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Tuesday, October 21, 2008
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Saturday, February 9, 2008
Willie Brown: Newsom's Racist
Willy Brown is “Back in Black,” pimping his new autobiography, “Basic Brown.”With all the credibility of former Major League Baseball player, Jose Conseco's Rampant 'Roids tell all book, "Juiced", Slick Willie's written attacks of his successor as mayor of San Francisco, Gavin Newsom, of racism in appointments, are biased, unbased and solely motivated by the color of money.
Today’s City Hall reflects the best and brightest faces of The City – period. On the contrary, I'd imagine a white male mayor would be tempted to leverage minority faces, whether it is sex, race or religion, for political gain.
MLK's dream is promotion by merit. Add to that equation of equality the law of averages (over time) and City Hall's portrait should bare a picture perfect pallet proportionate to its population.
Willie contends:
"When I was mayor of San Francisco I made a point to appoint as many qualified blacks as I could to city posts. Now when I walk around city hall, I see almost no black faces. When I left, blacks were ousted along with me."
I’m too far away and know too few details about any one of Newsom’s appointees to either defend his selections case by case or cast any speculation.
Yet, from where I'm sitting, looking at a City Hall's diverse complexion in the reflection staring back at me, I'd have to dissagree. There are just too many high profile minority appointees like Police Chief Heather Fong that come to mind for Willie's words to ring true; and it were, then wouldn't this be an indictment of his former administration, not Newsom's?
Confirming, Willie, not Newsom, appointed with Race in mind.
Related Articles:
- Review of "Basic Brown" by Tony Quinn, California Progress Report
- Willie's Book Tour for "Basic Brown" by SFist
Gavin Sucks Polls:
149-Decibels In The Shade
The current building boom that is taking place in SF Central City area at this very moment will add several thousands of new dwellings to the service area of Fire Station 3 -- already the busiest in the nation*.Due to the development and the practice of dispatching a fire truck and an ambulance on every medical call (near 100,000 annually), a significant increase in the already hourly around-the-clock noise from 140-decibel air horns and sirens is to be expected unless effective measures are put in place by the SF Fire Department to reduce the noise.
* source: San Francisco Fire Department -- statistics
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- Lower Polk Neighbors Unite by SFist
Sunday, January 6, 2008
Saturday, January 5, 2008
Newsom To Tie The Knot
Nope. Not the knot of his signature blue tie. Rather, he opted on getting laid in Hawaii.Yep. San Francisco’s Hello/Goodbye Mayor, Gavin Newsom, said Aloha to his girlfriend (and the ladies) when he proposed during his vacation to actress Jennifer Siebel.
It will be Siebel's first marriage and the second for Newsom, whose four-year marriage to legal analyst Kimberly Guilfoyle ended in divorce in March 2006 (Guilfoyle hosts "The Line Up" and serves as a legal analyst for FOX News).
Siebel, who lives in Los Angeles, began dating Newsom prior to his public admission to having an affair with his campaign manager's wife and a drinking problem.
A Marin County native and Stanford University graduate, Siebel, 33, currently has a recurring guest spot on the NBC police drama "Life." She also appears in the film “In the Valley of Elah” (2007), an Iraq War drama costarring Tommy Lee Jones and Charlize Theron.
In an interview published in the Nob Hill Gazette in November, Siebel was asked if she and Newsom ever discussed about what life would be like if she were married to the mayor.
"People do mention the 'first lady' thing to me and it makes me sort of shy. But yes, we've talked about it. And joked about it, too. We both care about creating a normal, balanced life that includes family."I’m thinkin’ that Newsom’s doomed to a brood of adorable little girls, like Casey at bat, ultimately breaking his heart when his daughter dates the captain of the chess team – Chris Daly’s son!
Related Articles:
- Say It Ain't So, Gavin. Say It Ain't So. by Beth Spotswood
Saturday, November 10, 2007
Wednesday, November 7, 2007
Gavin Sucks Polls
Inspired by Mayor Gavin Newsom’s Election Day Landslide we decided to test the public too. Uninspired by the incumbent Mayor’s opposition, San Francisco voters stayed home in record numbers to complete our surveys.
