Gavin "George W" Newsom Claims Labor Union Support: Follow The Money

Gavin can.

One thing I'm wondering is why the Chronicle is allowed to endorse a candiate when they're the only daily delivered major paper in town? Why isn't there some outcry? They will be one of the main forces to get voters to go with Newsom - the people who watch CNN and never read about politics, but check to see who the Chron endorsed. They'll miss all the scandal stories, or won't care (like the 80% who now don't care about WMDs), but they'll be looking for their cheat sheet come election day, and they'll pick up a newspaper.

We gotta do something about the Marina Mannequin.

If you read a recent article in the SF Weekly it's apparent this douche-bag hasn't done a single real thing in his life (think JFK Jr. except much dumber and much much uglier). He's simply leeched off his rich friends and family Getty connections to start businesses and invest in swank real estate. He's no better than George W. Bush. He would be a dismal failure if it weren't for his corporate-connected pappa.

What's even worse about this guy is that he tries to hammer the homeless and panhandlers without a goddamn CLUE what it is like to struggle. He is incredibly out of touch in his little cornbred Marina fiefdom and has no business running the city or even a hot dog stand. He's that stupid and out-of-touch. I know he has a hot piece of ass wife but between them they have roughly 0.5 brain cells. She'd be better off on the runway than as the worst lady of San Francisco. Gavin did, however, have a tanning bad installed in his college dorm.

Let's get this classist brainless dolt out of politics. Fuck Gavin Newsom! Him and his friends are the corroded fecal refuse at the bottom of JCDecaux public toilet.

--Vincent Parry, still on the run...

You are being so tough on my husband! He really cares! He's even more caring than all the girls I met during my sorority charity event! He loves everyone! Let me tell you how much.

One time Gavin kicked a homeless guy right in the head with one of his Armani shoes. Blood spattered all over the corner of 6th and Market. Gavin graciously offered a napkin from his Molly Stone lunch kit to a homeless woman on the corner. "Clean up that blood, scag, Willie Brown is coming down here to defecate in YOUR nest, " my lovely hubbie intoned.

After he called the guy he initially assaulted a worthless piece of shit and kicked him in the groin for good measure Gavin offered him a Band-Aid! Isn't that sweet! Gavin cares, he really does! It was even a Scooby-Doo Band-Aid! Gavin absolutely loves Fred. The girls from the sorority think it's so cute that we call each other pet names from Scooby. I'm real tight with my sorority sisters, by the way. We invite them to all the Getty orgies where we roll around in crude oil and shout racial slurs! We also send each other Revlon kits and action figures of homeless San Franciscans, each with a customized welfare check that reads "0.00 DOLLARS."

Another time, Gavin called a caterer when I was busy with the dog mauling trial, y'know, looking cute while everyone else did the work. He offered to have caviar and seared mahi delivered right to the courthouse with a little Dom Perignon. He even had a courier bring over a hollowed-out homeless man's skull that I could use to quaff bubbly! He knew I'd been paying out of pocket for my cheap $50 lunches so he decided I needed "Care Not Cash." Oh, it was like the time we sipped $10.00 Starbucks lattes and looked at the city while driving our customized BMW across the Golden Gate Bridge and wondered how many homeless people we could starve to death if we got into power! Or how many gay activists we could have bashed right in front of their own center! We've always wanted to give back and help the community, and it looks like we've done that. I'm so darn proud of Gavin. He's even making his GED classes on the weekends these days.

All I can say to you so-called progressives out there is that Gavin really cares. He's the real progressive. The girls from my sorority LOVE him so he must be doing something right. Let's elect my husband mayor so we can show the world how much we care -- whether it's by burning homeless encampments to power SUVS, banning all free speech or giving Willie Brown insider Getty trading tips! We care so much that we want everyone to think happy thoughts.

Yours in Care, Not Cash

Love,
Kimberly Guilfoyle Newsome

Radical idea here: if you don't like Gavin find a candididate who will get more votes.

