I'm glad Gavin Newsbomb is Mayor San Francisco

[bluestateguy]

Many Greenies and people on this board wringed their hands when he was elected last November, suggesting that he was a fraud and a sellout. Well, what do you folks say now? We now see Mayor Newsbomb courageously taking on right-wing fundamentalistwacko groups and the state authorities who wish to criminalize gay marriages. My advice for the Mayor: if the state tries to intervene and block same-sex weddings he should literally stand in the doorway of City Hall to block state or federal bureaucrats and their jack-booted thugs from blocking marriage, and do it in full view of the cameras. The gay rights movement may have found their own George Wallace.

[Dookus]

1. heheh

Yup... I remember the wailing and gnashing of teeth the night he got elected. It seemed silly to me then, and even sillier today.

[ronnykmarshall]

2. and I'm gonna take Gavin up on his offer.

The ball and chain and I will re-new our vows sometime this spring in SF!

[phrenzy]

3. I admit

I feel a lot better about him now than I did before the election when his actions were just a lot of 'promises'

He has really been taking stuff on - directly. He has earned my faith.

Only time will tell how he handles things like the purging of nightlife, gentrification and the continuing corporate sell out of the city.

[Brian Sweat]

4. I am confused.

I thougth that the whole gay marrage issue had to do with whether or not the state was going to issue a marriage license to gay couples and whether they would have access to the same rights as other married couples. Since this is not the law in California at this time, why would they need to criminalize gay marriage.

Are they going to make it illegal for gays to take vows?

[KamaAina]

5. I hear he has ambitions for higher office

As one of the aforementioned "handwringers", let me say that Newsom (flashy restaurateur with a glamorous wife who's an attorney) is looking awfully, awfully good as an opponent for a certain illegitimate steroid-addled Enron-loving groping Hitler-admirer who shall remain nameless.

[ronnykmarshall]

7. Go ON Kama!

I love that description. I CAN'T imagine WHO you're talking about!

[KamaAina]

11. His name is Hubert G. Wackenfuss

and he's the dogcatcher up in Rio Linda.

Why? Who on Earth did you think I was talking about?

</sarcasm>

[Tempest]

6. Don't let this one action cloud your judgement

Newsom still wants to remove rent controls, allow landlords to kick out renters and raise rates, allow developers to get around affordable housing regulations in the SF area and allow developers to get around open space laws.

I have a friend who may have to move out of the apartment he's lived in for 20 years because the landlord wants to quadruple the rent. The landlord is just waiting for Newsom to allow him to do it.

[cally]

8. I'm liking Newsom now!

Who would have guessed he would do this. Everytime a news program shows just ordinary folks waiting to get married then it helps the make this more of a mainstream concern. Thanks Newsom.

[markses]

9. Oh, riiiiiight....

The usual centrist finessing of economic justice through identity politics.

Needless to say, the Mayor is doing good work here. the question is, would the "Greenie" (eeeew, yucky!) do any different? Of course not.

So why can't we get both-and?

[knight_of_the_star]

10. He's earned SOME respect in my eyes at least

It looks like he found the balls to stand up and give W the finger on this issue.