Click the links and Get Results.
Gavin Sucks Poll results:Vote for your favorite Gav Girl?
- Kimberly Guilfoyle Newsom?
- CSI Miami Actress Sofia Milos?
- 20-Year Old Brittanie Mountz?
- Actress Jennifer Siebel?
- Melrose Place Daphne Zuniga?
- Reality TV Star Erin Brodie?
- Cheating Ruby Rippey-Tourk?
- Socialite Paris Hilton or Smokin' Hot Cecilia M. Vega 51%?
Gavin Sucks Poll: Should we dump Chris Daly?
- Dump Daly
- Another 4-Years
Gavin Sucks Poll: Agree with Gavin's 'Citation or Services' homeless program?
- Yes, If they refuse shelter or housing, write a citation.
- No, If they refuse shelter or housing, walk away.
Gavin Sucks Poll: Vote for your favorite Gav Gaffe?
- Admits To Diapers During Long Staff Meetings.
- Dinking With Underage Girl.
- Sleeping With Best Friend & Campaign Manager’s Wife.
- Declaring Gay Porn Day.
- Performing Oral Sex On A Microphone.
- Drunk At Hospital To Visit Fallen Officer’s Family
- Meltdown During Dan Noyes Interview.
- Stood Up Gay Stalker On Valentine’s Day.
- Nixonian Dirty Tricks Like Using Phony Names Online.
- Drunk On the Woody Show, LIVE 105.
- Contributing Campaign Donations To Rival Candidate.
- City Hall Cocaine Scandal.
- Snubbed Conan O’Brien Due To Sex Scandal Jokes.
Gavin Sucks Poll: Vote for your favorite Gav Theme Song?
- Peter Bjorn and John – ‘Young Folks’ .mp3
- The Rakes - ‘The World Was a Mess But His Hair Was Perfect’ .mp3
- Franz Ferdinand – ‘Walk Away’ .mp3
- Franz Ferdinand – ‘Cheating on You’ .mp3
- Kaiser Chiefs – ‘Ruby’ .mp3
- The Kooks – ‘Sofa Song’ .mp3
- Spoon – ‘I Turn My Camera On’ .mp3
- K.R.O. – ‘Strap On Your Pampers Diapers’ .mp3
- Les Claypool – ‘Robot Chicken’ .mp3
- Amy Winehouse – ‘Rehab’ .mp3
- Fuck – ‘Diapers’ .mp3
- Hayseed Dixie – ‘My Best friend’s Girl’ .mp3
- 8-Bit – ‘Drunk’ .mp3
- Hellogoodbye – ‘Homewrecker’ .mp3
- Dee Dee Ramone – ‘Hop Around’ .mp3
- Nous Non Plus – ‘One Night In Paris’ .mp3
- Motorhead – ‘Jailbait’ .mp3
- Minor Threat – ‘Betray’ .mp3
- Gavin's Meldown - Dan Noyes
- Such a Funny Drunk - GavinWatch
- The Man Code - GavinWatch
- The Walkaway Mayor - GavinWatch
- Gavin Admits Affair - CBS2.com
- Cocaine at City Hall? - KRON4
- Shame of the City - Stanley Roberts, KRON 4
Recommended Comic Strips courtesy of the dark mind and crude hand of SF Weekly columnist Matt Smith:
Monday, November 5, 2007
VOTE OR DIE!
The City's political analysts are predicting a record-low voter turnout in a mayoral election with incumbent Gavin Newsom running virtually unopposed for a second term.
This year, Left-wing critics like Superviser Chris Daly held a convention where they failed to nominate a challenger, so Newsom's challengers include a motley crew that includes a sex club owner, a homeless taxi driver and a nudist rights advocate, a clown, a video blogger and a chicken.
Newsom's job approval rating rose to 78% when San Francisco began performing gay marriages shortly after he took office and have hovered there since -even after he publicly admitted to a drinking problem and having an affair with a close aide's wife.
