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(San Francisco) Mayor who admitted affair seeking counseling
AP via MSNBC.com ^ | 2/6/07

Posted on 02/06/2007 2:10:58 AM PST by paudio

SAN FRANCISCO - Mayor Gavin Newsom said Monday that he plans to seek counseling for alcohol use, following the disclosure that he had an affair with the wife of a trusted aide.

Newsom, 39, said that while "my problems with alcohol are not an excuse for my personal lapses in judgment," he had stopped drinking and wanted professional help staying sober.

"Upon reflection with friends and family this weekend, I have come to the conclusion that I will be a better person without alcohol in my life," Newsom said in a statement.

(Excerpt) Read more at msnbc.msn.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Extended News; Government
KEYWORDS: gruesomenewsom; newsom; sanfrancisco
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He was caught banging his campaign manager's wife, so he gets counselling for alcohol use.
1 posted on 02/06/2007 2:11:01 AM PST by paudio
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How Clintonesque.


2 posted on 02/06/2007 2:13:26 AM PST by HAL9000 (Get a Mac - The Ultimate FReeping Machine)
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Hmmm...let's see...aldultery...alcoholism...Now all he has to do is admit an affair with the burly dog-catcher and his poll numbers will be near 100!


3 posted on 02/06/2007 2:14:58 AM PST by gr8eman (Everybody is a rocket scientist...until launch day!)
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To: paudio

Oh, another "demhaber".--Go to rehab when things get sticky and the people love you once again.


4 posted on 02/06/2007 2:51:26 AM PST by freeangel ( (free speech is only good until someone else doesn't like what you say))
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He was caught banging his campaign manager's wife, so he gets counselling for alcohol use.

I can imagine how any counseling session begins in SF: "So when did the thought come to you that heterosexual sex was normal?"

5 posted on 02/06/2007 2:55:28 AM PST by Caipirabob (Communists... Socialists... Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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ping


6 posted on 02/06/2007 3:00:04 AM PST by Nailbiter
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To: paudio

This crap is giving us garden variety drunks a bad name.


7 posted on 02/06/2007 3:17:51 AM PST by EEDUDE
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He has to do something. It is San Francisco after all and now that the populace knows he has straight sex he's lost the homosexuel vote there.


8 posted on 02/06/2007 3:21:59 AM PST by Joe Boucher (an enemy of islam)
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To: paudio

Infidelity and alcoholism: what's new in SF?


9 posted on 02/06/2007 3:26:23 AM PST by Brilliant
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I thought he was gay for sure.
I guess it helps to look gay if you want to be mayor of SF.

10 posted on 02/06/2007 3:26:51 AM PST by Bon mots
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To: Caipirabob

Dennis Leary said it best.


11 posted on 02/06/2007 3:47:21 AM PST by steve8714
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To: Bon mots

Not gay, just metro...and in love with the smell of his own farts.


12 posted on 02/06/2007 3:48:12 AM PST by steve8714
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"seek counseling"

Who amongst us DIDN'T see this coming???


13 posted on 02/06/2007 3:55:13 AM PST by proudofthesouth (Mao said that power comes at the point of a rifle; I say FREEDOM does.)
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"(San Francisco) Mayor who admitted affair seeking counseling"

How abouse seek another job?

Problem is we let the RATS get away with this.


14 posted on 02/06/2007 4:16:14 AM PST by EQAndyBuzz (The Clintons: A Malignant Malfeasance of the Most Morbid)
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Is he going to rehab or just counselling?

I'm beginning to think that "Rehab" and "Counselling" are just two really hot nightclubs - all thre really cool beautiful people are going.


15 posted on 02/06/2007 4:18:20 AM PST by Hoodlum91 (I support global warming.)
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ha, Hoodie, it's the new "in" place. Disgusting to those who have had real and severe alcohol problems (and those of us who were married to them)


16 posted on 02/06/2007 4:21:22 AM PST by Shimmer128
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To: paudio

It wasn't me, it was the bottle...


17 posted on 02/06/2007 4:37:44 AM PST by DTogo (I haven't left the GOP, the GOP left me.)
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To: paudio
The Counselor
18 posted on 02/06/2007 4:39:17 AM PST by Loyal Buckeye
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To: EEDUDE

LOL


19 posted on 02/06/2007 4:41:06 AM PST by ShadowDancer (Life is not tried, it is merely survived if you're standing outside the fire.)
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To: paudio

I keep asking, do a couple of quickies with a drunken woman count as an "affair"?


20 posted on 02/06/2007 4:47:42 AM PST by Williams
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