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In the News (Sat 26 Jul 08)

  
  Meet Gavin
Gavin Newsom is running for Mayor to further enrich his wealthy friends and family by making San Francisco intolerable for the homeless so that they will flee.
Gavin Newsom was launched from the silk-lined womb of Tessa Newsom via a silver umbilical cord on October 10, 1967.
Gavin is married to socialite, ex-lingerie model Kimberly Guilfoyle Newsom, who was given her job as San Francisco Assistant District Attorney as a political favor.
www.savethemanatee.com /Gavin/meet_gavin.html   (666 words)

  
 Gavin Newsom's mean streets | Salon News
Newsom's decision to allow 4,000-plus gay couples to marry in February, before he was stopped by the courts, irritated many fellow Democrats, who feared he'd handed a perfect wedge issue to President Bush.
Even Newsom supporters are surprised by the extent to which the man supported by downtown business has put inner-city issues on top of his governing agenda.
It was Newsom's third foray with the Project Connect team, but he's in the city's worst neighborhoods at least weekly now, talking with idle men in the projects, some of them gangbangers, as well as kids.
www.salon.com /news/feature/2004/07/23/newsom/index   (1301 words)

  
 Gavin Newsom - dKosopedia
Mayor Newsom's previous political experience had included being president of San Francisco's Parking and Transit Commission to which he was appointed (1996) by then mayor Willie Brown, who subsequently appointed Newsom to the Board of Supervisors in 1997.
Newsom was later elected to the the board in 1998 and re-elected in 2000 and 2003.
Newsom is running for reelection, see U.S. mayoral elections, 2007, but his campaign manager, Alex Tourk, resigned after the mayor admitted having an affair with his wife, Ruby Rippey-Tourk, who also worked in the mayor's office.
www.dkosopedia.com /wiki/Gavin_Newsom   (238 words)

  
 PlumpJack
Gavin Newsom is a fourth generation San Franciscan who has rapidly excelled in both the public and private sectors since his graduation from Santa Clara University in 1989, with a Bachelor of Science degree in Political Science.
On December 9, 2003 Gavin Newsom was elected the 42nd Mayor of the City and County of San Francisco.
Newsom quickly rose to the challenge and emerged with the most comprehensive reform of homeless policy in a generation.
www.plumpjack.com /principals.html   (1763 words)

  
 Gavin Newsom - Uncyclopedia, the content-free encyclopedia
Newsom was an outsider in the San Francisco political scene, born to third-generation San Franciscan and appeals court Judge William Newsom.
Newsom went to high school in wealthy Douchebagia and followed at Santa Clara College, where he excelled at baseball and developed the hairstyle for which he--indeed, the entire city of San Francisco--is known today.
Newsom died of a heart attack upon learning that his candidate, Hillary Clinton, would be dropping out of the race for president.
uncyclopedia.org /wiki/Gavin_Newsom   (902 words)

  
 Meet Gavin
Gavin Newsom is running for Mayor to tackle San Francisco's toughest challenges.
Gavin Newsom was born October 10, 1967 to the Honorable William Newsom and Tessa Newsom.
Gavin is married to Kimberly Guilfoyle Newsom, a San Francisco Assistant District Attorney.
www.hisnameistimmy.com /portfolio/gavinnewsom/meet_gavin.html   (422 words)

  
 Gavin Newsom at AllExperts
Newsom was born to retired state appeals court Judge William Newsom and Tessa Menzies Newsom in San Francisco.
A fourth-generation San Franciscan, Newsom is the maternal great-grandson of the Scotsman Thomas Addis, a pioneer scientist in the field of nephrology.
Newsom gained international attention, and attracted controversy, in February 2004, when he issued a directive to the city-county clerk to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples.
en.allexperts.com /e/g/ga/gavin_newsom.htm   (1064 words)

