Newsom Stalker Crashes Car; Walks Into B.A.R.

Han Shin, the man accused last year of stalking Mayor Gavin Newsom and trying to run over his ex-boyfriend’s roommate, found himself in trouble again this week after he allegedly rammed his car into the driver of another vehicle following a traffic accident. It is the second time in 18 months that Shin has been accused of trying to run someone over.

The latest incident occurred around noon Wednesday, July 9 at the intersection of 9th and Harrison streets. Police arrested Shin, 43, who was wearing sandals, yellow shorts cut above the knee, and a yellow and black patterned silk collared shirt - so sorry to say, no purple latex gloves. He was charged with aggravated assault with an automobile weapon. As of Friday, Shin remained in San Francisco County jail.

According to police, Shin and another driver were involved in a traffic accident after which Shin allegedly drove his Toyota Corolla LE into the other driver.

“There was some type of prior contact between the two. When the victim stopped at the traffic light, the suspect drove into the victim’s vehicle intentionally,” said police spokesman Sergeant Neville Gittens.

“Then the suspect intentionally ran into the other person.”

According to eyewitness accounts, soon after the accident Shin walked toward the Bay Area Reporter (B.A.R.) offices on 9th Street. Another driver warned him that he was leaving the scene of an accident. A B.A.R. staffer was later told that he’d hit both vehicles and had asked,

“Where’s the Bay Area Reporter?”

According to the staff member, Shin entered the office whimpering and carrying large, rolled up pieces of paper, folders, and a bag loaded with more papers.

Not knowing about the accident, staff asked if there was something wrong, and if he wanted them to call police. Shin replied:

“I’m afraid of the police.”

That’s when staff members recognized him and one staffer told Shin he remembered him as the person who was found in Mayor Newsom’s apartment building.

Shin adopted a somber, serious tone and asked, “What do you know about it?” After that, he started babbling incoherently.

When Shin started to open a small gate that leads past the B.A.R. ’s front desk, as if he wanted to come back and talk to staff, he was told, “Just leave, just get out.”

Shin got huffy, grabbed his things, and as he turned to leave yelled back:

“Fucking fags!”

Back outside, Shin, who’d been screaming during much of the accident’s aftermath – at one point, a police officer tugged on his shirt in an apparent attempt to get him to calm down – eventually appeared to be in better spirits.

As he stood outside the Vagabond Inn, which is next door to the B.A.R., he raised his hands in the air, shimmied, and sang part of the Brenda Lee classic “I’m Sorry.” Shin also rambled, invoking the names of Madonna and Benjamin Franklin as an officer stood a few feet across from him.

Shin, a new age author and beauty contestant organizer, didn’t resist as police handcuffed him moments later and led him away.

In February 2007, Shin was caught trying to break into Newsom’s Pacific Heights apartment building and was charged with stalking the debonair politician. He reportedly had been seen photographing the mayor below the waist at a public event and aggressively grabbed Newsom.

Shin denied the charges, but a San Francisco Superior Court commissioner issued a three-year restraining order against Shin, ordering him to stay at least 100 yards from Newsom.

Later that month Shin faced numerous charges in Contra Costa County, including one count of first-degree residential burglary, three counts of assault with a deadly weapon and one count felony vandalism stemming from a February 28 incident in San Ramon.

Prosecutors alleged that Shin went to the home of his former lover to confront him, but when the man wasn’t at home, Shin allegedly barged into the residence, took some money and a photograph of the former boyfriend and left. The man’s roommate followed Shin outside, according to police, and Shin allegedly tried to run him over three times with his car.

Complete Article: Newsom Stalker Arrested After Car Accident by Matthew S. Bajko

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Separated At Birth: Christian Bale

Is my mask of sanity slipping or is San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom bearing a strikingly handsome resemblance to one of modern Hollywood’s elite cult figures - actor Christian Bale?

Bale’s most acclaimed roles are lead in Batman Begins and serial killer Patrick Bateman in American Psycho.

