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		<title>By: hag</title>
		<link>http://laughingsquid.com/matching-funds-for-chicken-johns-mayoral-campaign/comment-page-1/#comment-275312</link>
		<dc:creator>hag</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Aug 2007 02:58:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Turkey George called a buddy of mine Saturday begging for money even tho he hasn&#039;t talked to this guy in 5 years and hates Turkey&#039;s guts for being such a blowhard.
 HE THEN SAID IF HE DONATED $200.00 CHICKEN WOULD PAY HIM BACK! 
And, that this is how he is funding his election~

Thisiselection fraud!! Heis no better than Carl Rove.
He should be prosecuted!!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Turkey George called a buddy of mine Saturday begging for money even tho he hasn&#8217;t talked to this guy in 5 years and hates Turkey&#8217;s guts for being such a blowhard.<br />
 HE THEN SAID IF HE DONATED $200.00 CHICKEN WOULD PAY HIM BACK!<br />
And, that this is how he is funding his election~</p>
<p>Thisiselection fraud!! Heis no better than Carl Rove.<br />
He should be prosecuted!!</p>
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		<title>By: Chicken John Meets Goal For Election Matching Funds &#124; Laughing Squid</title>
		<link>http://laughingsquid.com/matching-funds-for-chicken-johns-mayoral-campaign/comment-page-1/#comment-275233</link>
		<dc:creator>Chicken John Meets Goal For Election Matching Funds &#124; Laughing Squid</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Aug 2007 00:59:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] Burning Man, and he informed that working to the very last minute, by today&#8217;s 5pm deadline he raised the required $25K to qualify for the San Francisco matching funds for his mayoral campaign. As far as I know, Chicken [...]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[...] Burning Man, and he informed that working to the very last minute, by today&#8217;s 5pm deadline he raised the required $25K to qualify for the San Francisco matching funds for his mayoral campaign. As far as I know, Chicken [...]</p>
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		<title>By: mumbley peg</title>
		<link>http://laughingsquid.com/matching-funds-for-chicken-johns-mayoral-campaign/comment-page-1/#comment-275209</link>
		<dc:creator>mumbley peg</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Aug 2007 00:09:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>ok, further clarification...

having many other things to deal with today, i wasn&#039;t aware of the .com and .org distinction until just now...

i don&#039;t know remember now where i had linked to the anti-chicken one from, but having not seen it before was thinking that it was a problem for potential donors to reach him...

is it new ?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>ok, further clarification&#8230;</p>
<p>having many other things to deal with today, i wasn&#8217;t aware of the .com and .org distinction until just now&#8230;</p>
<p>i don&#8217;t know remember now where i had linked to the anti-chicken one from, but having not seen it before was thinking that it was a problem for potential donors to reach him&#8230;</p>
<p>is it new ?</p>
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		<title>By: mumbley peg</title>
		<link>http://laughingsquid.com/matching-funds-for-chicken-johns-mayoral-campaign/comment-page-1/#comment-275184</link>
		<dc:creator>mumbley peg</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Aug 2007 23:25:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>btw, i wasn&#039;t trying to further spread this infomation and if you would like to delete that wordpress ink above ... that would be fine...

i only wanted to let you know where the problem was... and perhaps give you the trail so you can deal with it.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>btw, i wasn&#8217;t trying to further spread this infomation and if you would like to delete that wordpress ink above &#8230; that would be fine&#8230;</p>
<p>i only wanted to let you know where the problem was&#8230; and perhaps give you the trail so you can deal with it.</p>
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		<title>By: mumbley peg</title>
		<link>http://laughingsquid.com/matching-funds-for-chicken-johns-mayoral-campaign/comment-page-1/#comment-275182</link>
		<dc:creator>mumbley peg</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Aug 2007 23:22:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Hi Scott, 

There&#039;s a number of reasons that anonymity might be an important way to communicate messages in today&#039;s media environment ( i.e if you are a journalist reporting on druglords with ties to the govt. that you are reporting in is just one hypothetical situation, or you someone like Daniel Ellsberg who has information from a position that is a card best not forfeited until the time is right ).

i would be happy to debate that pt. later.

I sent you an email directly with more information which i hope can be helpful...

I was genuinely concerned that people were being re-directed from Chicken&#039;s site, because timing for his campaign and fundraising is crucial as you know.