  
 [Hpn] Bringing Up Baby Gavin
Judge Newsom is friendly, gracious, and self-assured; he seems very much at ease with the considerable political and financial influence he commands despite retiring from the bench eight years ago.
Newsom Investments is managing partner of Loma Rica Ranch LLC, a corporation that plans to build a large housing development in rural open space near the city of Grass Valley in the Sierra foothills of California.
Gavin reported on his economic disclosure statement that by December of that year, his share had zoomed in worth to more than $1 million.
projects.is.asu.edu /pipermail/hpn/2003-April/007324.html   (3245 words)

  
 Mayor Office About the Mayor
Newsom’s willingness to transform the status quo when it has failed has become a hallmark of his administration.
Mayor Newsom’s refusal to accept the status quo is clearly seen in his innovative solutions to end chronic homelessness.
Gavin Newsom was born October 10, 1967 to the Honorable Judge William Newsom and Tessa Newsom.
www.ci.sf.ca.us /site/mayor_index.asp?id=22014   (1209 words)

  
 Gavin Newsom: "I have a lot of friends."
Gavin Newsom: "I have a lot of friends."
Gavin Newsom, google, larry and sergey, larry ellison, san francisco, terry semel
SF mayor Gavin Newsom, explaining his friendship with Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin:
valleywag.com /tech/gavin-newsom/gavin-newsom-i-have-a-lot-of-friends-162876.php   (290 words)

  
 Gavin Newsom: Universal Health Care for San Francisco | TPMCafe
Newsom offered a bold, west coast offense on civil liberties and surged to an 86% approval rating, even those who disagreed with him respected him for having the backbone to stand up and fight for marriage equality.
Newsom stepped in after the business community balked, bringing them to the table with the city's private hospitals, philanthropists, county public health officials and others.
Newsom, who is facing re-election in 2007 and has made the topic a cornerstone of his administration, is optimistic that his plan, which would need approval by the Board of Supervisors, will be implemented beginning next year.
houseoflabor.tpmcafe.com /blog/blogswarm/2006/jun/21/gavin_newsom_universal_health_care_for_san_francisco   (1242 words)

  
 sfbg.com | news
Gavin Newsom, the dapper young front-runner, looked relaxed and confident as he talked about his trademark issue – cracking down on homelessness – and mouthed the platitudes he's used again and again to describe why he should be the next occupant of Room 200, City Hall.
The key to defeating Newsom, campaign consultants agree, is for his challengers to get across to the public that he is not the centrist he so desperately wants to sound like, but the candidate of the rich.
Initially, when the Chronicle questioned Newsom on his failure to disclose loans from Gordon Getty in his filings with the Ethics Commission, he tried to blame the City Attorney's Office – until both former city attorney Louise Renne and her successor, Dennis Herrera, called him on it (see "And the Race Is On," 2/19/03).
www.sfbg.com /37/41/cover_gavin.html   (4010 words)

  
 Act Locally SF
Gavin Newsom keeps track – and measures the progress and results – of every one of his policy pledges.
Newsom will soon be sending the city’s Board of Supervisors a proposal that would make the recycling of cans, bottles, paper, yard waste and food scraps mandatory instead of voluntary, on the pain of having garbage pickups suspended.
Mayor Gavin Newsom said the U.S. census has somehow overlooked 100,000 San Francisco residents and the city is failing to collect millions of dollars in federal funding as a result.
www.actlocallysf.org   (1843 words)

  
 Who is Gavin Newsom? The danger of corporate welfare, anti-poor legislation, and City's chaos and ungovernability :: ...
Gavin Newsom constitutes the latest effort by the ruling elite to make one of their own the resident in charge at Room 200.
Gavin Newsom was born in 1967, son of Judge William Newsom who served the Democratic Party political machine, his patrons, as Associate Attorney with Willick, Wheat, Geary, Adams, and Charles, with James Martin MacInnis, and more importantly with Getty Oil Italiana, serving as in-house counsel for the corporation’s office in Rome.
Newsom’s argument is that the homeless use this money for drugs and alcohol rather than essential needs and that the City taking this money in exchange for providing these needs will stop these homeless from spending public money on drugs and alcohol.
www.sf-frontlines.com /modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=459   (3959 words)

