Gavin: "To say is not to do." Huh?By Tim Redmond
Calbuzz, the blog by former Chronicle managing editor Jerry Roberts and former Mercury News politicial editor Phil Trounstine, has a great item about Gavin Newsom's campaign lingo.
Newsom routinely stems the flow of his words by suddenly inserting a phrase like, “I always say,” then quickly follows with an aphorism that makes it seem he’s channeling Tony Robbins channeling the Book of Proverbs with a dash of Khalil Gibran thrown in. No wonder this guy loves Twitter.
They have some wonderful selections from a recent speech, including:
“I always say . . . the difference between success and failure is the difference between interested people and committed people." (Wait, didn't he get that backwards?)
“I always say . . . that it’s decisions, not conditions, that determine our fate."
And:
“To say is not to do,” he said at least three times, as a way of explaining how his self-described accomplishments as the mayor overseeing the San Francisco Miracle contrast to the utter failure by every other California politician to achieve much of anything at all.
Amazing. To say is not to do. And this from Mr. Press Release, the man who runs the city by saying and not by doing.
Guess maybe he's right.
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Comments (3)
Ha! Brilliantly done, Tim.
Posted by Brock Keeling | March 24, 2009 04:17 PM
Sure,
And, when the smoke clears, Gavin has a very good chance of being governor. Did you notice that his press conference yesterday where he bragged about giving 11 million to schools from the Rainy Day Fund (he'd promised 23m - Daly offered 33m) ... notice who closed the ceremonies?
Why, it was Warren Hellman. He was the only person on the stage who wasn't a City official. Why the hell was he there? Well, there's some rumor he's going to take control of the editorial content at the Chron.
it never ends,
h.
Posted by h. brown | March 25, 2009 02:40 PM
Here are the filings for Governor:
Newsom: $1,179,348.94
Brown $3,420,335.43
Didn't see any numbers for Villaraigosa, but with Brown leading 3:1 and significant name recognition and political reconfiguration towards mainstream California given his record as Oakland Mayor, Brown will be formidable and Newsom is simply not up to the task.
The only way that Newsom ends up advancing is if Feinstein ends up becoming Governor and she appoints the prince of press releases to her seat to continue the San Francisco dynasty.
-marc
Posted by marcos | March 26, 2009 10:15 AM