Subject: Eric Jaye

• Clown Wants Newsom’s Job – Wait a minute …

  July 25, 2007

• Top Republican Strategist: Great Move, Gav!

  September 17, 2007

• When in Jerusalem ... Pretend You're Jesus! Gavin Newsom Sure Did

  May 8, 2008

• Paper Trails

  May 24, 1995

• Gavin Newson's New Age adviser gives voters some advice

  August 27, 2008

• Guv candidate Gavin Newsom eligible for $48,000 campaign donations

  July 30, 2008

• Nursing Home Lobbyist Quits After He Predicts SEIU Powerplay

  April 2, 2008

• SF Supervisor Aaron Peskin's Message to Newsom: Quit Attacking Me!

  March 5, 2008

• Voter Turnout Predicted at 25 Percent This (Non)Election

  October 31, 2007

• Newsom Snubbed by Democrats

  Even without a major opponent, Mayor Gavin Newsom fails to get a Democratic Club's endorsement

  September 19, 2007

• Governor Newsom?

  Not likely, given his lack of spine in opposing the initiative promoting more parking

  August 8, 2007

• Vote for a Real Clown

  July 25, 2007

• Our Mayor, Da Playa

  July 4, 2007

• Avoid the Noyes

  May 9, 2007

• Pretty Rowdy in Pink

  How some ladies from S.F. will harass Hillary Clinton into being the tipping point against the Iraq War

  December 21, 2005

• The Politics of Cynicism

  SEIU lobbies for nursing home chains. Clint Reilly vs. Jack Davis, redux. Kerry raises money for Reilly's wife. Fabulous. Absolutely Fabulous.

  April 27, 2005

• Street Shuffle

  Gavin Newsom's push to move the "chronic" homeless into supportive housing has made him the darling of the Bush administration's homelessness czar. But is there enough money to make it work?

  June 16, 2004

• Museum Quality

  The new de Young Museum is an architectural marvel; its parking garage shows what's wrong with S.F. development policy

  April 28, 2004

• Looking Ahead

  Aides insist that Mayor Gavin Newsom is focused on City Hall; his sudden celebrity has spawned speculation about higher office. Much higher.

  April 21, 2004

• Derailing the Jaye Train

  Why Matt Gonzalez should stick with his progressive roots, and ignore pressure to act "responsibly"

  November 19, 2003

• Toothless Wonder

  Why S.F.'s police watchdog agency has never been effective - and why Prop. H won't change that

  November 12, 2003

• Achtenberg's Third Act

  Roberta Achtenberg bristles when anyone dares say that Williw Brown is the one who gets things done. "I have gotten things done my entire life, right?" she says, citing when her accomplishments as a law school dean, her 800-page book on sexual orientatio

  August 30, 1995

• Interesting Names on Gavin Newsom's Major Donors List: Michael Savage's Son, Ousted Yahoo Boss, and -- The Fugitive?

  A fund-raising 'Rock Star'?Heading into today's Gavin Newsom "New Direction for California" fund-raiser at the Palace Hotel -- when plenty of folks will shell out good money to San Francisco's gubernatorial candidate and erstwhile mayor -- it's worth taking a look at who has already ponied up the big bucks in hopes of putting Newsom in the statehouse. Glancing through the list of major donors, the most double-take inducing name is Russell Weiner. That's the fellow who founded the company that pr

  May 21, 2009

• Newsom's Svengali: Son of Michael Savage's Money Is No Good Here (Now That People Are Paying Attention)

  Drown your sorrows in RockstarYesterday we reported some of the more interesting names on would-be Governor Gavin Newsom's major donor's list -- including ousted Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang, a bevy of movie moguls and Russell Weiner, the man behind Rockstar Energy Drinks. Weiner is also the son of right-wing radio shock jock Michael Savage -- and has a history of right-wing, anti-LGBT, anti-immigrant politics of his own. Today Eric Jaye, Newsom's longtime campaign manager, confirmed that Weiner's $25,0

  May 22, 2009

• Gavin's Dilemma: Dis Firefighters or Darling of LGBT Political Community?

