Guardian photo by Charles Russo
Chicken John Rinaldi’s quest to become the first San Francisco mayoral candidate to qualify for a grant of taxpayer money is still lumbering along like the zombies that attacked him last week, more than a month after the Aug. 28 deadline for raising $25,000 from at least 250 city residents. The Ethics Commission last night voted unanimously to allow Rinaldi one more submission of proof that those who gave to him through PayPal are city residents, overruling Ethics director John St. Croix that Rinaldi doesn’t qualify. At issue are whether to count contributions from city residents whose current addresses doesn’t match their drivers license addresses, a fairly common circumstance for the artists and techies who make up Rinaldi’s base. If the campaign can satisfy Ethics, it gets $50,000, and so its quest inches forward like the undead.