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San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom is running for California Governor. The race is in 2010 but Newsom is already gearing up for the campaign.
Today, the good Mayor, a champion of gay marriage in California, releases his State of the City address - all 7 1/2 hours of it.
San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom has been crafting his State of the City speech for months and will debut it today - all 7 1/2 hours of it - on his very own YouTube channel.
The format allows the tech-savvy mayor - who has more than 10,000 Facebook friends and whose official Web site has received 27.6 million hits this year - to reach a wider audience and speak directly to anyone who’s interested without the filter of the media or grumbling from critics.
“We have a lot we want to share, but it gets filtered,” Newsom told The Chronicle. “To do an address that’s unfiltered, what better way to do it than on YouTube?”
It also allows the wonky, long-winded Newsom to leave no detail on the cutting-room floor. The mayor’s staff will release the speech in 10 chapters this week, and each one is about 45 minutes long. Health, education and the environment are the subjects on tap for today.
There you go: San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom - “Whether You Like it or Not.”
And, believe Flap, should Newsom make it out of the Democrat primary election (he won’t) the video below would be played over and over again.
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San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom became the “poster boy” for the Yes on 8 Campaign to restore traditional marriage in California
Flap asked the question prior to Tuesday’s California election: Will San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom Deserve The Blame When California Proposition 8 Passes?
The answer is apparently yes - both in San Francisco and statewide (Newsom will run for California Governor in 2010).
Election night was not kind to Gavin Newsom, who may end up one of the biggest losers after suffering a potentially crushing loss with Proposition 8 and at best breaking even in the local contests he had a stake in.
Political analysts have long argued that Newsom has short coattails in local politics - a theory in play with the Board of Supervisors races, in which at least three of the seven seats up for grabs seem likely to go to candidates he did not endorse.
With the local ballot measures, voters for the most part sided with Newsom’s choices, but two propositions that were of particular interest to the mayor - one supporting his special court to prosecute quality-of-life crimes and the other changing the makeup of the San Francisco Transportation Authority - failed spectacularly.
And, pandering to the homosexual lobby has not helped Newsom with other key California Democrat constituencies, African-American and Latino voters.
“The Latino and black voters really turned out in this election. They helped get Proposition 8 voted in, and that portends badly for Gavin Newsom if he’s intending to run for governor,” Boushey said. “He’s going to have to appeal to those voters. They’re socially moderate, and they don’t recognize Gavin Newsom as being socially moderate.”
Paradoxically, the mayor is seen as too liberal for much of the state and too conservative compared to the city’s legislators.
Look to California Attorney General, Jerry Brown, to demagogue the legal challenge to Proposition 8 and pick-up key homosexual lobby support for HIS run for California Governor. Gavin Newsom rolled the dice in 2004 by setting up the California gay marriage flap and will go down to defeat with its proponents.
Here is the video featuring Gavin Newsom - “whether you like it or not:”
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San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom has become the “poster boy” for the Yes on 8 Campaign to restore traditional marriage in California
Does Gavin Newsom deserve the blame from the homosexual community when California Proposition 8 passes next Tuesday? This is being asked in a gay publication.
San Francisco mayor Gavin Newsom has been a tireless crusader for gay rights. It was he who, way back in 2000, began issuing marriage licenses in San Francisco.
Though those marriages were later annulled by the state, California’s Supreme Court this year ruled that gay folk should, in fact, have the right to marry, a decision that spurred the right to launch Proposition 8, which would reverse the Court’s ruling. Again, Newsom’s been campaigning against that measure and just this week shored up support against conservative “extremists.”
Obviously the right doesn’t like Newsom very much and have been using him as the poster child for gay-friendly politicians. This means, of course, that should Proposition 8 pass, Newsom’s ubiquitous image may take some of the blame.
Gavin Newsom’s statement in the video below was really the start of the Yes on 8 campaign.
And, Newsom’s statement “whether you like it or not” may very well become the mantra for traditional marriage ballot fights across the United States.
Mayor Newsom has been conspicuous by his absense in the No on Proposition 8 campaign since the May news conference. Yesterday, Newsome did travel to the Google Campus to speak on No on 8’s behalf but otherwise he has been on the down-lo.
Flap has it upon good authority, however, that there will be new Yes on 8 television ads ridiculing the San Francisco Mayor.
So, blame?
You betcha, depending upon what happens next Tuesday.
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ProtectMarriage.com
Flap just got off a telephone blogger conference call with ProtectMarriage.com - Yes on 8 campaign manager Frank Schubert. Status of the race:
Polling indicates the race has a 97 % awareness level among California voters. When these voters are asked how they will vote it is:
When you read the voters the ballot label language the result is:
So, the race is DEAD EVEN on both ways of counting which is a good position the Yes campaign feels to be in.
Frank Schubert:”If we are tied on Monday night then Yes on 8 will win by 4-8 points.”
Why?
For a couple of reasons:
- The history of polling on this issue suggests there is a percentage of people who do not accurately report they support traditional marriage. They do not want to say something that may be perceived as not politically correct. Historically, that polling percentage has averaged about 7 % if you look at all of the states where marriage has been on the ballot. “I don’t think it will be 7 per cent this time, more like 4 or 5 per cent bump that we will get…”
- Another reason why if Yes is tied or behind by a couple of points on Monday night is the ground operation that the Yes on 8 campaign has. We have a truly Presidential GOTV operation (Get Out The Vote). There are over 100,000 people who have committed to walk door to door to distribute targeted literature and doorknob hangers throughout the weekend and Monday and on Monday we will have as many as 5 people per precinct working to get the vote out - both going door to door or phoning voters who either have not voted or will be voting. This is a GOTV effort that has never been done in California before for a proposition.