  Who should I snub? Ballard! My magic eight-ball!If you were Gavin Newsom -- and, odds are, you weren't -- these were your choices: Head to last weekend's U.S. Conference of Mayor's in Providence, R.I. and talk about your treasurer's innovative economic plan and a former supervisor's innovative health care plan -- or skip the conference and keep your top adviser happy by giving the cold shoulder to America's only openly gay mayor of a state capital. Wow -- no one said being a politician is easy (

  June 15, 2009

• The Man Who Cried Dust

  July 1, 2009

• The Daly Show

  August 29, 2007

• SF Gov inAction: All Chris Daly Jokes Must Now Be Translated Into Chinese, Spanish, and Tagalog Upon Request

  There are only three meetings left standing this week: By contrast, four meetings were supposed to happen, but canceled. Is it just me, or are city hall meetings increasingly resembling network programming? "Well, we would LIKE to have a City Operations and Neighborhood Services Committee meeting, but we don't feel that Neighborhood Services appeal to educated males ages 17 to 34, so we'll just stick with reruns of our old City Operations instead." I guess that's what you get with a mayo

  July 28, 2009

• Newsom: No Jaye, No Problem. Mayor Says He's Going to Be Just Fine Without Former Svengali.

  Gavin Newsom says he's got everything covered​This morning., Gavin Newsom's favorite group of notebook, tape-recorder, and camera-wielding inquisitors packed into his tepid chambers for a press conference regarding a proposed United Nations Global Warming Center at the Hunter's Point Shipyard. Great idea, it seemed, but when all the cheer-leading was over, and Newsom made himself available to the media, he received not a single question related

  July 30, 2009

• Facebook Friends Cannot Elect Gavin Newsom -- Or Anyone Else

  You can win friends and influence people on Facebook. But it won't get you elected governor of this state.​ Last week's shakeup in Gavin Newsom's campaign for governor was, in a sense, a triumph of old media over new media. Eric Jaye, Newsom's longtime campaign guru who loved Twitter and Facebook, was out; Garry South, the bare-knuckled political consultant who wanted to shift Newsom to a more traditional TV campaign, was in. The reality is certainly more nuanced than that, but it seems

  August 4, 2009

• Newsom! Dellums! Who Will Win Mayoral Fantasy Football Spectacular? Who Will Explain What Fantasy Football Is to Ron Dellums?

  Justin Page'I dedicate this touchdown to L'Oreal...'​Mayors Gavin Newsom of San Francisco and Ron Dellums of Oakland come from different generations, but both have been assailed by their critics with the same adjective: detached. So no matter who drafts the better team tomorrow in a Yahoo! fantasy football mayoral matchup, critics will be well-armed. If the mayors studiously bone up on their fantasy football rankings and earnestly weigh whether Tom Brady or Drew Brees would be better suited to

  August 19, 2009

• Mayor's Choice to Replace Wealthy Supporters on Arts Commission -- His Own Employee

  Nan Park ImagesAh, but is it art? ​In San Francisco, the term "Arts Commission" is misleading. This is not merely a roomful of wealthy dowagers deciding where to place a bust of Adolph Sutro. A small percentage of funds expended on development projects in the city, by law, are sent the commission's way -- and that translates into millions of dollars a year. The city owns nearly 3,300 works of art valued at roughly $86 million. The Arts Commission is a big deal. So it was a commensurate big dea

  August 28, 2009

• The Wrong Stuff

  September 9, 2009

• Going, Going, Gavin: What's Next For Newsom, City, State?

  ​ It's unlikely anyone has ever publicly announced he's taking a job so he can spend less time with his family. But countless folks turning in their resignation letters have chalked up the decision to jump ship to a desire to spend more time with the fam. Gavin Newsom joined that lengthy list today. And with his dead gubernatorial dreams still warm, the politicos on SF Weekly's speed dial speculated about what comes next for Newsom, San Francisco, and the governor's race. One of the "wild

  October 30, 2009

• Which Is Worse? Newsom Boycotting Press, or Newsom Blowing off Substantive Questions and Being Nasty?

  BrainchildvnI am displeased in you, Hank Plante. ​By now many of you have seen the cringe-worthy Gavin Newsom/Hank Plante interview, an experience every bit as unpleasant as watching Ricky Gervais as David Brent pontificate and condescend in the British version of The Office. Most folks will remember Newsom petulantly ripping off his microphone in the aforementioned interview and snapping -- on camera, mind you -- "off the record, I'm amazingly disappointed." But that's not what did it for us.

  November 20, 2009