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Gavin Newsom, San Francisco’s Teflon Mayor

by Randy Shaw, Beyond Chron (reposted)
Anyone trying to discover why Mayor Gavin Newsom is politically unbeatable in November need only examine the events of recent weeks. There was a Muni meltdown over the failed start of the “T” line, the City Attorney reported that the woman the Mayor had an affair with was allowed to sign her own timesheets (while others were approved by her husband), the city’s public housing crisis remains unaddressed, and gun violence broke out in multiple neighborhoods. But none of these issues “stuck” to San Francisco’s Teflon mayor. Why? Favorable media coverage is one answer, but there are more persuasive reasons why the city’s problems do not “stick” to the Mayor.
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§Newsom Takes His “Traveling Filibuster” to the Excelsior
by Paul Hogarth, Beyond Chron (reposted)
Whatever you call Mayor Newsom’s monthly Town Halls (“Fake Question Time,” a “Town Hall lecture,” an “infomercial” or a “filibuster”), no amount of policy talk can replace the fact that he has snubbed the will of the voters. Last December, Newsom refused to attend a regular Board of Supervisors meeting to answer their questions to comply with Prop I, and instead opted to hold monthly Town Halls – one in each of the City’s eleven districts. Not coincidentally, he was up for re-election in 11 months.

Newsom’s fourth Town Hall on April 21st (which focused on “Youth and Families”) at the Excelsior Boys and Girls Club left me wondering why I continue to cover these events. The Forum was called on relatively short notice, and on the same day that various “Youth and Family” events were being held throughout the City. The crowd was smaller than at previous gatherings, and even the chicken-suit protesters failed to show up – but police were ready to keep them out if they did.

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by San Francisco Green
Key to Newsom's teflon coating is his tight affiliation with the Democratic Party. While it moved away from backing him up over gay marriage because it was not expedient for its overall strategy to lose! in 2004, none of the powerful in the Party would venture to initiate anything more than a mild slap on the wrist or whispered advice for his corruption.

Why? They are as corrupt or more corrupt than he.

Worse: with the possible exceptions of Democratic sports Dennis Kucinich, and Barbara Lee and the eternal idealists who back them (those who help shore up the furthest left of the party's membership to bring them into the status quo's tent), Democrats care nothing about solving the real problems of their constitients and care most about quashing anyone who threatens the monopoly of power they fitfully share with Republicans.

So long as voters are shackled by people who do not recognize the real face of the Democratic Party they will always find their cities controlled by heartless machines through their carefully managed puppets.
Americans will finally have to draw a line in the sand, just like they did at the Alamo in 1836. None stepped across the line and died in the name of freedom and the right to follow their own destiny. Today we have been carefully brainwashed by what we do not know, because the truth has been suppressed by our own government and the open border zealots. Our own print media has been influenced by the monopoly of the power mongers who own the newspapers. Unless we turn our attention to the small town newspapers, the blogs or forums we would remain in complete solitude of the ugly truth. We have been invaded and just because it doesn’t show the emblem of a military regiment, none the less millions of foreign nationals have occupied our nation. The agenda is a simple one formulated by the wealthy elites, who cannot contain their desperate need for more profit. It’s a story as old as the world itself and the greatest scourge to control people like slaves.



The plan was secretly discussed in Banff, Canada in 2002, to slowly open the gates to millions of cheap foreign labor that would undermine the living wages of lower skilled on these shores. This was the hallucinating dream of the rich and powerful to begin the European Common Market like Union on our continent. They say if you put the evidence right in front of the publics face, they will never know the full impact until its too late. So it is with the (NAU) North American Union or as its additionally called, The Peace and Prosperity Agreement. The (PPS) is the grand plan of the Bush Administration, with signatures of Canada’s last Prime Minister Martin and a lame duck Presidente from Mexico. Unable to complete any practable changes in Mexico’s corrupt regime to alleviate

Gross poverty, he viewed America as the perfect patsy to relieve the festering powder keg of internal revolution. Why Canada’s co-conspirator joined this abomination agenda is unknown to me. But I’m sure the huge multi-national corporations had their fingers in this trillion dollar pie.

Outside of the American people’s flat refusal or voice of dissention, we must look to a few brave souls who have the backbone to speak out against any of the Shadows Government Global Domination. Enter Representative Tom Tancredo from Colorado, along with Representative Ron Paul (TX) and perhaps Steve King (IA). Forget their designation as Republicans or Democrats because both sides of our Congress are involved in the heinous plan to steal our flag, sovereignty and U.S. Constitution. The first stage was the 13 to 30 million illegal aliens squatting in America, followed by the unhindered movement of low maintained Mexican trucks traveling on our highways.



Bush must be held accountable for this Benedict Arnold treaty, for it will cause the downfall of this nations way of life. This is no longer a conspiracy theory because many state legislative bodies have approved bills that dissolve any mechanism that would try to overthrow our own system of government. We have enjoyed our freedoms and rights for 250 years, so we must fight any obnoxious plan to merge our three countries. We must look towards politicians who serve the American people and not the corporate monster that wants to enslave us.

Get the truth at: http://stopspp.com/stopspp/

http://www.judicialwatch.org

http://www.immigrationcounters.com/

by Lilathe
I think trying to blame Bush for and Iraq for San Franciscans lack of concern over the morals of their mayor is more than just a little bit far fetched. I truly believe that even San Franciscans can think about both issues in the same day. Gavin Newsorn is a morally reprehensible man. If there is or is not a war ongoing doesn't change that. If Bush or Clinton is president, it does not change that.
Please try to keep the blame where it belongs.
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