Newsom in 2016! By Mark Morford

[madokie]

Governor? Pshaw. SF's sly mayor will make a great president for Generation Tweet


Problem is, Gavin Newsom is not nearly liberal enough.

Didn't you know? Just ask the various surly bike messengers and coffee-shop anarchists and bitter homeless advocates of the City. They'll gladly tell you: Despite all his hotshot lip service about green jobs and organic public gardens and gay marriage, our fine mayor is actually just to the right of Attila the Hun, a slick and arrogant pawn of the wealthy SF elite, a guy who co-owns a snooty restaurant and hobnobs with the Gettys and most definitely does not drive a beat-up biodiesel scooter to his solar yurt while listening to Fleet Foxes on the hacked iPod he got at the Maker Faire.

Wait, that can't be right.

Let us ask again, this time in a slightly wider circle, just outside the SF bubble and a bit more to the right. ...

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Edit to add link: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2009/04/24/notes042409.DTL&nl=fix

[cali]

1. "coffee shop anarchists"

:rofl: :rofl:

And yeah, I think it's pretty clear that Newsome has presidential ambitions. It'll be interesting to watch him if he wins the governorship.