My guess is that Newsome probably has support from the more conservative unions, the building trades, and the Fire Fighters-Ken Morgan

The Willie Brown Machine supports Newsome so some unions no doubt will as well. The head of the Port commission and Local 510 (sign display union) Business Agent Mike Hardeman is one of the union honchos in Newsome's camp.

Secondly, Newsome's anti-homeless politics have played well for him (so far). The homeless activists were TOTAL FAILURES in putting up opposition to Newsome's "Cash Not Care" ballot measure. Instead of writing off everybody, who is frustrated with the homeless situation in SF, as "yuppies" and "fascists" they might want to reflect on why working class voters voted for his lame Cash Not Care measure.

Thirdly-- To Ken Morgan-- as I remember the ILWU held Willie Brown's victory party at their union hall. Face it Ken-- unions are a racket, including the ILWU (despite their occasional posturing), and are in bed with business at the expense of the poor and the rest of the (non-unionized) working class.

If you don't want Newsom- a pathetic, anti-poor, anti-homeless, pro-SUV, pro-upperwardly mobile, hateful, false, blatant fool to steal the election, volunteer for Ammiano's campaign:

Tom Ammiano for Mayor
742 14th Street
San Francisco, CA 94114
(just west of Church Street)
Call us at: 415-552-0345

Tom actually should've won (by many of accounts, did win) with his amazing write-in/run-off campaign last time, except Willie cheated in a number of subtle & not so subtle ways: illegally, deliberately *not* registering pro-Ammiano voters in time for the election, not counting the largely pro-Ammiano 'provisional ballots' of those who insisted on voting (as was their right) despite intimidation & false information given out at City Hall discouraging them at the time of the election, and basically pulling the typical Willie 'drown the ballots' routine throughout. The State was called in to monitor the situation, and presumably this is what has led to some of Willie's dictatorial ballot-jockeying shenanigans to be unveiled during local elections since. Wonder why Hallinan won by such a large margin in that race but Ammiano supposedly lost when they had a virtually identical voter base?

People, get up off yer butts & support someone who gives a shit about the city. No politician is going to be perfect, but this is a viable alternative to even further dot.com gentrification, even more of the city's character being destroyed- historical buildings AND what few creative, vital people we have left, after 8 years(!!) of Brown's developer chums' carte blanche, locust-like oppressive destruction of the city's viable rental housing in favor of monstrous dot.com 'condo lofts' everywhere- part 2 to commece as soon as the economy 'recovers' here in SF and Brown attempts to install his protege into office. If Gavin 'silver spoon' wins, you've got no one to blame but yourself- get involved, VOLUNTEER AND VOTE! :)

Because they don't read. They watch Wolf Blitzer on CNN and the Raiders and the Giants. They go to BBQs. They buy shit all weekend. They go to movies. They don't read anything political except Chron headlines, which are plastered with Gavin's and Care Not Cash's names.

The thing about that is, it doesn't matter what the small print says - if SF 'Friends' zombies see words over and over, they forget to bother to understand why they're seeing those words, only that because they've seen them so many times, other 'Friends' must be voting that way.

And so, just moments before it's time to vote, they check to see who has the most names lined up behind them, and who Willie and the Chron like, and then they're just like everyone else, as they aspire to be.

In SF, sadly, the working class appears to be mostly ignorant. I spent a number of weekends asking people questions about how they planned on voting - virtually every person I spoke with about Care Not Cash was ignorant about the reality of the measure.

And once the homeless activists were TARGETTED by the Chron and elsewhere, it became the 'in' thing to attack them, just as the person above is doing.

Labor unions are still deciding how they are coming down on the upcoming mayoral election. I plan to be involved in my union's input, and we've just started hearing about possible endorsements for this election. Newsom wants to sew up the labor vote early and put it away. Gavin gives me the Willies. He's already trying to run for nationwide political office and he's using our backs to step up on. Judge how he cares about the rights of workers by those he has tried to take rights from: day laborers and the homeless.

i wouldn't vote for tom ammiano if he was running against charlie manson.

