Comments on: Mayor Sorry For Affair With Aide's Wife

San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom's Ex-Campaign Manager Resigned Over Matter

[gunnerv1]

Well, at least it wasn't Gay ***, because that would've been OK in San Francisco

[cmp271]

I thought he was gay, he is too pretty not to be so it was a surprise he had been with a woman, let alone he is/was married. Same with Bill, except his wife is as everyone says. GOP "players" mess about too, who cares, why care, we are all degenerates we accept it and keep these people in office. Clean up TV and society may change its values.

[dogsoul]

great snippet from SFGATE.com

MAYOR Gavin Newsom's affair with his appointments secretary would have represented a horrible lapse in judgment even if she weren't married -- and even if her husband had not been a longtime friend of Newsom who dedicated his considerable professional skills to helping advance the mayor's career.

The aggravating factors -- betrayal of a friend, violation of one of the most fundamental rules of the workplace -- assure that the sordid episode will damage Newsom's stature even in a city with famously tolerant attitudes about ***.

The mayor, who likes to quote from his voluminous collection of the latest "best practices" books on business management, seems to have missed Lesson One from sexual harassment training: Avoid intimate relationships with subordinates. Even if consensual at the outset, they can take unpredictable and dangerous turns and poison the workplace for the employee or her colleagues.

Newsom is also a student of politics, who could not have missed the parallels with former President Bill Clinton -- and all the self-inflicted misery of his sexual excesses -- as the mayor's relationship with Ruby Rippey-Tourk began to breach the bounds of propriety

[dogsoul]

...well, as for the difference between Democrats & Republicans - I'd agree neither are strangers to sexx scandals... however, when a Republican has one - he's told by his own party to go crawl in a hole & die... and that's usually what ends up happening - when a Democrat has one, he's re-elected with applause, comes out as a "Gay American" that should not be victimized as such, is painted as "only human" or otherwise forgiven because, "everyone does it" - any number of excuses & cast-no-stones type rhetoric tends to hit the streets when it's one of THEIR guys...

[bm6005]

Unfortunately, an example of the little head overiding the big head. Has nothing to do with politics!

[dogsoul]

...and this is a guy who is young, good looking, powerful, probably very well off financially, famous, etc... He's going around dating starletts and could really have any number of women he wanted.... yet he chose to take a subordinate at work, married to another employee, who is also a close personal friend... I mean, come ON folks -

He had 99.99999% more alternative opportunities than your average guy to fulfill those desires with countless beautiful women

He had every professional motivation imagineable to seek that satisfaction outside the office

He had every moral & ethical responsibility conceivable to stay away from his friend's wife

and despite all that - he chose to do what he did...

and that doesn't matter?

[agnim]

More likely a little boy.

Posted by dallison7 at 06:57 AM : Feb 02, 2007

LMAO

You guys are so freaking fun-neee LOL

Republican deviant perverts screw little boys.
Or have their daughters screw other girls.

And Democrat perverts screw their best friend's wife.

Our government is run by a bunch of perverts from dysfunctional families.

[rafterman1]

"and did not have a thing to do with lying to the court whilst under oath. That is PURJURY..."

No, it wa about sexx. The issue that brought Bubba to court in order to commit purjury in the first place was Repub's fascination (and revulsion) of sexx.

It's like the MPAA ratings board, the people that rate movies. They are a very conservative group. You can show all kinds of horrible, head cutting off violence and you can land a PG-13. Sholw one d1ck though - and it's NC-17. Yet breasts will get you only an R.

You righties are all like that. Iraq war with thousands dead? No problem, let's get more of that. Guy has an affair? Scumbag of the earth in your eyes.

[dogsoul]

I thought she also worked as the mayor's secretary during the time...

[dogsoul]

I'm sorry folks - but if honor, integrity, decency, honesty, loyalty, self discipline or character hold ANY sway whatsoever in your assessment of an elected mayor - or ANY public official - or any PERSON for that matter... I simply cannot abide those that say this is a non-issue, that it doesn't matter, that it's none of our business... This strikes a nerve with people for a reason - because however unflatteringly this indiscretion might reflect upon the mayor's office on a professional level - the betrayal on a personal level is of the highest order - and while there's plenty to be said about how a scumbag might be able to do a good job - generally speaking, people tend to avoid known scumbags because good job or not... eventually they tend to knife you in the back.