The Kayo Chronicles

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Terence Hallinan —’America’s Most Progressive District Attorney’

By Fred Gardner

Terence “Kayo” Hallinan, the San Francisco District Attorney whose support was crucial to the medical marijuana movement, hired me to be his press secretary when he won a second term in 1999. After Kayo died in February, 2020, I began this long, disjointed memoir in weekly installments for the Anderson Valley Advertiser. The more marijuana-related pieces are boldfaced in the table of contents. —Fred Gardner

1. Being the Son of a Great Man Isn’t Easy
2. The Hallinans in the ’40s
3. McCarthyism, Marin, McNeil Island
4. Bar Fights
5. The Hip Lefty Lawyer
6. The Presidio Mutiny
7. Defending the Mutineers
8. Kayo vs. the Army
9. Ross Mirkarimi Remembers Kayo
10. The Pro-Pot Politician
11. Kayo and Kamala 
12. Hallinan and Proposition 215
13. Inside SFDA
14. Office Politics, continued
15. The Get Kayo Campaign
16. Baseball Crimes
17. The Case of the AIDS Deniers
18. Kimberly’s Big Break
19. Kimberly and Kamala, continued
20. The Progressive Mantle
21. Implementing Prop 215 in San Francisco
22. Vincent Hallinan’s Overlooked Running Mate
23. Kayo vs. DiFi
24. A Farm in the City
25. Liaison to the Pot Partisans
26. The Trial of Ken Hayes and Mike Foley
27. Supreme Hypocrisy
28. Ferris Fain Comes up Again
29. The Jailing of Monsignor O’Shea
30. Parking Problems
31. Coincidental Murders
32. Hijacking Kayo’s Legacy
33. Scams and the City
34. Miscellaneous Murders
35. The Ghetto Expert
36. Case Studies
37. The Singing Publicist
38. Fraud Ring