Oh Yeah on Superintendent of Public Instruction Jack O’Connell within fifteen minutes of the challenge offered up to debate the gay marriage issue, he delined. Shocker, isn’t it?
And, for the San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom fans, Newsom will make a repeat performance this weekend on television for the Yes on Proposition 8 campaign.
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San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom points out the cheering crowds above to Phyllis Lyon, top right, and Del Martin, seated, after the same-sex couple was married at City Hall in San Francisco, Monday, June 16, 2008. The same-sex couple was the first to be legally married by the mayor
Mayor Gavin Newsom, the darling of the San Francisco homosexual community has established an exploratory committee to run for California Governor in 2010.
San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom, a Democrat best known for his aggressive support of same-sex marriage, launched an exploratory committee Tuesday to consider a 2010 run for governor.
Newsom, 40, is the first Democrat to make a formal move toward replacing Republican Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger.
“He’s taking the steps to put together the type of operation that can analyze the race in 2010 and make an informed decision,” said Newsom consultant Eric Jaye.
Newsom has a FAR LEFT constituency and personal baggage that will deny him the Democrat nomination. The frontrunner at this time has to be Attorney General and former California Governor Jerry Brown.
Other likely Democrat candidates include:
- Steve Westley - former California controllerand 2006 candidate for Governor
- Antonio Villaraigosa - Mayor of Los Angeles
- Jack O’Connell - State Schools Superintendent
- Bill Lockyer - California Treasurer and former Attorney General
The GOP would relish a Newsom candidacy but it won’t happen.
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*****Update*****
Norman Hsu turns himself into authorities and is jailed.
A top Democratic fundraiser wanted as a fugitive in California turned himself in Friday to face a grand theft charge.
San Mateo County Superior Court Judge H. James Ellis ordered Norman Hsu handcuffed and held on $2 million bond. A bail hearing was scheduled for Sept. 5, at which the judge will consider reducing his bail to $1 million.
Hsu appeared in court accompanied by a lawyer and publicist, both of whom declined to say whether the New York apparel executive would immediately post bail. A warrant was issued for his arrest after he skipped the sentencing for a 1991 grand theft charge.
In the ensuing years, Hsu became a top donor to numerous Democratic candidates and was a fundraiser for presidential contender Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton. He also had contributed to Sen. Barack Obama’s past Senate campaign and his political action committee.
Norman Hsu, a convicted felon fugitive and Democrat Fundraiser for Hillary Clinton and Senator Hillary Clinton
Well, they have been active in California state and local politics as well - to the tune of $53,000.
Let’s see who received the obviously TAINTED money:
Antonio Villaraigosa, Mayor of Los Angeles
California Attorney General Jerry Brown and San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom
San Francisco District Attorney Kamala Harris
Former San Francisco Supervisor and now California Democrat Assemblywoman Fiona Ma. She represents Daly City where the Paw family residence is.
Rob Reiner’s “Pre-School for All” campaign, which became Proposition 82 on the June 2006 ballot
Democrat Congresswoman Doris Matsui (middle right)
Former California Controller and Democrat candidate for Governor in 2006, Steve Westly
Former California Treasurer and Democrat nominee for California Governor in 2006, Phil Angelides
Hsu et. al. have also given considerable sums to the California Democrat Party.
According to state and local records, Hsu has given more than $53,000 to various political efforts in the state since 2004, including $27,600 to the state Democratic Party, $5,000 to 2006 gubernatorial hopeful Steve Westly and $10,000 to Hollywood director Rob Reiner’s “Pre-School for All” campaign, which became Proposition 82 on the June 2006 ballot.
The state party gave $26,600 of that money back three weeks after Hsu donated it in 2004, said Bob Mulholland, a party consultant.
“Mr. Hsu asked for the money to be returned, saying he had made the donation in error,” Mulholland said. “We haven’t returned the $1,000 he gave us earlier this year, but the party will be looking at that contribution.”
Calling the Federal Elections Commission and the California Fair Political Practices Commission, what in the hell have you been doing?
Standard = NOTHING
Flap says there is a political scandal here involving offshore Chinese interests which are not only illegal but subversive to the American politcal system.
Stay tuned…….
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California Superintendent of Public Instruction, Jack O’Connell
Jack O’Connell gets a mention in today’s Dan Walter’s column.
Of course, Jack will test the waters burning Reed Hasting’s money but others also will:
- Jerry Brown - current California Attorney General, former Mayor of Oakland and former California Governor.
- Steve Westly - former California Controller who lost to Phil Angelides last year in the Democrat primary for Governor.
- Phil Angelides - former California Treasurer and Democrat Party Chairman who lost to Arnold Schwarzenegger last year in the general election.
- Gavin Newsom - current Mayor of San Francisco who admits to sleeping with his campaign manager’s wife and carrying on a sordid affair.
- Antonio Villaraigosa - current Mayor of Los Angeles who admits to an affair with Mirthala Salinas, a Telemundo political reporter and who is in the middle of a nasty divorce.
- John Garramendi - current Lt. Governor of California who many Democrat activists describe as yesterday’s news.
- Bill Lockyer - current California Treasurer and former California Attorney General who flirted with the race against the Governator last year but was scared out by Angelides and Westly or was it Arnold’s poll numbers?.
So, who has the campaign resources to compete against high profile Jerry Brown?
Steve Westly
Stay tuned……
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