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11 days ago: A man on the move
22 days ago: The first step toward being governor
78 days ago: Newsom adds political Facebook page
93 days ago: Newsom uses radio gig to move beyond City Hall
98 days ago: Plan would more than halve deficit
» 112 days ago: Vacant city positions given the ax «
120 days ago: Newsom mum about governor run
196 days ago: Newsom’s car vandalized
SAN FRANCISCO (Map, News) - Mayor Gavin Newsom continued cost-cutting measures Wednesday when he announced the elimination of 301 city positions, but no city employee will receive a pink slip yet.
Most of the positions are vacant, and any filled positions in the 301 will be moved into other jobs. The cuts are expected to save The City $29 million in the next fiscal year and are the latest moves Newsom has announced in an effort to balance the budget as The City faces a projected $338 million deficit next year.
The City will announce layoffs of employees in the coming months, according to Newsom. But in the latest move, most of the eliminated positions — 200 of them — came from a reduction at Laguna Honda Hospital.
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Examiner Reader said:
as they say in the hollywood movies about politicians -- they're all a bunch of whores. ask their moms and dads about their sonny boys and girls. they'll say anything, do everything to get there. this is why i'm running for office. my name is bind yee. remember that name. a lot of chuckles.
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Peter said:
What's with this stuff that Gav has been doing Chris Moscone for like a really long time? They've been lovers forever. Talk about being disingenuous. They ought to come out of the closet and get married. Real hypocracy!
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heartbroken in SF said:
toby keith?! jesus what an utterly shameless attempt to pander to central valley voters for the governors race. his handlers are the most shallow, cynical people in the city. gavin and his swarmy crew care about nothing but how far and high they can ride their charade. good luck fellas, just please take you show out of our town. we actually care about stuff here.
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You're Joking, Right? said:
Alioto-Pier, Mirkarimi or any of the other supes as Mayor? You're joking, right? The Board of Supervisors are an ineffectual bunch of dilletantes who reign over the respective districts like their own personal fiefdoms, barely disguise their contempt for their ostensible constituents and fritter away their tax-payer funded salaries of almost $100,000 per year passing stupid, non-binding resolutions demanding Bush's impeachment and outlawing plastic shopping bags. Newsom's a tragedy as mayor - any of the Supes would be an abomination.
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Examiner Reader said:
Your 'article' assumes Newsom will not be recalled by the legal voters of SF. The drumbeat is getting louder and louder for a resignation or face a recall. Let's see who gets the BOS presidency in the next election before making this assumption.
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Examiner Reader said:
As far as I can tell, even with his "star" status, Newsom has been a wholly adequate mayor. Peel away the "star" status and what do you have?
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Examiner Reader said:
Wow poor man did'nt see him with any illegals??? Wonder why?
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jeff said:
Wow, Examiner, thanks for this? Now I know why the murder rate is so high, Muni is a disaster, and rents are so high. Really enlightening, enterprising journalism going on here.
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L. Amiot said:
Newsom said, “We are offering different perspective, more bottom-up approach to problems." No kidding. He's an expert on Bottoms Up. Focus on local issues, not Sacramento, Mr. Newsom. That is why you were relected as Mayor of San Francisco. Or, was a run for Governor your plan all along?
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Rich A said:
Not bad, since most of those patrol cars had more then 100,000 miles, and made it to the scene! the PD used to get new cars after 80,000 Now this mayor wants more money from the PD. Unmarked vehicles, maybe he will order some, since the PD haven't ordered any, but C/Vics and only 4 per year in the last 7 years. God bless those that made it there...
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Rich A said:
I don't mind giving money to the homeless, but give them a job, you want to clean up the city, give them each, just one block to keep clean, they have all day to do the job, then the city would be alittle cleaner and they will feel good helping the city
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Examiner Reader said:
Mayor Newsom isn't fit to run a hot dog stand. He cheats on his bestfriends wife and has the city financially in a hole. And he wants to run a state? But of Course I'm sure the Pacific Height(Elites) will find a way to get him elected.
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Examiner Reader said:
Try working for the City and you'll see what an abysmal failure this smiling, shirking, miserable womanizer and substance abuser the Mayor really is. He is an emabarrassment to this great City and to politcs as a whole.
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Examiner Reader said:
Mayor Newsom has been intimate with his best friend's wife and initiated the current same-sex marriage circumstances and he entertains being governor. I believe Newsom is an "Only in San Francsico" story. While anything is possible, all this might play just fine locally but I suspect it will be a different story statewide in California.
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Examiner Reader said:
Are you kidding me? The streets of this beautiful city are teeming with homeless. There's a budget deficit even though this area has so many tech jobs and high property values. And talk about his so-called personal life, which he can't seem to keep personal. What a joke. Except its not.
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Examiner Reader said:
We all have to do everything in our power to ensure this idiot does not get elected.
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L. Amiot said:
He has failed as a Mayor. Why not try another job that proves the Peter Principle of working at a level above competency. His narcissism has absolutely no bounds. Gosh, without Daddy's money, Gavin would probably be bartending on Union Street and spreading STD's.
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Examiner Reader said:
God help us.
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Examiner Reader said:
The jerk completely forget that he was elected to focus on SF not "something much bigger than who’s up and who’s down at City Hall" Resign and start running for governor now and let us have someone to run SF.
