First, you decide to run for governor, raise about $1.2 million for your campaign (which I actually supported) and then you pull out because you said you wanted to spend more time with your family (aka more time for hookers and blow, or whatever).
Now, you've come back saying you want to be Lt. Governor. In this letter, he explains his reasons and OF COURSE ASKS FOR MONEY! The funny thing is you can't ask for something Californians don't have!
Here is the e-mail he wrote to me:
Today, I am announcing my candidacy for Lieutenant Governor of California.
I didn’t come to this decision easily, but, after a great deal of consultation with my family, constituents and supporters, I believe that the best way for me to serve is by taking all of the many things that are right about California and applying them to fixing what's wrong in Sacramento.
The issues I fought for when I ran for Governor last year haven’t changed: our state still faces a massive budget crisis, painful unemployment, and rising student fees that threaten the stability and accessibility of our University system. Too many Californians lack access to quality health care and too many schools are overcrowded and underfunded.
But, despite our challenges, I will always believe in California – the dynamism of its past and the promise of its future. I’m also convinced that those of us who love this state have both an obligation and the capacity now to reform it and make it better. To do that, we need to embrace a new way of doing things in Sacramento and we need new leaders who are willing to stand up and change state government.
I’m proud that I have the support of Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Senate President Darrell Steinberg, Assembly Speaker John Perez, Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson, United Farm Workers co-founder Delores Huerta and California Nurses and teachers and I hope I can count on your support too.
On June 8th I need your vote, but I can’t get there without the resources to share my message of reform with millions of Californians.
Please Click Here To Support My Campaign And Its Vision For California
Thank you for your support and for standing with me all these years, together we can make California better.
Sincerely,
Gavin Newsom
I even cut out the last line because he asks for money AGAIN. I'm not even going to activate the first link because honestly, I don't care how good looking you are Mr. Newsom, you must be living under a rock if you think Californians can afford to give you anything.
I was so shocked by his e-mail that I actually wrote back. I know it will probably get lost in the millions of "oh Mr. Newson your my hunky hero" e-mails sent to him, but I needed to tell him why I was NOT going to support him:
Dear Mr. Newson-
I fully supported your initial campaign for governor and as an expat living in Canada I told many of my peers to support you as well. I know that you were able to raise millions of dollars for your campaign which is amazing considering the state of California is wallowing in one of the deepest recessions its ever seen.
So, my question for you now is...what are you doing NOW to help the citizens of California?
As we speak both of my parents had to cancel their health insurance because premiums were too high. My sister, who is desperately trying to finish her last year of San Francisco State University had to fight tooth and nail to get a full class load and constantly gets berated for crossing picket lines just to go to school.
THIS IS WRONG!
And I'm sorry but I just do not think California politicians are acting appropriately...I think they are acting ignorantly actually.
If a state wants a strong economy how can we guarantee that when our workforce is unhealthy and undereducated?
California's GDP used to be the 5th largest in the world...we were at the world's envy, and now I think we are a joke.
I'm sorry for being so blunt my family's future is at stake. I write you this from Canada because I could not sit and wait for politicians like you to make some positive change.
If you took some of that campaign support money and redistributed it into a state run healthcare system (like Hawaii's) or put it back in the school system, then I might be a bit more supportive. I heard you received around $1.2 million from your last campaign for governor. I know those are just pennies in campaign funding terms, but that money could at least help our struggling college students graduate and start finding solutions to our state's problems.
However, you said your family was the reason you did not want to further pursue the governor position. Well, my family is the reason why I'm writing you this letter. I cannot support you or Jerry Brown until I see some positive change.
The funny thing is I'm not asking for much...I'm asking for two things that should be fundamental rights in this state; affordable health care and education.
I know you probably don't want to hear this from a Tamalpais high school graduate (Redwood's rivals) but if someone from Marin, a once affluent county, is begging for these changes imagine what the rest of the state is feeling?!
I'm not expecting you to respond to this, I just hope you think about it for a couple seconds in between you asking the exhausted and over exploited citizens of California for more campaign money.
Sincerely, former resident of California refugee now living in Canada
Whatever, I don't care if he gets this or not, it just felt good to write it.
Every single California politician should be ashamed of themselves....you ruined my state so much I had to move to another country in order to feel some sense of security.
I know I know, it's not all your fault, so fuck Enron too!
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