Despite the city's unflagging homelessness problem and a rising homicide rate, the mayor's poll numbers indicate San Franciscans are largely satisfied with the status quo, analysts said.
In the election's other marquee races, the Sheriff Sheriff Michael Hennessey also has no serious challengers, and District Attorney Kamala Harris is running unopposed. Out of 11 ballot propositions, only two competing measures to expand or restrict parking in the city have generated any passion.
Complete Article:
Video Credit: Vote Or Die by South Park
Related Video:
- Night of the Living Homeless - South Park
- The Homeless Return - Stanley Roberts, KRON 4
- Shame of the City - Stanley Roberts, KRON 4
Gavin Sucks Polls:
Monday, October 22, 2007
Turf War In The Tenderloin
Haight Drugs, Heart Newsom!Mayor Gavin Newsom launched another operation targeting the drug trafficking in the Tenderloin, Mission and Market Street with a weeklong crackdown in which SFPD arrested over a hundred suspected drug dealers!!!
The latest sting went Monday to Sunday and involved officers posing as drug users seeking heroin, crack cocaine and methamphetamine.
Captain Tim Hettrich of San Francisco police narcotics detail said the price of drugs on the street is going up.
"That means there is not as much of it, or we are making a dent in making these buys."
Hettrich added nearly three quarters of the dealers were from outside the city and the narcotics unit seized $1.5 million in methamphetamine in the first six months of the year, and the price on the street has gone from $12,000 a pound to $17,000 a pound.
"It's like a farmer's market out there - a pharmaceutical market - it's non-stop. We are out there every day, week in and week out.”
With a price increase, he added, more dealers are coming from out of town and drug-related violence has increased as dealers fight over turf.
Complete Article: Tenderloin Drug Sweep by Jaxon Van Derbeken, Chronicle
Gavin Newsom's Report Card
As Written by Chronicle's Cecilia M. Vega:From behind the desk in his stately City Hall office, San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom looks back on his first term and says the "chattering class" - his term for political insiders - got it all wrong when they thought they had him figured out.
When he was elected in 2003, Newsom was the young, rich entrepreneur who made his political name with a plan to slash welfare checks to the homeless. He was expected to serve the downtown businesses that helped elect him and not disturb the patronage politics of his predecessor and political benefactor, Mayor Willie Brown.
"There was a characterization that was advanced during the campaign that was quite difficult for me, being painted as ... disconnected from the challenges of reality, real people."Four years later, San Francisco's youngest mayor in a century still contends with the Pacific Heights liberal label, thanks to his society wedding to prosecutor-turned-TV commentator Kimberly Guilfoyle, his posing for fashion magazine photo spreads with her at the Getty mansion before their 2005 divorce, and the playboy-ish pursuits that have followed.
But Newsom has surprised observers by being far more politically progressive than many anticipated, displaying an eagerness to clear the air of cronyism and influence-buying that long hung over the mayor's office and showing a willingness to put his political future in jeopardy by taking a stance on same-sex marriage that, while popular in San Francisco, was eschewed by many, including key Democrats on the national scene.
Newsom is a politician who seems to revel in the world of policy, a technocrat who praises managerial "best practices," who rattles off statistics in almost robotic manner, who seems to announce a new program or initiative every week - from the big, like universal health care, to the small, like visits to schools. But at times his follow-through has fallen flat.
Complete Article: Newsom Reflects On 4-Years of Ups & Downs As Election Approaches
On Deck: Cecilia Covers the Other Mayoral Candidates
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Gavin Sucks Polls:
Friday, October 19, 2007
City's New Sit Down, Shoot Up Drug Cafe
The Associated Press reports about 150 people gathered in the Mission District to build community support for a city-funded safe-injection center, including backing from Mayor Gavin Newsom and the Board of Supervisors.Heroin and Cocaine aren’t cheap and sort of addicting. Good luck keeping a job to support your habit. Shooting drugs is a real slippery slope:
A) AIDS
B) Homeless
C) Thievery
D) All of the Above.
