SF Supervisor Avalos Consults Ouija Board For Harvey Milk Navy Ship Vote

[Freddie Stubbs]

Source: CBS San Francisco

SAN FRANCISCO (CBS/AP) — A San Francisco supervisor said he consulted a Ouija board before city leaders voted on whether to recommend naming a Navy ship after slain gay rights activist Harvey Milk.

Supervisor John Avalos told the San Francisco Chronicle that he believes he made contact with Milk’s spirit and that Milk spelled out letters indicating: “Good riddance to don’t ask, don’t tell.”

The Board of Supervisors approved the non-binding resolution Tuesday on a 9-2 vote.

Milk was a city supervisor and former naval officer. He was fatally shot in 1978 by Dan White.

Read more: http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2012/05/23/sf-avalos-consults-ouija-board-for-harvey-milk-navy-ship-vote/

[Liberal Veteran]

1. I don't even....what?

I'm not sure how to process this.

[arcane1]

2. Well, as a citizen of SF, that's freakin' embarassing

We already have too much kooky in this town.

[msanthrope]

3. "P-U-T-D-O-W-N-T-H-E-B-O-N-G" nt

[Kingofalldems]

4. Search the internet, find bad news about Democrats.

Post it here. Repeat.

[Freddie Stubbs]

5. Bad news? The vote was 9-2 in favor of recommending naming a ship after Milk

[Kingofalldems]

7. Disingenuous, not what the headlines are about

and you know it. Post was about a Democrat and a ouija board. Not fooled.

[4th law of robotics]

6. He's dead, he can't legally vote

I suppose it's ok in general for him to be kept on the payroll as a consulting ghost but this seems like a conflict of interest.

[tanyev]

8. Ridiculous.

Everyone knows the Magic 8 ball is much more reliable.

[radhika]

9. Simply the Alt equivalent of routine Fundamentalist babble...

Christian mega churches create empires by pumping much more bizarre claims and molding minds. Not to mention the vast wealth and kinkiness of the Vatican.

A OUIJA board is a much cheaper way to get higher guidance. And Milton Bradley never had an Inquisition, far as I know.

[sakabatou]

10. Dafuq did I just read?

[alp227]

11. Avalos has stood up for immigrant community in his SF district,

but unfortunately this Ouija thing is going to stain his legacy (among the rational thinkers in SF at least). Eww.

[provis99]

12. no different I guess than the way that fundamentalists operate.

actually, I think Avalos was deliberately mocking how fundamentalist claim to get their guidance from god.

[Odin2005]

13. We have anti-rational idiots on our side, too.

Ours just call themselves "New Age" or similar nonsense.