Mayor Gavin Newsom (center) often dresses casually on the weekends, as he did at a "March
Gladness" basketball tournament in San Francisco's Bayview-Hunters Point in 2004.
Posted on 01/22/2006 8:33:41 AM PST by SmithL
One would think that with his tall figure, movie star looks and trademark gelled hair, San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom would be a tough guy to miss if he hopped onto your cable car -- but that doesn't seem to be the case.
"Get him out of that suit and you'd be surprised at how many people don't recognize him -- especially if he's in jeans, a baseball cap and sunglasses, which is what he normally wears on his day off," said mayoral press secretary Peter Ragone.
Apparently so. Last week, the mayor let it be known that, while traveling incognito, he had been catching cable car conductors "nickeling" fares -- pocketing the $5 cash for rides.
"He usually rides them on Sunday down to the Powell Street turnaround," Ragone said. "He likes to check and see how the tourists are being treated."
It's not something new for the galavanting Gavin. His first year on the job, the mayor liked to call department heads to his office, then drag them out of City Hall on unannounced tours of the Tenderloin and other hot spots.
At one point, he even kept two recycling bins in the trunk of his town car so he could scoop up litter he spotted while driving from meeting to meeting.
Early on, Newsom was also given to jogging through the Tenderloin, a practice that led to one of the more humorous exchanges of his mayoralty.
According to police and City Hall sources, Mayor Gavin was shocked (shocked!) by the number of small-time drug dealers in the neighborhood and demanded that more cops be put on the streets. It was a topic he never tired of bringing up with police union boss Gary Delagnes.
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..musta been all those party favors, from the weddings he perform last year
He likes to go icognito.
It helps avoid prosecution when he is having sex with small boys.
(Yes, speculation. Barely.)
---At one point, he even kept two recycling bins in the trunk of his town car so he could scoop up litter he spotted while driving from meeting to meeting.---
Hope he doesn't park it around Hunter's Point without an armed guard.
Is it just the angle in that picture or are Newsom's arms really that small?
He really is a true humanitarian.
Time for the plantation meeting, you know what I'm talking about.
Sorta puts you in mind of the term "pencil-necked geek" doesn't it?
Who's the skinny gay guy with the baseball cap?
Without the suit, he's just another guy in the bath house.
I thought gunz wuz illegal in San Franfreako??? I mean, since they cause crime and things....
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