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This send up piece of Gonzalez is written by fools.

Gonzalez got more done in his one term as an elected than most of his cronies have in a whole career. IRV, Minimum Wage, Formula Retail, Biodiesel ..and more. Instead of judging him by his record of accomplishment and votes cast - we have the usual comedians doing the superficial personality ad hoc committee.

Gonzalez is not running for prom king. The best ideas to solve our problems are not on the table and he was way ahead of others in articulating them locally - now nationally. When he runs for office in California locally in 3 years, this will look a lot different.

Comment by occam sen — March 12, 2008 @ 09:28AM

I guess this is supposed to be funny but it seems mean-spirited and juvenile. You guys might consider writing for one of the local high school papers.

Comment by sfcablecar — March 12, 2008 @ 12:03PM

Benjamin Wachs and Joe Eskenazi, you couldn't get a gig writing for a JUNIOR High paper. Luckily, the SF Weekly doesn't have that high a standard.

Comment by matt4VP — March 12, 2008 @ 01:13PM

What a waste of paper and ink.

Sad, really.

Comment by Carl Noe — March 12, 2008 @ 01:19PM

Haha great piece. NOT!!!
You consider this journalism? Your sophomoric piece, is shit! Why don't you two stooges report about your favorite lubes and tips for treating hemroids. At least you would be providing your fellow San Franciscans with useful info.

Comment by Johnny Dangerously — March 12, 2008 @ 01:45PM

What's really sad is that while our country is nosediving into fascism and the economy is tanking with non-stop crimes by those in power (not just torture and mass murder, but now wiretapping of the Democrats to eject them), writers for this paper have nothing better to do but attack Matt, one of the very few who have been immune to the sickness of power.

Comment by Victronix — March 12, 2008 @ 03:08PM

Gonzalez's brain hasn't gone to mush like those of these two tokers.

Comment by steve — March 12, 2008 @ 05:59PM

These are the only two candidates not bought off by corporate america and who know the real issues. What a couple of shallow morons to write such garbage. What you should be writing about is restrictive ballot access laws.

Comment by Joe — March 12, 2008 @ 07:27PM

It took two people to write this tripe?! I'm surprised that it didn't take a larger group. How many ghost writers did this slop have to get done in time for the weekly deadline? Stick to the news and leave the comedy to the professionals.

Comment by Lee — March 12, 2008 @ 09:22PM

Wow - How dreadfully insightful. Snarky critique with no muscle. Open your eyes to what's goin' on - or are you too Obamafied to see the progressive agenda is the only thing that pulls today's professional politicians, including Obama back to addressing mainstream concerns. It's about the right to choose your candidate - from long before the primary. Go back to civics class if you think Gonzalez doesn't know exactly what he is doing - and yes - he is making a sacrifice for your sorry asses, but you'll still have to wipe your own.

Comment by Rhonda — March 12, 2008 @ 09:30PM

Regarding the list of Matt's reasons.
I was wondering about Matt G.'s reasons for running with Nader myself.
After 2000 election, when the Nader-basher hysteria was at it's peak, Matt was critical of Nader, as I recall. Anyway, kudos to him for sticking his neck out, it takes alot of courage. Dear Benjamin Wachs and Joe Eskenazi, have either of you ever had enough balls to run for any public office? If you did, keep on bitching, if not then, s.t.f.u.
George Tatevosyan

Comment by George Tatevosyan — March 13, 2008 @ 04:54AM

This is fucking hilarious and the responses to it by the Nader fan club demonstrate the utter humorlessness of the far left and their delusions of relevance. One Green Key Value is "personal and global responsibility." Matt and Ralph need to take some responsibility for their conduct instead of assuming that others will clean up the mess after their dog and pony show.

Comment by marc — March 13, 2008 @ 09:40AM

Other posters can snark all they want at this article, but I for one think it's wonderful that the SF Weekly has decided to start publishing writing by elementary school kids. And especially ones that show so little native talent, humor, or insight--because they're exactly the ones that need the most encouragement (and practice!).

And who knows? Given the journalistic standards of the Weekly, this may actually lead to an overall improvement in quality.

Bravo!

Comment by John Caruso — March 14, 2008 @ 08:00AM

it took two geniuses to write this one. what do they do when they need to screw in a ligh bulb?

Comment by loofabearoreilly — March 18, 2008 @ 09:18AM

Reaffirms my decision to vote for them.

Comment by Anonymous — March 22, 2008 @ 02:27PM

Ben, it's great to see that you're still at it...
It's always interesting to Google old friends.
For what it's worth, I think this is funny, but then, I thought what you were writing in high school was pretty funny, too.

Comment by weirdbird — March 31, 2008 @ 07:14PM