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Examiner Reader said:
I had posted a comment regarding reducing the number of SF Board of Supervisors as a start. But somehow the post is no longer there. So here it is again. Eliminate some positions at the Board. there is no need for 11 Board members plus a mayor to run this City. And the excuse that SF is a "City/County" wont fly. We only need about 5 people to efectivly run this town.
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Examiner Reader said:
Can one say Rebulicans? They will have a field day with this loser if he runs.
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Examiner Reader said:
Why no photo of the ex-con MORON who was arrested? Laughable. Never, never trust an ex-con.
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Examiner Reader said:
We, the voters, need to develop & place on the ballot via an initiative some sort of State Constitutional mandate that funds paid into any City, County, or the State Treasury be used for specific budgets. The State until recently, as we all recall, had been diverting "transportation funds from transportation taxes" to NONtransportation budget items. i.e. funds diverted to the pork projects of slick and manipulative politicians. If the Mayor cannot do his job on his own, he should resign. The so called public "services" have obviously been damaged by taking funds from the departments w/o alerting the public.
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Examiner Reader said:
Well thanks to this article for telling everyone in the world where we can find Newsom's car at 9am. Let's hope there are more acts of vandalism.
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Examiner Reader said:
When facing a 220 million dollar shortfall the mayor should be the first one to sacrifice and set a good example but obviously he just wants to put the blame some place else and call it politically motivated. Well gee, when the residents in your city are calling for you to set a good example and not hire your buddies to senior positions which pull money from already cash strapped programs I do not think that is politically motivated. Democrats are just as corrupt as Republicans.
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Examiner Reader said:
So the price tag for a homeless czar is the same as paying 311 homeless CAAP recipients $59/mo for a year or 53 housed CAAP recipients $345/mo. Running guvmint like a bidness, huh?
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Examiner Reader said:
Yep, I'm afraid we must live with the fact we put Mayor Newsom in office and must now endure this mayor for 4 more years.
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fred said:
who is stupider -him or us for electing him in the first place? How do we get this idiot out of office?
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Examiner Reader said:
These salaries are outrageous for government service.
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Examiner Reader said:
Can't that Mayor do ANYthing himself?
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Examiner Reader said:
i saw the resulting arrest. There was some 'resistance' that's certain. And there were about ten cop cars and a couple unmarked ones all over the place. It was like they thought they'd caught a terrorist!!!! Go sfpd!!!
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Examiner Reader said:
But if the cops actually saw the person doing it like they did in this story I'll bet they would respond exactly the same way -- even if it had been the vehicle or home of any "anonymous taxpayer."
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Examiner Reader said:
The only reason the cops did anything is because this is Newsom's car. Had it been the vehicle or home of any anonymous taxpayer, the cops would have laughed at requests to investigate--do you think this is an episode of Dragnet or something?--and gone back to eating their donuts.
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Examiner Reader said:
It’s amazing how a story about a parolee vandalizing Newsom's car and resisting arrest devolves into people berating him for things that have nothing to do with the story, and embellishing it with expressions of jealousy about SF cloaked in disparaging comments. Of course if this happened to any of you it would be a huge issue and you’d be happy to see the guy arrested and charged with a felony.
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Examiner Reader said:
Mr. Burgos, who is probably a bi-polar street person needs an ACLU attorney who could plead the San Francisco twinkie defense previously used by Dan White. Frisco unfortunately has earned the reputation for being the weirdest city in America and not wholesome & family friendly. How sad.
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Examiner Reader said:
If the damage is over $400, it is a felony. This amount is a drop in the bucket and anyone who's had so much as parking lot dings can tell you what a body shop charges for repairs.
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Examiner Reader said:
A felony for vandalism? Is that because it was Newsom's car? Welcome to the city.
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Examiner Reader said:
After Gavin spent all this time campaigning for same-sex marriage, why is he marrying a woman? If he thinks marrying another man is the same as marrying a woman, he should practice what he preaches...
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Examiner Reader said:
Settling "homeless" people in full-service centers is arguably a "different" approach to this on-going problem. I'm not sure how that necessarily equates to "courageous." Other cities/states were already in the forefront when it came to same-sex marriage before our mayor endorsed it. Our State Supreme Court invalidated the mayor's decision and will, if history proves true, line up against same-sex marriage, too. So it would seem while the mayor's decision might leave him with a black eye for not correctly reading the political winds in California, it likely ingratiated him to a considerable portion of the gay community, which is a major voting block in San Francisco. "courageous?" maybe, politicaly smart, absolutely.
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sickofrisco said:
I will give Newsom grudging respect for attempting to do take on the entrenched homeless advocacy establishment when he showed up. As far as pushing for same-sex marriage, that doesn't strike me as being especially "courageous" in a city where people think that being sexually confused elevates you to the status of "protected species"...
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James, San Francisco said:
Mayor Newsom's first term implemented the project for homeless that placed many of them in full-service residential centers. His first term was also marked by his courageous stand for same-sex marriage. Granted, both of these initiatives require a commitment for the long-term, which he has demonstrated. These were both daring moves and his first term can be therefore described as such.
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Examiner Reader said:
Mayor Newsom's first term was daring? How so?
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Examiner Reader said:
Who would want to be Mayor of Sin Fransico ,still a beautiful city run by no brainers. Newsence can keep it.
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