Why don't any of you anti-Daly guys forward this stuff to us -- about the District 6 election? This week's episode: Everybody Hates Rhinos.

We're hurt that the Anyone But Dalys think our site is good enough to snidely comment on and about, but not enough to send response sock-puppet ads to! We had to find this one on the SFWall -- where we were delightedly checking to see if anyone else had responded to the thread "Why SFist and Greg Dewar Suck." Hey, Greg doesn't suck! And we'll freely admit to being "gossipy" too. Aw, come on, you love it. (However -- no, this site is not run by Matt Gonzalez. Don't you think we'd know the boundaries of District 5 if it were?)

Anyhow, so this response to Daly's sock puppet ad is entitled "Chris Daly Sock Puppet Rhino Fable." We don't really get what the rhinos are supposed to represent (the homeless? Daly supporters? Renters?), but hey, we'll watch anything with sock puppets in it!

Daly haters, the invite to send us stuff still stands! Even though you never do (sniffle). (And Daly-lovers, keep them cards and letters coming too.)

We're not calling this an "Everybody Hates Chris" post only because we're starting to think there are too many posts on the SFist front page that bear that title. This week's episode: Everybody Hates Critical Mass.

Flickr user and bike rider DainaBeth sends along her picture of Chris Daly at last week's Halloween Critical Mass ride. Here's the caption to her picture:

I actually wasn't sure at first if this was my supervisor Chris Daly or a really clever costume.

Ha! A scary Chris Daly costume for Halloween would be awesome. Here's another picture of Chris at Critical Mass (he does look like he's getting over a cold, doesn't he? Maybe a jaunty green scarf around the neck, Chris?)

And -- c'mon, Anyone But Chris candidates! Surely Pat Murphy isn't the only Rob Black supporter out there? Maybe Black's in the lead in the electoral polls, but he's getting slaughtered in the SFist submission races. We did, however, find a picture of Rob Black with Gavin Newsom, where Gavin's doing the same dance Brittanie Mountz did at the Levi's party a few weeks back. Pics after the jump, for you to compare.

Thanks for the picture, DainaBeth! Also, we love your Halloween costumes! And to everyone else -- keep sending your stuff on in.

Again -- Rob Black/Matt Drake fans, if you guys send us your YouTube clips, we'll gladly post 'em -- for the District 6 election! This week's episode: Everybody Hates Heartwarming.

We got forwarded this latest YouTube clip of Chris Daly on the campaign trail, by DiggaSlidwell. We'll let Mr./Ms. Slidwell tell it to you in his/her words:

I got sick of all the crazy hate mail bad mouthing Chris Daly, so I took my camera and followed him around last week. Check him out: he's not the monster the Chronicle and Republicans make him out to be. He's a real person who smiles and laughs and listens to people. Look at how people react to him. Inside City Hall, sometimes he has to be tough to stand up for what he believes. But outside City Hall, he's a cool, kind of dorky guy.

Dorky, for sure -- but again with the excellent music! (Can we get the .mp3?)

Special bonus: is that Matt Gonzalez in the background in the first segment? We think it is! (Extra special bonus -- ...and is Matt wearing his hair slicked back in The Gavin?) Video is 3:55.

We figure if we get called anti-Daly by the pro-Dalys, and pro-Daly by the antis, we're probably doing something right -- in the District 6 election! This week's episode: Everybody Hates Question Time -- and not just Proposition I either.

See? As promised, if you anti-Dalys send us entertaining pictures or anecdotes, we're happy to run them -- and not just as a caption contest either! ("...and can you believe it? This one's over 21!") This picture was sent to us by Pat Murphy at the Sentinel, from Rob Black's stroll down 16th Street earlier today.

Okay! Let's get to our questions! Commenter MidTurf asks whether SFist has been selectively enforcing its comment policy on pro- or anti-Daly posts. To answer that question: No, we haven't deleted anyone's comments on the District 6 election, unless they were accidental duplicates created by our Server Of Sorrows or spam. So unless Rob Black was trying to sell us a replica Rolex watch, all the commentary you've seen before should still be up. MidTurf, is the post you're looking for this one? And remember, you can always search our Daly Archives if you're looking for any one particular post too.

And our second question comes in over the email, from a person we'll call "Pro-Daly Reader." That person's question is: "Can you change the title of this column to Everybody Loves Chris?" Well, PDR, this column took its name from the TV show "Everybody Hates Chris," whose title is a parody of the TV show "Everybody Loves Raymond." So if Chris Daly changes his name to Raymond, we'll consider changing the name of the column. Hope that addresses your concerns!

Keep those questions and comments coming -- along with your pictures and anecdotes -- both pro-Daly and con-!

Picture courtesy of the SanFranciscoSentinel.com.

