In the late nineties - 1998? - my good friend Andy Hasse wanted to get a job as a web producer for one of the San Francisco mayoral campaigns. Not a specific campaign; Andy just likes politics and he was real into the web.<p>In hopes of landing a job he registered the domains of all the candidates. Eventually someone at Clint Reily's campaign looked into how they might get a job and found Andy's contact info, so they gave him a job.<p>A few months later I howled with laughter when I found Andy named on the front page of the San Francisco Chronicle. It seems that the Alice B. Toklas Democratic Club was accusing the Reilly campaign of cybersquatting on williebrown.com.<p>No so; Andy just wanted a job. Had Willie Brown stumbled across willibrown.com before Clint Reilly found clintreilly.com, Andy would have been helping Slick Willy.<p>I offered Andy some free hosting; he put up a site let's see if the wayback machine has it... yes. There's several different versions, this one backs Tom Ammiano for mayor:<p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20000119153725/http://www.williebrown.com/" rel="nofollow">https://web.archive.org/web/20000119153725/http://www.willie...</a>
Moments after hitting this article, I was 'greeted' by the most awful, full blast, in-my-face, nausea-inducing swinging pop-up begging me to sign up i've ever seen.
Please take it down asap, thank you.