The battle of the attack ads continues.

Cover of The Real Ed Lee: The Untold, Untold Story, distributed by the Leland Yee for Mayor 2011 Campaign

If you loved "The Ed Lee Story: An Unexpected Mayor," the 132-page hagiography about the interim mayor that was released last week, you won’t want to miss this new volume put out by the Leland Yee campaign.

"The Real Ed Lee: The Untold, Untold Story" landed on the doorsteps of Bay Area voters Sunday morning. At least some of the copies arrived with a handwritten post-it note stuck on the cover with the message: “Enjoy the book! Don’t vote for Lee, 1, 2 or 3 – and a smiley face ("The Ed Lee Story" was also delivered with a post-it).

The Yee team authors go on attack quickly with the epigraph from “an ancient Chinese proverb” -- “a promise is worth a thousand ounces in gold” -- a not so subtle reference to Ed Lee’s decision to run for mayor after publically announcing he would only stay in the post on an interim basis.

The book also slams Lee and his campaign for allegedly accepting illegal campaign contributions and engaging in questionable voter registration practices, among other activities. The 56-page booklet is heavily footnoted with URLs to media reports and other documents – most of which are heavily critical of Ed Lee.

And just like The Ed Lee Story, which ends with an Ed Lee family recipe for poongaloong, a concoction of pasta, ketchup and ground beef, the Yee campaign’s book also offers something for aspiring political chefs:

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Willie & Rose’s “No Longer Secret” Make-A-Mayor Recipe

How do you make a Mayor? Here’s the “no longer secret” recipe created by Chinatown powerbroker Rose Pak and former Mayor Willie L. Brown.

Serves: 4-8 years

Ingredients

1 “dormant” political machine

980 lbs. Of powerbrokers (preferably a mix of former mayors, unregistered lobbyists, corporate hacks and Chinatown mavens)

1 Board of Supervisors President with mayoral ambitions

1 exiting mayor looking to payback his friends for years of service

1 “Promise”

2 parts flip-flopped Bevan Dufty

49 yards of wool (to cover people’s eyes)

Optional

The will of the people (“once in a while, if budget allows”)

Directions

1. VERY IMPORTANT: Mix all contents together in a back room; if any part of the mixture is exposed to sunshine it will be ruined.

2. Pour mixture into an empty vessel – any loyal bureaucrat will do. He doesn’t even need to be in the country.

3. Make a promise…and then break it. Very gently!

4. Voilá! A Mayor is made.

5. Be sure to keep your mayor on a tight leash. Do not allow them to have any open conversations with press or voters without being heavily scripted.

6. We recommend immediately hiring a posse of high-paid consultants and bodyguards to accompany your mayor at all times.

For true make-a-mayor aficionados, Rose & Willie swear that the second term is packed full of even bigger sweetheart deals!

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Given that the many of San Francisco’s mayoral candidates have plenty of unspent cash sitting in their war chests -- thanks in part to the city’s generous public campaign funding – this will probably not be the last campaign media shenanigans we see between now and Nov. 8.