Chris Daly
Gavin "Any Twosome" Newsom
Posted on 06/24/2007 7:59:43 PM PDT by SmithL
It certainly appeared spontaneous and made for some great theater on both sides, but the truth is, San Francisco Supervisor Chris Daly had been stoking rumors about Mayor Gavin Newsom's supposed cocaine use for months before his outburst last week at the Board of Supervisors.
And for just as long, the mayor and his crew knew it was coming.
One of the earliest hints came in March when Daly made it clear over coffee with us that the mayor's private life was fair game in the upcoming election -- including questions about his drinking, his rehab and his affair with his former campaign manager's wife.
"I don't think it will be any part of the progressive platform,'' Daly said of Newsom's personal foibles, "but I do think that it's within the public domain.
"The mayor still has dozens of questions out there that he still hasn't answered,'' Daly said.
Asked to elaborate, he said, "Have you ever done cocaine with the mayor? Some people have said they have."
Later that day, we called the mayor's office about Daly's allegations and a spokesman flatly denied them. Truth is, he almost seemed eager for Daly to bring it on -- if for no other reason than to watch it boomerang.
That's where things remained until Tuesday when, during a speech before the Board of Supervisors, Daly slammed Newsom for proposing cuts to drug rehabilitation programs while "artfully" dodging "every question about allegations of his own cocaine use."
The next day, after Newsom described the comments as a new low in politics, Daly said his remarks had been overblown and were just a small part of a speech dramatizing the plight of drug users who can't afford treatment.
(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...
Chris Daly Gavin "Any Twosome" Newsom
It’s real hard for me to feel much sympathy for either of these duly elected officials.
They have made the sh*th*le that they now wallow in.
Between the SF City Hall and The Board of SF Stupidvisors as they are currently constituted, I feel for the few sane folks still in the city.
Who cares if he’s guilty or not? It’s nice to see liberal scum at each other’s throats. They all deserve each other.
From the same column:
-- Epilogue: Defense attorney and TV legal analyst Daniel Horowitz is off on an Italian honeymoon after tying the knot with Valerie Northrup, whom he met after she was dismissed from the jury at the Susan Polk murder trial. Horowitz was defending Polk on charges she killed her psychotherapist husband in Orinda when Horowitz's wife, Pamela Vitale, was murdered in their Lafayette hilltop home in 2005.
Horowitz friend and co-counsel Ivan Golde confirmed the wedding, telling us the couple married at a Lafayette park a couple of weeks back.
For more background on the pairing up we called Carol Pogash, author of "Seduced By Madness,'' the definitive book on the Polk case. She told us that Northrup, a writer and world traveler, had been tossed out of the jury pool by prosecutors after they overheard Polk whispering to Horowitz that she wanted Northrup on the panel. . . .
Sounds like one of them is worse than the other, but I don’t know which.
LOL ... are these guys European?
They look it.
It depends on what cocaine is is!
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