Posted on 01/31/2007 9:40:23 PM PST by tlb
SAN FRANCISCO -- In the midst of an election year, Mayor Gavin Newsom's campaign manager Alex Tourk has announced that he will step down from his post.
SFGate.com reported Tourk resigned after confronting Newsom for allegedly having an affair with his wife, Ruby Rippey-Tourk.
The admission from Rippey-Turke came as part of a rehabilitation program she has been undergoing for substance abuse, according to sources to the paper.
Newsom refused to comment on the report, according to NBC11.
Rippey-Tourk, 34, was the mayor's appointments secretary at the beginning of his administration in 2004. She worked for the mayor until the spring of 2006, according to the paper.
"It has been an honor and a privilege to serve the Newsom campaigns and the city of San Francisco and its residents," Tourk said in a statement.
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... That's the wool that the liberals will try to pull over our eyes, anyway. I'm sure that it will work in some cases.
The mayor's political advisor is out there right this minute posting exactly that on every SF-related blog he can find under dozens of sock-puppet accounts trying to get Gavin's toothpaste back in the tube.
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Ok, I know he apologized, said it's all his fault and it's all true and wants to "earn" the respect of the voters again.
In other words, he'll be elected again. :\
BUT on the other hand this COULD effect Pelosi's career and other democrats across the nation.
I mean, I hope that.
That ain't toothpaste and that ain't a tube.
Oh I know all about the RAGONE scandal.
You take my meaning, sir. Good show.
Did you read the sfgate blog, gavinwatch, sfist?
There are some pissed off people out there, but also like you said, the libtards are trying to convince the upset libs that it's all okay bc this is SF.
You know SF Values.
The mayor's lucky that the aide didn't eat some Twinkee's and then go an a rampage ala Dan White. /s
Me and a pal here who are on the same political wavelength have been confounding liberal co-workers for years by being impossible to nail down on what our ideology truly is. We've even left them more baffled when they've tried little tricks to get us to reveal ourselves.
It can be a lot of fun being a conservative insurgent in SF.
I'll go with a combination of drugs and eatng disorders
Sounds like all of the actors involved in this deserve each other.
I moved to Santa Rosa. It's much nicer here.
But, if you have livejournal join BA cons - see the tagline).
Personally, I'm disgusted with what happened, and then the utter hypocrisy of the left in SF because they don't want kink.com to be in that armory on Mission and 14th Streets - only because they wanted the mayor to give it to useless non-profits.
Frankly, I think kink.com is a better fit than useless non-profits.
At least he had good taste. She must have loved working "under" him.
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There IS a child involved. - Scroll down about 3/4 of the way.
What I can't fathom is that this woman must BE CRAZY to have relations with a man who is a known gay. Can you say "STD"? I thought you could.
Didn't see it but yeah, the rumor is Ruby was pregnant with Gavin's kid and had an abortion.
Nah, not gay. But a huge drinker, and someone might have allegedly possibly been doing coke with his mistress? Yeah.
Someone who has been bedding loads of women in SF? Yeah.
Dude, where's your wife been? She hasn't been on livejournal for like a year.
I moved to Santa Rosa and out of SF since June. I LOVE IT HERE.
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