect Brown for a second term.<\/p>\n
Bronstein, who was once married to film actress Sharon Stone, now writes a blog for the Chronicle\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s website, SFGate. Recounting his version of some recent city controversies, Bronstein called Davis a political bully, or words to that effect. Davis replied with a e-mail blast that summarized many of the high, or low- lights of Bronstein\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s tenure as editor of the Hearst San Francisco Examiner who went on to become editor of the Chronicle when the Hearst\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s bought it. Copies of Davis\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 e-blast provided more than a few chuckles around City Hall during the holiday doldrums past.<\/p>\n
From Davis:<\/strong><\/em> Actually the cowboy boot theme was insider baseball after you broke Clint Reilly\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s ankle in the Ex\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s editorial boardroom.\u00c2\u00a0 As legend has it Reilly was invited by Will [Will Hearst, than publisher of the Examiner] to pitch direct mail promotion for the Ex and was an invited guest.\u00c2\u00a0 So the lore goes the meeting between Will, you and Clint began with you asking Clint why he would not speak to certain of your reporters.\u00c2\u00a0 \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Just because you fuck them, doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t mean I have to talk to them\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Reilly allegedly replied which led you to jump out of your seat, come around the table, pin Reilly\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s foot down with your cowboy boot and snap Clint\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s ankle.<\/p>\n While Reilly laid on the floor in pain a panicked Will pondered what to do.\u00c2\u00a0 In comes nurse Ratchet \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Pam Brunger [Examiner managing editor] \u00e2\u20ac\u201c who calls for an ambulance and Clint is wheeled out of the Ex\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s editorial boardroom.\u00c2\u00a0 So much for \u00e2\u20ac\u0153free speech\u00e2\u20ac\u009d.\u00c2\u00a0 The terms of the out-of-court settlement have never been published but sources believe that your behavior as Editor cost in the six figures.\u00c2\u00a0 How a respected Corporation could tolerate such behavior is beyond me.\u00c2\u00a0 Fortunately for you Will is the largest stockholder.\u00c2\u00a0 Go figure!<\/p>\n The boot idea also seemed relevant after a S.F. Jury found your paper guilty of predatory pricing and the cowboy boot was the launch of Prop J -\u00c2\u00a0 the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Free Public Notice\u00e2\u20ac\u009d campaign that I managed pro bono.\u00c2\u00a0 Voters overwhelming agreed that said contract should not be awarded only on price.\u00c2\u00a0 The loss of this lucrative contract for the Examiner was sad but predictable.<\/p>\n Then there was the $60 million dollar payment to break the JOA and yes I did have my hand in that.\u00c2\u00a0 Some say you then ran the paper into an estimated 60 Million dollar operating deficit after the Hearsts bought the Chronicle.<\/p>\n As I think about your sad career, I am reminded of the threats made to Matier & Ross that you would see that they were finished in S.F. for leaving the Ex and joining the Chron.\u00c2\u00a0 Today they remain marquis political commentators while you write an insignificant blog.<\/p>\n And how about Mayor Brown being a featured Sunday entity after decades of Bronstein attacks.\u00c2\u00a0 How the worm turns.\u00c2\u00a0 Is it true that the origin of your pathological hatred of Mayor Brown originates with him stealing your girlfriend?\u00c2\u00a0 What woman wouldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t prefer his company to yours?<\/p>\n Your most successful days were as a foreign correspondent.\u00c2\u00a0 Bedding down Imelda Marcos so you could sniff out and reveal the thousands of shoes in her closet made international news.\u00c2\u00a0 Another milestone in an illustrious career.\u00c2\u00a0 I actually liked that story.<\/p>\n Reports from Tosca\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s \u00e2\u20ac\u201c unnamed sources \u00e2\u20ac\u201c say that a famous movie star paid you $500,000 as a pre-nup\/stud fee only to have you fire blanks.<\/p>\n Then there is the Bronstein theory of journalism that rejects objective reporting in favor of edgy news.\u00c2\u00a0 Certainly not the material for a Nobel Prize.<\/p>\n For you to call anybody a \u00e2\u20ac\u0153bully\u00e2\u20ac\u009d is bully with me.\u00c2\u00a0 You do seem to have a shoe fetish \u00e2\u20ac\u201c cowboy boots, Imelda\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s shoes, Reilly\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s broken ankle and then of course taking your sneakers off in a cage with a dragon, (stupid jerk).\u00c2\u00a0 In my community \u00e2\u20ac\u201c the gay community \u00e2\u20ac\u201c some would call it all the behavior of a pencil dick.\u00c2\u00a0 See ya later boots!<\/p>\n Jack Davis<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 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 \u00e2\u20ac\u201c who first elected Mike Hennessey Sheriff, defeated incumbent Mayor Art Agnos for reelection with political neophyte Frank Jordan, then defeated […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.argonaut360.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.argonaut360.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.argonaut360.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.argonaut360.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.argonaut360.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.argonaut360.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.argonaut360.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.argonaut360.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.argonaut360.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nPhil, I recently learned of your blog and that you took the liberty to rewrite history as it pertains to me and the seven-foot boot that was parked outside the Examiner\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 with the classic Nancy Sinatra song blasting \u00e2\u20ac\u0153One of these days these boots are going to walk all over you\u00e2\u20ac\u009d.\u00c2\u00a0 The great Dan O\u00e2\u20ac\u2122Neil had the boot made by some talented hippy from Carson City \u00e2\u20ac\u201c\u00c2\u00a0 it was not a left over from some Mitchell Bros party as you mistakenly blogged \u00e2\u20ac\u201c but there were numerous Mitchell Bros dancers in high leather boots picketing the Examiner.<\/p>\n