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Newsom Slams Local Blog For Creating "False Controversy"
False controversy of the day: Gavin Newsom's car parked in front of The Gold Club. (credit: Jim Herd/SFCitizen)
The sweet scriubes over at Streetsblog posted a might fine article on how San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom, allegedly, "has been quietly pressuring MTA Chief Nat Ford to delay or prevent proposals to extend parking meter hours on weeknights and Sundays, despite a looming mid-year MTA budget deficit and studies that show it's good policy."
Not so, according to SF Examiner, who said that Newsom denied pressuring Ford to stop extending meter hours.
"We balanced a budget with Muni without extending the parking meters from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m.,” he declared, adding that Streetsblog was simply creating a "false controversy."
Newsom then accused Streesblog of being wrong, dead wrong. Making himself perfectly clear, Newsom said, "That’s just factually incorrect," he said Friday following a press conference, going on to say, "Though blogs often are."
Oh snap. Which: true. Blogs often are wrong; we can attest to that, for sure. But that's why God invented strikethru HTML code. Keeping that in mind, can you guess who else if often wrong? We'll give you you a hint: he has a freshly-sprung daughter named after a U.S. state.
Newsom goes on to point out that he is "against extending meters due to the economy and added burden on merchants." So, what does all of this mean in the end? It means cuts and fare increases will, most likely, fall on the already burdened shoulders of Muni riders. Quality of life, indeed.
Streetsblog, for the record, stands by their article.
Update: Streetsblog just posted an update on the brouhaha. Matier & Ross have also written about Newsom's pressuring of MTA officials. We have to wonder, will he call M&R liars, too?