If you answered “All of the Above,” you were correct.
Why spend taxpayer's money to sit and watch junkies kill themselves, when we can build a jail complete with a rehab center?
The law is supposed to be blind; not us citizen's who trip over these chalk outlines on our way to work. Junkies are just as responsible for upholding the law as the people they rob. Enough of this preferential drug treament, jail them! If mayor’s new “services or citation” sweeps don't net these zombies, then holding, selling illegal should.
Sure, zero will want to participate and few will succeed. Yet, better behind bars, than in front me. The chronic users return to the streets,only long enough to violate their probation and earn longer and longer sentences.
Alive in jail or dead on bail - don't care! In fact, 911 should answer overdose calls with two options: prison time or funeral parlor?
The only good junky is a dead junky. The problem is the addicts living amongst us; and the solution is jail. My 'soul' goal is clean, safe streets for taxpayers and voters who've had it with vagrancy, panhandling, defecating in doorways and other quality-of-life crimes:
- Dirty Needles in Golden Gate Park
- Busted Car Windows
- Muggings at Knifepoint
- Constant Paper Cup Jiggling Change
- AIDS, Hepatitis C, Etc.
But seriously, I agree with Gavin Newsom's assesment of the war on drugs as well as these services from police to facilities to counselors won't be cheap, but the status quo is more costly - maybe, your life? Have you walked the Tenderloin lately... It looks like a third world country and now the City want's us to add a drug den?
I'm not a social worker, but I know how to tie my shoes and wipe ass; and this drug den idea stinks - flush it!
One alternative to overflowing jails is to build a “Tent City” in the Golden Gate Park in which to incarcerate ‘low risk’ inmates with the autority to funnel these addicts and eyesores into mandated programs and out of my face!
Complete Article: San Francisco Considering Safe-Injection Center For Drug Users
Breaking News: SF Injection Center Draws Support & Doubt
Photo Credit: MESH Magazine
Wednesday, October 17, 2007
No Vacancy!
Full Jails + Tight Budgets = Early Releases.Okay, we get it. Gavin’s got no room and no budget to house the homeless (behind bars).
San Francisco Sheriff Michael Hennessey says he's forced to let theives and addicts go free - essentially reversing the Mayor's "services or citation" programs into a "catch and release" revolving door.
Only, Homelessness, Drugs and Homicides aren't going away.Nor are the Drugs, Prostitution, Panhandling and defication that seed AIDS, Malaria and TB outbreaks associated with the squalar, squatting under bridges, over sidewalks and in our doorways - thereby living amongst us in our living rooms and at our throat.
Just like subsidized flu shots, helping alcoholics, addicts or otherwise helps everyone – most importantly voters!Not just San Franciscans stand to benefit by helping those who don't want our help. Slightly, this is a national issue central to our City in which Gavin most stands to profit.
Neighsayers, would argue Gavin’s criminalizing the homeless in order to serve big business or ride the pendulum swing of public reaction.
They’re right, but with a caveat...
- Firstly, the “Services or Citation” approach is completely appropriate. It takes a badge and a stick, not a carrot to pull this rabbit out of a hat. Nine out of homeless refuse housing and shelter.
- Next, it's Gavin's not the Chaplain on M.A.S.H or Mahatma Gandhi. He's a politician running for election - four year's from now! San Francisco 2007 was never a question: rather, he’s running for the next big thing far outside The City limits with a constituency infinitely more conservative... and we all stand to benefit!
- Lastly, it behooves San Franciscans to help Gavin, help us by harnessing these quality-of-life arrests to not only make a difference in the perpetrators (them) lives, but to make a difference for the victims (us).
“We want to walk down the street with no danger on our back and no hand out in our face!”I propose we benevolently house the homeless in a tent city at Golden Gate Park for the duration of their sentences. This way we can minimize cost through centralizing volunteers and professionals to feed, clothe, shelter the homeless and beyond – diagnosing and counseling individuals towards behavioral, drug and educational programs they would otherwise reject.
