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Back on the campaign plane when George W. Bush was a Governor running for President in 2000, he used to pass me notes to read to the Congresswoman from San Francisco. When a newspaper article touted her prowess at raising funds, he tore it out and wrote on it, "Ask her: Can I have some?" Or when a magazine ran its guesses for his vice-presidential short list, he wrote in "Pelosi," along with, "Can you get her to run with...
...been usable as currency since the actual Stone Age, though my own collection was never worth more than the sum of its dimes. (All the same, to this day I get a chill any time I find myself around the intersection of Market Street and Dolores in San Francisco, where the U.S. mint sits on a hill overlooking a Safeway supermarket, the very mint that produced, for reasons never definitively established, just 24 dimes in 1894, the fabled 1894-S dimes, one of which sold at auction last year for $1.3 million.) At one point I also made a sustained...
...beyond the hyperbole obfuscation lie the “San Francisco values” the conservatives don’t tell you about. The city guarantees universal health care for all of its residents. There is only one gun shop listed in the Yellow Pages. The percentage of families below the poverty line is 8.9 percent according to the census bureau’s American community survey, below the national level of 10.2 percent. If these are the values that Pelosi brings to the top job in the House, there’s much cause for optimism...
...San Francisco, here we come...