-Caveat Lector- WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- S.F. Mayor Says the Florida Battle's 'Over,' and Gore Lost Phil Matier, Andrew Ross, Chronicle Staff Writers Monday, November 20, 2000 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- San Francisco -- "It's over. Finished." That's the way the ever-candid San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown summed up fellow Democrat Al Gore's chances of winning the presidential recount in Florida yesterday. "That wasn't the case four days ago. Back then he was winning the public relations battle, but no more," Brown said. The mayor's assessment was based, not on public relations, but on Texas Governor George W. Bush's 930-vote lead in the Florida recount. "You can't make up that kind of difference. For Gore to overcome numbers like that, the rest of the votes are going to have to break his way by a margin of 3 to 4 to one -- and that's just not going to happen," Brown said. "He should wait out the count and then concede," without any further challenges, Brown said. "George Bush is going to be the next president, and he's going to regret he ever won," Brown predicted. "Just as Al Gore would have regretted having won." How does the Mayor figure that? "In the last few days, the awe has gone out of the office. People just don't care anymore who is president." Brown -- who two weeks ago described the Gore-Bush race as a choice between "the insufferable and the incompetent" said, "It's going to be like Italy -- there's a government in Italy but no one who lives there cares who it is." Brown's assessment -- at least the numbers part -- wasn't shared by Henry Brady, a UC political science professor and statistician who just returned from Florida where he'd been called as an expert witness in some of the voter lawsuits. "It's just too early to tell. It all depends on what ballots they decide to include in the final count," Brady told us yesterday. Brown and Brady do agree on one point: Had the disputed ballots from Palm Beach been included, Gore would have won hands down. As it stands, however, Brady says, "There's just not enough data to make a call." "It might come down to whether or not they count the 'dimpled' ballots," Brady said. "In fact I'm even thinking of calling my next book, "Democracy in Dimples." Or maybe just Dimple Democracy. IN THE RED ZONE: Make no mistake, the new owners of the 49ers don't need an entourage -- as evidenced Friday night when we ran across Denise DeBartolo York and her husband, John York, dining quietly at a corner table at South of Market's intimate Fringale Restaurant. The couple flew in from Youngstown for the weekend to cheer on their 49ers against the visiting Atlanta Falcons. And while some may question whether Denise will ever have the passion for football exhibited by her brother Eddie DeBartolo, there's little doubting her determination -- and that of her husband -- to put the 49ers back on top. Maybe even to get a new stadium. Denise says she didn't ask for the job -- and she's uncomfortable in the limelight -- but she wants to get it right as a matter of "family pride" and responsibility. But York says he does have a "bone to pick" with us. He didn't like the way our interview with him a couple of months back turned out. "You made me look stupid," York said bluntly. And he may have a point -- in no small part to a headline that read: "Paucity of Nuggets in Sit-Down with 49ers' Team Head." The truth is, we had pressed York for an interview that, in hindsight, turned out to be a bit premature -- because soon after, they hired businessman Peter Harris as the team's new chief executive and apparently got rolling in earnest on exploring plans for a new stadium. And from the way they were talking the other night, they definitely plan to leave their mark on S.F. ON THE MONEY: Former Examiner Publisher Tim White may have walked the plank --but from what we hear, he landed on Cloud 9. There was a $10 million figure floating around, but a reliable source tells us the Hearst Corp. actually agreed to pay White $6 million in "walk away" money last week to clear the decks for the Arizona Republic's John Oppedahl to become publisher of Hearst's newly acquired San Francisco Chronicle. You may recall that White ran into trouble here last May when he testified during the Clint Reilly antitrust trial that he offered to "horse trade" favorable editorials in return for Mayor Brown's not opposing the Chronicle sale to Hearst. The embarrassing flap prompted Hearst to order an independent review of the allegations, and a final report issued last week by a retired federal judge found there was no evidence of horse trading and dismissed White's testimony as "inexplicable." That viewpoint was not shared by Bill Kovach, the respected former editor of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, who said "greater deference" should have been given to White's testimony. In any event, White's credibility took a big hit -- but certainly not his pocketbook. "White is so elated, he doesn't know what he's going to do," says a confidant. "He might even get back on the stand, and say it one more time." *COPYRIGHT NOTICE** In accordance with Title 17 U. S. C. 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