Homelessness is at epidemic high impacting everyone in any endeavor. You can’t run from it, so stand up and fight... and help our fair mayor get re-elected anyplace, but here.
Truth is I like Newsom. I recognize myself in his mistakes. I think he's reconciling the not so distant past and is finally acting with the urgency and leadership we need. Hopefully, he's making some noise at Federal and State level too.
Matier & Ross writes:
While the public clamors for safer streets and a crackdown on quality-of-life crimes, San Francisco Sheriff Michael Hennessey is quietly allowing scores of drug users and petty thieves to walk out of jail early so they don't have to sleep on the floor.
The early releases were ordered last week even as all but one wing of a 360-bed County Jail at San Bruno sat empty, the result of budget and staff shortages.
It's just the latest wrinkle in San Francisco's revolving-door justice system, and it helps explain why - despite the public furor - it's so hard to keep petty criminals behind bars.
"If they keep bringing more people in for low-risk crimes, at some point I'm not even going to take them, and that point is coming up pretty darn soon."The sheriff says he's housing about 2,100 prisoners in a 2,000-bed jail system. For the past few months, an average of 50 to 60 prisoners have slept on the floor, with others stashed in temporary police lockups.
Hennessey says his hands are tied. In fact, he says the jailhouse crunch would have been far worse had he not already shaved as much as 30 days off the sentences of thousands of other low-risk prisoners over the past two years under a parole program that most other jurisdictions rarely invoke.
To help ease crowding, Hennessey has opened one 60-bed wing of the empty County Jail No. 5 in San Bruno - but in the process is burning up his overtime budget. The jail, built in 1989, had been shut since the city opened a state-of-the-art replacement last year for the 550-bed Jail No. 3, a Depression-era hulk that was the subject of prisoner-rights lawsuits.
"You can't continue to crack down on drugs, crack down on the homeless and make more typical drunk-driving and violent-offender arrests without having the jail space to put them in; and you can't keep hiring more cops - who if they're doing their jobs are going to make more arrests - without having the space."For his part, Mayor Gavin Newsom is "committed to pursuing a variety of options" to address the overcrowding, a spokesman said. Those include home detention monitoring and residential drug treatment.
"It's not just a matter of locking them up," spokesman Nathan Ballard said.
Until the city finds the money and answers, however, Hennessey says he'll keep releasing prisoners early.
Complete Article: S.F. jails' tight budget means early release for petty criminals
Related Articles:
- SFGate: After A Month, Park's A little Less Of A Mess - Major Homeless Campsites Cleared, But Some Have Just Shifted Position by C.W. Nevius, San Francisco Chronicle
- SFGate: City Says 167 Homeless Camps Removed From S.F.'s Golden Gate Park by Heather Knight, Chronicle Staff Writer
- Gimme Shelter by Sarah Hromack, CurbedWire
Related Posts:
- Officer Suspended for Criticizing Mayor
- Wait and See
- Liberals March 'Right' Over Progressives
- Bum Fights
- Care Not Recycle
- Care Not Carts
- The Mayor's Chinese Dragons
- Mayor Closes Golden Gate Park
- National Guard Deployed to San Fracisco
- Escape to New York
Video:
- Night of the Living Homeless - South Park
- The Homeless Return - Stanley Roberts, KRON 4
- Shame of the City - Stanley Roberts, KRON 4
Gavin Sucks Polls:
Newsom Suspends Whistle Blowing Cop
San Francisco police officer, Sgt. John Lewis of Park Station, wants to turn back time to get a jump on the homeless.Lewis is under departmental investigation - and could be suspended - for writing a letter to The Chronicle criticizing the way Mayor Gavin Newsom and the Police Department are handling the homeless problem in Golden Gate Park.
According to police sources, Sgt. John Lewis of Park Station is being investigated for authoring a letter that "undermines the efficiency of the department."
Lewis' letter, published on The Chronicle's editorial page Aug. 15, questioned the Newsom administration's tactic of sending cops and outreach workers into the park before dawn to steer campers into social programs or, if they refused, cite them for quality-of-life crimes.
