Nanny Of The Month? (He's Weirdo Of The Year!)

As you can see, Reason TV has made my NewAge buddy, San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom, it's "Nanny of the Month". That's cool - anything that brings this creep negative attention is fine by me - but, while I agree with Hot Air's Ed Morrissey that this particular bit of negative attention is for the wrong reason, even Morrissey's criticism doesn't identify why Newsom is such a nightmare for The City. Here, let me paint you a picture.

Wait - just like with painting a picture, it's hard to know where to begin, because Gavin Newsom is such an awful piece of work. Do I go for the personal items, or tell you about what awful shape The City's left in, after two terms under the man I've dubbed Gruesome Newsom? Since most people don't live there, and only have the picture postcard image of the place to go on, let's start with the state of The City.

According to SFist, there was a recent murder, across the street from my old apartment, in Buena Vista Park. There was also a robbery and stabbing in Delores Park, and (in case that doesn't make you feel safe) some guy - who was found wearing a full suit of body armor - was shot 16 times downtown, in the Tenderloin. Is it any wonder the SFist also contains two items celebrating "colorful crime reporting" and "Why People Hate San Francisco"? Really, under Gavin Newsom, San Francisco is - without a doubt - the worst run big city in the U.S.:

"Despite its good intentions, San Francisco is not leading the country in gay marriage. Despite its good intentions, it is not stopping wars. Despite its spending more money per capita on homelessness than any comparable city, its homeless problem is worse than any comparable city's. Despite its spending more money per capita, period, than almost any city in the nation, San Francisco has poorly managed, budget-busting capital projects, overlapping social programs no one is certain are working, and a transportation system where the only thing running ahead of schedule is the size of its deficit.

It's time to face facts: San Francisco is spectacularly mismanaged and arguably the worst-run big city in America. This year's city budget is an astonishing $6.6 billion — more than twice the budget for the entire state of Idaho — for roughly 800,000 residents. Yet despite that stratospheric amount, San Francisco can't point to progress on many of the social issues it spends liberally to tackle — and no one is made to answer when the city comes up short.

The city's ineptitude is no secret. 'I have never heard anyone, even among liberals, say, "If only [our city] could be run like San Francisco,'" says urbanologist Joel Kotkin. 'Even other liberal places wouldn't put up with the degree of dysfunction they have in San Francisco. In Houston, the exact opposite of San Francisco, I assume you'd get shot.'"

And still, rather than throwing Gavin Newsom in jail, the people of California are seriously considering allowing him in another political office. Why? Because, as far as we can tell (and this shows their priorities, BIG TIME) they think he's cute!

Well, there's that, but - here we get to the personal stuff - he's also the perfect representative for this most NewAge of all NewAge locations in America.

His best friend was also his campaign manager. Newsom slept with his wife.

And, after making like they were shocked - shocked! - that Newsom would do such a thing, the people of San Francisco re-elected him with 75% of the vote - to prove (just like in France) the "Paris of the West" wasn't filled with a bunch of prudes.

I should add that, up until that time, sleeping with his best friend's wife was, really, Newsom's only political accomplishment.

He then went into a NewAge rehab program for, like, three weeks, promising he'd turned a corner and was ready to do all the marvelous things for The City he didn't get done before.

Instead, he met a C-list actress who he immediately decided to marry - after she let it be known that "Gavie Baby" only slept with his campaign manager's wife because the wife was a drunk, and a slut, who was begging for it.


A so-called psychic did the honors.

Now you may be asking yourself, with this record, what kind of people would twice elect such a worthless backstabber?

What you have to remember is that San Francisco has more cults operating in it's city limits than anywhere else in the nation - and they set the agenda - whether anyone will admit it or not. Ever since Jim Jones of the murderous People's Temple was part of the government - as payback for helping to elect the first gay supervisor, Harvey Milk, and liberal Mayor George Moscone - cults have always been part of the fabric of The City. They are in the hospitals and hospices; they own restaurants and sex clubs.

It is their values that are reflected in the phrase "only in San Francisco".

"It's worth remembering that before the people of Peoples Temple drank Jim Jones's Kool-Aid, the leftist political establishment of San Francisco gulped it down. And without the latter, the former would have never happened."

And Gavin Newsom - who, unannounced, recently disappeared with a guru to his spiritual retreat near Oprah in Hana, Hawaii - is their current leader.

And Reason TV's Nanny of the Month.

Like I said, there's a lot of other names we should be able to call him as well, like unemployed.