San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newson gave an excellent public address on gay marriage at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government last week. The KSG has a video feed of the address and the Q&A session that follows. Mayor Newsom sounds like a very grounded politican. I recognize in him the same casual charisma and modesty of Bill Clinton. On gay marriage and other issues (the New Yorker ran a profile on him last year about his work in SF housing projects), he has done great things both for San Francisco and the national debate, and, so far, I can see that his actions match up well with his speech—an admirable attribute for any politician, and an inspiration to me in these times.
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Feb 12 02005 11.59a
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Feb 12 02005 10.09p
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phredx
Check out this entrepreneurial blast from Gavin Newsom’s past:
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/8.02/mustread.html?pg=8
Feb 13 02005 9.21p
Ben #
Modesty of Bill Clinton? Is that some sort of sarcastic joke?
Feb 13 02005 10.42p
tashian #
Freddie— I had no idea. But I’m not surprised. He kind of looks like a dot-commer.
Ben— I guess modesty incorporates a few meanings that I didn’t intend, like:
1. The condition of being chaste
4. Reserve in speech, behavior, or dress
but I think he does match up well on these two, as far as world leaders go:
2. Lack of ostentation or pretension
3. Lack of vanity or self-importance