"Please let me be an insider like him."
Gavin Newsom wants you to “Buck the System” in a funky fresh fundraising pitch made for kids.
The Chronicle is a family paper so they won’t change that “B” to an “F”.
Seriously though, who could make up the divine comedy that positions Gavin as an outsider who is bucking the system?
Gavin gets cash infusions from all the major Sacramento lobbyists and players, and he has stock and business holdings with the many monied interests that actually run things in the state capital and in D.C. Why he’s so outside, he’s inside again.
I’m ready to buck a political system that has left our state nearly bankrupt.
Really? How about San Francisco which actually is nearly BANKRUPT but still enjoying the gr-easy life in Gavin’s shiny head of delusions.
In this sad, pandering play to younger low-information voters, he’s the one who ends up the joke.
Gavin writes:
As Mayor of San Francisco, I know a little bit about how to get things done — even in tough times. I’m proud that San Francisco is the only city in America implementing universal health care. Working with a broad coalition of environmental groups, we are making our city a national leader in renewable energy and environmental stewardship. We’re using sound fiscal practices to protect our schools. And we are creating tens of thousands of new high-wage jobs with smart economic policies.
Gavin knows very little about getting things done in tough times. San Francisco is facing tough times right now with record projected budget deficits.
Yet Gavin is spending significant time getting things done to fulfill his gubernatorial aspirations in Fresno, San Jose, Santa Rose, and other parts of the state… instead of getting things done in San Francisco.
As for universal healthcare in San Francisco, according to the Bay Guardian:
Gavin Newsom never created it. First of all, Healthy San Francisco wouldn’t exist if then Sup. Tom Ammiano (now a member of the California Assembly) hadn’t spent years fighting for a universal health care plan paid for by employers. And while Ammiano was being savagely attacked over the idea by the business community, a key constituency of the mayor, Newsom sat on the sidelines until Ammiano lined up enough votes to approve the plan. At that point, Newsom introduced his own health plan, worked with Ammiano to merge the two, and has been taking credit for it around the country ever since. Ammiano credits labor, not Newsom, with doing the hard work of fighting business community opposition to Healthy San Francisco. “The mayor’s role was that we would keep him updated, but I don’t think he thought it was going to happen,” Ammiano told us. “There’s no doubt he came along for the ride.”
And remember that almost every leading local San Francisco environmental group, including The Sierra Club’s Bay Area chapter, didn’t endorse Gavin in his campaigns for Mayor because his leadership on environmntal issues is severely lacking.
So before you drink Gavin’s kool-aid, ask him how he’s bucking instead of fucking the system in San Francisco.
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