Gavin Newsom ,SF Mayor, is thinking of running for Governator !!

Ten reasons why this is a baaad idea:

1- He had an affair in office with a major staffer's wife,,,

2-He ,like many a mayor before, will not fix the city bus department, Muni, after accusing in public the cable car drivers of stealing the $5 fares. The local tv stations are running stories about all the longtime unsafe drivers the city and union will not fire. And there are still, no relief drivers at the end of the cable car lines where the drivers take their extremely long breaks. Last mayor Willi Brown said he was going to fix Muni, but obviously did not.

3-The "60 Minute" episode sleazy camera stores at Union Square and Fisherman's Wharf ,,,also NYC,,,are still selling second rate cameras or crap cameras to the city's visitors misrepresented as first quality , major brand merchandise !

4-The two freeways /highways through town, hwy 101 and hwy 1 , had timed lights before , but even with regular unleaded gasoline over $4/gallon, this Mayor can not or will not for efficiency sake time the major streets and boulevards, including hwy 101 and hwy 1 !

5-Unlike most major cosmopolitan tourist cities of Europe and elsewhere, there is no central reservation office or central cab dispatch office in SF,,,and the subcontracted Visitor's and Convention Bureau service is subpar.

6-The SF Zoo was privatized ,,,and is still a liability mess for the city. Two tiger attacks, and counting,,,

7-Hotels are charging $20 to $50/night to park your car, and there are not enough reasonable parking garage spaces in SF. Tour buses and large motor homes/rv's should be directed to pier 30, but are left to illegally park all over town. Pier 30 use to be free parking to all our out of town charter bus visitors and the DMC's 20-75 Moscone shuttle buses,,,

8-What happened to any agenda from this mayor, besides gay marriage,,, like city-wide pay and free wi-fi ??

9-The mayor should lead in moving its water supply,the Hetch Hetchy Dam, out of Yosemite National Park and lower into the surrounding National Forest.

10-After Arnold,,,another pretty boy, unskilled and incompetent administrator ?!
Surely ,with California's terrible economic condition after the awful Republican Gray Davis deregulated energy with the State Legislature and the resulting "Enron" dvd, California needs someone with more than just "looks".

Latest gossip on SF travel locations,,,

Friends just back from SF ,,,say not to book with "Heritage Marina Hotel" in the Cow Hollow District, on Van Ness near Lombard. They said it was "lousy!" and no details.

Also told me they did not like something other than the new paint at " La Luna" on Lombard,,,and 'ran' away !! Also no details yet.

They got very sick at the big Chinese restaurant at the corner of California and Grant in Chinatown, where all the cheapo tour buses pull up,,,the "dirty carpet!" of the "Cathay House". Stay away ,they said, until it is much cleaner and food safer !!

And they met a nice old English man who bought a camera at one of those "SALE SALE SALE" sleazy camera stores at Fisherman's Wharf,,,also Union Square,,,and he told them he paid cash,,,oops,,,and at his hotel immediately opened the Nikon camera box,,,and it was "totally defective",,,The police would do nothing, the Mayor's office would do nothing, the Chamber of Commerce would do nothing, and the SF Visitors and Convention Bureau would not do,,,a thing !! So i told them to watch the old old episode of '60 minutes' on this common NYC and SF scam, and then write Nikon a polite letter of consternation.

Yikes. Caveat Emptor, especially in SF.