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 wrote this long, disjointed memoir in weekly installments for the Anderson Valley Advertiser.  —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. Darrell’s Last Day
  19. Kimberly’s Big Break
  20. Kimberly and Kamala, continued
  21. The Progressive Mantle
  22. Implementing Prop 215 in San Francisco
  23. Vincent Hallinan’s Overlooked Running Mate
  24. Kayo vs. DiFi
  25. A Farm in the City
  26. Liaison to the Pot Partisans
  27. The Trial of ken Hayes and Mike Foley
  28. Supreme Hypocrisy
  29. Ferris Fain Comes up Again
  30. The Jailing of Monsignor O’Shea
  31. Parking Problems
  32. Coincidental Murders