Posted on 12/26/2010 9:13:28 AM PST by SmithL
Gavin Newsom's strength and weakness as mayor of San Francisco has been his willingness, as he put it, to take the risk of making "glorious mistakes" or proposing ideas that critics would find "fun to mock." This is the mayor who banned city purchases of bottled water, signed the nation's first mandatory composting law and talked of harnessing the energy of ocean waves.
Newsom's most daring move of all - allowing same-sex marriages in February 2004, in open defiance of state law - only seemed to encourage further dashes of audacity by a politician with a penchant for policy analyses backed by PowerPoints, statistics and three-ring binders. His most trusted allies and mentors advised him, publicly and privately, of the perils of such an act of civil disobedience. Some saw it as a career wrecker. Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., at the time bluntly called it "too far, too fast, too soon."
"I kind of felt born again in politics, because we survived it," Newsom said of the same-sex marriages, which were later invalidated by the courts, but clearly helped force the national debate on an issue of basic equality that is steadily gaining public acceptance.
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Yep, city hall had never seen a bimbo like him.
And now he’s becoming lieutenant governor of California. He will probably run for governor in four years, if old Jerry Brown decides not to run for re-election then.
He’s very very liberal, in a liberal state. Every statewide elective office in Calif. was won by a Democrat this year. Though nationally we saw a Republican wave, California went its own way.
Right into the crapper.
Wouldn't that be "fabulous-th" mistakes?
He's the new Lt Gov... I didn't think California could get anymore doomed...
They elected the village idiot...
...and we knew that already;
Your point??
California off-the-wall Liberals live in San Francisco, Los Angeles, and along the Coast. The rest of the state, for the most part, seems to be more sane. The truly sane ones have left.
At the first opportunity, many are leaving CA in droves and companies are leaving as quickly as they can. Newsom, Moonbeam, and the other wackos will be left with their off-the-all wackos, unions, and illegals.
I wonder how much we would have to pay Mexico to take California back.
Why not sell California and the Mexicans to China? Make it China’s mess and I bet they’ll fix it. The libs and illegals won’t like it, but they’ll be assuming room temperature.
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