{"id":10226,"date":"2009-10-07T19:15:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-07T19:15:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-10-07T18:04:01","modified_gmt":"2009-10-07T18:04:01","slug":"cagov-the-hesaidhesaid-rumors-of-garry-souths-demands-on-newsom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/2009\/10\/07\/cagov-the-hesaidhesaid-rumors-of-garry-souths-demands-on-newsom\/","title":{"rendered":"CA-Gov: The He-Said\/He-Said Rumors of Garry South’s Demands on Newsom"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Monday, Mayor Sam reported<\/a> some rumors that were floating around the political world, that Garry South had told Gavin to raise $5 million by the end of the year or drop out. <\/p>\n

Today, CalBuzz got the story from the horse’s mouth<\/a>, and boy, is it an angry mouth.  <\/p>\n

“This is complete, utter bullshit, and I categorically deny it.  “Mayor Sam” never talked to me to pass any of these hearsay assertions by me, and he is just picking up and disseminating intentional disinformation from the Brown camp – including Brown himself, who’s too busy “doing his job as AG” to debate, but has time to hang on the phone in his Oakland loft starting and spreading rumors about Newsom.  I don’t give my candidates ultimatums of any sort.” (CalBuzz 10\/07\/09<\/a>) <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Mayor Sam responded this morning<\/a> to South’s rant.<\/p>\n

The thrust of our piece Monday was that Newsom<\/b><\/a> has had such major trouble collecting any real campaign jack the San Francisco Mayor had to throw a hail mary pass and roll out a way earlier than usual endorsement of a former POTUS – Bill “BJ” Clinton in an LA photo opp at a green college building earlier this week. (Mayor Sam 10\/07\/09<\/a>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In the end, I sort of believe South on this one. It just doesn’t seem like South to tell a paying client to drop out of a race. And, as he pointed out, he did stay with some rather big underdogs in the form of Gray Davis and Steve Westly when they were polling quite low.  That being said, Davis was a pretty good fundraiser and Westly could self-fund.<\/p>\n

I would be very surprised to see Newsom drop out of the race early, nor do I think it would be good for the state.  A vigorous exchange of ideas (not mud) is critical to ensure that the Democratic nominee supports, or at least understands, the goals of the progressive grassroots.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On Monday, Mayor Sam reported<\/a> some rumors that were floating around the political world, that Garry South had told Gavin to raise $5 million by the end of the year or drop out. <\/p>\n

Today, CalBuzz got the story from the horse’s mouth<\/a>, and boy, is it an angry mouth.  <\/p>\n

“This is complete, utter bullshit, and I categorically deny it.  “Mayor Sam” never talked to me to pass any of these hearsay assertions by me, and he is just picking up and disseminating intentional disinformation from the Brown camp – including Brown himself, who’s too busy “doing his job as AG” to debate, but has time to hang on the phone in his Oakland loft starting and spreading rumors about Newsom.  I don’t give my candidates ultimatums of any sort.” (CalBuzz 10\/07\/09<\/a>) <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Mayor Sam responded this morning<\/a> to South’s rant.<\/p>\n

The thrust of our piece Monday was that Newsom<\/b><\/a> has had such major trouble collecting any real campaign jack the San Francisco Mayor had to throw a hail mary pass and roll out a way earlier than usual endorsement of a former POTUS – Bill “BJ” Clinton in an LA photo opp at a green college building earlier this week. (Mayor Sam 10\/07\/09<\/a>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In the end, I sort of believe South on this one. It just doesn’t seem like South to tell a paying client to drop out of a race. And, as he pointed out, he did stay with some rather big underdogs in the form of Gray Davis and Steve Westly when they were polling quite low.  That being said, Davis was a pretty good fundraiser and Westly could self-fund.<\/p>\n

I would be very surprised to see Newsom drop out of the race early, nor do I think it would be good for the state.  A vigorous exchange of ideas (not mud) is critical to ensure that the Democratic nominee supports, or at least understands, the goals of the progressive grassroots.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[204],"tags":[415,779,487],"class_list":["post-10226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-204","tag-415","tag-779","tag-487"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Pvhz-2EW","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10226"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10226\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}