It's a mishmash of random news items about -- the District 6 election! This week's episode: Everybody Hates Odds And Ends.

Okay, most of these items are about Chris Daly -- because none of you Rob Black, Matt Drake, Manuel Jimenez, or anyone else supporters are sending us items. Rob Black hasn't even bothered to update his blog since August 25. Help us help you, Everybody But Chris candidates!

--Daly's bought a bunch of ginormous billboards of himself -- one pictured above, and we drove by one on Valencia and McCoppin earlier today too. The 40 foot killer supervisor!

--District Attorney Kamala Harris has endorsed Daly, while the SF Police Officers Association has endorsed Black. Law versus order.

--Dueling candidates at 16th and Mission today -- Gavin Newsom showed up with Black in tow, right around when Daly was holding his weekend rally. We're really enjoying how this picture of Newsom and Black has a gigantic green DALY behind them.

--Chris is getting over a bad cold. Echinacea, Chris! Also, all you Daly campaign volunteers, use your anti-bacterial hand sanitizers after time with the candidate.

--And finally, you know our favorite piece of music from the District 6 election? Well, Sharky Laguana from Creeper Lagoon composed it, and he was awesome enough to let us post the .mp3 for everyone's listening enjoyment. It's called "Casio Sundrops For Daly." Thanks, Sharky!

Thanks for the picture, Jerry Jarvis!

Awww, we like the SFist sports coverage, even in District 6! This week's episode: Everybody Hates Fair And Balanced.

We'll post anything that's entertaining (even if Daly calls us a "hack" later). Thus, an anti-Daly supporter going by the name "Tuckdick" sent along his old-school Star Wars negative ad, which we're posting for your viewing enjoyment! Send your Daly clips, pro and con, to us and we'll run the ones we unilaterally decide are funny.

And in keeping with the new fair and balanced, the YouTube Chris Daly sock puppet ad is after the jump. We still like the da da da one better, but that might just be for the music. Can someone tell us what that song in the background of the biking ad is? We plan to play that music in our own background all day today, as we walk around our office, pushing elevator buttons with an exasperated look in our eyes. Is it available in .mp3?

We're going to make our editor even more unhappy -- by posting about the District 6 election again! This week's episode: Everybody Hates Poll Numbers.

Our editor's asked us to tone down the District 6 coverage.... but we just can't stop! The Chron's Matier and Ross today have released numbers purporting to show that Rob Black has a 6-point lead on Chris Daly, with the numbers at 37%-31%. This contrasts with one set of numbers that showed Daly with a 10 point lead, and another set of numbers that showed Black with a 10 point lead. The spin patrol is in high gear!

Pro Rob Black camp: Chris Daly's a thug! Hooray!

Pro Chris Daly camp: What's the margin of error on this thing? The poll was done by pro-Black people. What about RCV? Daly hasn't been able to respond to the pile-on of negative ads until now.

Pro Matt Drake camp: Chris Daly fears me.

Pro Manuel Jimenez camp: No one ever pays attention to me.

What do we say? Da da da.

Time for online campaign ads -- in the District 6 Election! This week's episode: Everybody Hates YouTube.

Da da da!

There's two other Daly campaign YouTube ads up too, one called "Cat" and one called "Puppets -- Re-elect Chris Daly," described as: "The fair city of San Framelot is being neglected by the oblivious king and his inebriated queen. Chris Daly enters on his argyle dragon to save the day. A Rabble-Rabble Community Players Production." However, the puppet video's been marked "private" and requires us to accept a "friend request" (which we have not been sent) before viewing.

If you search for "Chris Daly" on YouTube, you'll also find the SFSOS's painstakingly-uploaded sound bite of Daly saying the SFPOA doesn't want to work. Everything else is by people named Rob Daly with buddies named Chris, or clips from Cagney and Lacey (where Cagney's character's name is Chris, and Lacy was played by Tyne Daly).

By an 8-3 vote, the Board of Supervisors approved a plan to establish foot patrols for eight of the city's ten police district stations. The vote was in reaction to the increased violence in the city and gun-related murders. The Board said foot patrols would go a long ways to helping fight the violence in the city while members of the Police Officers Association said that foot patrols would mean slower response times to 911 calls. We had hoped that the debate would go forward in a restrained, honest, and intelligent way as befitting such an important decision, but that didn't quite happen. So much so, it took us a day just to figure out all the incessant craziness that occurred because of the debate. Let's just say we don't think Chris Daly will be attending any POA fundraisers in the near future. Not that they'd invite him anyways.

Ha ha ha ha -- they threw Chris Daly into a swimming pool! Commenter El Greco and photographer Drew Altizer earn a sweet spot in our heart for passing along their pictures of the Tenderloin Neighborhood Development Center Pool Toss event on Tuesday. As promised, Daly wore a suit.

