Players taking sides in runoff Leal, Leno back Newsom for mayor

SF Gate/San Francisco Chronicle ^ | Sunday, November 16, 2003 | John Wildermuth, Rachel Gordon, Chronicle Political Writers

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City Treasurer Susan Leal became the first of the losing San Francisco mayoral candidates to make an endorsement Saturday, backing Supervisor Gavin Newsom in his Dec. 9 runoff election against fellow Supervisor Matt Gonzalez.

"I'd rather not be here,'' Leal admitted at a news conference at Newsom's Van Ness Avenue headquarters, but said she believed Newsom "will be the one to lead San Francisco.''

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What a coincidence. After polls that show a Green Party member that he could actually win, Newsom recieves two more endorsements (one from a city council member, and another from a former mayorial candidate). Apparently even they don't want a far lefties in power (and these people are pretty far to the left themselves).

I like this line.

"I have the greatest respect for Matt Gonzalez and it's a difficult thing to do to endorse someone else,'' he said. "There's not anything bad or wrong about the opposition, which has a different way of looking at the world.''

Greeny Gonzalez, in a world of his own. Even to these lefties.