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It is rumored that Mayor Gavin Newsom and fiancé Jennifer Siebel will have a summer wedding.
SAN FRANCISCO (Map, News) - Under intense scrutiny from a U.S. senator, Mayor Gavin Newsom said he had not set a date for his wedding, but party planners indicate that it will be a summer affair.
At a news conference Thursday announcing $82 million in federal funds to clean up portions of the Hunters Point Shipyard — including the 25 acres for a potential new stadium — U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., grilled the newly engaged mayor about the big day.
“I think what both Nancy [Pelosi] and I know about this arena is it’s very hard to do it over a substantial period of time alone,” Feinstein said as Newsom smiled and began to turn red.
Newsom, 40, asked his girlfriend, 33-year-old actress Jennifer Siebel, to marry him last weekend as the two vacationed with her family on the big island of Hawaii.
Newsom began his tenure as mayor married to Kimberly Guilfoyle, a former assistant district attorney with The City, but her career took her to New York City as a television legal analyst. The stress of a bicoastal marriage led them to file for divorce in 2006.
But it was all smiles Thursday as Feinstein, a former mayor of The City herself, continued to lay it on thick for Newsom.
Feinstein, who has been married for 29 years, said her home was the one place “that I know I’m not going to be criticized,” she said.
But before she surrendered the floor, she had one question for the mayor as the room descended into laughter: “When is the big day?”
Newsom, laughing and completely red at this point, could only muster a “not yet” as Feinstein pressed for a specific date.
However, party designer Stanlee Gatti, a good friend of The City’s first couple who is working to plan the pending nuptials, said they wanted a summer wedding.
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theivery corporation said:
mary van note is a hack. she stole her ideas and jokes from blogger beth spotswood, who is way funnier. this woman is a hack.
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Examiner Reader said:
"Three of the seven directors on the high-profile Municipal Transportation Agency board were informed by the Newsom administration over the weekend that their services are no longer needed. One of those told she was being shown the door was Leah Shahum, executive director of the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition" About time, Shahum's EGO is too big to fit into any room seating more than one person. She has no capacity to even want to discuss views that vary a nanometer from her own. I am somewhat surprised she can ride a bike with that sort of lack of balance.
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Examiner Reader said:
Ryan's name first came up as a replacement for Chief Fong when Newsom was asking for his appointees to resign. Ryan said at the time that there was no truth to the rumor that he was being considered, but let's hope whomever the next chief is it is a true crime fighter and not a merely politically correct selection.
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SF fan said:
Mirkarimi's theory has merit. Ryan could be a good Chief once he studies the terrain in the City's criminal justice landscape. We haven't had a good Chief since Tom Cahill. The lowest point was that Chief that painted the patrol cars powder blue.
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EXAMNER READER said:
whose wife is it this time? Once a cheater always a cheater...who cares what bimbo hes marrying...she just said yes to a adulterer two years they will be in divorce court. and why not like someone here stated and was deleted (there was no gerogatory remarks, just telling it like it is)why doesnt Senator Fienstein prod him about what he intends to do with the homeless...sleeping on the streets in this weather. Cheating Adulterer back stabbing mayor newsom
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Examiner Reader said:
Once a cheat always a cheat. Interesting Mr. Getti is planning the wedding. I see there is not blood thicker than water with him. Oh thats right he is also a cheater.
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Examiner Reader said:
I hope Ms. Siebel wants a family because as far as I can tell she's getting a husband and a child in one in this nuptial agreement.
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