http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2006/01/30/MNGO7GVLJO1.DTLBill O'Reilly hasn't suggested blowing up Assemblyman Mark Leno like he did Coit Tower -- at least not yet.
A partisan brawl in Sacramento over cracking down on sex offenders has spawned a conservative attack, notable for its vitriol, on the San Francisco lawmaker.
Leno, author of an alternative to a "Jessica's Law" ballot initiative backed by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, has been called a danger to society and a friend of child pornography during the past week. It was also suggested in a political newsletter that he may be brain damaged after inhaling all of that secondhand marijuana smoke wafting through the streets of his hometown.
"Don't let Leno and his San Francisco friends ruin our children,'' wrote Steve Frank, who disseminated the rightward-leaning memo, as he urged his readers to write letters to the editor and call talk shows to oppose Leno's legislation.