I can&#039;t investigate the hack any further, but hope you have some success uncovering it!

mpeg</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hi Scott, </p>
<p>There&#8217;s a number of reasons that anonymity might be an important way to communicate messages in today&#8217;s media environment ( i.e if you are a journalist reporting on druglords with ties to the govt. that you are reporting in is just one hypothetical situation, or you someone like Daniel Ellsberg who has information from a position that is a card best not forfeited until the time is right ).</p>
<p>i would be happy to debate that pt. later.</p>
<p>I sent you an email directly with more information which i hope can be helpful&#8230;</p>
<p>I was genuinely concerned that people were being re-directed from Chicken&#8217;s site, because timing for his campaign and fundraising is crucial as you know.</p>
<p>I can&#8217;t investigate the hack any further, but hope you have some success uncovering it!</p>
<p>mpeg</p>
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		<title>By: Scott Beale</title>
		<link>http://laughingsquid.com/matching-funds-for-chicken-johns-mayoral-campaign/comment-page-1/#comment-275157</link>
		<dc:creator>Scott Beale</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Aug 2007 22:59:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Mumbley Peg - That&#039;s wonderful. You, an anonymous person, sends us an anonymous blog that doesn&#039;t allow comments. Awesome way to make a point. If you were really serious about any of this you would actually stand behind your words.

Isn&#039;t it interesting that most of the people opposing Chicken are afraid to let people know who they are. What are you guys hiding? Or should I say guy, since this all appears to be coming from one person with a multiple personality complex.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Mumbley Peg &#8211; That&#8217;s wonderful. You, an anonymous person, sends us an anonymous blog that doesn&#8217;t allow comments. Awesome way to make a point. If you were really serious about any of this you would actually stand behind your words.</p>
<p>Isn&#8217;t it interesting that most of the people opposing Chicken are afraid to let people know who they are. What are you guys hiding? Or should I say guy, since this all appears to be coming from one person with a multiple personality complex.</p>
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		<title>By: mumbley peg</title>
		<link>http://laughingsquid.com/matching-funds-for-chicken-johns-mayoral-campaign/comment-page-1/#comment-275147</link>
		<dc:creator>mumbley peg</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Aug 2007 22:32:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I was redirected to a different site, which read at the bottom:

This satire has been brought to you by concerned artists and innovators who just want people in San Francisco&#039;s art scene to use their heads, just this once, ok?

Get the daily dirt on Chicken John&#039;s mayoral campaign on our blog. Read Chicken John&#039;s own words about himself and his campaign on Chicken John In His Own Words.
Honor roll of people who&#039;ve shown a lick of sense:
a crude but sensible anonymous Craigslist poster &#124; Chicken John In His Own Words &#124; ArtAndInnovation on Technorati 


http://chicken411.wordpress.com/</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I was redirected to a different site, which read at the bottom:</p>
<p>This satire has been brought to you by concerned artists and innovators who just want people in San Francisco&#8217;s art scene to use their heads, just this once, ok?</p>
<p>Get the daily dirt on Chicken John&#8217;s mayoral campaign on our blog. Read Chicken John&#8217;s own words about himself and his campaign on Chicken John In His Own Words.<br />
Honor roll of people who&#8217;ve shown a lick of sense:<br />
a crude but sensible anonymous Craigslist poster | Chicken John In His Own Words | ArtAndInnovation on Technorati </p>
<p><a href="http://chicken411.wordpress.com/" rel="nofollow">http://chicken411.wordpress.com/</a></p>
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		<title>By: Scott Beale</title>
		<link>http://laughingsquid.com/matching-funds-for-chicken-johns-mayoral-campaign/comment-page-1/#comment-275140</link>
		<dc:creator>Scott Beale</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Aug 2007 22:21:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Both Chicken&#039;s real blog &lt;a href=&quot;http://voteforchicken.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;voteforchicken.com&lt;/a&gt; and the fake one that you created &lt;a href=&quot;http://voteforchicken.org/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;voteforchicken.org&lt;/a&gt; look fine to me. What exactly was &quot;hacked&quot;?

