Fearing that city officials are being unfairly influenced by lobbyists during hearings, Mayor Newsom wants to ban all texting and iPhone usage in city meetings. It's likely to be an impossible task, since we live in an uber-connected age when everyone thinks the minute they shut off their phone someone they know is going to die or get trapped under a rock. But this controversy apparently heightened last week when Supervisor David Campos texted Police Commissioner Jim Hammer during a Commission hearing on Tasers and allegedly swayed his vote against Tasers. SFPD chief Gascon, for his part, is pissed and obviously got Gavin's ear.