San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newson’s State of the City Address – Whether You Like it or Not

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.