Suddenly and for no apparent reason, the controversial author, Bret Easton Ellis, opens with the lead character, Patrick Batman, stabbing a homeless man.  

Spontaneous Degeneration or Careful Contemplation Evolving, Disolving Inside Out like the Spontaneous Slip of The Stranger’s Neck Upon a Knife (Albert Camus) or Perhaps, a Platonic Pull pushing Ellis into Eddy in the Withering Tenderloin Heights?

Not unlike the Newsome administration, Ellis constructed the work with no way to understand the Killer’s motives, making it even more frightening. From here, the body count grows to include prositutes, gays, girlfriends and children.

And, I’m hoping he’ll do the same with the Mayor’s purple latex glove wearing Valentine’s Day stalker, Han Shin, in a sequel!

Meantime, Christian Bale rightfully rehearses his lines to an acceptance speech on the not so distant horizon, while Newsom readys himself for some punches below the equator as he prepares to follow Actor-Turned-Politician and mentor, Arnold Schwarzenegger, for what will be his first contest since his victory over Matt Gonzalez in 2003 mayorial race - Gav4Gov.com.

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Separated At Birth: Pat Riley

Pictured on the left is, Pat Riley, now 23-years older than San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom and widely regarded as one of the greatest NBA coaches of all time. Riley has served as the head coach of five championship teams and an assistant coach to another.

Of course, Newsom’s first term was won in 2003, so his best ball is on the horizon. Thus far, he’s grazed on necessary; yet, low-hanging political fruit like, Same-Sex Marriage, Greenery and Scenery not to mention attempting to add WiFi.

He’s also tried to tackle controversial social issues such as Community Court, Care-Not-Cash and Services or Citation as well as challenge America’s War On Drugs warehousing America.

Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger will soon be stepping down from a bigger office far outside The City limits and considerably more conservative.

If Gavin hopes to fill it, he won’t be unopposed. He’ll have to at least defeat Los Angeles Mayor, Antonio Villaraigosa.

And, what’s next for Matt Gonzalez and Attorney General and former Governor Jerry Brown Oval Office?

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Gavin Newsom: Man Eater

Yelp Co-Founder Jeremy Stoppelman and Nish Nadaraja stopped by City Hall to visit with Gavin Newsom and deliver us this light hearted interview.

In the spirit of ‘Earth Day’ covering mostly Green subjects like: Who’s the Greenest Politician?

As well as a few to gush and blush the mayor’s cheeks pink:

Boxers or Briefs?

Hair Gel or Mousse?

Favorite places to take someone special?

Maybe, Yelp will add a Homeless Quotient feature to their service as a gift to me?

After all, Earth Day is my Birthday! Regardless, I plan to leverage Yelp’s reviews as mandatory reading for my celebratory evening out!

How about: Balboa Cafe, El Rio, Balazo Gallery, Aces, Flor de Lys or even Frijz?

More hardball questions for Gavin to field for fellow Yelpers:

• How do you take your coffee?
• BART or MUNI?
• Favorite place to take a group?
• How do you feel about that Nader-Gonzalez ticket?

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SF: Busing Homeless Across The Bay

After conferring with the Coalition On Homelessness as well as Community and Business leaders, Mayor Gavin Newsom withdrew his veto to allow legislation unanimously approved by the Board of Supervisors in which to begin busing San Francisco’s homeless to Marin County and nearby areas.

Strangely, the controversial Busing Resolution was conceived and jointly introduced by the unlikely alliance of Liberal Lefty District 6 Supervisor, Chris Daly, and Nouveau Conservative District 8 Supervisor, Bevan Duffy.

Daly’s district includes the Tenderloin, an area with a huge concentration of liquor stores and one of the worst chronic drugs and alcohol problem in the nation, while Bevan Duffy’s District 8, includes the Castro, a predominantly gay neighborhood, and attributes its increasingly conservative vote to its sky rocketing real estate prices.

