{"id":127,"date":"2016-01-08T18:28:13","date_gmt":"2016-01-09T02:28:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gavin-newsom.com.previewc40.carrierzone.com\/?p=127"},"modified":"2016-01-08T18:28:13","modified_gmt":"2016-01-09T02:28:13","slug":"newsom-interviewed-at-willie-brown-oops-ed-lee-inagauration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gavin-newsom.com\/?p=127","title":{"rendered":"Newsom Interviewed at Willie Brown&#8230;oops Ed Lee Inagauration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Both Brown and Newsom operate on a level of superficiality and are incapable of introspection, as these comments show.<\/p>\n<p>As far as these two are concerned, the public and the general welfare are of no consequence and of no importance. E.g.: &#8221;\u00a0\u201cI just turned my hearing aid off.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: left; padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/gavin-newsom.com.previewc40.carrierzone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Screen-Shot-2016-01-08-at-3.43.31-PM.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-128\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-128\" src=\"http:\/\/gavin-newsom.com.previewc40.carrierzone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Screen-Shot-2016-01-08-at-3.43.31-PM-261x300.jpg\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2016-01-08 at 3.43.31 PM\" width=\"261\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/gavin-newsom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Screen-Shot-2016-01-08-at-3.43.31-PM-261x300.jpg 261w, http:\/\/gavin-newsom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Screen-Shot-2016-01-08-at-3.43.31-PM.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 261px) 100vw, 261px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left; padding-left: 30px;\">After the event, Lt. Governor Gavin Newsom, who served as San Francisco mayor between 2004 and 2011, <a href=\"http:\/\/hoodline.com\/2016\/01\/pomp-and-protesters-inside-mayor-ed-lee-s-2016-inauguration\" target=\"_blank\">said<\/a> in response to the protesters, \u201c[Former mayor] Willie and I were asking ourselves, \u2018Why didn\u2019t this happen to us?\u2019 We didn\u2019t know how good we had it.\u201d Both mayors had also faced sharp criticism from San Francisco\u2019s more left-leaning politicians and community allies.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left; padding-left: 30px;\">Newsom added, \u201cI think the mayor did an extraordinary job under difficult circumstances. Few people can go up there like that and follow through.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left; padding-left: 30px;\">When former Mayor Willie Brown, Lee\u2019s longtime ally, was asked to comment about the protesters and the mayor\u2019s speech, he said he was unable to hear either. \u201cI just turned my hearing aid off.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: left; padding-left: 30px;\">\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Both Brown and Newsom operate on a level of superficiality and are incapable of introspection, as these comments show. As far as these two are concerned, the public and the general welfare are of no consequence and of no importance. E.g.: &#8221;\u00a0\u201cI just turned my hearing aid off.\u201d After the event, Lt. Governor Gavin Newsom, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/gavin-newsom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/gavin-newsom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/gavin-newsom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gavin-newsom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gavin-newsom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=127"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/gavin-newsom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":129,"href":"http:\/\/gavin-newsom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127\/revisions\/129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gavin-newsom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gavin-newsom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gavin-newsom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}