Mark Simon

For more than 40 years, it has been a joy and a privilege to write about politics for local newspapers. I got the bug — for both writing and politics — from my mother, Barbara, who was a campaign operative throughout my childhood. One of my lasting memories is coming home from school in the fourth grade and walking into a candidate’s coffee in my front room.

The candidate was Leo Ryan. He was running for the state Assembly the first time. He was intent on breaking the Republican stranglehold on San Mateo County, and also defying the power brokers of San Francisco, who regarded this county as though it were a colony of the big city. 

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JustMike650

Christopher Conway said:

What ledge there Mikey?

CC, I once knew a Claire Conway.

Terence Y

Another day, another writer who tries to excuse the death and destruction wrought by BLM goons, but for whatever reason, doesn’t discuss Antifa goons, or the left wingnuts who stormed the Capitol during the Kavanaugh hearings. It is amusing Mr. Simon talks about courage, yet he himself doesn’t have the courage to speak against BLM.

Cindy Cornell

On January 6th, I shuddered, thinking of how Congresswoman Speier may be feeling as she hid in the Capitol building hearing shots and screaming, echoes of herself being shot along with Congressman Ryan and others on the tarmac in Guyana. She has tremendous courage and fortitude and I hope she can find some sense of safety and security after the outrage in Washington.

willallen

"And there are those, even in these pages, who want to equate what happened last week at the U.S. Capitol with the violence and vandalism that marred the largely peaceful and broad-based protests associated with the Black Lives Matter .movement. "

Can't compare. The Capitol gives it a new dimension. However, don't use that as an argument to diminish the BLM looting and vandalism. It set the stage for more violence.

Christopher Conway

Mr. Simon, you are a partisan wimp that has done nothing for our community. What gives you a voice to comment is beyond me. Those of us who love our president will stick behind him no matter how many half-pints like yourself give us an opinion that is worthless. Trump and his supporters are going nowhere and they are right here on the peninsula. Get back up to your taxpayer funded gym on the top of hill with all your swell friends in the local Democrat scene.

Tafhdyd

Christopher,

I see you still haven't found a mirror.

JustMike650

Taf, he's sharing it with Patty Henry.

Mark Simon

Have we met?

JustMike650

Mark, Patrick Henry aka former poster Chris Conway is dis unhappy human being and it is furthermore a badge of honor for you to have pushed him off the ledge.

Mark Simon

Yes. But when someone calls me a wimp, I’d think it might be more relevant if he’s actually met me and can make a proper judgment.

Christopher Conway

What ledge there Mikey?

JustMike650

CC, we both went to Serra, you, me, Gary (RIP) Mac and we all had to memorize MLK's speech and I am sure you know it by heart and this portion deserves our and your undivided attention.

I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: “We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal.”

I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.

I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a state sweltering with the heat of injustice, sweltering with the heat of oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice.

I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.

Christopher Conway

Love the good Reverend. My only hope was that he brought more Black Americans over to the Republican Party in which Dr. King was a member. The Black community in the United States would be in a much better place if African Americans voted Republican instead of their slave masters in the Democrat Party, the party that literally held them in chains.

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