Posted on 10/07/2007 9:56:19 PM PDT by DogByte6RER
Newsom welcomes the fleet with fierce defense of San Francisco as pro-military
Susan Sward, Chronicle Staff Writer
Sunday, October 7, 2007
(10-06) 16:55 PDT SAN FRANCISCO - Mayor Gavin Newsom, attending Fleet Week festivities on the Marina Green on Saturday, lashed out at conservative critics who mocked San Francisco's consideration of a measure to ban the Navy's Blue Angels from flying over the city during this week's celebration.
He cited that criticism and reports that the city turned down a 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 Supervisor Chris Daly's proposal to ban the Blue Angels from flying over the city, and he said the Marines "were offered multiple locations" to shoot their commercial before they selected the Marin County site of Kirby Cove near the Golden Gate Bridge.
Newsom said the issue of the Blue Angels' safety - which Daly cited when making the case for his ban - was a valid one in the aftermath of a crash that killed a member of the famed flight demonstration team in April. Since the team was established in 1946, Daly said, 26 of its members have died in crashes.
But Newsom said proposals such as a flight ban play into the hands of conservative commentators and other critics "and end up hurting the city." He added that other approaches work better.
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Hi there, thailor!
Right! They love the military up there! If I were the Navy, I would hold fleet week in Las Vegas before I held it in San Francisco.
That's the truth of it.
Looks like “Any Twosome” Newsome swings both ways when it comes to our great military.
...and Pelosi, the Queen of the Perverts, “prays” for President Bush “every day”...Prays to the Devil, no doubt.
...and Pelosi, the Queen of the Perverts, “prays” for President Bush “every day”...Prays to the Devil, no doubt.
Oh, how you've been so savagely, wrongly attacked. I guess you know how Rush feels, huh?
Here, here!
EVERYONE knows San Franciscans love seamen!
As an example of SF’s attitude toward the military, Army Street, a major thoroughfare in San Francisco, was recently renamed Cesar Chavez Street.
As you know San Diego has the largest Fleet Week in the country. With so much of the Navy and Marines here, we support them.
Gavin Newsom... isn’t it about that time where he’s stealing another man’s wife... AGAIN?
Anyone notice the dems have been pushing an agenda of “we support the military & troops” a lot lately?
Anyone want to bet this is being cordinated by the DNC to try to paint democrats as being more moderate for the 2008 election.
He totally forgot about things like the gay parades in SF, they seem to have at least one a month.
He also overlooked the hundred or so dimbulbs who tie up traffic at commuter hours at least once a month on their stupid bicycles.
Did the marines request the use of a San Francisco city street? Yes or no?
Were they denied? Yes or no.
That's the short and the long of it.
Not so recently...
That happened 15-20 years ago...
Still Army Street to me, though.
(Backpeddling Mayor) Newsom Welcomes The Fleet With Fierce Defense Of San Francisco As Pro-Military
pro-military....newsom cannot say this with a STRAIGHT face ...he cannot say this even with a GAY one!!!!!
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