SFist: We Also Know California Must Do Better

cablecarsam

Sun, 21 Dec 2008 13:55:50 -0800

Oh Gavin we're done with ya! You have made too many messes we have to clean up and that photo shows your TRUE sexual orientation. See ya on a float down Castro next year. P.S The food at Balboa is nasty!

wsanders

Sat, 20 Dec 2008 10:43:16 -0800

I live out in the 'burbs. Who is this guy you're talking about? Wasn't he the guy in all those Yes-On-8 ads?

RobInSF

Sat, 20 Dec 2008 10:38:27 -0800

I just went to empty my spam folder in my Yahoo email account and saw the Gavin email for contributions. Apparently the spam filter is working just fine. Gavin Newsom, coming soon to a bar near you!

Greg

Fri, 19 Dec 2008 20:17:39 -0800

gavin's chances of becoming governor, like that of any mayor of san francisco is nil. his opponents should send a team of kids with camcorders to ride MUNI for a day. Then send them around town just showing all the half-done showboaty things the Mayor's made headlines, but not headway, with. then see how he tries to talk his way around the fact that he allowed illegal immigrants a free pass out of jail when they committed violent felonies (like 3x homicides) and an out of control crime problem and an abysmal record solving said homicides when he's running around the Central Valley or LA. Yeah, THAT'll work.

feedthebirds

Fri, 19 Dec 2008 17:14:58 -0800

is he enjoying the aroma of that fart or what

sfrealist

Fri, 19 Dec 2008 15:01:52 -0800

He's be a terrible governor, just as he's been a bad mayor. A good governor makes decisions about stuff, including hard decisions. The Governator's problem (ok, one of many) is he can't get a budget passed. He's not able to ram it down the GOP's throats. Gavin can't get anything done here, how could he get anything done in Sacramento? Oh, and I also second everything everone said about cutting city employee salaries, the ballet, etc. etc. etc. For a city with a huge budget problem, we sure waste a lot of money.

Brock Keeling

Fri, 19 Dec 2008 13:51:04 -0800

GrrrlPower Productions Company ha! that made my year, TAYM.

murphstahoe

Fri, 19 Dec 2008 13:27:12 -0800

If Newsom wins the Governor's seat here I would support a trade of Newsom for Blago, straight up.

HHumbert

Fri, 19 Dec 2008 13:26:06 -0800

@LisaLives: Well it is an interesting photo. That bust should be on top of an 2500 year old, aging marble statue, with an appropriately small pee-pee attached, just like any other Greek statue.

peej66

Fri, 19 Dec 2008 13:18:20 -0800

What was it that Gavin said the other night on the MSNBC lesbian show...you know what I mean...the Olberwomann progam... Something about Rick Warren and Obama... "'The politics of this are lousy for President-elect Barack Obama,' Newsom said. 'But again, he is someone that said he was going to reach across the divide and try to bring us together. And if he can do that in a way that sparks a dialogue and a substantive one at that, where we can begin to understand one another and begin to address our differences in a meaningful way, then maybe it's an opportunity.'" http://briefingroom.thehill.com/2008/12/19/newsom-calls-warren-invocation-an-opportunity/ In other words: "I'm a Democrat that wants to be Governor of CA and like Obama, I can use big words (ie: substantive and opportunity) that make it acceptable for me to suck up to bigots...especially if they help me win an election!" Hey Gav - ask your buddy Rick for some cash.

The Angry Young Man

Fri, 19 Dec 2008 12:50:55 -0800

California CAN do better - than HIM. Gavin Newsom doesn't have an ice cube's chance in hell of ever being elected governor of the Great State of California, so any donation made to his campaign is a total waste of American dollars. Now that we live in Lay Away 2.0, I'm not sure it's such a wise thing, throwing away money like that. Also, head of HRC? Don't you have to be a gay to run that particular organization? Handing the reigns over to Newsom would be like hiring on Cindy Sheman to be leader of the NAACP. He should quit politics and either become: a.) an actor like that insufferable wife of his they can use her GrrrlPower Productions Company, or whatever it's called, infused with Getty dough, to throw together a few star making vehicles for the gruesome twosome); or, b.) a layabout jetsetter wastrel on the French Riviera, perpetually recovering from hangovers, stretched out on chaise lounges out by the pool, while being waited upon by his staff of non-Anglophone, Asian women in bikinis. It's your choice, Gavin. Just make one.

xyz123

Fri, 19 Dec 2008 12:50:25 -0800

Are you f@%king kidding me? Yes we need to do more feeding the poor, sheltering the homeless, funding for our schools but give money to Newsom for Governor? Hell No!

KatyG

Fri, 19 Dec 2008 12:44:47 -0800

Personally touched? Like he was when he realized that there is a place called Third Street in this town? Anyone else remember how he dragged the Chron and a bunch of department heads down to the lower east side of SF and blathered about how things were gonna change? These freaky coke-fueled binges of energy have to stop.

DJBurrito

Fri, 19 Dec 2008 12:35:38 -0800

Ask the Getty's,Farese's, Abbasi's and Danielle Steel for that kind of cash.

LisaLives

Fri, 19 Dec 2008 12:26:25 -0800

I'm mesmerized by that photo.

Brock Keeling

Fri, 19 Dec 2008 12:19:31 -0800

you raise a good point, plumby. for a city hellbent on coming across as leftist, he might be better suited for sacramento. that is, if he had more drive for politics than the spotlight -- a sentiment that goes for more than half the board of supes too.

Belgand

Fri, 19 Dec 2008 12:19:02 -0800

Seriously, with the budget crunch we have there is no justification for any city employee earning over $100,000 a year. I'd even go so far as to say that's too much, but let's do this slowly at least. Even if it doesn't help that much it's a nice gesture. It shows that we actually care more about trying to run the damn city than pay out inflated salaries to the people who are doing such a terrible job of running it effectively.

plumpy

Fri, 19 Dec 2008 12:17:28 -0800

Would Gavin be a terrible governor? I mean, I know he sucks as a mayor and SF ought to be able to do a lot better... but the governor obviously has to be more centrist than a mayor of SF (should be). Mightn't he be a reasonable choice? I'm just thinking out loud. I'm not really sure either way. I'm definitely not giving him any money, though.

travin

Fri, 19 Dec 2008 12:10:45 -0800

Fire the campaign manager. This playbook is awkward, predictable, and tired. It's killing your campaign before it has even started.

RobInSF

Fri, 19 Dec 2008 12:08:40 -0800

Gavin Newsom & Chelsea Clinton in 2016! NOT!

GlenParker

Fri, 19 Dec 2008 12:06:45 -0800

Not one fucking nickel.

ChinaNob

Fri, 19 Dec 2008 12:03:04 -0800

I'm sorry Gavin, I know its Christmas and all, and while I would LOOOOOVE to make a donation to your exploratory committee for further Newsom aggrandizement, I think I might spend some money this year making a donation to one of those social service programs helping the sick and the poor. You know, one of those programs who's budgets you axed instead of...I don't know, telling the Symphony or the Ballet with their $500,000 a year administrators to go take a hike or maybe trimming back on the SFPD & SFFD's bloated salary packages? You know, those two city departments that account for probably 80% of the city staff that earn over $100,000 a year? So, yeah, maybe I'll just make a donation to help support agencies proving help to poor schizophrenics living on the streets instead of your fancy "Make Me Governor, dammitt!" parties.

Ciaran

Fri, 19 Dec 2008 12:02:43 -0800

I thought part of the deal of letting the rich buy their way into office is that we don't have pony up for their campaign costs.