Ed Who?

San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom met briefly with embattled supervisor Ed Jew yesterday.
Jew is accused of attempting to extort $80,000 from a group of fast-food business owners. He pleaded not guilty in court on Friday.
The rookie supervisor, who was charged Thursday with one federal count of mail fraud, appeared briefly in U.S. District Court, and [...]

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GAVIN’S MUST SEE TV

Mayor Gavin Newsom and Fox Broadcasting Company agreed to terms today greenlighting 24 episodes of Gav 4 Guv.
Newsom said he’s considered television since his marriage to Court TV Queen Kimberly Guilfoyle and throughout courtships with Reality TV Stars Erin Brodie and Paris Hilton as well as CSI’s Sofia Milos. This one simply fit.
Newsom insists that his television aspirations are [...]

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Care Not Carts

Newsom Bans Shopping Carts.
San Francisco may be on the verge of becoming the first city in the country to ban shopping carts because they only serve the homeless well enough to survive the day and resist quality-of-life outreach programs.
Some experts say the carts are one of the biggest obstacles to outreach programs in the city.
By making sidewalks less profitable and [...]

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Top Five Growing Blogs

Pop the Champaign!
Inspired by the 59th Emmy Awards, we’re pleased to announce WordPress voted Gavin Newsom Sucks.com to the Top Five Growing Blogs.
We want to thank the Man Upstairs in City Hall. Without Gavin none of this would be possible.
It’s not often we get to stand here next to the dazzling celebrity blogger, Beth Spotswood. Doesn’t she look absolutely [...]

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Chasing The Dragon

Is San Francisco becoming a Gatored Community?
In a continuing effort to combat urban blight and homeless encampments, Mayor Gavin Newsom approved legislation to purchase 2500 Floridian Alligators to be released by the Public Utilities Commission and 1000 Komodo Dragons (the world’s heaviest lizards at 10 feet, 200 Lbs.) for the Recreation & Park Commission.
The mayor credits trips [...]

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Newsom 08 Phone Bank

Gavin’s looking for a few annoying volunteers.
Six days a week, starting this weekend and running until November, the The Gavin Newsom 08 Phone Bank will be reaching out and touching San Franciscans.
If you’d like to donate your time to the cause, don’t hesitate. Dial right down the middle to Gavin’s campaign headquarters at (415) 351-0359 [...]

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Heads Will Roll

Heads are rolling at City Hall. Mayor Newsom asked for resignation letters from his senior staff, city department heads, and those that he had ‘anointed’ to serve on a city commission or board.
According to the Chronicle, Newsom will deal with “a few officials he has battled with since taking office in 2004″ and with the [...]

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Fresh Out Of Rehab

Newly Reelected and Ready to Service
Matier & Ross:
Scores of postcards showing a tieless San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom eyeing a woman’s low-cut dress under the headline, “Fresh out of rehab … newly single and ready to service,” have been mailed out over the past couple weeks.
Nothing on the cards identifies who is sending them. [...]

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Drag ‘em, Drop ‘em Mayor

As posted by CatCubed:
Web 2.0 and Design geek with zeal for blogging about blogging, Colin Fahrion, visits the candidate’s websites to peel back the presentation layer and see who’s GUIer:

The ever Flexible and Intuitive “Drag ‘em, Drop ‘em” Gavin Newsom, or
All Business 2.o and “Next Gen” Showman Chicken John Rinaldi?

Chicken’s joined facebook too on the [...]

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Ten Ways To Lose A Mayor

FOUR YEARS ago, as the mayor’s race moved into the spotlight on Labor Day weekend, the Chronicle’s editorial board presented its “10 ways to improve San Francisco.”
Their goal was to provide a framework for an endorsement process: to compel candidates to talk about the issues most important to the city and to evaluate the contenders [...]

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