"Instead of sending a horde of people into the park at 4 a.m., the city should be sending this same horde into the park from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m., when the real problems exist."Lewis, who has 20 years with the department, wrote that the campers were neither interested in programs nor concerned about being cited, and that the real problem was during the day when drug use, drug dealing, drinking and fights were commonplace.
What's the big deal? Instead of citing the fast asleep and drunk, operate at a decent hour and arrest the wide awake and drinking. This way, we'll have more to prosecute!Police Officers Association President Gary Delagnes said that if charges are filed and upheld, Lewis could face anything from an admonishment to a suspension.
Complete Arcticle: SF Cop On Hot Seat For Writing Sizzling Letter About Homeless by Matier & Ross
Related News: Stephen Colbert Runs For President
Tuesday, October 16, 2007
Sean Penn: Anyone, But Newsom!
The timing is a little speculative as the fling deadline for the mayoral election has passed; nonetheless, Wonkette just posted that Sean Penn has offered to stake Matt Gonzalez a $5 million dollar war chest to run against Gavin Newsom with the caveat Gonzalez hop to the Democratic Party.When Spicoli says, “Let’s Party,” he means Gonzo and a Donkey Show!
John Clark Jr. goes on to write; Matt really wasn't sure if his Hollywood pal was serious and we’re not sure if Wonkette is stretching the truth either. We're still trying to finish off our last serving of gossip - fresh off the hot stove:
Saturday, October 13, 2007
Newsom Ducks Debate
The reigning Chump, Gavin Newsom, climbed into the ring less than willing to spar with serious unknowns like Quintin Mecke, Dr. Ahimsa Porter-Sumchai, Lonnie Holmes and Harold Hoogasian.
Yet, with 78% Approval Ratings and a roomful of backward Progressives:
Why give a pretender a shot at the title?
GavinWatch Report Card:
- At least nine of Gavin’s challengers are serious candidates capable of making strong arguments for why we need a new Mayor. The audience was generally engaged and impressed.
- Gavin has little respect for his challengers. He sauntered in 45 minutes late, eating into the time of the only forum he’s agreed to attend.
- Gavin only participated on the condition that ABC7 not broadcast the debate, thus depriving a large audience of seeing how he stacks up to the competition.
- Gavin refuses to participate in any real, televised debates that gives candidates more than 30 seconds to speak or allows for rebuttals.
Though she described Gavin as tardy and superficial – Ouch! Hearsay has it, Cecilia's pulling her punches (and breaking my heart) as the rumor mill spins:
While gossipers are gullible, this blogger remains uncompromised (by the facts). Let me assure you, I have the utmost integrity and given the opportunity to get up close and personal, I promise to keep a professional distance - that'll be $50.00 Gav!"The striking reporter is romantically linked with the handsom mayor."
Related Posts:
- Vote: Do you agree with Newsom's “Services or Citation” Homeless Plan?
- Vote: Would You Dump Daly?
- Vote: Is Cecilia M. Vega Your Favorite Gav Girl?
Friday, October 12, 2007
LGBT Says Newsom’s the Only Alternative
Bay Area Reporter (BAR) is San Francisco's oldest and largest local newspaper of record serving the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender communities endorsed incumbent Gavin Newsom, crediting the mayor for changing the national debate for LGBT rights and equality.Bay Area Reporter writes:
More than 2,000 homeless in San Francisco have been housed since Newsom's "Care Not Cash" measure took effect, a success acknowledged in a recent television news broadcast interviewing previously homeless people who have benefited from the program. We acknowledge and support the mayor's other key initiatives on transportation, infrastructure, public safety, sustainability and housing, particularly housing for people with AIDS.
We Gavin Newsom because we believe he has done his best to make San Francisco a better place to live.
Being mayor of a large city as diverse as San Francisco is not an easy job. Newsom is the first to admit that there is much still to do, but we have confidence in his vision and faith in his abilities to lead San Francisco for the next four years.
We endorse Gavin Newsom for mayor.
Complete Article: Gavin Newsom For Mayor by Bat Area Reporter
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