BAD, GOOD & CURIOUS GEORGES: Intriguing that defeated republican U.S. Senator George Allen — whose labeling of Virginia’s S.R. Sidrath as a “macaca” started his political death spiral — was present at Pres. George Bush’s Dec. 18 White House signing ceremony of HR 5682, the U.S.-India Peace Atomic Energy Cooperation Act.
TRUMP-ING ROSIE: Loud-mouth Rosie O’Donnell deflected criticisms about her anti-Asian expletives on ABC-TV’s The View by walloping Donald Trump over being a hypocritical “moral compass” for the Miss USA pageant. … RACIST RING AROUND THE ROSIE: The annual S.F. LGBT Pride Parade committee — largest in the nation — issues a “Pink Brick” award every June to personalities or organizations detrimental to the LGBT community cause. … Here’s a nomination — O’Donnell, praised for fighting anti-gay intolerance while mocking the Chinese language on The View. It has to go both ways.
SONG LEGACY: Although former California State Senator Alfred Song passed away in 2004, the Korean American’s legacy lives on with a stream of $6 million in the last four years coming from the Song-Brown Act of 1973 to train family practice physicians and physician assistants. Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger awarded $1.5 million for 14 programs this month.
MOUNTAIN OUT OF A MOLE ‘HILL’: San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom is in 2007 anti-crime re-election mode by bolstering Police Chief Heather Fong and vetoing the latest supervisor’s foot patrol legislation. Meanwhile, the pending outcome of the David Hill court case could invite a challenger against District Attorney Kamala Harris, who is also up for re-election. Hill is accused of the 2004 slaying of officer Issac Espinoza. The liberal DA courageously took heat, especially from police officers and U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein, for refusing to apply the death penalty in the case. And again, Harris will face prosecuting another cop’s death, Officer Bryan Tuvera, 2-month spouse of officer Salina Labutan, while pursuing an escaped felon on Dec. 22.
BOARD MEMBER IN WAITING: City contract compliance officer Bayard Fong is being encouraged to run again for school board in two years after a respectable showing last November. He’s staying visible — being elected Chinese American Democratic Club vice president and heading up efforts to retain JROTC for 1,100 APA students in the schools, plus push for a student assignment policy that doesn’t discriminate against Chinese Americans. CADC’s backing of Fong is also a message to incumbent school board members Eric Mar (also speculated 2008 District 1 supervisor candidate) and board president Norman Yee that CADC is watching those issues.
CALENDAR GALS: Supervisor Ed Jew’s wife Lorene jokingly stayed anonymous by answering to her maiden name of Chan at a recent CADC meeting inside Chinese for Affirmative Action’s conference room. She and daughter Cammie were handing out 2007 Ed Jew calendars. … BUT IT’S SPILLED WONG: However, the calendar has one boo-boo — the month of February was spelled “Febuary.”