John Chiang is currently the chief challenger to Gavin Newsom.
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Interview with Gavin Newsom Gubernatorial Appointment John Chiang
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Gavin Newsom Lauds Obama’s Farewell Speech!
No criticism or introspection whatsoever is ever found around or near Gavin Newsom. 🙁
POTUS’ speech wasn’t a farewell, it was a call to action. Yes we did, yes we can, and yes we WILL. Here’s to continuing to push for progress
— Gavin Newsom (@GavinNewsom) January 11, 2017
Billboard Kisses Newsom’s Ass!
Sickening propaganda interview from this past January 19, 2017!
Total pandering by Billboard’s “reporter” K.M. McFarland.
example: Strolling through San Francisco’s Soma neighborhood, it’s clear that Newsom is a hometown hero.
Gavin Newsom Plagiarized Last August!
Gavin Newsom is now meditating!
In a pandering interview with San Francisco Magazine, Gavin Newsom relates:
My friend Marc Benioff (12) got me to start meditating.
Huh…so you and Benioff are, like, out there in the woods in Marin—
No, it was just in conversation. He gave me the space to not think meditating was, uh, odd. He was commenting about how some of his closest and most successful friends, some well-known people, all share that in common. And I said, “Really?” I remember it was just this sort of aha moment, where all of a sudden I didn’t think it strange. I thought maybe it was essential. And for the last two, two and a half years, I’ve been very devoted to it. And it’s been profound for me.
Is he a TMer?
His Eminence Gavin Newsom to have a bust in City Hall!
Newsom Bust Rendering (PDF)
The Examiner tells the story:
“We are delighted to offer this opportunity to commemorate Gavin Newsom, the youngest mayor of San Francisco, and his important legacy,” said Meg Spriggs, ArtCare board president, wrote in a Nov. 10 letter to Tom DeCaigny, director of cultural affairs for the Arts Commission.
Spriggs also oversees the multifamily investments for Shorenstein Properties, which is owned by the well-known Shorenstein real estate family. ArtCare’s advisory board includes Diane “DeDe” Wilsey, president of the Board of Trustees of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, and PJ Johnston, a spokesperson for Willie Brown when he was mayor and currently a communications consultant, according to the ArtCare website.
“ArtCare would like to present a gift to The City of a life-size bronze portrait bust depiction of Gavin C. Newsom, the 42nd Mayor of San Francisco,” Spriggs wrote in the letter. “We hope for it to be displayed on the mayor’s balcony at San Francisco City Hall, near the Office of the Mayor, together with the three other portrait bust sculptures currently located there of other prominent mayors in the history of the City.”
Those other mayor’s include Brown, Dianne Feinstein and George Moscone.
Will Gavin Newson stand up to Vinod Khosa?
The Sacramento Bee editorializes.
We suspect Newsom will sell us out!
Astonishingly, Gavin Newsom calls for “transparency”
Unusual source for this!
“You expose it. The only way to do it is that you’ve got to expose it. I mean no one understands procurement, no one even knows what the hell you’re talking about, but education is needed and you have to expose the “cartels.” I know that’s strong, but those are the types of words you’ve got to use in order to make people wake up, because otherwise people are never going to understand this stuff. It’s so complicated. It’s so dull, and it’s so important. I have a lot of friends who are part of the problem, and they’re friends because they do some good work, but they’re also part of a system that’s frankly pretty corrupted by money, lobbying and by standard operating procedures. And we’re all complicit.
I am … well, I’m part of the problem, and so all of us have to own up to it. It’s not an indictment of individuals, it’s an indictment of the system at large.”
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We are embarrassingly weak when it comes to transparency. In fact, we are one of the least transparent states in this country. It’s inexcusable. It’s unconscionable, and we are wholly inadequate in terms of our legislative thrust and mandates, and it’s just inexcusable. So the answer is an unequivocal yes. We’ve got a lot of work to do as it relates to transparency.
— Gavin Newsom
Read the full story here.
Joe Eskenazi in San Francisco Magazine Shows How Gavin Newsom Gained Power Through Ballot Initiatives
Joe Eskenazi writes in San Francisco Magazine:
“The relative ease of getting measures on the ballot enables politicians who have—surprise!—political motivations for going to the voters. The best local example of this was when Supervisor Gavin Newsom introduced the Care Not Cash measure in 2002 and won the mayor’s race a year later. “Gavin wasn’t as prolific a legislator as others,” recalls his campaign manager, Jim Ross. “But every voter knew he was working on stuff, because every election he’d have a measure on the ballot.” If not for Care Not Cash, “Gavin would not have been mayor,” notes one of his political contemporaries. “The big thing is, on ballot measures, there’s no contribution limit. You can be blunt with donors: ‘Hey, if you like me, this helps me elevate myself!’”
You can read more (including how fellow corporate conservative Supervisor Scott Wiener manipulates the process) here.
You can read about the egregious Care Not Cash (called by many “Con Not Cash”) in a Poor Magazine op ed penned by a homeless man here.
Convenient Timing or Corruption?
The San Diego Reader writes
“San Diego, billionaire Jacobs’s initial 2012 drive for his Balboa Park bulldozing plan was marked by a $12,000 contribution to the reelection bid of Democratic lieutenant governor Gavin Newsom, less than a month after Newsom sent a letter to California state preservation officer Wayne Donaldson, in which Newsom demanded that Donaldson “withdraw your comments” critical of the project.”