With Gavin caught up in a tough re-election campaign against...ummm...well...huh.... he's started playing up his street people street cred. Recently, he announced a plan to deal with all the vagrants caught doing vagrant-like by sending out "Homeless Outreach Teams" to deal with it. The teams consist of police officers and social services and when they catch somebody doing something unpleasant, they're supposed to give them a choice between going into outreach services or being issued a citation, which as far as we can tell, is the handing out of giant frowny faces that will be put on a giant white board in the local police station. The program will be focused on targeted areas around Union Square and SOMA, read, tourist traps. Apparently, tourists don't appreciate seeing people defecate in the streets while riding the Cable Cars and eating soup in a sourdough roll-- kinda gives new meaning to the phrase "San Francisco Treat." Gavin has been putting putting some of these policies into effect lately but is now making a bigger deal out of it.

This, of course, was accompanied by a big press conference on Wednesday detailing all of Gavin's success so far on the homeless issue, mainly on how well Care Not Cash has been working so far. To take away some of his thunder, homeless advocates had a dueling press conference where they attacked the Mayor for how well Care Not Cash has been working so far. Piling on was Chris Daly who leaked the memo on Gavin's new plans and used it as a way of attack Gavin’s emphasis on citations over housing.

Photo of Gavin trying to figure out where the ultimate Frisbee game is from the Examiner