Gavin Newsom, Tom Ammiano, Angela Alioto, Susan Leal and all the rest of the declared candidates for mayor have one thing in common: They are all Democrats and that is sufficient reason not to vote for any of them. Since the Democratic Party is a capitalist Party, it is anti-labor by definition and cannot represent the workingclass.

All of these good Democrats support all the stadium swindles which alone is sufficient cause to not vote for any of them. They all supported privatizing public land to circumvent a good Church-State ruling making the cross on Mt. Davidson illegal so as to keep the cross on Mt. Davidson, demonstrating their contempt for the Bill of Rights and their support for theocracy. They also all support the entire Democratic Party ticket, including presidential candidates, US Senate, Congress, state office candidates and office holders including the despicable Gov. Gray Davis, ad nauseum. And, of course, they all support Israel, the US puppet state in the Middle East to protect US oil profits.

The Democratic Party is a death penalty, warmongering, prison-promoting, capitalist, anti-labor party.

Tom Ammiano certainly did win the 1999 mayor's race with 60% of the vote; Willie Brown sits in office with 40% of the vote plus election fraud and now only 20% support. He jumped into the mayor's race at the last minute as a write-in when the socialist candidate, Lucrecia Bermudez, clearly was retaining her 20,000 votes she had received when running for supervisor in a citywide election, an extraordinary achievement for a socialist candidate. Ammiano, like a good Democrat, jumped in to keep the Reds out of office, which is the whole reason for the existence of the Democratic Party, the twin capitalist party to the Republican Party. The Democrats play to the Left and its base, the workingclass, to get elected, and then carry out the same capitalist agenda as do the Republicans.

As to the homeless issue, every mayor since 1980, when the homeless crisis started (under Democratic Pres. Carter), has used the homeless as a scapegoat, and these mayors were and are all good Democrats. That alone is sufficient reason to never vote for any Democrat at any level of government.

The homeless issue is a housing issue. We now have plenty of empty apartments the landlords are keeping off the market as tax write-offs by asking for impossibly high rents. The City can and should take over all the long-time empty apartments by right of eminent domain and permanently house the homeless in those apartments. They could and should take the money out of the police budget, which should be cut to the minimum the law requires. They should also demand the money from the federal government, which can and should take the money from the utterly worthless military. But, being good Democrats, they, like the Republicans, cannot and will not do anything good regarding the homeless.

As to the election fraud, it was committed in the same manner and by the same parties as in the June 3, 1997 49er Stadium Swindle election, where we voted 70% against this racket and it was recorded as 50.2% "yes." The leading parties perpetrating this fascist election fraud were, and are, Willie Brown, Amos Brown, Cecil Williams, Glide Church, Nation of Islam, Housing Authority, TURF, A. Phillip Randolph Institute, Walden House, San Francisco Police Dept, Democratic Central Committee, Republican Central Committee and the Chamber of Commerce. See:
http://www.brasscheck.com/stadium

With our strong peace movement organized to a great extent by socialists as far as San Francisco is concerned; with over 15% of San Francisco voters voting for Green Party candidate for governor, Pete Camejo, and with a well-established socialist community, there can and must be a socialist candidate for mayor. I, for one, will skip the mayor's position if there is no socialist candidate for mayor, and I urge everyone else to do the same. A socialist can and will campaign in the workingclass communities, registering the thousands of workers who are not registered to vote but are eligible, and will have a viable housing program for the workingclass, whether homeless or housed.

There are 600,000 adults in San Francisco, 300,000 of whom vote in a high voter turnout election. Most of the other 300,000 are eligible to vote and most of that same 300,000 are workingclass. It is a ringing indictment of the Democratic Party machine, which has sat at City Hall for some 40 years, that most of the workingclass does not vote.

A candidate must be picked by May 30 as that is when signatures can begin to be gathered in lieu of payment of the filing fee. See the election calendar at:
http://www.sfgov.org/site/election_page.asp?id=10618

"The City can and should take over all the long-time empty apartments by right of eminent domain and permanently house the homeless in those apartments."
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This has to take the award for "Most Ridiculous Idea Seen on the Web this Morning"

Editor -- Despite utterly miserable weather last weekend, mayoral candidate Gavin Newsom and his volunteers were out on the streets meeting citizens and business owners in the Excelsior and elsewhere. Angela Alioto was vacationing in Italy.

