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Tuesday, December 02, 2003 Better than the Schwarzie campaignIt seems the Democratic candidate for mayor in San Francisco is trying to scuttle his run-off opponent by cooking up weird protests of an appearance by Al Gore. Gavin Newsom, the Democrat, will get support from Gore — in person — next Tuesday. An e-mail claiming to be from the (Green) Matt Gonzalez camp went around last week encouraging people to "Stop Newsom. Stop Gore. Stop the Democrats!!" The thing is, this e-mail originated from a Gavin Newsom campaign office.The Examiner, in a fit of real reporting, writes: "While it is nearly impossible to determine with 100 percent accuracy who was responsible for publicizing the anti-Gore event, the originating Internet protocol address on the e-mail belongs to an organization called GavinNewsomFor and carries the same address -- 216.100.140.9 -- as e-mails sent from Newsom's campaign office." Newsom's campaign says what really happened is, the Gonzalez campaign hacked into their computer system to send the e-mail. Uh-huh. But notice who's making hay out of the matter. Gonzalez' people consistently say, "This is a hoax. There is no protest," while Gavin's campaign manager denies sending the e-mail on the one hand but gets in a dig with the other, by pointing out "that protesters have attempted to disrupt several Newsom events along the campaign trail" and that he "would never want Gore's visit to be marred by a noisy street demonstration." Especially not a phantom one. If San Francisco ends up with the first big-city Green mayor after next Tuesday, it's because of crap like this. We have not gone completely insane. Newsom is a machine Democrat in thrall to the same moneyed interests that corrupted Brown. He's a career politician, groomed for the job, who thinks he deserves to be mayor. He also has no idea how to pull off his own dirty tricks. I don't agree with Gonzalez on everything, but the man is honest and bright in a way Newsom will never be. However (from later in the same piece): "A man with Gonzalez signs in his car was arrested last week after doing donuts in front of Newsom's Fillmore offices." Well, at least we're mature. posted by Michael Scott Moore | 1:53 AM | |
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