So yesterday Joe pointed out that disgraced Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich looks like U.C. Berkley astronomy professor Alex Filippenko. Well this morning, it was brought to our attention that he resembles another disgraced politician:
By Benjamin Wachs
What's that, you say? Didn't Gavin already give a Newsom-isode on the economy? Well, yes, but that was the "Economic Climate." This is the Newsom-isode on "Economic Development."
What's the difference? Well, one kind of tells you what Gavin plans to do, and the other kind of explains why he can't.
Personally, I can't believe anyone is actually still reading my notes about these things - isn't there enough misery in the world?
But if you are, at least make it a drinking game. If he says he's "proud" of something, or "I get it," take a shot. It's what I do.
Anyone who thinks I can keep watching Gavin Newsom-isodes without drinking heavily understands neither politics nor journalism.
00:00 - "One of the areas that I'm very proud of" (take a shot) "in our city is that we have not neglected the infrastructure in the last number of years."
He's talking roads, bridges, parks and playgrounds.
Our capital program to keep them up, a $19.8 billion program, "now will be a godsend in terms of addressing the macro-economic climate and challenges that we're facing."
So, to be clear, Gavin's plan to address the new economic climate is doing exactly what we were going to do anyway.
Huh.
00:56 - What's wrong with this statement?
"That is the first time, and I think this is important, it's the first time that we've had a capital plan in our city's history. And this was initiated just a couple of years ago by the Board of Supervisors in partnership with our office: with Supervisor Sean Elsbernd, Supervisor Michela Alioto-Pier, Supervisor Carmen Chu, and others, that really wanted to push the bar in terms of organizing our capital needs in a thoughtful and a deliberative manner as opposed to a scatter shot way as we were doing it in the past."
Time's up!
If you said "The city only first developed a capital plan a few years ago? That's MADNESS!" then you're right, but you're over thinking it.
If you said "Wait a minute, Carmen Chu just got appointed to office last year - she couldn't possibly have been involved with a capital plan developed several years ago," you're RIGHT!
Gavin Newsom has given up even trying to thank the appropriate people, and is instead just crediting his friends and allies with whatever he has at hand.
By Lauren Smiley
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