The walkaway mayor quickly walks away from helping the truly sick and needy.
Fog City Journal — Protestors lay down in front of the Mayor’s Pride 2009 parade float to symbolize the deaths that will follow from his severe cuts to HIV/AIDS services.
The action was reminiscent of the ACT UP die-in’s of the 1980’s and 90’s which used civil disobedience to urge a co-coordinated response to fight the AIDS epidemic. The ACT UP moniker back then was Silence = Death.
Today, there’s a new virus in San Francisco, and it’s as deadly as HIV –
Gavin Newsom’s over $120 million in cuts to health services.
Mayor Newsom’s 2009-2010 budget makes severe reductions to HIV/AIDS prevention, health services, counseling, education, advocacy, outreach, housing and testing.
Giving his own staff, cops and firefighters healthy raises in a major fiscal crisis seems more important to the man-child mayor than caring for the sick, and proven disease education and prevention.
When you unveil the curtain behind marriage equality, you will find that Gavin cares more about raising salaries of fire and police than ensuring basic public health needs for the most vulnerable during the worse fiscal crisis in San Francisco history.
If you only care about running for Governor, who do you care more for – raising salaries for members of the police and firefighters unions, or protecting health services for the most vulnerable among us?
Mayor Newsom made his answer known very clearly.
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