Greg Dewar, SF Weekly Contributor, Leading Online Contest For Mayor

N-Judah Chronicles/Lauren Oliver -- Used with Permission

Will it be Mayor N-Judah Chronicles?

​While the supervisors drone on this afternoon about who in the hell should be the next mayor, the Twitterati has spoken. And they want N-Judah Chronicles blogger Greg Dewar.

Greg who? Greg Dewar, the local blogger on all things Muni (and who, in the interest of full disclosure, co-penned a cover feature on the transit system's failures for SF Weekly) is winning the online, highly unofficial poll at sfmayorvote.com. Too bad this is just a fake contest, because Dewar says his "painfully pragmatic" -- and, may we add, predictable -- agenda would be to reform Muni.

We wrote about mayoral election site co-created by a Berkeley grad student last week. In a wee exercise in democracy, anyone with a Twitter profile can vote on one of the given candidates or nominate their own. As of this writing, Dewar is atop the heap with 21 percent of the vote, leading over Matt Gonzalez with 18 percent. The only other non-politico who's broken the top 10 is blogger Able Dart from blog.sfwall.net.

Dewar says he nominated himself as a joke. "I didn't expect it to take off like it did," told us from, all places, the F-line riding down to the Embarcadero. That's if you can consider 47 voters "taking off."

Dewar isn't a newbie to politics; he once worked at a national direct mail firm to bombard your home with political pamphlets, and currently works as a buyer of online ads. Yet the only contests he's ever won is the "Best Local Blog" in the Guardian readers poll in 2008, and a notable third place finish in a Bay Area trivia bowl last year with Team Nutella, representing the Blackthorn Tavern in the Inner Sunset.

"If I were elected mayor, I would throw one hell of a party," he says. Oh, and about Muni policy, "It's not like we don't know what the problems and solutions are, people just aren't willing to do them. Either they're unrealistic or just don't understand it. ...We have a lot of problems that shouldn't be problems."

Kind of like selecting an interim mayor.

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