{"id":1340,"date":"2009-07-14T00:19:56","date_gmt":"2009-07-14T08:19:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fogcityjournal.com\/wordpress\/2009\/07\/14\/newsoms-empty-promises\/"},"modified":"2009-07-28T10:28:56","modified_gmt":"2009-07-28T18:28:56","slug":"newsoms-empty-promises","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fogcityjournal.com\/wordpress\/1340\/newsoms-empty-promises\/","title":{"rendered":"Newsom&#8217;s Empty Promises"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fogcityjournal.com\/images\/photos2009\/newsom_budget_bos_090331\/_w2w4678_std.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" \/><br \/>\nMayor Gavin Newsom<br \/>\n<strong>Photo by Luke Thomas<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>By Chris Carlsson<\/strong>, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/sf.streetsblog.org\/2009\/07\/13\/farming-park-parking-and-empty-promises\/\">SFStreetsBlog<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Editor&#8217;s Note: Mr. Carlsson assesses political ladder climber Gavin Newsom&#8217;s sudden embrace of environmental values, exposing a deceptive branding campaign that belies Newsom&#8217;s record.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>July 14, 2009<\/p>\n<p>Gavin Newsom is running for President, er um, I mean Governor (you gotta take these things one step at a time). Maybe he&rsquo;ll make it, maybe something will wreck his chances.<\/p>\n<p>It&rsquo;s an interesting drama from the point of view of recent American history, as he follows in the footsteps of Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan, and has surrounded himself with a retinue of advertising professionals&hellip; you know, those people who do nothing useful for society but are extremely well-paid to craft lies and deceptions and help the powerful stay on top.<\/p>\n<p>Newsom is a vacuous politician with no rudder or internal gyroscope grounded in any values other than what will get him on to the next stop of his political ambition. His advertisers (do they advise? I think they just advertise) are shrewd enough to keep associating the Newsom Brand with the innovative thinking and practices that are practically boiling out of political sight in San Francisco.<\/p>\n<p>But we cannot and should not think of him as an ally since his track record is demonstrably empty when it comes to doing what he says.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sf.streetsblog.org\/2009\/07\/13\/farming-park-parking-and-empty-promises\/\"><strong>Continue reading<\/strong> <em>Newsom&#8217;s Empty Promises<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mayor Gavin Newsom Photo by Luke Thomas By Chris Carlsson, SFStreetsBlog Editor&#8217;s Note: Mr. Carlsson assesses political ladder climber Gavin Newsom&#8217;s sudden embrace of environmental values, exposing a deceptive branding campaign that belies Newsom&#8217;s record.&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6413,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinion","category-politics"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.1.1 - 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