Is this what is necessary for Gavin Newsom to deign to speak to David Chiu? Or would a phone call suffice?The "economic forum" Gavin Newsom needed to attend rather than accompany the mayors of San Jose, San Diego, and Los Angeles to Washington, D.C. to stump for federal funds turned out to be this morning's San Francisco Business Times' annual breakfast.The mayor made nice on the $95-a-head, business-friendly crowd -- that's no surprise. He also, according to a breaking blurb in the Examiner, pr
It turns out the mayor does have a device for communicating with David Chiu. It's called a press release.Yesterday we wrote about how Mayor Gavin Newsom announced at the San Francisco Business Times breakfast that he was proposing an overhaul of the city's payroll tax -- which came as news to Board of Supervisors President David Chiu, who had proposed overhauling said tax two weeks ago. It turns out that the proposals are, indeed, different -- and the mayor's payroll proposition was just one of