Pseudo-revo

Dear Matier and Ross,

Your comparisons of Mayor Newsom to Ché sound like a preemie April Fools Day column*.
Did you hint at its fictionality by citing Gay Shame as an ally?

Even if Newsom borrows a few leftist phrases, he's a capitalist businessman who sees himself as turn-around CEO of a long-mismanaged nonprofit enterprise.
In trying to reform it, he can steal the R-word (long trivialized by hucksters hawking restyled widgets), but this would be a top-down "revolution from the throne".

As for the "Winter of Love", it instantly increased his political capital within The City; and positioned him for the future, as a genuine pioneer. In a few years or decades, after California voters accept equal marriage rights, he could seek statewide office as being socially progressive yet pro-business -- more like Schwarzenegger than Guevara.

Not buying any pseudo-revo,

Tortuga Bi Liberty

PS: I'm not claiming to be a revolutionary either;
merely a radical reformer.
Too many revolutions have revolved 360 degrees.

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* ".....more than one attendee remarked later how much he sounded like an emerging Che Guevara.
"My bet,'' quipped one back-row attendee, "he's trying to position himself for a period of massive social unrest and upheaval. He’s an opportunistic guy, and he knows that revolution is in the cards.''
Even the Mission High location had a message: Take political power out of the hands of politicians and deliver it to the people.
Although we must say that with the exception of a black bloc of students, the crowd looked pretty much like a who's who of local radical politics. With more than a bit of blue thrown in.
You see, it seems even with the mayor's recent political realignment, his staff was a touch nervous about his newfound radical allies (including the radical queer group Gay Shame) filling the hall -- so out went the calls, and just about every cop over the rank of captain ended up there.
"Old habits die hard,'' joked one police officer as she took a bathroom break, “Although we’re all fighting the same fight now, we cops still get carried away sometimes, and start swinging clubs at heads. Our bad.”
Gavin Newsom’s political trajectory has been given a warm reception in San Francisco, but like his anatomy, it is viewed with alarm in more traditional political circles across the state.
Mike DeNunzio, Chairman of the S.F. Republican Party, was one of those who likened Newsom to Ernesto Che Guevara.
“I met Che when he was about Gavin’s age. They’re two good-looking, well-endowed young men, with awful politics,” lamented Denunzio. “Gavin’s support for gay marriage just paved the way for his total degeneration. Next it was support of organized labor. Today, he is already talking about revolution. He’s been spotted at Critical Mass and he is rumored to be reading anarchist and communist literature.”
James A. Baker, advisor to San Francisco’s prestigious and powerful Carlyle Group, agreed. “I’m just saying that certain moneyed interests are concerned. This guy can talk all the revolution he wants, but I’d tread lightly if I didn’t want to end up like Che!”
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