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11/23/09
11/23/09
Their slogan: We're totlly clueless but look great on TV.
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Our own Dear Mayor jets off to his houses in the Carribean and London for days at a time every month, fiercely tells reporters his 4 day weekends are none of the press's business. There's no story here, and I look forward to the next SF mayor where the bitching will begin all over again, whomever it is.
11/23/09
11/23/09
I don't know what ill will people from SF do (or don't) harbor for Newsom, but I gotta say, I feel sorry for him after seeing this. The interviewer clearly knew he was digging for something beyond the public interest here. And I think it's a savvy move on Newsom's part. Give the media blueballs and then get all the empty questions out of the way in a single interview, instead of answering inane questions about "how it feels to lose" for months. As awkward as it might seem, he probably "won" this moment, because it turns out there's nothing particularly suspicious about his absence (or even "absent" about his absence, really), and he's made it clear that he won't deal with any more questions about it.
11/23/09
So why would the press latch on to this non-story? I don't know the details, but it seems like a great way to get Newsom's attention (and let him know we are certainly paying attention to him).
It might not mean much to someone who doesn't live in SF, but there's zero leadership right now.
11/23/09
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"Repeat after me. Feel your follicles. Feel your fibers. You are your hair and your hair is you. Now repeat once again. Feel your follicles..."
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11/02/09
As "guy with political views that match mine," Newsom does pretty well with this crowd, as evinced by comments here.
As "effective mayor," Newsom is terrible. But people manage to confuse this point with the previous two often enough to keep his cheerleading club going. #gavinnewsom
10/31/09
10/31/09
He lost his seat on the budget committee because he kept throwing temper tantrums. And by temper tantrums I mean interrupting other Board members, screaming fuck, punching other board members and having to be physically restrained.
He moved his family out of the city because the schools suck and housing is unaffordable - this after spending the better part of the decade railing against turning Skid Row (abandoned warehouses) into actual housing.
Oh and the San Francisco neighborhood described in the post Tate keeps linking to - the one with all of the needles and crack pipes and bottles and piss? That's the Tenderloin, the district represented by one Chris Daly. #gavinnewsom
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