- Gavin "Any Twosome" Newsom
Posted on 03/09/2008 8:21:54 AM PDT by SmithL
San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom is considering a 2010 run for governor - a campaign that would embrace many of the same divisive causes he has championed as mayor, including same-sex marriage, universal health care and protections for illegal immigrants, The Chronicle has learned.
Newsom has long been rumored to be a potential contender in what is likely to be a crowded field of Democrats looking to succeed Republican Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, a list that includes Attorney General and former Gov. Jerry Brown, former state Controller Steve Westly and Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa.
In recent months, Newsom has quietly been meeting with Democratic campaign strategists and other supporters to discuss a gubernatorial run, and he is now "certain to at least consider the possibility," said Eric Jaye, a Newsom confidant and political consultant.
When asked whether he was planning to run, Newsom said, "A number of people in the last few months have reached out and talked to me about it."
He declined to discuss any details of a possible campaign.
"It's premature to talk about it in the open," Newsom said. "In the next few months we'll see what happens."
But as recently as last week, Newsom was acting in a way that suggests the 40-year-old mayor may be doing more than just mulling his political future. He appears to be gearing up for a statewide campaign centered around those same liberal causes that have made him both a rising political star and a polarizing political force beyond the city limits.
Newsom has traveled outside San Francisco in recent weeks to talk to college students and business leaders about his administration's highly publicized focus on environmental issues like global warming. He has penned opinion pieces that have appeared on popular left-leaning Internet blogs like the Daily Kos,...
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- Gavin "Any Twosome" Newsom
This guy is to the left of Fidel Castro. I’m leaving the state if this POC is elected governor.
What’s Bill Thomas doin these days besides trying to work out his money in Kern Country on freeway alignment....
How about him? I’ll bet he’d make a good governor.
Bubba—licious. Beside being an insane liberal..he has the much-needed homewrecker RAT credentials.
Newsome’s most promising future campaign ad...He is a liberal as Ron “RED” Deleums but has messed up his city just slightly less.
See there are people would could be governess worst than Arnold.
Run Gavin, run!
Free Republic is a conservative site please don't mention liberal trouble maker RINO fools before breakfast.
He couldn’t screw the State up any more than it already is. Look at the great job he has done with San Francisco.
Please change the keywork to sodomandgavin.
That’s Ted Dansen’s wig!
Gavin “Any Twosome” Newsom
Gastric Nuisance as Gub... lololol
I hope he wins. The total crash in the CA economy will make it a Conservative State for generations.
yup... giter done!!! it's like watching that slow motion train wreck.
This guy has real good chance in California.
Feel free to add your own keywords.
Surprisingly, there are big pockets of conservatism in California—and a lot of people there are still irritated by what this guy did a few years ago with the phony gay marriage ceremonies and certificates in San Francisco—I really don’t see him going far with this gov. bid. Of course, I haven’t lived in the SF area since 2003...
He is vile, even for a Dem.
This is the guy that wrecked the marraige of one of his staffers because he slept with this wife. This guy should be out of office. Why do we put up with this stuff from democrats?
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