One of my most prized possessions was some venomous hate mail I received from Willie Brown’s office during his tenure as mayor of San Francisco. I wrote a rather pointed column skewering him for going back on his promise to push though a county golf course in the San Mateo foothills.
It was the city’s legal obligation dating back to 1966 and the enviro-wackos (with cooperation from the SFPUC) had successfully blocked it using every possible phony excuse for decades. The last straw was when Willie slithered in to pick up a donation check for an event called The Mayor’s Cup at Crystal Springs.
Willie grabbed the microphone and made all sorts of bullshit promises to a room overwhelmingly full of elderly local public golfers. Our former esteemed carpetbagger, hustler crook later took a 10 million dollar “donation" from a billionaire with property adjacent to the site for construction of an “environmental center.”
Well, the 10 million evaporated, no center was ever built and there is still no golf course. My column alluded to the suggestion the mayor had rammed a golf club into the rectum of those betrayed by his empty promises - and for some odd reason he took exception to my assertions.
One of his aides called my boss, the managing editor, and demanded I be fired immediately. Sadly, my boss was a public golfer too.
