Innocent until proven guilty

Fog City Editorial

June 22, 2007

We at Fog City Journal have no reason to believe Mayor Gavin Newsom has a cocaine problem, or that he has ever used cocaine in the past. Quite frankly, we don't care what the mayor does in his spare time as long as he can do the job of being mayor. What we do care about is that we can trust our mayor.

Newsom has pointedly denied all rumors of alleged cocaine use and we must assume he is being honest and truthful. After all, one is innocent until proven guilty and we all know how the rumor mill works. Rumors are often circulated to defame opponents for political gain, and are an unfortunate inescapable ugly fact of political life. One only has to read political chat boards to know how cowards use the cloak of anonymity to attack their adversaries.

However, in light of numerous rumors and allegations of our mayor's past cocaine use, Fog City Journal would like to hear from anyone who has witnessed the mayor using cocaine, or witnessed the mayor purchasing cocaine since he has been an elected official.

If an elected official has blatanty lied to the electorate, voters have a right to know.

All correspondence will be treated in the strictest of confidence. We reserve the right to verify any and all claims with the assurance that names will not be mentioned, or published, for your protection. We only seek to publish accounts that we have verified and are one hundred percent satisfied are true.

If we do not hear from anyone within 14 days, we will publish that we have not heard from anyone and assume, as we must do now, that all allegations relating to Newsom and cocaine use are false and ill conceived.

Email all correspondence to editor@fogcityjournal.com

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