Newsom and Jennifer Seibel Newsom whom he married in Jan. 2008.
Ex wife, former SF Prosecutor and current Fox News Channel commentator, Kimberly Guilfoyle. They divorced in 2006.
Posted on 07/01/2010 1:04:35 PM PDT by SmithL
It didn't take long for Mayor Gavin Newsom's opponent in the lieutenant governors race to tag the country's "greenest mayor" with setting "some sort of record for political hypocrisy" after our colleagues revealed his wife had hundreds of thousands of dollars invested in oil companies, including the owner of the deepwater rig that exploded in the gulf oil disaster.
"Though Gavin claims to oppose offshore drilling when the cameras are rolling, his bank account has been swelling due to multiple investments in what he calls 'dirty' energy companies who make billions of dollars from off-shore drilling," said Brandon Gesicki, a spokesman for incumbent Lt. Gov. Abel Maldonado. "By criticizing the same companies that he profits from Newsom has set some sort of record for political hypocrisy."
It was just last week that Newsom stood along the Embarcadero with leaders of environmental groups like the Sierra Club and National Resources Defense Council to blast oil companies and their "shameful" pursuit of an "old dirty and darker economy" in trying to suspend California's landmark greenhouse gas reduction law. Several of the other speakers lamented the devastation in the Gulf of Mexico.
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I’ve come to the point where, as a conservative, I really want to see Jerry Brown elected as governor and Maldonado as Lt. gov. Why? Because CA has an appointment with a mathematical (budgetary) problem for which there is no solution. I believe CA has to decisively crash and burn, and when it does I want the government, from the top to the bottom, from the legislature to every DMV clerk with a defaulted pension plan, to know who led them down their path to utopia. No point electing these mushy “can do” Whitman and Fiorina types. Just elect a complete slate of criminals and let them steal everything that’s left. When the stash is gone, there won’t be any place to hide. There isn’t another way, IMO.
Any Twosome Newsome has been a hypocrite since he drew his first breath.
San Francisco deserves him.
He is the poster child for the entire Bay Area.
I am not sure if I will vote for Whitman the RINO. The train wreck is inevitable. Why not let the democrats get all of the credit for the disaster. I have heard Democrats say that the problem with California is the “Republican” Governor Schwarzenegger. On the other hand, I will vote for Rino Fiorina. I will walk barefoot on hot coals to get rid of that excreable midget Boxer. Boxer is bad for all Americans.
Fiorina is running for the U.S. Senator seat. Her opponent is Boxer. Easy decision.
Whitman for Governor is a tougher choice. Partially for the reasons you mentioned: 'We're doooomed. Doooomed'...
And it might not be a bad thing to have the Dem loons in office when everything crashed down... And also Whitman has ticked me off by speaking strong words against illegal immigration (i.e, 'invasion') the day before the Primaries, and then a few days after she won - coming out and speaking against the Arizona Law.
Newsom and Jennifer Seibel Newsom whom he married in Jan. 2008.
Ex wife, former SF Prosecutor and current Fox News Channel commentator, Kimberly Guilfoyle. They divorced in 2006.
Certainly true; Fiorina vs Boxer is an easy choice: But I have to consider it a litmus test of ultimate criticality: If Californians re-elect Boxer, it’s all over. Flat out. Period, end of subject.
Whitman is an irrelevance. 53 out of 54 CA congressional districts are gerrymandered Democrat. It’s just the way it is. If a dozen of them went Republican, it would be beyond the limits of any conceivable expectation, and yet it would still leave the CA legislature irretrievably in the hands of the Dems. Califormnians on the whole are such butthole stupid voters and leeches that I have zero expectation of turning this around beyond the day of its destruction.
That's a good way of putting it. Certainly the ultimate litmus test - if California re-elects Boxer (her Royal Highness ... 'call me Senator you peons...'), then this State certainly is flat-lined.
I also agree with you that on a State level we are hosed. The Legislature is owned by the Dems and the Government unions - and their irresponsible spending has bankrupted the State... We'll see what happens next -- but I'm at least hoping we return some sanity to the Federal level.
As a Californian, Brown terrifies me, and yet I find it impossible to argue with your logic. Boo hoo.
Nothing mankind or womankind or you or I or anybody else can do will change the course CA is on. That’s why I say CA has an “appointment” with a mathemetical equation with no solution.
I get no joy out of the outcome, but the patient has to hit bottom, and that’s what I’m looking for. Attempts to get someone in there who says they can fix it, or thinks they can fix it, is the alcoholic’s equivalent of denial, or delay, or...whatever term of non-therapy you’d like. So, as I said, I’d be happier, even though it will hurt me personally, both as a resident an as an indirect bondholder of CA debt, if the patient just gave up all resistance and walked into the front door of rehab. Whatever happens from that point is whatever happens, I just look at it as a necessary first step. There still is no solution to the math problem. It will be one hell of a long time before CA can pull even major fractions of its $20 billion deficit out of whatever orifice(s) one can imagine. It just isn’t there, and it isn’t visible from anything imaginable on the horizon. These idiots in Excremento can writhe on the floor in every variation of a fetal position possible and they will chop $1 bil maximum off that number. Maybe $2 bil. That’s as good as it gets.
I don’t disagree. I would be rich if I got $100 for every time I wrote here “California is doomed”. As a resident, I can’t wait to not be. The day I retire, I am gone. 10 more years. All I have to do is survive the next decade. I don’t assume my survival is a foregone conclusion. There are several ways I could not “survive” the next decade in California, from employment, to taxation, to crime and violence from riots, to natural disasters. All I know is, should I survive, I am out of here pronto.
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