Posted on 09/10/2007 2:48:42 PM PDT by SmithL
San Francisco -- Saying he wants to start his second term with a clean slate, Mayor Gavin Newsom today asked all city department heads and anybody he has appointed to serve on a city commission or board to hand in their letters of resignation.
On Friday, Newsom also told all senior staffers in his office to do the same.
Newsom told department heads at his regular Monday department head meeting that he wanted each of them to turn in letters of resignation, but didn't say how many resignations he ultimately would accept, according to Mitch Katz, director of the city's public health department, who was at the meeting. Katz said the department heads were very surprised by the mayor's request.
Newsom, who is running for reelection in November but faces no serious political threat in the race, told department heads he wants to start his second term with "a clean slate," according to others present at the meeting who spoke on the condition of anonymity.
"He wants to start his second term not as business as usual, but with a new agenda,"
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How about leading by example?
Now if only he would hand in his own.
All he has to do is ask for the resignations of all the guys who’s wives he has done. That’ should clean house nicely.
sounds like smaller government to me? What’s the problem?
Uh, why didn’t Newsome, the core problem, lawbreaking, radical leftist, incompetent fool resign? Oh, he is just following Billy Clinton’s example.
He’s gone through all the hot wives, I guess.
That's acting too much of a Dimmocrat!
Not surprisingly, there is a large police presence in San Francisco the past few weeks. Hmmm...election coming up. It took two recent shootings in tourist areas to wake this clown up. I’m not expecting this sustained law enforcement effort after the election, though. But, I guess SF liberals will eat it up.
What kind of idiot would want to work for this creep?
That’s what I was thinking (maybe he should resign first). More than likely the beaurocrats will just end up getting shifted around anyway (from department to departmet). Democrats never like to reduce government!..
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