Word: barbagelata
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Conservatives criticized her for leaving the current administration of Art Agnos with a "shortfall" of $140 million in the 1988-89 budget and for catering to minorities, especially the increasingly powerful gay community. "As a supervisor, all she could think of was tax, tax, tax," snaps retired realtor John Barbagelata, who had been her longtime Republican archenemy on the board of supervisors. "And as mayor, she was ambitious, selfish, expedient and hypocritical...
...when all else fails, there is always her abiding ability to disarm friend and foe alike. On the evening of Agnos' inauguration as current mayor, Barbagelata and his wife Angela were having dinner with a group of friends at Trader Vic's, off Taylor Street, when they saw the tall figures of Feinstein and her husband saunter into the restaurant. Feinstein immediately came over, threw out her arms and said, grinning, "C'mon, John, you ole curmudgeon, give me a kiss!" Barbagelata complied. "What could I do?" he says ruefully. "She's a charmer...