Mr. Mumbley Peg, you sir about about to be blocked for spamming. I let the whole anonymous thing slide so far, but now you&#039;re spamming this blog as well with your fake website.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Both Chicken&#8217;s real blog <a href="http://voteforchicken.com" rel="nofollow">voteforchicken.com</a> and the fake one that you created <a href="http://voteforchicken.org/" rel="nofollow">voteforchicken.org</a> look fine to me. What exactly was &#8220;hacked&#8221;?</p>
<p>Mr. Mumbley Peg, you sir about about to be blocked for spamming. I let the whole anonymous thing slide so far, but now you&#8217;re spamming this blog as well with your fake website.</p>
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		<title>By: mumbley peg</title>
		<link>http://laughingsquid.com/matching-funds-for-chicken-johns-mayoral-campaign/comment-page-1/#comment-275134</link>
		<dc:creator>mumbley peg</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Aug 2007 22:16:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>btw, http://voteforchicken.org/
has BEEN HACKED...

is someone getting worried that some really enlightening and authentic debates might occur in this election if an opponent to gavin newsom actually has some campaign funds to put his sorry ass to the task of having to communicate in a public setting??

DONATE to Chicken&#039;s campaign....Last Day for matching funds goal !!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>btw, <a href="http://voteforchicken.org/" rel="nofollow">http://voteforchicken.org/</a><br />
has BEEN HACKED&#8230;</p>
<p>is someone getting worried that some really enlightening and authentic debates might occur in this election if an opponent to gavin newsom actually has some campaign funds to put his sorry ass to the task of having to communicate in a public setting??</p>
<p>DONATE to Chicken&#8217;s campaign&#8230;.Last Day for matching funds goal !!</p>
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		<title>By: Stuart Matthews</title>
		<link>http://laughingsquid.com/matching-funds-for-chicken-johns-mayoral-campaign/comment-page-1/#comment-274362</link>
		<dc:creator>Stuart Matthews</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Aug 2007 21:58:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&quot;I of course will debate all the candidates.&quot; - So, you&#039;ll be there this Friday then? I noted your absence at the previous two debates.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;I of course will debate all the candidates.&#8221; &#8211; So, you&#8217;ll be there this Friday then? I noted your absence at the previous two debates.</p>
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		<title>By: chicken john</title>
		<link>http://laughingsquid.com/matching-funds-for-chicken-johns-mayoral-campaign/comment-page-1/#comment-273924</link>
		<dc:creator>chicken john</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Aug 2007 04:15:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I of course will debate all the candidates. I don&#039;t know if you realise this, but my campaign finaces are a matter of public record. You may scrutinize them later if you wish. I would be enthousiastic to see if you think that I spent the money wisely. I would like to debate you, if you would like. Anytime, anywhere.You can grill me on how I have handeled myself being of service to my community for the last 2 decades. I&#039;ll give you a quick other side of the story from my email box. Enjoy!&quot;They say that if your nose itches, someone is talking about you.

Well, I was talking about you today. I am working on what is next for me career wise with a life coach-in-training and there are some things I would like to do but have some fear...which I am working on. 

She asked who I admired and why. 

I said, &quot;Chicken John because he&#039;s fearless. It&#039;s like no one ever told him &#039;no, you can&#039;t do that&#039;.&quot; She finished, &quot;And do you think he&#039;d care if someone did?&quot; We laughed and agreed that you would not in fact care if someone did.

I said, &quot;If Chicken can run for mayor, I can open a store!&quot;

This was written by Rusty:   blazenhoff@yahoo.com

There is someone I havn&#039;t spoke to in years who is on the opposite side of your opinion of me. And unlike you, she doesn&#039;t mind having her email next to her opinion. My intention is to inspire dialog. So that you&#039;re saying you piece is what is supposed to happen. Then others can respond. As long as it stays civil, I&#039;ll be happy to talk. 

