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I had already agreed to attend the Alice B. Toklas Pride Day breakfast when I learned that gubernatorial hopefuls Attorney General Jerry Brown and Mistermayor would be there. Obviously I was giddy. I imagined Mayor Gavin Newsom arranging to have a wheelchair available for the 71-year-old Brown “just in case,” and Brown presenting Newsom with a signed copy of “California Dreaming: The Political Odyssey of Pat and Jerry Brown.”
When the time came for the event, they were not hugging, that’s for sure, but neither man made a snide remark about the other while speechifying. Newsom even stood when the room gave Brown an ovation for his work on behalf of same-sex marriage. Brown was already standing when the room did the same for Newsom. Obviously I was disappointed at the civility and maturity the men displayed, but I remain hopeful that it won’t last.
(Here's my BFF, Beth's take on the breakfast!)
Also at the breakfast:
“I want to thank you for all your cards and letters while I was out hiking the Appalachian trail ... with Ed Jew,” San Francisco Assemblyman Tom Ammiano said to huge laughter.
And speaking of Ammiano:
He was one of two members of the state Assembly Public Safety Committee who voted against SB 484, which would have required a prescription for over-the-counter medicine that contains ephedrine and ephedrine-related products. The measure (the perils of which I wrote about last week) failed to garner four votes and is dead unless the chair of the committee, Juan Arambula, D-Fresno, decides to reconsider it.
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