When, over the past how-many years, I’ve bitched about San Franciscan attitudes, I was talking about:

• Professional counterculture celebrities who are merely famous for being infamous, who’ve never really written/painted/recorded anything of value but who are adored for their (carefully contrived) outlaw images;
• Loudmouth entertainment/restaurant/fashion hustlers who come up here as cultural colonists, forever whining that this hick town will always suck unless it gets a _____ exactly like the _____s in San Francisco;
• Unimaginative Seattleites who think the only path to true cultural creativity is to copy something already done down there.

I do not, and never have, dissed Frisco (and, yes, I still insist on calling it that) for having gays or liberals within its overpriced midst.

Therefore, I hereby renounce the right wing sleaze machine’s attempt to scare citizens out of voting for Democrats because the Dems would place
a known San Franciscan as Speaker of the House.