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• Yeah, well, I told them so. I told them so about a year before any of this shit happened. This isn't hindsight on their part. it's an admission that they blew it. They should have challenged the petitions (many of which were collected under false pretenses) that got the thing on the ballot. They should not have hired a Republican consultant to run an electoral campaign in an overwhelmingly Democratic, pro-labor, pro-regulation city. They should not have had company heads do the talking, emphasizing economic issues that mean zip to a city this size. They should have put performers out front first and emphasized their confidence in the existing system and their personal rejection of this infringement on their freedom to work as they choose in unique environment. Once they fucked up by failing to block the measure from getting on the ballot, they should have stayed away from idiotic right-wing arguments about the impact on business (like anyone gives a rat's ass whether or not porn producers lose money) and concentrated on the health and liberty of performers.

  And above all they should have prevented AHF from destroying AIM, which was our best protection not only from STDs but also from meddling, grandstanding assholes. And they can't say they weren't warned because I personally warned the FSC folks that AIM would be shut down within six months and AHF would come after everybody the minute AIM was done. The big shots who became so highly visible after the fact did not lift a finger to prevent this needless catastrophe.

  So now they admit that "mistakes were made." Great. Swell. I feel so much better now. The question is, will they start doing things right now that they've admitted they were doing them wrong before. We'll see.