What I'm trying to say is, that's fucking stupid.

doing nothing?

other??

Is Newsom the most boring, meddling U.S. mayor of all time?

Yep! I think 'nothing' will do just fine.

i repeat: D-U-M-B. waste of time, waste of taxpayer's money, more fucking stupid beaurocratic bullshit for people to go through just to throw a fucking party at a club. which is to say, this law will probably take effect next week. this is san francisco after all.

it all comes back down to the existence of some clubs that attract violent types. how do you deal with them? hold the club accountable for actions outside? or forbid loitering?

a better solution is needed.

It's GAY CULTURE, damnit!

...this part of the SF legislation is brilliant and we could really use it here:

The legislation also would require promoters who hold two or more events at nightclubs within any given year to obtain a permit.

As it is now, the mayor said, "fly-by-night" promoters come and go without anybody keeping track of them. Permits would enable the Police Department and other city agencies to know who is responsible for an event in the case of a security breach or health violation.

That at least shows Mayor Gavin's office has a better understanding of the important minutia concerning how the nightclub industry actually operates than Nickels' office has ever demonstrated.

i'm not sure who these fly by night promoters are or where they throw their parties, but this is not "the problem" and has nothing to do with people getting shot outside bars and clubs. forcing promoters to get a permit is a really, really lame idea.

I work in the industry and I've been a promoter. Dealing with the city here is really no big deal. There's no excuse for a promoter to not have their business license & paperwork in order. It's a very, very low hoop to jump through.

The problem here is not that promoters are "fly by night", it's that crowds often follow a promoter, rather than just patronize a specific club.

A promoter with a "troublesome" draw, might do nights at several different clubs. If a shooting takes place outside of one club, the promoter just moves his night to another club. All eyes remain on the former club and their future often ends up in doubt. (Tabella, Sugar, Baltic, etc.)

Meanwhile the promoter has slipped away sideways -- under the press and police's radar -- to a new club, bringing their violence-happy crowd (and all their bar moneys -- let's be honest here!) to the new club.

And the cycle starts all over again unabated.

A simple $20-a-year license -- with a requirement to file a notification to the Department of Revenue and Consumer Affairs of all ongoing events the promoter is promoting -- would do the trick. All the licensing needs to do is require reporting; providing a paper trail easily followed by press & police if need be.

No big whooop.

(And, additionally, the program would probably more than pay for itself by facilitating the collection of often unpaid business & admissions taxes from shifty promoters.)