SFGATE — Phil Bronstein asks: How many flashy, technicolor buzzwords does it take to blind a voter?
I would like to see our Mayor doing some good Luddite governance here for a change: help fix the schools, follow voter mandates, keep the football team, figure out, together with someone other than his image managers, how to have maintenance levels of both public safety and social services with a lot less money.
Or how about this: actually show up for work and be physically available to your constituents and other officials, rather than megaphoning via social networks.
Realistically, though, how can we expect the Mayor to spend less time on shiny objects and more on the gritty reality of his responsibilities?
After all, University of SF political science professor Corey Cook said in the Guardian piece that Gavin was “sort of an island.” Except instead of water he’s surrounded by glib and dismissive political consultants.
San Francisco, the Mayor said yesterday in San Jose, is a model for the state, though he studiously avoided getting into the messy detail of how to fix California’s boatload of budget problems, never mind rioting in San Francisco over his proposed cuts here.
Maybe Gavin’s island looks OK from the outside. So did Gilligan’s Island. But everyone still wanted to escape, because to those stuck there, longing for real life instead of fantasy– it was a shipwreck.
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