I had a very surreal experience today. I was at a meetup of local political bloggers when two women, dressed in matching trench coats, glasses, and wigs approached Dean from GavinSucks.com. Confirming that it was him, they proceeded to berate him for criticizing the mayor, and then doused him with a beer and a glass of wine. The rest of us could only sit there, stunned, shocked at the surrealism of it all.


Since they are bloggers (they write for The Mayor & the Hair) they got the video up on YouTube before Dean’s shirt was even dry. Unfortunately, they totally blew the money shot, so there’s only a vertigo-inducing flailing camera rather than actual footage of Dean getting doused.

Blogswarm covered it on Calitics, and as he says,

The bloggers at the table were shocked. It was the most brazen link whoring publicity stunt I’ve ever seen online and probably solidified the netroots opposition to Newsom serving four more years as a lame duck mayor.
I’d never heard of them before, so I suppose their publicity stunt is working despite the terrible camerawork, but I’d hope they’d have found a more constructive outlet. I guess when you’re trying to talk up Gavin, and hyou’ve already mentioned the hair, you’ve got nothing left but to start throwing beer. Props on the matching outfits, though.