  
 Gavin Newsom - Reviews on RateItAll
Newsom, a Democrat, is basing his campaign on economic development, public safety, and addressing issues related to homelessness.
Gavin would be good for continuing the status-quo and would follow the steps of his benefactor Willy Brown such as Preferential treatment for some of his closest contributores.
Gavin Newsom's record as a Supervisor is distinctly uninspiring, his war on the homeless unconscionable.
www.rateitall.com /i-28041-gavin-newsom.aspx   (1123 words)

  
 Mayor with a Mission: San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom talks about his fight for gay marriage: Gauge at Metro Weekly ...
Gavin Newsom has the crowd in the palm of his hand, telling them the story of how San Francisco became the first major city in the nation to issue marriage licenses to gay and lesbian couples.
But Newsom thinks his duty as mayor of a city that has been on the "leading edge" of gay and lesbian history for a generation requires him to keep pushing the marriage issue in any way available to him.
Newsom himself was married in 2001 in an Irish Catholic wedding that he jokes was "so involved it may still be going on." His wife, Kimberly Guilfoyle Newsom, is a legal analyst and television commentator.
www.metroweekly.com /gauge/?ak=945   (1171 words)

  
 Gavin Newsom - Valleywag
San Francisco's evil Board of Supervisors is standing in the way of hunky god-mayor Gavin Newsom and his efforts to save the world by giving thousands of dollars to San Francisco home and business owners to install solar panels on their property, if you believe the San Francisco Chronicle.
Mayor Gavin Newsom's office tried to garner good press by selling his efforts to bring free Wi-Fi to San Francisco as an effort to bring broadband to the poor, under the auspices of Project Tech Connect.
Gavin Newsom, San Francisco's freshly reelected god-mayor, descended into the bowels of Second Life for a quaint fireside chat with Philip Rosedale, CEO of Linden Lab.
valleywag.com /tech/gavin-newsom   (1874 words)

  
 Tavis Smiley . Archives . Mayor Gavin Newsom . July 14, 2004 | PBS
Gavin Newsom was elected the 42nd Mayor of the City and County of San Francisco on December 9, 2003.
Mayor Newsom is a fourth generation San Franciscan who has dedicated his political career to improving the City.
Two people that love each other, that are committed to each other, two people that want to live their life out loud and be afforded equal protection under the law and have the same social recognition that I'm afforded and my wife's afforded should be afforded to loving couples in any instance, in any case.
www.pbs.org /kcet/tavissmiley/archive/200407/20040714_newsom.html   (1799 words)

  
 RealClearPolitics - Articles - Gavin Newsom, Boy Mayor
Newsom has been a good mayor for San Francisco, and that is what counts the most.
Newsom's admission that he had an affair in 2005 with his campaign manager's wife, however, is impossible to overlook.
Pitiful as it may be, Newsom is the only buffer protecting San Francisco from the whims of a board of supervisors hostile to businesses and homeowners.
www.realclearpolitics.com /articles/2007/02/gavin_newsom_boy_mayor.html   (732 words)

  
 Gavin Newsom   (Site not responding. Last check: )
When the Municipal Railway was in crisis, Newsom joined with Rescue Muni to lead the fight to address the problem, eventually sponsoring Proposition E, which fundamentally reformed the system and has been an important reason why service has improved over the last few years.
As Supervisor, Newsom pushed to get a very successful $110 million parks bond on the ballot, and a guaranteed set-aside for the acquisition of open space and for capital improvements to parks.
Gavin Newsom's career in public service began in 1996 when he was appointed President of San Francisco's Parking and Traffic Commission.
www.cel.sfsu.edu /institute/Newsom.html   (178 words)

