Comments:San Francisco mayor Gavin Newsom to run for governor of California

I hope he wins. I don't think that Arnold has the best political/economic background for being a governor. I think Newsom has proven his ability to lead in San Fran. —Calebrw (talk) 17:35, 21 April 2009 (UTC)

An interesting position as many in SF have a rather dim view of him. He seems far more concerned with personal initiatives that tend to go nowhere and are often strongly opposed (but pushed forward nonetheless), showy public statements that tend not to have much real effect, and rarely listening to his constituents. Aside from people voting against him due to his position on Prop 8 and LA voters perhaps being more likely to vote for their own mayor (who is rumored to be running) I think SF is probably going to be one of the places where he'll face the most criticism due to his poor local record. 67.169.74.129 11:07, 22 April 2009 (UTC)

Capital punishment
Position on death penalty? Computerjoe (talk) 18:40, 21 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Not sure actually...could not find a reference to it. DragonFire1024 (Talk to the Dragon) 18:50, 21 April 2009 (UTC)

Opinion on the story!? Bah, I have no opinion, I have a FACT: Newsom is NOT running against Arnold, as Arnie is termed out for the 2010 elections. He will be faring against heavy weights such as Brown where according to all major polls including the Rasmussen's conducted in January and March of 2009 currently indicate his polarized views will force his defeat in the primaries, before he even has the potential in the general election.

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Beware which fake out is sent to California's Governor's Mansion
Check out: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/04/10/MNDS102IIM.DTL

Supervisor A Peskin: Gavin Newsom runs San Francisco the way the premier of China runs his country - secrecy, lies, misinformation, lack of transparency and manipulating the populace," Peskin said. "He did it so China can report they had a great torch run."

SF Gate reports: "It was an Olympic-sized fake-out.."