"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.

"Don't worry pal, voters don't read anymore."

Gavin Newsom ran for mayor saying he’s all for a city government that is competitive, cost-effective, and efficient.

Sounds good in direct mail and on TV ads.

But if you scratch the shiny hair gel-covered surface of Gavin, there you will find many schemes and political hand jobs. This is one of them.

BeyondChron writes that you should forget about his public commitment to competitive bidding, or his claims that his RFQ’s enhanced cost-effectiveness.

Gavin Newsom’s RFP process allowed the city to pay significantly more for equivalent services by choosing his preferred more expensive contractors.

Processes were manipulated to achieve the politically desired result.

This, in an era of fiscal scarcity and crisis?

That’s sound fiscal policy in a nearly bankrupt city!

Since most voters are low information voters, they probably won’t read the whole story and try to understand the policy complexities of the man-child mayor ripping off the community.

You made it this far.  Please read deep and share with your favorite peep.

Dear Gavin, we've got your back. Love, PG&E.

Gavin loves to talk green.  “Look at the green garden I planted in front of City Hall.”  Pretty!  “Look at my hybrid SUV.” Gee whiz!

Now look at this awesome project with no scientific efficacy whatsoever.  “My corporate money maker PG&E told me to support it.  They said they’d give me sum more money…”

I love you PG&E!

PG&E then paid for Gavin’s new twitter facebook friends to get drunk at his party.

You know, so the the young kids will think he’s cool.  AT&T ponied up some money too.  $100,000 total.

Gavin is a tool of corporate interests, especially PG&E.

As blogger Bob Brigham wrote in 2008:

Siding with PG&E against the Sierra Club and opposing the San Francisco Clean Energy Act on this year’s ballot is a clear indication Mayor Newsom has no plans on winning the Democrat nomination for Governor in 2010….siding with PG&E against the Sierra Club to oppose Clean Energy is about the worst thing you can do.”

Gavin is as green as hell is cold.  If you believe in hell, I mean.

Gavin Newsom is really Richie Rich.

The Chronicle — Gavin Newsom portrays himself as a self-made businessman and a political outsider, but he’s not.

Gavin Newsom has reaped huge financial benefits from his ties to old money and power in San Francisco particularly with his lifelong association with Gordon P. Getty, one of the nation’s richest men.

Getty, 69, billionaire heir to an oil fortune and friend of Newsom’s family for 50 years, helped Newsom become a millionaire by investing in every important venture of the supervisor’s business career.

Getty, or trusts and firms he controls, is lead investor on 10 of Newsom’s 11 businesses, including his PlumpJack group of wine, restaurant, resort and real estate ventures. “Plump Jack” is the name of an opera Getty wrote.

And while Newsom contends that Gordon Getty is only one financial backer of many, records show Getty is Gavin Newsom’s top outside investor, either individually or through his firms and family trusts.

It must be very nice to have such wealthy friends.

"Gus, I suggest you build up 20 feet."

The Chronicle — Gavin Newsom used a “clerical error” to ensure that one of his major political donors would get a chance to build a taller condominium project than is otherwise allowed.  WTF?!

The clerical error which boosted the allowed building height of a parcel on San Francisco’s Mission Street to 85 feet among many blocks that are limited to a uniform 65 feet, stands to benefit restaurateur Gus Murad.

Over the past several years, Murad has contributed thousands of dollars to Newsom campaigns and ballot measures.

“And here we are with four votes, a clerical error, and a mayor who has gained politically from the property owner,” Supervisor Chris Daly said. “And that’s how it’s going to go down. This is disgusting.”

Just another lovely day in pay-to-play land — a.k.a. Gavin Newsom’s City Hall.

Newsom wants more nuclear power plants in CA.

Calitics — Gavin Greenwash opposed Proposition H in the 2008 November election, which would have directed the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission to figure out how to provide clean and renewable energy to the city.

Gavin joined his major donor PG&E to fight the Sierra Club on the Clean Energy Act.

Pacific Gas & Electric Co. hired Newsom’s chief political strategist, Eric Jaye, to lead the multimillion dollar campaign to defeat the measure.

San Franciscans should be ashamed that they have a mayor who is greenwashing and gay-washing his way to the governor’s mansion.

I couldn’t have said it better myself.