Posted on 12/06/2006 7:58:59 AM PST by SmithL
San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom said Tuesday he will not be making monthly public appearances before the Board of Supervisors -- as voters recently called on him to do -- and instead plans to take the discussions known as "question time" on the road.
In a letter to the Board of Supervisors, Newsom said dialogues inside City Hall too often amount to "political theater" and that beginning in January he will embark on a series of town hall-style community meetings around the city rather than holding question time under the dome.
Though Prop. I, which passed with 56 percent of the vote, urged the mayor to appear in person at one Board of Supervisors meeting each month, Newsom said the public will be best served if the dialogue is moved outside City Hall.
"Too often inside of City Hall, policy dialogue becomes political theater, and the public interest loses out," he wrote.
Newsom's critics, however, charged that his new version of the measure circumvents the will of the voters.
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Newsom is a fool. I'm glad his wife divorced him.
This anti-American liberal freak should be in jail. A major law-breaker and flaunter of the will of the people, somehow remains a free man...totally disgusting and a major embarassment to REAL Californians...
Newsom said dialogues inside City Hall too often amount to "political theater"And (undoubtedly) televised "town hall meetings" don't?
-Eric
Newsom says he'll take questions in neighborhoods
...I have a question for you Mayor. Why do I have to pay for everyone else's misfortunes and/or lack of work ethic?
Some advice Mayor... When you're taking questions in the Castro district, keep your back to the wall. That is unless you're playing for the other team now, are you?
The useful idiot will have to have his own army protecting him as he goes about asking his stupid questions in neighborhoods. Crime in SF has become rampant since he came into office.
If he brings his little gay rodeo to my neighborhood I'll ask him why there's a nightly open-air drug market one block from the police station.
His "question time" meeting in the Tenderloin neighborhood should make for good political theater. Trying to listen to a crackhead homeless guy trying to break out a sentence is pure comedy.
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