Girlieman of the Week -- San Fran Mayor Gavin Newsome

From Politically Incorrect Gazette --

Girlieman of the Week
Date Awarded: July 04, 2008

Girlieman: S. F. Mayor Gavin Newsome
Girlie Antics: Frantic Finger-Pointing

When the Blight by the Bay’s coddling of border jumping scumbag drug dealers exploded into the news cycle, the bovine excrement hit the fan with a resounding SPLAT. Apparently, nobody in positions of authority saw anything wrong with giving Honduran drug dealers red carpet, juvenile offender, treatment. In fact, with a ‘wink-wink’, ‘nudge-nudge’, the proper authorities aren’t too fussy about checking the ‘real’ age of these ‘youthful’ offenders.

Determined to keep these drug dealers off Uncle Sam’s border jumper radar, the city’s juvenile probation department, headed by William Siffermann, would, at the taxpayers’ expense, have a probation officer fly the ‘youthful’ offender back to Honduras. Once there, the drug punk was free and clear, with no immigration track record, and thus free to return to the Blight by the Bay, America’s most slappably smug sanctuary city.

After the feds busted one of those city-paid drug punk escorts in Mexas, in May, the city switched gears. Instead of flying the drug punks home, they exported them to group homes in far off San Bernardino County. That seemed like a viable solution, until news broke that 8 of these drug punks walked away from the group home and one of them was bagged, again, in the Blight by the Bay.

The timing of this public relations nightmare was especially thrilling for Frisco’s mayor, Gavin Newsome, since it reached critical mass at the exact time when he was ramping up his bid for Governor of Mexifornia. His first instinct, fearless leader that he is, was to DUCK:

"I don't have the authority here," Newsom said at a City Hall news conference as he stood beside his handpicked juvenile probation director, William Siffermann. "I have a bully pulpit. The courts have the authority here." (S. F. Chronicle)

Sensing that might not be working, Gavin, took his gutless antics to the next level with ‘finger-pointing’:

"The question you need to ask is why the courts, the D.A. and the public defender are directing (the Juvenile Probation Department) to do that," Newsom said.

Siffermann said he is trying to balance federal law with San Francisco's 1989 proclamation of itself as a sanctuary city, a status that has led city officials to refuse to cooperate with federal agents in deporting immigrants.

"The chief doesn't do it on his own," Newsom said. "He is told by the courts to do this. ... The D.A. and judges and public defender all tell chief Siffermann what to do." (S. F. Chronicle)

Nice try, but no cigar, dude. The Tuesday press conference had barely concluded, when the blowback kicked into a much higher gear. By Wednesday, Gavin was in full retreat and pretending to have a spine:

"All I can say is, I can't explain away the past," Newsom said. "I take responsibility, I take it. We are moving in a different direction...We're going to fix this...Adults who commit felonies are already turned over to the federal authorities for deportation. There has been a lack of clarity, however, on our policy toward juveniles who commit felonies. ... I have directed my administration to work in cooperation with the federal government on all felony cases."

Still trying to find someone to fall on a sword for the greater glory of Gutless Gavin, Newsome, seemed to paint a ‘take one for the Mayor’ bull’s-eye on his minion, William Siffermann:

"This was accepted practice for decades, and Siffermann continued it, but now it's stopped," Newsom said. He said the decision to send the juveniles to the unlocked group home in San Bernardino County "was wrong. It was a mistake, and he (Siffermann) needs to answer for that. I'm not pleased about any of this."

"There's nothing good about all this. I can't beat around the bush. This, in the past, was something dealt with in the juvenile justice system - it just didn't get up the chain. That's my fault. Ultimately, I'm accountable. Ignorance is no defense." Newsom said he has been "getting the heat, and I get it." (Chronicle)

We’re not shedding any tears over the way Gutless Gavin is twisting in the wind. He’s scum and that’s a fact, but we do have some glass half full news that might perk up Gutless Gavin: he’s the Politically Incorrect Gazette’s Girlieman of the Week.