{"id":900,"date":"2008-11-06T11:32:26","date_gmt":"2008-11-06T19:32:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fogcityjournal.com\/wordpress\/2008\/11\/06\/newsoms-bid-for-governor-halted-by-prop-8-passage\/"},"modified":"2008-11-09T09:29:03","modified_gmt":"2008-11-09T17:29:03","slug":"newsoms-bid-for-governor-halted-by-prop-8-passage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fogcityjournal.com\/wordpress\/900\/newsoms-bid-for-governor-halted-by-prop-8-passage\/","title":{"rendered":"Newsom&#8217;s Bid for Governor Halted?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fogcityjournal.com\/images\/photos2008\/same_sex_marriage_ruling_080515\/mw2w3870_std.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><br \/>\nMayor Gavin Newsom on the occasion of celebrating a California Supreme Court decision<br \/>\nthat ruled same-sex marriage couples have the legal right to marry, 5\/15\/08.<br \/>\n<strong>Photos by Luke Thomas<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>By <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fogcityjournal.com\/wordpress\/author\/luke\/\">Luke Thomas<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>November 6, 2008<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s tough to dump on a guy when he&#8217;s down, but Mayor Gavin Newsom&#8217;s bed was made when it was decided his 2007 mayoral reelection was all but guaranteed -\u00c2\u00a0 if he just championed same-sex marriage in San Francisco.<\/p>\n<p>That was when Newsom and his one-move-ahead handlers weren&#8217;t thinking beyond the insulated confines of Room 200, or about a possible run for governor in 2010, or the political risks associated with pitting same-sex marriage against an army of well-organized <a href=\"http:\/\/fogblog.tumblr.com\/post\/57827011\/civil-rights-vs-religious-dogma-proposition-8\">religious fundamentalists<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Had Californians torpedoed Prop 8 Tuesday, Newsom would be riding high today, deserving to express the ill-advised glee that agitated the Yes on Prop 8 hornets nest. But with the passage of Prop 8, questions about Newsom&#8217;s political survival are justifiably <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/blogs\/sfgate\/detail?blogid=47&amp;entry_id=32366\">being raised<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--> To add insult to injury, all indicators point to Newsom losing his bid to undo an eight-year progressive majority on the Board of Supervisors and the ultimate prize of controlling  its agenda through its presidency.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, Mr. Newsom will be most remembered for his courage in championing an important <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fogcityjournal.com\/wordpress\/2008\/05\/15\/same-sex-marriage-ruling-wins-praise-and-criticism\/\">civil rights issue<\/a>, no matter how the idea <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?f=\/c\/a\/2008\/11\/06\/MN1B13S3D3.DTL&amp;hw=gavin+newsom&amp;sn=002&amp;sc=991\">got its footing<\/a>. But gifting his opponents the very weapon used to defeat same-sex marriage is the mistake likely to have ended his bid for California governor &#8211; and it may be his political Waterloo.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fogcityjournal.com\/images\/photos2008\/newsom_prop8_081105\/mw2w3946_std.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mayor Gavin Newsom on the occasion of celebrating a California Supreme Court decision that ruled same-sex marriage couples have the legal right to marry, 5\/15\/08. 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