Posted on 10/25/2007 12:46:39 PM PDT by SmithL
Mayor Gavin Newsom, who earlier this year said he'd change the way his office issues proclamations after he unwittingly honored a gay porn studio, found himself in hot water Wednesday over two more controversial proclamations.
This time, a representative from the Mayor's Office of Criminal Justice said proclamations would be given to Perry Mann, founder of the Exotic Erotic Ball, and rapper Snoop Dogg, who earlier this year pleaded no contest to felony gun and drug charges and who is accused by critics of glorifying the gangster lifestyle in his music.
Snoop Dogg is scheduled to perform a benefit concert Friday night as part of the ball, and proceeds will go to the Healing Circle Soul Support Group, a group of 230 Bay Area parents who have lost children to homicide.
Snoop Dogg in July gave the group $47,000, and Mann has given the group $45,000. The group plans to use the money for antiviolence publicity campaigns and to help new members pay for funeral costs, counseling and other services.
Tinisch Hollins, community outreach liaison for the Mayor's Office of Criminal Justice, sent an e-mail Tuesday to the public relations firm representing the Exotic Erotic Ball reading in part, "We would like to present both Snoop and Perry Mann with a proclamation on behalf of the City and County of San Francisco for their generosity and support for San Francisco families."
Mann and members of the Healing Circle called a news conference Wednesday afternoon at a recreation center on Sixth Street during which Hollins was scheduled to announce the proclamations on behalf of the mayor. She was due to hand Snoop Dogg and Mann the official proclamations at Friday's concert.
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Just more of those “San Francisco Values.”
And Michael Vick will be volunteering at the local SPCA shelter.
The problem is that Newsom outslicked himself - when he went into rehab after he cuckolded Tourk, he fofeited his ability to claim that he was drunk when he made these proclamations.
What a joke!
What a wonderful choice. No doubt he'll 'inspire' the crowd with songs of 'busting caps' in little Johnny's butt.
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