Posted on 02/02/2007 7:59:56 AM PST by SmithL
IT'S TIME for the 39-year-old boy mayor to grow up.
Look, I'd rather not be writing about Gavin Newsom's personal life. Newsom has been a good mayor for San Francisco, and that is what counts the most.
Like many who have watched him, I've tended to figure that, as Newsom is divorced, good-looking and holds a high-profile political office, he's going to get around.
When Matier & Ross reported that Newsom had been dating 20-year-old Brittanie Mountz, I questioned -- not for the first time -- his judgment. I wondered what Newsom would have to talk about with someone so young -- if they talked. But it was his personal life. If Mountz was seen drinking what looked like a glass of wine in public -- someone may have broken the law, but there are bigger wrongs in this wide world.
Then there was the chatter about Newsom showing up at the hospital well into his cups to comfort the family of slain police officer Bryan Tuvera. Again, it was late on a Friday night. I thought, well, even a mayor is entitled to some time off the clock. Let him be human.
Newsom's admission that he had an affair in 2005 with his campaign manager's wife, however, is impossible to overlook. Newsom not only betrayed Alex Tourk, a friend and one-time deputy chief of staff, but raised the question of Newsom's character. He betrayed a friend and loyal aide, let down his staff and lost his patina of professionalism. The affair was not simply bad judgment, it was cruel.
And stupid.
Now voters have to ask themselves: If Newsom could treat a good friendas badly as he treated Alex Tourk, how does he treat people who aren't his friends?
(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...
truth really is stranger than fiction........
Oh, for the love of....! This article is nothing but a puff piece (not the hit piece it pretends to be) intended to take the sting out of the whole story.
If Newsom were a Republican that last part would say "his enemies".
As it should, there should be no sting to this story. People have affairs in every city town village and hamlet on this planet, they most often are not national news as this one should not be.
Headline could read:"Mayor Newsome Mounts Brittanie"?
He's a liberal. They behave this way. They have no moral compass.And having seen his ex on FOX I wonder what this guy was thinking.Sounds like he took lessons from Clinton.
WEll.......Gavin is related to Nancy Pelosi by marriage, so one should not be surprised that he behaves this way. The incestuous SF political scene is full of the likes of Newsom and Pelosi. They have an elitist attitude and behave almost as if they are royalty., Her higness Speaker Nancy has just requested the use of military aircraft to transport her AND her family around the country. Their sense of entitlement and privilege is shocking, but should surprise no one.
It doesn't matter what you think or I think about Newsoms affairs, this story would have been written differently had Newsom been a Republican.
Porn star name or what?
Middle ground??? We're talking about SF here. This man broke laws while he was mayor. He isn't a mediator he's an instigator.
She must have an interesting definition of good...
Sex Trafficking - San Francisco Is A Major Center For International Crime
No, if the media were different, this story would've been written differently. Get it now???
OK. You don't get it.
By the way, if Newsome was a Republican he would not be Mayor of San Francisco.
Most of them probably wish he was gay.
For both your logic and the correct use of the pluperfect past verb, you should be declared the winner of this thread.
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