SF Politics SFist Turns 20: The San Francisco Scandals That Made This Website What It Is As SFist celebrates its 20th anniversary, we remember the ridiculous San Francisco City Hall scandals that made us a go-to destination for salacious political gossip and mockery in our early days.
SF News Alex Tourk Resigns from Herrera's Campaign, Probably Botched Some Records on That Stow Lake Deal The Examiner reports that Alex Tourk, campaign consultant and lobbyist-about-town, resigned from Dennis Herrera's campaign for mayor today. In a statement, Tourk said Herrera should be spending more time focusing on his campaign
SF News Stow Lake Boat House Vendors Seem Confused About How Lobbying Works Back in February, the Board of Supervisors finally approved a bid from New Mexico-based Ortega Family Enterprises to take over the vending duties at the Stow Lake boat house. As San Franciscans tend
SF News Ruby Rippey-Tourk: Self-Help Scribe? KGO7's Dan Noyes has it that cocaine-and-booze-free Ruby Tourk has already written two chapters of a hopefully-soon-to-be-published self-help book, which will detail her “‘hitting rock bottom with Newsom after 20 years of alcoholism
SF News Gavin Girlfriends Update A very sincere thank you to the reader who forwarded along this picture of former Mrs. Gavin Newsom Kimberly Guilfoyle with her baby boy Ronan Anthony Villency. All together: awwwwwww! And this got
SF News Gavin in the Clear City Attorney Dennis Herrera declined to give a comment but just told everyone to check out the report. So here it is. While the report says Gavin did nothing illegal, it did go
SF News SFist Sightings We were very busy running errands dowtown this morning when we spotted a silver fox coming our way. "Damn, who that?" we said to ourselves, "Thank gawd we're wearing our cute new purple
SF News Not A Girl's Kind Of Girl Here's the full quote from the article: "I shouldn't say this, but there are two sides to every story,'' she said in an exhausted tone. "If people did research into the scandal
SF News Happy Birfday, Alex Tourk If Alex Tourk had a MySpace page, he would have moved Gavin from the #1 spot on his Top 8 after he heard about the affair, and deleted Gavin as a friend. So
SF News Irony Alert Way back when, in days of yore, Alex Tourk and Gavin Newsom were friends and worked on projects together, like San Francisco Connect. And so they decided to that in order to get
SF News News About The Mayor Hey, does anyone know what the mayor of San Francisco's up to? --M&R report that Gavin has been attending rehab sessions every day this last week -- some as individual sessions
SF News Today in <em>As the Gav Turns</em> As SFist Rita mentioned, Gavin has figured out that the best way to not have there being any sort of impropriety regarding Alex Tourk's severance using city coffers is by agreeing to pay
SF News Denial Ain't Just a River in Egypt Now, onto the juicy stuff… Apparently, a bunch of people have been telling Gavin to lay off the booze for awhile but Gavin wouldn't hear of it. Then, sometime after his fun little
SF News The Day After the Day After So you're Alex Tourk. Everything is fine and honky dorky until your wife, out of the blue, admits to having a fling with not only your boss but one of your best buddies.
Arts & Entertainment Assessor-Recorder Swearing In SFist Jim stopped by the swearing-in for San Francisco assessor-recorder (and buzzed-about mayoral possibility?) Phil Ting last night and snapped these pictures for us. Yes, that is a subdued-looking Gavin Newsom, hiding in
SF News Live Blogging the Gavin Press Conference 12:46 And, yes, folks-- he wore a blue tie. 11:38. Abbada abbadee, that's all folks. He basically apologized to everyone, said he's really sorry, will work to regain everyone's trust, wants
SF News Holy Crap!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! So earlier today, we heard that Alex Tourk resigned as Gavin's campaign manager. It was a bit curious, a bit odd, but these things happen, although whenever somebody mentions that they are leaving