Pat Murphy of the Sentinel was also there with the color commentary, reporting that Daly went into the splash with his wife Sarah, for a bid of $18,500. In reading Pat's article, it sounds like Sarah ponied up the winning bid, but in Drew's pictures, it looks like the Dalys are smiling with some other folks post-dive, which makes us think the other (dry) people might have put up the cash. (We also originally thought one of those people was Alex from the Usual Suspects but now we think it's someone else entirely.)

Pat also speculates for some time about how he'd like to see some District 6 "caboose," and starts the bidding at $100 for Matt Drake's heinie. We're going to have to politely decline that offer, Pat!

More pictures, in rough time-lapse photography fashion, after the jump! Check out the rest of Drew's pictures from the event here (the Daly pictures start here, but the pictures of Lou Seal throwing the owner of the Giants in the pool are not to be missed either.) More pictures and some history behind the TNDC at Fog City Journal too (along with some pictures of the pool staff trying to find Daly's glasses after his dive).

Pic above by El Greco; all pics after the jump by Drew Altizer, except for the second, which is by El Greco. Thanks again, guys!

Chris Daly's having a party! Look at the elaborate evite he's designed, inviting Gavin Newsom to appear before the Budget and Finance Committee meeting tomorrow today [we forgot today is Wednesday!] at 1 p.m to explain why he needs extra money for the police department. "Please join me for an exciting Budget and Finance Committee meeting tomorrow to discuss your 'Violence Response' supplemental appropriation!" Ha! We bet it will be exciting.

That Cubist-y gavel graphic Daly's picked to illustrate the evite is choice -- as is the greeting line: "Dear Mayor Gavin Christopher Newsom," as if some other Gavin Newsom, whose middle name is Edward, might otherwise accidentally get this evite and show up at the meeting. "No no no, I'm Gavin Edward Newsom."

Gavin is listed as "not yet responded" (we're sure he's getting automated reminders to rsvp even as we speak), but mayoral spokesman Peter Ragone has already declined the invitation on Gavin's behalf, saying that Daly's request is a "publicity stunt." Daly responds that Newsom is ignoring the fact that the city's budget analyst has noted a number of problems with the mayor's office's request and recommended that the request be put on hold.

We also liked the drop-down menu Daly's provided for "Please select something to bring," with the options of "thoughtful violence prevention plan" and "supporting documentation for expenditures." Is Brittanie bringing the booze?

Update: Gavin's response has been changed to "decline," with the notation: Didn't bother to show up. Awwwwww, sad!

It's photo-op time in the District 6 election! This week's episode: Everybody Hates Reader Submissions.

This one's from a reader, who writes:

Why does everyone hate Chris? Because he doesn't know how to dress appropriately. Why would he wear a baseball cap and t-shirt to a debate but a suit for a bike ride?

Chris got all dressed up to celebrate his endorsement by the SF Bike Coalition, and it looks like they did a spin around downtown and South Beach after biking around the District. We're sorry Daly's rival District 6 bike advocate Manuel Jimenez wasn't there, but that's okay, he thinks our coverage of the District 6 race sucks anyways (which we're proud to say it does!).

More pictures after the jump!

One-liner and pictures courtesy of Fog City Journal's Adam Aufdencamp. Thanks, Adam!

We're begging for your help here, readers -- begging! Can someone with a digital camera PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE go to this event and send us your pictures of Chris Daly getting thrown into a swimming pool? We'll throw in some SFist swag if you do! We'd go ourselves, but admission is $125 (and we don't have a digital camera anyways).

The Tenderloin Neighborhood Development Center is sponsoring their 16th Annual Celebrity Pool Toss this Tuesday (tomorrow the 17th) from 6-10 p.m., where brave local celebrities volunteer to be tossed into the swimming pool at the Phoenix Hotel, and all the money goes to the Tenderloin Neighborhood Development Center's after-school programs. If you've got $125 to give, buy your tickets here.

Other people who've volunteered to get thrown into the pool this year include the senior VP of the Giants, the editor-in-chief of San Francisco Magazine, and the executive director of the SF Film Society -- but, dude! CHRIS DALY GETTING THROWN INTO A SWIMMING POOL!!!! Aaaaaaaaaaaaaah!!! We're so excited!!!

Picture from last year's event, of Supervisor (and current State Assembly candidate) Fiona Ma post-toss -- by none other than Drew Altizer.

Sundays in the park with the District 6 candidates! (If by "park" you mean "debates from last week," that is.) This week's episode: Everyone Hates A Photomontage.

Our readers are always the best! Thanks to everyone who's sent in pictures from the two District 6 debates! Chris, what were you wearing at this Hastings forum on Friday?

More pictures after the jump -- including one of us! Well, sort of.

Who's that man -- in the District 6 election? This week's episode: Everybody Hates A Missed Connection.