Like a bad ‘80s John Hughes movie (redundant), Daly and Duffy, two warring Supes from different sides of the track bury one hatchet to bury another in the back of a mutual enemy: Poverty/Prosperity.

Okay. Let’s say, they agree on the same antidote not the same poison.

Daly wants to help his homeless constituants, who earn an average $5.00 dollars a day, panhandling to the Tenderloin’s overcrowded, depressed economy, to reach more affluent neighborhoods across the bay:

“Just because one does not have a home in the Tenderloin, shouldn’t prevent them from not having a home in Marin County too.”

… While Duffy wants to serve taxpayers by helping the ambitious few homeless who stumble upon the Castro to find their way out.

Regardless, San Francisco’s Odd Couple lauded an independent study reporting panhandlers in Marin County earn nearly four-times as much, averaging $19.75 per day. Moreover, Marin County environmentalist advocate busing, arguing homelessness represents a positive, critical externality to the eco-system, long since missing in Marin.

Homeless contribute to the recycling process, collecting up to three-times their own weight in a 24-hour period; and, as a byproduct, their waste helps to irrigate and fertilize front lawns as well as any dirty needle syringes left behind after entravenous drug use can help to aerate topsoil and improve drainage.

Just imagine a full, soft clover patch so school children can run barefoot, year round!

Meantime, liquor store owners remain cautiously optimistic opting for a “wait-and-see” approach to the homeless free trade agreement - hoping their customers will return home with full pockets and empty bellies.

Having sold liquor to the Tenderloin’s homeless for generations, the majority of shop owners, already live in Marin, and would be happy set up shop closer to home.

“I always dreamed we move business to Marin, close to daycare center and house of worship”

Conversely, the nomadic crack dealers with far less overhead are equally concerned to stake their claim; and plan to occupy front seats on the earliest buses out of town.

Great News for Clean, Safe Streets!

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Free Tenderloin

Dalai Lama meet Daly Drama.

When District 6 (Tenderloin) Supervisor, Chris Daly aka Boy Robbing in the Hood, isn’t stealing taxes for the poor, he’s busy grounding the Blue Angles or slandering Mayor Gavin Newsom (on behalf of his agenda).

Now, local Activist/Pacifist boob wants to start a Revolution: Free Tibet.

We all want to change the world, but when you talk about Boycotts, don’t you know that you can count me out!

Daly’s speaking out at Human Rights Torch Relay protests of the Beijing Olympics as well as wasting our tax dollars passing useless resolutions to condemn human rights violations from 7000 miles away to China (tunneling) while a record numbers fall in the Tenderloin war zone to homicides; overdoses on his watch.

The Dalai Lama wouldn’t be caught dead in the Tenderloin; rather he reincarnate as sleazy politician, Daly Drama.

Besides, the “Free Tibet” Volkswagon Bus pulled away 50-years ago. Leave foreign affairs to the Oval Office. The Executive Branch is the appropriate level for dialog with China as well as Congress to decide economic sanctions; and President George W. Bush has already contacted Chinese President Hu Jintao.

You want to fight the Chinese, get your prayer beads and join the Tibetan Army.

Meantime, Shut-The-F*ck-Up! This may seem harsh, but don’t confuse my disdain for a sharleton selling snake oil as being unsympathetic to Tibet’s plight. Rather, I’m concerned for the athletes.

Just as the flatlands of Poland gave ground to never-ending battles between warring neighbors, so to is the Olympics mired in controversy every four years. I say kill ‘em with kindness… er; rather, commerce.

Sport should transcend politics. Our politicians were wrong to boycott the Moscow Games in 1980 and the Soviet Union was wrong to boycott Los Angeles 1984. Not, only did the athletes and the fans suffer; yet, human rights did too.

Our individual quest for fleeting glory is not so unique while our ultimate defete unites all with humility, reverence and fraternity. Essentially, sport is a model as well a medium for peace… and in the darkest of times escape.

Never Forget: 911.

