Gavin Can’t Govern California

"You asked to look inside my empty suit?"

The New York Times asks: Who Can Possibly Govern California?

I know the answer: Gavin Newsom can’t govern California.

He isn’t even interested in governing San Francisco as Mayor, so what makes people think he can govern the largest state in the union?

Gavin says one of his favorite books is Kevin Starr’s Coast of Dreams: California on the Edge, 1990-2003.

Since he can’t separate reality from fiction as he reinvents his public service record, Newsom might be the perfect main character in the next Kevin Starr book installment called Hair of Dreams: California on Fantasy Island, 2010-beyond.

(Gavin Newsom) is something of a political thrill-seeker — a trait that extended to his personal life a few years ago when he had a potentially career-killing affair with the wife of a campaign manager and close friend (now former campaign manager and former extremely close friend).  Newsom sees the job of governor as a potentially exhilarating high-wire act.

I don’t think we need a political thrill-seeker governing California through a major crisis.

But if being away from the job, exercising little leadership or taking credit from other people is the best way to handle things in a crisis, then Gavin Newsom is certainly the man for the job!