chicken john</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I of course will debate all the candidates. I don&#8217;t know if you realise this, but my campaign finaces are a matter of public record. You may scrutinize them later if you wish. I would be enthousiastic to see if you think that I spent the money wisely. I would like to debate you, if you would like. Anytime, anywhere.You can grill me on how I have handeled myself being of service to my community for the last 2 decades. I&#8217;ll give you a quick other side of the story from my email box. Enjoy!&#8221;They say that if your nose itches, someone is talking about you.</p>
<p>Well, I was talking about you today. I am working on what is next for me career wise with a life coach-in-training and there are some things I would like to do but have some fear&#8230;which I am working on. </p>
<p>She asked who I admired and why. </p>
<p>I said, &#8220;Chicken John because he&#8217;s fearless. It&#8217;s like no one ever told him &#8216;no, you can&#8217;t do that&#8217;.&#8221; She finished, &#8220;And do you think he&#8217;d care if someone did?&#8221; We laughed and agreed that you would not in fact care if someone did.</p>
<p>I said, &#8220;If Chicken can run for mayor, I can open a store!&#8221;</p>
<p>This was written by Rusty:   <a href="mailto:blazenhoff@yahoo.com">blazenhoff@yahoo.com</a></p>
<p>There is someone I havn&#8217;t spoke to in years who is on the opposite side of your opinion of me. And unlike you, she doesn&#8217;t mind having her email next to her opinion. My intention is to inspire dialog. So that you&#8217;re saying you piece is what is supposed to happen. Then others can respond. As long as it stays civil, I&#8217;ll be happy to talk. </p>
<p>chicken john</p>
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		<title>By: WALT!</title>
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		<dc:creator>WALT!</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Aug 2007 21:35:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>This is why I love SF. It&#039;s the only place where someone from the arts community can run for mayor on an arts platform and be admonished for bringing the wrong attention to the arts! What is it, a High Brow vs. Low Brow sort of thing???

Anyway,  how can someone not in SF ( like myself in LA) send funds or contribute to Chicken?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This is why I love SF. It&#8217;s the only place where someone from the arts community can run for mayor on an arts platform and be admonished for bringing the wrong attention to the arts! What is it, a High Brow vs. Low Brow sort of thing???</p>
<p>Anyway,  how can someone not in SF ( like myself in LA) send funds or contribute to Chicken?</p>
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		<title>By: Eddie Codel</title>
		<link>http://laughingsquid.com/matching-funds-for-chicken-johns-mayoral-campaign/comment-page-1/#comment-272916</link>
		<dc:creator>Eddie Codel</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Aug 2007 08:27:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Marketa: You make a lot of accusations, but I have yet to see you provide ONE THING to back any of it up. How is Chicken a crook? How is creating spectacles and promoting tons of other unknown underground artists not helping the art scene?  How is Chicken manipulative, unethical, unscrupulous and self-interested to a fault? What is this axe that you grind? Is it a one-handed jobbie or do you need both hands to hold it steady against the grinder? Seriously, I&#039;m curious. Convince me.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Marketa: You make a lot of accusations, but I have yet to see you provide ONE THING to back any of it up. How is Chicken a crook? How is creating spectacles and promoting tons of other unknown underground artists not helping the art scene?  How is Chicken manipulative, unethical, unscrupulous and self-interested to a fault? What is this axe that you grind? Is it a one-handed jobbie or do you need both hands to hold it steady against the grinder? Seriously, I&#8217;m curious. Convince me.</p>
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		<title>By: Marketa Belonoha</title>
		<link>http://laughingsquid.com/matching-funds-for-chicken-johns-mayoral-campaign/comment-page-1/#comment-272777</link>
		<dc:creator>Marketa Belonoha</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Aug 2007 02:52:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>This is utterly shameful. Chicken John has gone way too far this time. This isn&#039;t clever, cute or funny, and it&#039;s a mark of everything that&#039;s wrong with the people in the underground scene here that anyone is actually supporting him.

Question: Which is the best way to support the arts:
1.) Encourage people to donate to arts organizations
2.) Encourage people to donate to a blowhard promoter with a reputation for deceit who pays frequent lip-service to art and never supports anything that he doesn&#039;t stand to gain from

Scott, I know you&#039;re friends with Chicken John, but you should be using that to talk some sense into him, not supporting him in this self-aggrandizing, attention-seeking bullshit. I expect this sort of thing out of him, but all you ordinarily sensible people who are helping him in this should be ashamed of yourselves. 

John has time and again shown himself to be manipulative, unethical, unscrupulous and self-interested to a fault. Maybe one or two of you out there ought to consider not putting him on a pedestal for it. This &quot;Mayor&quot; thing started as one of the most annoying things he&#039;s ever done, and is becoming the most unethical. He&#039;s collecting tens of thousands of dollars, and trying to get $150,000 of taxpayer money, while privately telling people &quot;I&#039;ve got all this mayor money and it&#039;s kinda burning a hole in my pocket. I can&#039;t for the life of me figger out what to spend it on... I&#039;m all horn and no driveshaft.&quot; (See for yourself on http://www.dontvoteforchicken.com/inhisownwords.html) And you&#039;re helping him! What kills me is that you&#039;re pretending to help the arts by telling people to give money to Chicken. Where, exactly, are your priorities? 

