Gavin and Tom in happy daze.

Gavin Newsom is no education mayor.

But by continually stealing credit for other people’s ideas, he is trying to position himself as strong on education.

This time, he’s stealing credit as a guest blogger on Huffington Post.

In San Francisco, we have a robust rainy day fund. We drew down on our reserves to make sure not a single teacher in San Francisco was laid off…

It’s true that the city has this rainy day fund.  But the mayor of San Francisco has no control over the schools or the education system. The fund wasn’t even Gavin’s idea.

In fact, this “robust rainy day fund” was the idea of then Supervisor Tom Ammiano, a former public school teacher, and today a state assemblyman.

I guess the man-child mayor thinks that if he associates himself with something positive, or says something often enough, people will believe him.

Well, just because you say something doesn’t mean it’s true.

More flash than fashion sense?

Los Angeles Times – The LA Times just printed a Gavin Newsom profile piece that ain’t no fluff.

Angelinos now know the Newsom that San Francisco knows – an absentee mayor lacking substance who governs by press releases.

“Once he’s said it and it’s printed in the newspapers, it’s done in his mind,” said Jim Ross, a political consultant who ran Newsom’s 2003 campaign for mayor. “Then it’s on to the next big announcement.”

Would-be allies say they rarely hear from the mayor. Department heads complain about a lack of guidance. Newsom perpetually wars with the 11-member Board of Supervisors, raising the question of how he would deal with Sacramento’s querulous 120-member Legislature.

Homelessness remains a problem; the city’s official tally shows that more than 6,500 people lack permanent shelter, a slight rise over the last four years after a big decline. Portions of Market Street, the city’s grand boulevard, reek of urine. Muni, the city’s public transit system, is a constant source of complaint. Bayview-Hunter’s Point, the historically poor, black neighborhood, appears as isolated and desperate as ever. Affordable housing is, for many, an oxymoron.

And some of Newsom’s biggest backers – in civic groups and policy circles, among political activists and campaign donors – have in the last few years become some of the mayor’s sharpest critics.

In a series of interviews, they expressed disappointment and accused Newsom, in words oft-repeated, of focusing more on self-aggrandizement and personal publicity than solving the city’s problems.

Of course the man-child mayor denied all of these criticisms in the Times’ story, because afterall, Gavin Newsom lives on Fantasy Island.

"He is like a Wizard of Oz creation."

Bay Guardian — There are two Gavin Newsoms: the mayor San Franciscans have gotten to know over the last six years, and the candidate running for governor.

The contrast is dramatic. The central persona being pushed by the Newsom campaign seems like pure fiction to most San Franciscans.

Going through the issues on Newsom’s campaign Web site, there are a startling number of claims that just don’t match his record.

(Newsom) is an empty, sad guy and his handlers have managed to create a persona that is fake and false.

Newsom has received repeated condemnations from the Sunshine Ordinance Task Force for withholding public documents and information, from internal e-mail to his daily schedule.  What’s he hiding?

The man-child mayor is counting on young, low-information voters and women to boost his chances for governor.

Newsom’s campaign for governor is a pitch perfect example of how you market and sell and empty suit.

"This red ribbon is no match for me."

Gavin Newsom is stealing credit, again.

This time it’s for funky fresh bus shelters that were actually paid for by Clear Channel Outdoor, and negotiated in a shady back-door deal by former Board of Supervisors President, Aaron Peskin.

It’s true, voters don’t read much.  So they won’t remember that the man-child mayor had nothing to do with it.

It’s also true that if there is a red-ribbon in San Francisco that needs to be cut, Newsom is at the front of the line screaming me me me me me.  Look. At. Me.

Today, Gavin poses for cameras as if everything is beautiful in transit land — it’s not.  These bus shelters are like lipstick on a pig.

Riders just got the (drive) shaft and MUNI still can’t protect and collect its revenue.

Ask Gavin why San Francisco still has a third-rate public transit system for a supposedly world-class city.  And then ask him how he intends to make public transit better by raising fares AND cutting service routes.

I need to walk now, because my bus isn’t coming.  Ever.

Marriage equality hero Dennis Herrera.

Whether you like it or not, Gavin Newsom’s campaign for marriage equality has been a controlled performance from the get-go.

Gavin took no position on marriage equality during his first run for Mayor in 2003, but his main opponent did.

When Newsom and his political consultants realized that many LGBT leaders and activists didn’t support his first Mayoral campaign, Gavin realized he needed to win them over with his budding political career.

Gavin bought the idea for same sex marriage from his paid political consultant Eric Jaye, the PG&E money maker.

So, the man-child mayor isn’t this story’s real hero — he’s just the pretty face and hair.

The real hero of marriage equality is this guy San Francisco City Attorney Dennis Herrera and his legal team in the City Attorney’s office.

If you live outside the city you’ve probably never heard of Dennis the Civil Rights Menace:

The mayor may get all the credit, or blame, for pushing the marriage-equality issue before the Supreme Court, but the person who deserves it—San Francisco’s real Marrying Man—is Herrera.

Seems that the brain of Gavin W. Bush is actually in the office of his paid political consultant and the city attorney’s office.

Instead of coming to an immigrant coalition’s press conference that SFSU students invited him to, Gavin Newsom held a separate press conference on the same day at the same time to claim his involvement in the movement.

He has yet to take the initiative to work directly and democratically with the community and appears to be more interested in maintaining his celebrity status than working with the residents of San Francisco.

This video is just another example of how Gavin takes the spotlight on important issues while stabbing affected communities in the back.