Posted on 11/04/2009 7:48:53 AM PST by SmithL
After three days of radio silence following his withdrawal from the governor's race, San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom unexpectedly jetted off Tuesday morning to Hawaii to join his wife and baby daughter, who already were vacationing there.
The trip, which the mayor apparently booked on his own, caught his staffers off guard. Many did not know he was gone until the city attorney's office sent out a notice informing them that the mayor had left the state and naming Supervisor Carmen Chu acting mayor.
Mayoral spokesman Nathan Ballard apparently was among those who did not get a heads-up about the trip. Just an hour before Newsom's plane took off, Ballard was peppered with questions about Newsom's absence from former Mayor Willie Brown's election morning breakfast.
Ballard said the mayor was "feeling under the weather," because that's what he'd been told over the weekend.
The weather is just fine where Newsom is going. And Hawaii isn't the worst place to assess one's future.
After all, his aloha comes as heads are still spinning over his abrupt withdrawal from the governor's race - although his pullout was less than a shock, with Newsom's poll numbers stagnating and his money drying up.
It was such a stressful time for the mayor that he huddled at City Hall in the final days of his campaign with someone alternatively described as a "life coach" and "corporate facilitator."
No word if the mystery man accompanied Newsom to the islands. And no word on when Gavin plans to come back to town.
(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...
Walkin the lava tubes with Castro St on his mind.
Looking for Obie’s BC?
Could he be in Thailand?
LOLOL GMTA
Irresponsible.
Makes a person wonder what he is up too. I wonder if he has looted taxpayers funds and is making a get away. The whole dropping out of the governor’s race and now sneaking(no other term fits)off to HI to join his family kinda speaks of dirty dealing somewhere. Could be wrong, I’ve been wrong before.
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