The Chronicle tomorrow tries to win our sympathy for Gavin Newsom who now no longer has a suite of offices and large staff, but sits in a bullpen for start-ups. This makes up, one supposes, for suing the people of San Francisco for failing to allow his contributors free rein over the waterfront. This is a good time to bring up Gavin’s priorities. When elected mayor he was riding the issue of homelessness, with his ballot measure. Ever in search of an impressive title, Newsom got himself names chair of the US Conference of Mayors Task Force on Homelessness. But like every other thing Newsom has done, once he had the title he didn’t want to do the work -- even to the point of showing up for the Mayor’s Task Force press conference on homelessness in America. So the Mayors had to find a co-chair for the Task Force for the first time, while Newsom ducked out. And what was more important to Gavin Newsom that dealing with the challenge of the nation’s most vulnerable lacking housing and food? It conflicted with his invitation to go to Davos Switzerland for the World Economic Forum with the top billionaires. In fact, he even flew on the private plane of the Google founders. And so it went, year after year, with Newsom skipping the Conference of Mayors homeless sessions in favor of cocktails and conferences with the uber-rich of the world. In fact, he was in Davos when Ruby Tourk confessed to her husband, Alex Tourk, that she had had an affair with Newsom. That’s his priorities -- self-indulgence at the expense of others, important titles, no productive results, and entree to the one-percent just as he had all his life with the backing of the Gettys. Just a little reality check for the Chron story about how poor Gavin has to make do with a metal desk in a bullpen instead of a suite of offices.
Posted on: Mon, 18 Aug 2014 03:41:07 +0000
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