S.F. Mayor To Seek Alcohol Counseling

Gavin Newsom's Announcement Follows Disclosure That He Had An Affair With Aide's Wife

(AP)  Mayor Gavin Newsom said Monday that he plans to seek counseling for alcohol use, following the disclosure that he had an affair with the wife of a trusted aide.

Newsom, 39, said that although "my problems with alcohol are not an excuse for my personal lapses in judgment," he had stopped drinking and wanted professional help staying sober.

"Upon reflection with friends and family this weekend, I have come to the conclusion that I will be a better person without alcohol in my life," Newsom said in a statement.

Newsom said that he would get treatment from the Delancey Street Foundation in San Francisco and that it would not affect his duties as mayor. He is running for a second term in November.

Before taking office in 2004, he founded a wine store, a string of highly successful restaurants and the Plump Jack Winery in Napa County.

[reel-crazy]

How many of us hear this on a daily basis?

Our description of the alcoholic, the chapter to the agnostic, and our personal adventures before and after make clear three pertinent ideas:

A. That we were alcoholic and could not manage our own lives.

B. That probably no human power could have relieved our alcoholism.

C. That God could and would if He were sought.

[gunownerdan]

San Francisco is a good example of what is wrong with liberals.

[perception5]

Just another display of morales and values from the liberal city by the bay........

[shingles1]

"...that wife must look like Ernest Borgnine when you're sober."

Google "Ruby Rippey Tourk" and see.

[agnim]

Posted by Puffin1952 at 09:53 AM : Feb 06, 2007

That is funny, the Borgnine thingy.

[puffin1952]

All I have to say is...if you have to get loaded enough with alcohol to fool around with the wife of a trusted aid....that wife must look like Ernest Borgnine when you're sober.

[olebd]

Rehab is today what a temporary insanity plea was in the past.

This is too funny.

[exusmcsgt]

If so, you think we can get an appointment for Bush?

[rray52]

What%u2019s up.
Someone hits the news for doing something stupid and the automatic mantra is apologize and go to rehab.

Is their a rehab for stupid?

[exusmcsgt]

Here we go again....demon rum is to blame for his being a scumbag and is being used as a sympathy ploy.

If San Francisco re-elects this schmuck they'll show the nation that they in fact will accept anything as their elected leader.

[bluestardad]

Go Away you pimp! Take your friends wife with you!

[tucson23]

Why is it that everyone who gets caught in an embarrasing scandal blames alcohol for their behavior? It's as if no one would ever do ANYTHING bad unless they were under some evil influence beyond their control.