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The Times of London profiles a Getty, a member of the same family that has backed Gavin Newsom for decades
What a profile in the Times of London!
Astonishingly, Gavin Newsom calls for “transparency”
Unusual source for this!
“You expose it. The only way to do it is that you’ve got to expose it. I mean no one understands procurement, no one even knows what the hell you’re talking about, but education is needed and you have to expose the “cartels.” I know that’s strong, but those are the types of words you’ve got to use in order to make people wake up, because otherwise people are never going to understand this stuff. It’s so complicated. It’s so dull, and it’s so important. I have a lot of friends who are part of the problem, and they’re friends because they do some good work, but they’re also part of a system that’s frankly pretty corrupted by money, lobbying and by standard operating procedures. And we’re all complicit.
I am … well, I’m part of the problem, and so all of us have to own up to it. It’s not an indictment of individuals, it’s an indictment of the system at large.”
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We are embarrassingly weak when it comes to transparency. In fact, we are one of the least transparent states in this country. It’s inexcusable. It’s unconscionable, and we are wholly inadequate in terms of our legislative thrust and mandates, and it’s just inexcusable. So the answer is an unequivocal yes. We’ve got a lot of work to do as it relates to transparency.
— Gavin Newsom
Read the full story here.
Joe Eskenazi in San Francisco Magazine Shows How Gavin Newsom Gained Power Through Ballot Initiatives
Joe Eskenazi writes in San Francisco Magazine:
“The relative ease of getting measures on the ballot enables politicians who have—surprise!—political motivations for going to the voters. The best local example of this was when Supervisor Gavin Newsom introduced the Care Not Cash measure in 2002 and won the mayor’s race a year later. “Gavin wasn’t as prolific a legislator as others,” recalls his campaign manager, Jim Ross. “But every voter knew he was working on stuff, because every election he’d have a measure on the ballot.” If not for Care Not Cash, “Gavin would not have been mayor,” notes one of his political contemporaries. “The big thing is, on ballot measures, there’s no contribution limit. You can be blunt with donors: ‘Hey, if you like me, this helps me elevate myself!’”
You can read more (including how fellow corporate conservative Supervisor Scott Wiener manipulates the process) here.
You can read about the egregious Care Not Cash (called by many “Con Not Cash”) in a Poor Magazine op ed penned by a homeless man here.
Convenient Timing or Corruption?
The San Diego Reader writes
“San Diego, billionaire Jacobs’s initial 2012 drive for his Balboa Park bulldozing plan was marked by a $12,000 contribution to the reelection bid of Democratic lieutenant governor Gavin Newsom, less than a month after Newsom sent a letter to California state preservation officer Wayne Donaldson, in which Newsom demanded that Donaldson “withdraw your comments” critical of the project.”
Peter Thiel Gives $56,400 to Newsom’s Gubernatorial Campaign!
A very controversial donor!
A notable Democratic exception: Thiel gave $56,400 in July last year to Gavin Newsom’s run for governor, the maximum. We’re told Newsom and Thiel have a political relationship dating to Newsom’s days on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors.
Read more here: http://www.sacbee.com/opinion/article80734812.html#storylink=cpy
Police Union Opposes Newsom’s Ammo Control!
Hmmm,
He must be doing something right if the union is opposing him!
Does Willie Brown Hold Gavin Newsom in Contempt?
Former SF Weekly writer Joe Eskenazi is now the chief rabble rouser for the liberal establishment monthly magazine, San Francisco Magazine. His piece on Willie Brown — the man who made Gavin Newsom — is a must read!
Joe Eskenazi writes in San Francisco Magazine:
In the meantime, Brown can columnize about instituting transit policies that would, nakedly, benefit his rideshare-app client or promote his political creation Gavin Newsom as a potential Hillary Clinton running mate. (Perhaps coincidentally, Lieutenant Governor Newsom has pushed a San Bernardino County plan to allow the use of eminent domain to seize homeowners’ underwater mortgages—a plan that would enrich a company in which Brown is a partner. In private, and when not writing for the newspaper of record, confidants say Brown is far less charitable regarding Newsom’s abilities.)
Willie Brown and Gavin Newsom
Gavin-Ex turned reactionary Faux News Host buys $3.4-million Apartment in NYC
Kimberly Guifoyle –she of the spread in GQ with Newsom — has purchased a $3.4-million apartment in Central Park West.
By their values shall ye know them.
Will Villaraigosa enter?
“I have a lot of service left in me,” says Los Angeles’s former mayor Villaraigosa, the LA version of a Newsom-style vacuous bobblehead politician.
The Associated Press reports.
This, most definitely, makes us barf:
“Now in private business and consulting, Villaraigosa has been helping Hillary Clinton raise money — he was a national co-chair for her 2008 presidential campaign. He considered running for U.S. Senate this year, but declined.”