And, don’t forget “Mr. November” (Derek Jeter) who hit a 3-2 pitch over the right field fence to break a 3-3 tenth inning tie in a World Series delayed a week due to the tragic terrorist attacks that took so many lives including James W. Barbella. That homer gave pause to panic and cause to smile; most importantly for the whole world to watch - freedom prevail!

If closed-minded, shit-for-brains politicians, like Chris Daly, interfered with the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin to protest Nazi Germany, then a Black-American athlete, Jesse Owens, would have had no voice to silence Nazi propaganda of Aryan racial superiority.

Instead, Adolf Hitler faded into the stands and Jesse Owens triumphed with four gold medals.

Daly would do well to quit his chirping about Tiananmen Square, Red Square, wherever; and remember his lofty supervisor perch only affords him a bird’s eye view of the Union Square… so, start cleaning up San Francisco!

If Daly can’t run for gold and won’t run for Mayor, how’s he to effect any measure of change overseas? And, for all his grumbing, mumbling and stumbling he’s looking less John Lennon and more Chairman Mao - ain’t gonna make it with anyon, anyhow!

Imagine all the people signing a petition to Recall Chris Daly. It’s easy if you try.

Don’t you know it’s gonna be alright, alright, alright.

Dean Barbella, Staff Writer

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Bill’s Protégé Mucks Up Clinton Election

Mayhill Fowler of the Huffington Post writes of a couple of philanderers in Hillary Clinton’s life, screwing her over – Her husband, Bill, and his protégé, Gavin Newsom.

March 10, 2008

San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom is one of the prettiest but alas not one of the sharpest in the Democratic pencil box. Chatting with local pundit Phil Matier, in less than two minutes on the early morning news Mayor Newsom confirms the Clinton game plan for winning the Democratic presidential nomination. “It’s a very subjective thing–intelligence analysis. You can go either way,” Newsom informs Matier. Since when does a city mayor know anything about national intelligence analysis? For that matter, how much do mere senators know? 

The only person currently engaged in Election 2008 who can speak authoritatively on this subject is Bill Clinton. Just returned from junketing with the former President around Texas, Gavin is parroting Bill, who clearly had a good time holding forth in the back of that black Texas SUV.

“She [Hillary] is the best to go one-on-one against John McCain on the only issue that could stop us in November,” Newsom says, “and that’s the issue of national security.”

“Do you think that’s what will win the cup?” Matier asks.Apparently, personal scandals are not an issue in Newsom’s mind. It’s all about leadership. “Do you think for a second the Bush Administration will take all that objective data and hesitate to manipulate it in the context of this campaign?” Newsom rejoins. Trust me–this reasoning is way too Machiavellian for the Mayor. But the Clintons? They anticipate a trumped-up terrorist scare? Or a manufactured overseas crisis that calls to John McCain’s specific expertise?

“It’s a very subjective thing–intelligence analysis. You can go either way. And McCain will do everything to focus attention on every little thing that’s happening in Israel, North Korea or Pakistan or wherever else in the world. . . . They will play on fear. We know that fear works.”

Indeed. The Clintons know. And what a national election they are crafting! McCain the fearmaster versus Clinton the fearmonger. Wait a minute. Isn’t this allowing McCain and the Republicans to set the agenda for the election? Or is national security the issue–not the economy, not health care, not education–that Hillary Clinton is most looking forward to delving?

Before she plants that commander-in-chief standard, however, Clinton, like Obama, needs to hone her skill set. It was clear in the last debate, for example, that neither senator knew anything about Dmitry Anatolyevich Medvedev–not even the basic facts at Tim Russert’s command. Clinton couldn’t quite get his name, much less pronounce it. While she’s mastering all things Russian, she’d better add Kazakhstan. Linking Bill Clinton to the venal Nursultan Nazarbayev could help McCain enough, without any Machiavellianism. Fear may not be needed if Bill Clinton has been engaging abroad in the kind of questionable deal-making that once got him in so much trouble at home. 

Complete Article: San Francisco’s Mayor, Gavin Newsom Spills The Beans On Clinton Strategy

 

 

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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 to