Well, that was certainly a mortified apology and a hasty retreat. We'll take Chris "The High Road" Daly's cue and refrain from comment about the principal players in this sad story -- but we are wondering: what's the effect of this on our current issues of obsession in the current political scene? What about.....
Question Time?: The SFWall's done a 180 on this, with people now seeming to agree that maybe Gavin should suck it up and go after all. Everyone's going to be nice to him, and hey -- Newsom would probably welcome a nice normal conversation about the problems with the wi-fi proposal, the status of the Niners, the kink.com Planning Committee meeting, or Gleegate after his last few days.
Fake Question Time?: Is Gavin really going to show up at the second townhall meeting next weekend (Feb. 10, 10 a.m, in the Bayview)? We hope so, because we've already made arrangements for brunch afterwards! But seriously. On the up side, we can't imagine the chickens will show up again, not after this. (though correct us if we're wrong!) On the down side -- is anyone actually going to show up? Maybe Gavin would actually like some chickens there.
The Mayoral Race?: Newsom got on and off the stage today too fast to answer Dan Noyes's question about whether he was going to resign (and it looks like if that happened, Aaron Peskin would replace him -- we checked), but even if that doesn't happen, suddenly the 2007 mayoral race is looking open again. On the right Tony Hall and Jack Davis are talking big -- and suddenly there's speculation that running for mayor has moved one notch higher on both Carole Migden and Bevan Dufty's priority lists. However, Chris "High Road" Daly says he's not even going to think about a progressive challenger to Newsom until all the dust clears on this issue. Oh good -- then maybe Chris can focus his attention on getting that DALY 06 sign down from the corner of Mission and S. Van Ness!
Whew. This low-joke policy we've voluntarily adopted is . You win this round, Peter John Byorn Nelson Ragone!
Video still of Gavin Newsom leaving today's press conference from CBS 5.
