May 25, 2009
Dear Rachel Maddow.
We love you. As queers of San Francisco/The Mission, we are writing to tell you that we think you are fabulous, smart, inquisitive, thoughtful, and inspiring. We watch your show online with avidity. And, as your fans, we are also offering some constructive feedback.
In your interview with Gavin Newsom, you threw him curveball questions and offered an open platform for his gubernatorial stump speech. We thought you should know better, and have attached some things to ponder when next you and he meet:
Top 10 Reasons Gavin Newsom is a Snake in the Grass and Not Queer-Friendly Even Though He Supports Gay Marriage
10. He slept with his campaign manager’s wife and then cried, “I’m an alcoholic” and checked into rehab a la Michael Richards. We believe in polyamory, but sleeping with your campaign manager’s wife is just shady.
9. He was appointed to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors by self-identified Mayor “Slick” Willie Brown (i.e., he is a product of patronage and nepotism).
8. Same as #9. See Paul Getty oil family.
7. Newsom only did the gay marriage thing at first to appease gay voters in the Castro who played a big role in getting him elected and were pissed when he neglected to mention the gay community when applauding the city’s history in his inauguration speech. (We concede he later really cared about the issue.)
6. In his campaign literature for “Care Not Cash,” Newsom misleadingly cited a New England Journal of Medicine article as proof that people on welfare spend their money on drugs. Its authors sent him a cease and desist order and he was forced to quietly trash thousands of hateful and erroneous campaign flyers.
5. Newsom ran his mayoral campaign on the heels of his successful “Care Not Cash” campaign, which took money out of the pockets of homeless people. While he claims the program has been a success, there are more people homeless than before; participants report panhandling because the program cut their cast benefits to $59/month; and the housing offered by the program was procured largely by displacing other poor people from single-room occupancy hotel rooms in the Tenderloin, where it can be hard to stay off drugs or feel safe for residents.
4. While Newsom is out parading about his success at creating universal healthcare, services are being slashed in the midst of a budget crisis. The economy is not his fault, but he could at least show up to budget hearings.
3. Under his watch, San Francisco was turned into a playground for increasingly rich, white people – the black population is dwindling to zero and his policies have sided with private developers time and time again. Now, ugly, expensive lofts sit empty while the exodus of people of color continues, evictions soar, and homelessness grows.
2. If you observe closely, you will see that Gavin Newsom is in love with the idea of himself as a leader, but he does not actually effectively lead.
1. Gavin Newsom wears excessive amounts of Pomade. While we like this in butches and drag kings, it makes him look like a creep.
Yours,
The Residents of Richlandia
p.s. If you don't believe us, check out the S.F. Bay Guardian's article, The Two Newsoms
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