Political consultant Jack Davis and Public Defender Jeff Adachi met earlier today to discuss Adachi's mayoral campaign.
By Luke Thomas
September 13, 2011
Mayoral contenders be forewarned: Public Defender Jeff Adachi today added a nitro-boost to his mayoral prospects with the addition of strategist and political hit man, Jack Davis, to his campaign advisory staff.
“When I got into the mayor’s race, I needed a strategist who was not only the best, but someone I could trust,” Adachi told FCJ. “So I called Jack, who I’ve known for 15 years, and asked him whether he would help me, and he agreed to serve on my kitchen cabinet and even offered to donate his services to our campaign.”
Davis, 64, who was instrumental in Adachi’s campaign for Public Defender in 2002, is a win at all costs consultant credited with orchestrating former Mayor Willie Brown’s election and re-election to Room 200 in 1995 and 1999; Sheriff Michael Hennessey’s election in 1979; Quentin Kopp’s defeat of Democrat Lou Papan for State Senate in 1986; Frank Jordon’s defeat of incumbent Mayor Art Agnos in 1991; as well as winning voter approval for a new Giants ballpark in 1996 and Candlestick Park in 1997.
He is also famously known for throwing x-rated birthday parties.
Equally feared and loathed, Davis is expected to chip away at interim Mayor Ed Lee’s poll numbers, currently hovering around 30 percent, while crafting a winning Adachi campaign strategy. Davis is also a close friend of political journalist Warren Hinckle, who has at least two open bets on Adachi winning the mayor’s race.
Davis is expected to attend Adachi’s official campaign kickoff party on Friday, September 16, at the Verdi Club, 2424 Mariposa, from 6-9pm, featuring 70s retro-funk virtuosos Funk-Shun and succulent sushi skillfully prepared by Adachi’s mum.
Luke Thomas
Luke Thomas is a former software developer and computer consultant who proudly hails from London, England. In 2001, Thomas took a yearlong sabbatical to travel and develop a photographic portfolio. Upon his return to the US, Thomas studied photojournalism to pursue a career in journalism. In 2004, Thomas worked for several neighborhood newspapers in San Francisco before accepting a partnership agreement with the SanFranciscoSentinel.com, a news website formerly covering local, state and national politics. In September 2006, Thomas launched FogCityJournal.com. The BBC, CNN, ABC, NBC, CBS, Fox News, New York Times, Der Spiegel, San Francisco Chronicle, San Francisco Magazine, 7x7, San Francisco Examiner, San Francisco Bay Guardian and the San Francisco Weekly, among other publications and news outlets, have published his work. Thomas is a member of the Freelance Unit of the Pacific Media Workers Guild, TNG-CWA Local 39521 and is a member of the Society of Professional Journalists.
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