  
 San Francisco's popular mayor, Gavin Newsom, will be life of hot-ticket party - The Boston Globe   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Gavin Newsom was less than an hour off the plane from San Francisco, and already, somebody had dropped the H-word.
At that party, which Newsom attended with a staffer (his wife was set to join him today), he was trailed by several reporters and greeted a constant stream of well-wishers eager to talk to him about gay marriage and San Francisco.
For all of Newsom's social commitments this week, there is one kind of event for which he is not booked: a bona fide, legal, gay wedding.
www.boston.com /news/nation/articles/2004/07/26/san_franciscos_popular_mayor_gavin_newsom_will_be_life_of_hot_ticket_party?mode=PF   (870 words)

  
 The Bay Area Reporter Online | Editorial: Gavin Newsom for mayor
Mayor Gavin Newsom had just returned from Washington where he was a guest of then-House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi at the president's State of the Union address.
Returning to San Francisco, Newsom, in an act of amazing boldness and incredible political courage, ordered then-city Assessor Mabel Teng to issue marriage licenses to any couple who wished to marry, regardless of sex or gender identity, an order that Teng was happy to follow.
Newsom is the first to admit that there is much still to do, but we have confidence in his vision and faith in his abilities to lead San Francisco for the next four years.
www.ebar.com /news/article.php?sec=news&article=2293   (1493 words)

  
 Gavin Newsom Hub -- (Gay Gavin Newsom?) Towleroad, blog with homosexual tendencies.
Gavin Newsom, who has become known as the "gay marriage mayor" in some circles, is considering a run for California governor, the SF Chronicle reports.
Gavin Newsom appeared at a "town hall" event on Monday night in San Francisco with Bill Clinton, and today primary eve comments on the Clinton-Newsom relationship (or rather the chill between Newsom and Barack Obama) by former San Francisco mayor Willie Brown have irked gay Obama supporters.
Newsom talked about the continuing struggle for gay and lesbian marriage rights as California's courts continue to consider whether or not same-sex marriages are legal under the state's constitution.
www.towleroad.com /gavin_newsom/index.html   (5617 words)

  
 The Picture of Gavin Newsom
One union member interviewed praised some of Newsom's feats during the first term but added, “it is very hard to know what it is he's truly trying to accomplish, other than...
Newsom recently appointed the DPW's Mohammad Nuru to serve on a committee to pick the next director of the San Francisco Housing Authority.
Incredibly, Newsom responded to this affair by sacking two of the board members voting to remove Machen from her position.
www.thecityedition.com /Pages/Archive/OctNov2007/MayorNewsom.html   (2399 words)

  
 AIDE QUITS AS NEWSOM'S AFFAIR WITH HIS WIFE IS REVEALED / Campaign manager confronts mayor, who is 'in shock'
Alex Tourk, 39, who served as Newsom's deputy chief of staff before becoming his campaign manager in September, confronted the mayor after his wife, Ruby Rippey-Tourk, told him of the affair as part of a rehabilitation program she had been undergoing for substance abuse, said the sources, who had direct knowledge of Wednesday's meeting.
She told her husband that the affair with Newsom was short-lived and happened about a year and a half ago, while the mayor was undergoing a divorce from his then-wife, Fox News host Kimberly Guilfoyle, said the sources, who spoke on condition they not be identified.
Newsom's statement said Tourk "was instrumental in my first election, organizing a strong early re-election effort, and shaping successful policy during his service with the city and county of San Francisco.
www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/01/31/BAGM3NSFGQ7.DTL   (1292 words)

  
 cbs13.com - S.F. Mayor Gavin Newsom Apologizes For Affair
Newsom, 39, who is seeking a second four-year term in November, said in the statement that he accepted Tourk's resignation "with great sadness," adding that he was "an extraordinary leader of our campaigns and a tireless public servant."
Sources also reportedly told the Chronicle that Newsom's affair was "short-lived" and happened in 2005 while he was in midst of filing for divorce with his then-wife, Kimberly Guilfoyle.
Newsom is seeking a second four-year term in November.
cbs13.com /local/Gavin.Newsom.Alex.2.475866.html   (741 words)

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