Chicken John doesn&#039;t stand for art and he doesn&#039;t &quot;champion&quot; art. He talks alot about it. That&#039;s it, no more. He&#039;s not doing anything to promote art. He&#039;s not raising any dialog at all, he&#039;s just paying lipservices. He&#039;s just found it&#039;s a hot button issue he can make noise about to draw attention to himself yet again, and he&#039;s referring to it over and over again, yelling &quot;Art! Art! Art!&quot; and not saying anything else beyond platitudes and empty rhetoric. And you&#039;re all getting behind him like he&#039;s actually doing something other than grabbing your attention and money again.

This is just like a few years ago, when he tried to set up a new Burning Man organization - with himself at the head, of course.  Not a single person -- not a single one -- is saying, &quot;Hey, maybe chicken shouldn&#039;t be encouraged every time he has a cockamamie scheme to grab some headlines. Maybe he&#039;s gone too far with this one.&quot;

Christ, this is like that episode of &quot;Batman&quot; where the Penguin suddenly decided he was going to run for Mayor of Gotham City, and everybody forgot he&#039;s a crook and supported him, just because he suddenly started spouting a good line of BS.

I hope you and Chicken are having a good laugh about this, because that&#039;s the only good that will come of it. Chicken is going to waste a heap of other people&#039;s money, get loads of attention for himself, and never even make a ripple in the pond.

@Eddie: I like how you think Chicken John is actually doing something good. That&#039;s so cute.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This is utterly shameful. Chicken John has gone way too far this time. This isn&#8217;t clever, cute or funny, and it&#8217;s a mark of everything that&#8217;s wrong with the people in the underground scene here that anyone is actually supporting him.</p>
<p>Question: Which is the best way to support the arts:<br />
1.) Encourage people to donate to arts organizations<br />
2.) Encourage people to donate to a blowhard promoter with a reputation for deceit who pays frequent lip-service to art and never supports anything that he doesn&#8217;t stand to gain from</p>
<p>Scott, I know you&#8217;re friends with Chicken John, but you should be using that to talk some sense into him, not supporting him in this self-aggrandizing, attention-seeking bullshit. I expect this sort of thing out of him, but all you ordinarily sensible people who are helping him in this should be ashamed of yourselves. </p>
<p>John has time and again shown himself to be manipulative, unethical, unscrupulous and self-interested to a fault. Maybe one or two of you out there ought to consider not putting him on a pedestal for it. This &#8220;Mayor&#8221; thing started as one of the most annoying things he&#8217;s ever done, and is becoming the most unethical. He&#8217;s collecting tens of thousands of dollars, and trying to get $150,000 of taxpayer money, while privately telling people &#8220;I&#8217;ve got all this mayor money and it&#8217;s kinda burning a hole in my pocket. I can&#8217;t for the life of me figger out what to spend it on&#8230; I&#8217;m all horn and no driveshaft.&#8221; (See for yourself on <a href="http://www.dontvoteforchicken.com/inhisownwords.html)" rel="nofollow">http://www.dontvoteforchicken.com/inhisownwords.html)</a> And you&#8217;re helping him! What kills me is that you&#8217;re pretending to help the arts by telling people to give money to Chicken. Where, exactly, are your priorities? </p>
<p>Chicken John doesn&#8217;t stand for art and he doesn&#8217;t &#8220;champion&#8221; art. He talks alot about it. That&#8217;s it, no more. He&#8217;s not doing anything to promote art. He&#8217;s not raising any dialog at all, he&#8217;s just paying lipservices. He&#8217;s just found it&#8217;s a hot button issue he can make noise about to draw attention to himself yet again, and he&#8217;s referring to it over and over again, yelling &#8220;Art! Art! Art!&#8221; and not saying anything else beyond platitudes and empty rhetoric. And you&#8217;re all getting behind him like he&#8217;s actually doing something other than grabbing your attention and money again.</p>
<p>This is just like a few years ago, when he tried to set up a new Burning Man organization &#8211; with himself at the head, of course.  Not a single person &#8212; not a single one &#8212; is saying, &#8220;Hey, maybe chicken shouldn&#8217;t be encouraged every time he has a cockamamie scheme to grab some headlines. Maybe he&#8217;s gone too far with this one.&#8221;</p>
<p>Christ, this is like that episode of &#8220;Batman&#8221; where the Penguin suddenly decided he was going to run for Mayor of Gotham City, and everybody forgot he&#8217;s a crook and supported him, just because he suddenly started spouting a good line of BS.</p>
<p>I hope you and Chicken are having a good laugh about this, because that&#8217;s the only good that will come of it. Chicken is going to waste a heap of other people&#8217;s money, get loads of attention for himself, and never even make a ripple in the pond.</p>
<p>@Eddie: I like how you think Chicken John is actually doing something good. That&#8217;s so cute.</p>
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		<title>By: Eddie Codel</title>
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		<dc:creator>Eddie Codel</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Aug 2007 18:11:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I don&#039;t get where all this Chicken hate is coming from? What the hell has he done to merit such vitrol? Other than Josh Wolf, there is NO ONE running against Newsom who has the balls or interest in making this campaign season the least bit interesting. Do we want a boring non-existent  campaign where Gavin is rubber stamped into office for another 4 years? This is an opportunity for us to at least get Newsom to address some issues that he&#039;d otherwise ignore. That alone is worth keeping challengers in the race.

