Posted on 10/06/2007 8:44:48 PM PDT by SmithL
SAN FRANCISCO - -- Mayor Gavin Newsom, attending Fleet Week festivities on the Marina Green today, lashed out at conservative critics who mocked San Francisco's consideration of a measure to ban the flight of the Navy's Blue Angels over the city during this week's celebration.
He cited that criticism and reports that the city turned down a U.S. Marine request to make a television recruitment commercial in the Financial District as examples of what he called exploitation by conservatives who don't "allow the facts to get in their way.
"Shame on the extreme right," Newsom told The Chronicle. "I am sick and tired of this city being depicted as anti-military. The extreme right exploits the exception when I believe there is a predominant respect in this city for the military, vets and those serving today."
The mayor praised the Board of Supervisors for rejecting the proposed Blue Angels flight ban by Supervisor Chris Daly late last month, and he said the Marines "were offered multiple locations" in the city to shoot their commercial before they ended up selecting the Marin County site of Kirby Cove close by the Golden Gate Bridge.
Citing the proposed Blue Angels ban, Newsom said he thought that the issue of safety - which Daly cited when making the case for his ban - was a valid one to raise in the wake of the death of a member of the famed flight demonstration team in a crash earlier this year. Since the team was established in 1946, Daly said 26 of its members had died in crashes.
But Newsom said initiatives such as the proposed Blue Angels flight ban play into the hands of conservative commentators
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B.S.
If it quacks like a duck, it’s a duck, despite it’s protestations.
General Frank Hummel shouldn’t have diverted the rockets.
Even the liberals like the Blue Angels. I overheard people today criticizing Bush’s Iraq policy in one breath, and reacting to the Angels like excited little kids in the next. Genuine military haters are actually pretty rare, even here.
They should buzz closer.
When they start hollering this loud, you know you’re getting close to the target.
Yeah, Newsom, just like you rejected the USS Iowa tie-up in San Francisco, you pinko scum. Ban gun ownership, ban the military, ban American history and give free sex-change operations to city employees.
You are a real American, alright. POS.
“Shame on the extreme right,” Newsom told The Chronicle. “I am sick and tired of this city being depicted as anti-military. The extreme right exploits the exception when I believe there is a predominant respect in this city for the military, vets and those serving today.”
Oh really, Mr. Newsom?
Perhaps a quick read of this article will refresh your memory:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/gate/archive/2005/08/24/cstillwell.DTL
Deal with it.
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Nice pic!
Good Ol’ Mayor Gastric Nuisance.. sigh .. He’s shameless.
where’s a FRank Jordan when ya need him? Oh that’s right , in the shower. :-)
The Blue Angels will have a special formation when they fly over San Fransissysco —
The Missing Fag Formation.
I’ve seen so many airhead liberals state “We are the REAL conservatives!”
To which I reply- at least they admit “conservative = good”, which is clearly implied in their claim.
Gavin Newsome, you are the High Priest of Modern Soddom and Gomorrah, that earthquake cannot come soon enough.....
Great picture, submariner!
Does my mmemory play games with me? Did the City Council of San Francisco declare the city a military free zone, or did it not? If it did, does that not close the discussion?
They need to fence in all these degenerates in San Fransicko... get the military and all the good people out before the 8.0 hits and it slides into the sea.
How do you ask a man to be the last one to die for the ungrateful?
If Bush is the stupid evil genius that the Angry Left believes he is, no doubt he's had Dick Cheney order a "cutout" added to the program of the ballistic missile defense site in Alaska that would allow North Korea to nuke the bastards. Then we can rebuild San Francsico and ship Americans in.
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