Who Is Dr Pablo Stewart and Why Is He Willing To Sacrifice Lives For Newsom Money?

Here is a link to audio from the KQED debate online:
http://www.kqed.org/programs/program-landing-local.jsp?progID=RD19

The double talk from the city official interviewed is understandable but a such talk from the "director of psychiatry at the Haight Ashbury Free Clinic" seems very strange. I had heard Stewarts statements about deaths following GA payments before, but this time he makes his broader views clear when he starts making statements about the homeless problem as more of a problem for the city rather than a problem for the homeless themselves.

Perhaps Stewart does have the beliefs he claims to have about ODs and GA checks but why is he always being interviewed as a “health worker” when ALL the call-ins on the program from nurses and doctors (who deal with the homeless) contradicted him? His tone of voice and unwillingness to condemn the anti-homeless billboard campaign has the tone of a party hack rather than a health worker. Which leads one to an obvious question that deserves study? Does Stewart receive any money from Newsom? Does Stewart stand to gain from a Newsom win for mayor (by being promoted to a city position that pays more than his current job)?

Investigative work needs to be done since the use of a supposedly "unbiased homeless advocate" to promote Newsom's far right agenda sets a dangerous precedent. Gavin Newsom’s core base of support is farther to the right than any former mayoral candidate, yet he has enough money to disguise his real agenda with a multi-million dollar PR campaign (including fake call-ins to radio shows, fake letters to the editors, the placement of agent-provocateurs in anti-Newsom protests…). The Haight Ashbury Free Clinic does good work and its name should not be dragged through the mud to promote a far right agenda.