Adam Turtle, Freelance Web Design in Belfast, Northern Ireland

Adam Turtle

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Gavin Newsom re-elected

I’m going to go into something now that I usuall stay far away from. Politics. The only reason I bring this is up is because our mayor, the baby-faced Gavin Newsom, has successfully won a second term in office as mayor of San Francisco.

This is the offender:
Gavin Newsom

Rodrigo met him once. He said he was slick, polished and a real crowd pleaser. This is what’s wrong with America. He’s in his forties I think but he looks good for his age so he gets the votes. During his first term he promised radical changes to dealing with the perpetual homelessness issue that dogs San Francisco, but little seems to have been done despite a high population of homeless people ‘moving in’ to his front yard at city hall.

In saying all that, the competition wasn’t exactly promising either:

The other candidates were Chicken John Rinaldi, a professional “showman”; Grasshopper Alec Kaplan, a homeless taxicab driver; George Davis, a nudist; Michael Powers, a sex club owner; H. Brown, a blogger and former teacher; Harold Hoogasian, a florist; Lonnie Holmes, a Juvenile Probation Department manager; Wilma Pang, a music professor at City College of San Francisco; Ahimsa Porter Sumchai, a physician and personal trainer; and Josh Wolf, a journalist and blogger who was imprisoned this year for refusing to surrender to authorities video he shot of a violent San Francisco protest.

San Francisco Chronicle

Michael Powers actually owns and operates the Power Exchange, which is the world’s largest sex club. I read some of campaign manifesto and quite frankly I’m relieved that he wasn’t elected. Newsom is no saint either though. Last year he got caught up in a sex scandal, where he cheated on his wife with his secretary (who just happened to be the wife of his campaign manager). Still, the silky smooth mayor managed to talk his way out of it and was generally popular again with the city in a matter of days. Unbelieveable.

I hope this year he makes an effort to actually help the homeless. Glide Church does alot and it wouldn’t take much to give them a helping hand financially instead of just handing out cash to the homeless, most of whom have drug dependancies or mental illness and need care.

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