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Originally Posted by viewguysf
Conservative supervisors John Barbagelata, Quentin Kopp and others drove us just as crazy as Chris Daly does today, perhaps more so.
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I haven't been around long enough to have had personal experience of Barbagelata but what I've read isn't positive. I kind of miss Quentin Kopp on the other hand. And was he actually a Republican? I remember him as more a conservative Democrat and the Board, of course, is non-partisan. It could just be that "absence makes the heart grow fonder" but I think the SF Board lacks a certain "diversity" of political opinion that a reasonably principled conservative like Kopp would bring. I mean, Ed Jew had a reputation for being the closest thing current SF politics has to a conservative and that hasn't turned out well--to paraphrase, I knew Quentin Kopp and he is certainly no Quentin Kopp. Some might point to Michela Alioto-Pier but I see her as mostly the Alioto dynasty's last pathetic gasp. But, then, there'll always be an Arthur Bruzzone.
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I really feel that if people really can't appreciate this City for what it is and what it has stood for, they should have the courage to move elsewhere.
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You know, you may be right. I have essentially done that. The fondness I have for the town that comes out when I ogle some of her best architecture, past, present and future, and recall her finer historical moments including a few I experienced personally, still exists and so I can't completely cut the chord (all that and my love of Asian food). But the town's excessively and obsessively narcicistic "progressivism" does not wear well with me these days and so I have to get away for half the year--hence, my spending winters in Tucson where I now am. The Dalys, the Mirkirimis, the Sandovals, the Ammianos and even the Peskins have partly chased me out of town. But they have only 6 months to play until this cat returns.