How does Chicken undermine art? What makes you think he won&#039;t debate other candidates? Are you all Newsom sock puppets? Come on, wake the fuck up and laugh a little. Laughter is cheap medicine and apparently in short supply around here.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I don&#8217;t get where all this Chicken hate is coming from? What the hell has he done to merit such vitrol? Other than Josh Wolf, there is NO ONE running against Newsom who has the balls or interest in making this campaign season the least bit interesting. Do we want a boring non-existent  campaign where Gavin is rubber stamped into office for another 4 years? This is an opportunity for us to at least get Newsom to address some issues that he&#8217;d otherwise ignore. That alone is worth keeping challengers in the race.</p>
<p>How does Chicken undermine art? What makes you think he won&#8217;t debate other candidates? Are you all Newsom sock puppets? Come on, wake the fuck up and laugh a little. Laughter is cheap medicine and apparently in short supply around here.</p>
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		<title>By: taxpayerslim</title>
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		<dc:creator>taxpayerslim</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Aug 2007 06:13:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>and if this comment didn&#039;t get printed it means that laughing squid is chicken too...chicken of any real debate, it&#039;s all about fascism of the left and bullshit!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>and if this comment didn&#8217;t get printed it means that laughing squid is chicken too&#8230;chicken of any real debate, it&#8217;s all about fascism of the left and bullshit!</p>
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		<title>By: taxpayerslim</title>
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		<dc:creator>taxpayerslim</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Aug 2007 06:12:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>ok so I get it....we the taxpayers owe this guy a living and money because why? he is a big mouth who loves to hear his own voice, and yet is too much of a chickenshit to attend the candidate&#039;s collaborative debates and have to justify his campaign to others.

yeah I get it....chickenpecker is better than the rest of us. he doesn&#039;t need to talk to average citizens or debate others...he just has to talk and talk and talk and take and take and take...JUST like gavin newsom...a blowhard who talks and takes and doesnot give.

great job. this is why people hate burning man, hate hipsters and hate your bullshit!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>ok so I get it&#8230;.we the taxpayers owe this guy a living and money because why? he is a big mouth who loves to hear his own voice, and yet is too much of a chickenshit to attend the candidate&#8217;s collaborative debates and have to justify his campaign to others.</p>
<p>yeah I get it&#8230;.chickenpecker is better than the rest of us. he doesn&#8217;t need to talk to average citizens or debate others&#8230;he just has to talk and talk and talk and take and take and take&#8230;JUST like gavin newsom&#8230;a blowhard who talks and takes and doesnot give.</p>
<p>great job. this is why people hate burning man, hate hipsters and hate your bullshit!</p>
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		<dc:creator>Stop Encouraging Chicken John!</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Aug 2007 05:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] Laughing Squid has shamefully undermined the SF Art scene once again by supporting John Rinaldi&#8217;s attempts to divert money to [...]</description>
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