SF Kossacks may remember my diary of two days ago where I was calling on turning Hillary's SF baiting against her by sending messages to Mayor Newsom.
Well it seems either that or the math may have done some subtle political damage with our ambitious mayor.
http://www.sfbg.com/...
This morning I attended the grand opening ceremony of the pretty incredible-looking Hotel Essex, an 84-unit rehab completed by Community Housing Partnership and Mercy Housing that now houses 84 formerly homeless people in their own apartments (complete with kitchenettes!), with on-site counselling, recovery, and job-training services available.
And then came a very weird moment. With cautious enunciation and in the wake the whole Obama-elitism-San Francisco-oh my! panic, Newsom, a supposedly staunch Hillary supporter, said:
"We're turning this problem around -- or, as Barack Obama says: We're turning the page, bringing real change -- on homelessness."
Hmm. Quoting Obama, really? Right now? Either this was a very misguided attempt to pull a Hillary and tar Obama with any reference to scandal possible -- keeping the smear ball in play, as it were -- or perhaps Mr. Newsom knows something we don't about the way the superdelegate winds are blowing, and is waving around a little penance. Either way, many confused looks were shot across the room.
Just thought I would share. It is a detail. Newsom isn't even a SD and he probably is too smart to betray the Clintons publicly.
But he also is too smart not to see where this is going.
And I, for one, appreciate the fact he is already planting the seeds for a transition, even if I know that is to protect his future political career.