That tells me all I need to know about who deserves to be mayor. Yet there's another letter in Wednesday's Chronicle ("Newsom's dirty trickster") trying to flame Newsom. Why do people go out of their way to find reasons to hate someone they don't know, who is just trying to make a difference?

RYAN CHAMBERLAIN

Is that like being called anti-semitic if you criticize Israel?

If unions are so useless to workers, why does management fight union organizing drives with such vigor? Why are 10,000 rank and file workers, who are members of union organizing committees, fired every year for union organizing? As someone, who has worked in manufacturing, distribution, clerical and mining, union and non-union for well over 25 years, union is definately better. I've been shot at in Vietnam, been in a coal mine cave-in in Utah, and knifed in San Francisco. Do you know which of those experiences were the worse? Non-the worse thing that has ever happened to me is working non-union. Perhaps it's a different story for the many Bay Area leftists, who have artsy-fartsy type of jobs. -Ken Morgan

Hey Ken-- Shit you've been through a lot. I respect your opinion that having a union is better than not. I agree- I've been in an union and its good side was a lot better than its bad side. However there is no way that unions will lead the fight (unless supporting people like Willie Brown is "fighting"). I only see improvements in every day life coming from the bottom up not because of unions but despite them. Unions generally demobilize their rank and file into by putting their resources and energy into supporting various democratic politicians and other electoral campaigns. I believe "fighting" means mobilizing rank and file workers and other progressive and radical elements into taking business head on-- I don't really see unions doing much of this.

My first response may have come off as a little too flippant. I apologize. I was under the influence of my arsty farsty friends. I'd imagine we are both probably somewhere in the same ball park-- politically-speaking. Peace.

While I'm very pro-union, that doesn't mean I support everything the union leadership does. For example supporting anti-union politicians such as Diane Feinstein, who supported the use of Taft-Fartley against Longshore workers, or governor Bruce Scabbit of Arizona, a Democrat, who used state cops to break a mineworkers union, or Democrat governor Pepich of Minnesota, who used the national guard against striking workers at the Hormel meatpacking plant in Austin, MN.

I'm seeing them in many windows. Go figure.

I've had enough! How 'bout you? I am interested in starting/joining, an "Anyone But Gavin" voter block/community coalition targeting undecided voters and the lack of care for homeless, and underserved communities.

The intent is to build recognition and support base for the rest of the field... "Anyone But Gavin!" The end goal would be to bring homeless issues and comprehensive approaches to care to the forefront, and possibly help promote progressive candidates who will better serve SFs diverse populations.

The SF CHRONic and other Newsom proponents would like us to believe that SF voters overwhelmingly supported Porposition N. Yet, it's apparent from the numbers that Prop N did not win by mandate, rather SF voters were alseep when Prop N passed. I think there was something like 27% turnout? Electoral politics may dismay and disgust, but staying away lets creepy, money grubs take control of the decision making process under which we all must live. Like it or not, (electoral politics that is) SF progressives should band together to ensure Newsom-Getty does not win in November. Enough is enough! Let's get a progressive into office? Not excited by the candidate field, well let's not turn away for that reason alone. Help keep Newsom out and all those who support his heartless anti-homeless plans!

I am concerned that Getty money and the JD (jack davis) tactics this affords will drown out or marginalize arguments crucial to Newsoms defeat. It may prove useful to rally undecided voters/prospective voters around a campaign to defeat Newsom, and other elected Prop N proponents, especially now when big money campaigns rule the PR roost months before the vote.

If you have any ideas or have heard of anyone else expressing these views, please post. Thanks.

Editor -- Despite the overcast weather last weekend, mayoral candidate Angela Alioto and her volunteers were out on the streets meeting citizens and business owners in the city. Gavin Newsom was vacationing in Mexico. That tells me all I need to know about who deserves to be mayor.

Is Mr. Perry's comment is typical of the caliber of readers on your site, it is a sad comment on ignorance and stupidity.