There's something so poignant about Craigslist Missed Connections -- "I saw you on the MUNI. You had a sad smile and a book about Camus. Call me?" So we're happy to say we've managed to make a match between two people trying to find each other!

The anti-Chris Daly website The Daly Show (nice title!), which features photographs of unsavory spots in District 6 that the supervisor hasn't fixed, reports the following missed encounter on its comments page, about the posting of the flyer you see to your left.

Hah! A buddy and I were putting those up last night after the debates at the library. I was taping a flyer onto a tree by the front door and 1 of Daly's toadies came up and said "you can't do that! It's illegal! It hurts the tree!" He looked like Richard Simmons and was wearing 2 green bead necklaces. I pointed out that it was no more illegal than Daly's campaign littering the district with 1000s of flyers stuck on their doors and that it wouldn't be on the tree long enough to hurt it. He tried to tear the flyer down, but his little hands were too feeble. The power of the green beads failed him! But he did manage to take a picture of the back of my head, for some nefarious purpose. Beware the Daly Gestapo! They're taking names and pulling down fliers!

Who was that Richard Simmons, two-strand green bead-wearing man? Find out after the jump!

Picture from The Daly Show blog, by Mr. Tender Nob.

Thank you, gentlemen, your time is up! This week's episode: Everybody Hates The Debate.

It was pretty crowded in the Koret Auditorium for the League of Women Voters District 6 candidates' forum -- even though we were one short of the full eight (Davy Jones was a no-show). The seven candidates were crammed all together at two tables, and due to the tyranny of alphabetical order, Rob Black and Chris Daly were forced to sit right next to each other and studiously avoid eye contact.

There was too much excellentness at this event for us to even begin to summarize it adequately! So we're doing it Best of the Bay style, after the jump.

Picture generously loaned to us by Pat Murphy of the SanFranciscoSentinel.com, photos by Stephen Dorian Miner. Thanks, Pat and Stephen! Don't launch an investigation against us, Chris!

The ink's flying -- in the District 6 election! This week's episode: Everybody Hates Op-Eds.

So many forums to express District 6 thoughts! The three candidates pictured to your right (Rob Black, Matt Drake, and Chris Daly) all have op-eds running in various local publications -- Rob (.pdf) and Chris in dueling Examiner op-eds and Matt Drake in SF Downtown.

What do they have to say? How do they compare? We've done you up one of our famous handy-dandy tables so you can see for yourself!

It keeps the post office busy -- the District 6 election! This week's episode: Everybody Hates A Spending Cap.

A few days ago (before the Great Gavin Gel Goohaha), we were minding our own business, trying to find official word on whether Kimberly Guilfoyle had her baby yet, when we got a breathless email in the ol' inbox, in all caps, that said: "ROB BLACK TO MAKE ANNOUNCEMENT ABOUT CHRIS DALY'S ILLEGAL CAMPAIGNING. Announcement at 2 p.m.!"

Well! Verrrrrry intriguing! Too bad we have a policy about not actually going to press conferences or doing anything that would make us seem like actual reporters (also: day job). So what was going on? We were dying to know -- dying! We looked at all our usual local politics sites -- nothing. We looked at Rob Black's site -- nothing.

Meanwhile, after we got home from work that day, we opened up our mailbox, hoping to find our Us Weekly, and instead, three separate "Chris Daly hates children and kicks puppies" type mailers fell out. (Why does it take so long for our Us Weekly to get to us?) We thought the District 6 campaign was supposed to stay entirely positive -- which is why we launched this column in the first place! Who wants to read boring posts about whether or not Chris Daly pushes little old ladies into traffic, or whether Rob Black gives Canadian quarters to the homeless?

What in the Dr. Carlton B. Goodlett is going on?

Only five more weeks to go until the District 6 election! This week's episode: Everybody Hates An Endorsement.

Looks like it's not just Lou Seal giving the flippers-up for District 6 candidate Rob Black! Rob just lined up the first big endorsement of the race, splashed on the front page of Monday's Examiner.

Unfortunately, the Examiner doesn't seem to have made its endorsements accessible on its webpage, but we've thoughtfully saved it as a .jpg and circled Rob Black's name for you.

Speaking of endorsements for Rob Black, there was also a minor brouhaha among the SFSOS set, when it looked like Pat Murphy of the SF Sentinel might have endorsed (gasp!) Chris Daly the other day. Settle down, folks -- after some tearful cries of betrayal, it looks like everything's sorted out. Murphy's explained it was all a rhetorical gambit and he still loves Rob. Phew!

Anyhow, Murphy's now moved on to endorsing pro-police candidate Doug Chan in the District 4 race, to preserve Gavin's gem ideas from Board of Supes vetos. Solar powered parking meters for everyone!