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Thank God for garbage disposals. Seriously. On your knees. Because Mayor Gavin Newsom just signed a ruling calling on all San Franciscans to compost their eggshells, coffee grounds, apple peels, dead roses and other food rubbish and garden clippings. While city officials will give residents time to adjust to storing their waste in a green bin, they "could eventually start levying fines of $100 on rubbish recidivists." (Thankfully, many residents are now too cash-strapped to afford real, non-prepackaged food, so many of you don't have to worry. Yay, hunger!) If you recall, the Board of Supes OK'd the country's toughest composting law earlier this month.

Although his colleagues couldn't find him, Mayor Gavin Newsom was spotted in WeHo on Sunday, kicking it at LA's Gay Pride.

First, the good news: Mayor Gavin Newsom picked a new police chief, one that will follow Heather Fong, who announced her retirement last December.

       

As already mentioned by SFist Chron favorite Leah Garchik, Mayor Gavin Newsom and Jennifer Siebel plan to buy designer Candace Barnes' house. And according to On the Block, it's probably this house, circa 1915, at 1581 Masonic Avenue.

Yesterday, after SFist asked why the San Francisco murder rate in 2009 has been so low, the Examiner answered: Mayor Gavin Newsom.

The Ballard just posted this message, "@biz and @gavinnewsom just announced that you can report potholes in SF by tweeting @sf311." The seem to be having some sort of live press conference about Twitter and 311 coming together. That is to say, 311 has a Twitter account. Yay, the future!

Mayor Gavin Newsom unveiled his proposed budget for fiscal year 2009-10 which would take affect July 1st, and in it he proposes eliminating 1,600 city jobs (including 900 currently vacant positions and 685 layoffs, some of which have already occurred) and cutting funding to several social service programs, including $23M in services to the mentally ill, addicted and people with HIV/AIDS.

Sleep easy, San Francisco. Mayor Gavin Newsom has, at last, sold his Russian Hill bachelor pad. On the market for over a month, the spacious and too tastefully decorated penthouse condo, if you recall, had trouble finding a buyer. Today, the apartment is in escrow. While the asking price was a cool $2.995 million, the sales price has yet to be revealed. Anyway, congrats, unidentified buyer. Also, all together now: oh, if those walls could talk.

Gay.com named the winners of their annual Travel Awards. To no one's surprise, San Francisco was named Favorite Domestic Destination. Woo hoo! Gavin, of course, was equally elated. Because this means more much-needed tourist dollars. "On behalf of the city and county of San Francisco, it is a great honor to be recognized as the 'Best Domestic Destination' in the US in the 2009 Gay.com Travel Awards," said Newsom. "I am proud to represent a city with so many historic firsts for the gay and lesbian community -- including the birth of the rainbow flag, home to the first openly gay men's chorus and the first LGBT chamber of commerce. We look forward to the readers of Gay.com creating their own 'only in San Francisco' experience." (Speaking of which, what's your own 'only in SF' experience, readers?) The winners (which includes the W winning Favorite Hotel Chain and London, England being named Favorite International Destination) were chosen by thousands of Gay.com's readers over the last two months.

It's been awhile since we've mentioned Gavin Newsom's whimsical musings on Twitter. (Speaking of the the micro-blogging network many of you claim to be sick of but secretly can't stop using, its founders will be on The View this week. May God have mercy on them.) Ever since he nixed the idle chat about running in the Presidio , or threatened a certain cousin's inheritance after an awesome tête-à-tête went live, the entertainment value of his posts have run on the stale side.

"If you are flipping through the channels. I will be on Rachel Maddow at 615 PST," read Mayor Gavin Newsom's prefered form of communication. And so he was, doing a decent job too. (Say what you will about Gavin, but he is as camera-ready as they come.) Newsom chatted with MSNBC's sharpest media darling about LGBT rights, same-sex marriage in Iowa, his run for governor, and more.

During this weekend's state Democratic convention in Sacramento, Gavin Newsom took aim at 71-year-old attorney general Jerry Brown. Newsom, who officially tossed his hat into the gubernatorial ring last week, told the crowd that the race for governor came down to a choice between a "sprint into the future" (i.e., Gav) or "a stroll down memory lane" (i..e, Brown, who earned the moniker "Governor Moonbeam" when he held the job way back in the 1970s). While not directly calling out Brown, who wants the job again in 2010, Newsom went on to say, "We're not a state of memories ... We're a state of dreams. We're Californians. We're not content to relive history. We're going to keep making it." In related news, an advisor for Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, another contender in the Democratic primary for governor, slammed Newsom, saying Villaraigosa would not "Twitter while Rome burns" if he were elected. Ouch.

A month after being on the market -- with an initial asking price of $3,200,000 -- Mayor Gavin Newsom's penthouse condo at 1101 Green Street #2001 has plummeted in price. According to SocketSite, the asking price for his 1,693 square foot one-bedroom bachelor pad has been reduced to a mere $2,995,000.

After announcing his bid for candidacy for California Governor this morning, Mayor Gavin Newsom sent this message via Twitter, "We've raised $15,000 online today. Thank you for the support. Help us reach our goal of $20,000. Please ReTweet: http://tr.im/ji64 ." $15K?! Jesus. (You totally owe us an onion bagel with cream cheese, Gav, for SFist's major linkage to your contribution links. Seriously. And we want it lightly toasted too. We digress.) So, yeah, the internet is cool and stuff. Who knew? Anyway, read more about Newsom's online world wide web internet "blitz" with this deeply fellating article.

"It"s Official"

Well, this is some good news.

Just after Ross Mirkarimi's pro-life hummus breath suggested a citywide ban on foie gras - you know, in addition to the other one set to go in 2012 -- Gavin Newsom also kowtowed to PETA by temporarily banning the hotly debated dish at all Plumjack restaurants. (Pft.) We say "temporarily" since they want to replace the right way too make the deliciously plumped duck/goose liver with some sort of "humane" way. (You're lucky you boast a superb happy hour, Jack Falstaff; otherwise, we'd be picketing outside your doors wearing this.)

A Newsomian event for your consideration.

Today's installment of GDOT comes up short. San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom is currently attending the OPD funeral, so he hasn't updated all day.

Oh, you know, green collar jobs, LED lights, 4 million dollars, zzzz. We have no Newsomian Twitter message of importance to report today. He seems to be all business as of late. Meh.

First, he's well over 100K followers. (Pst, you can always follow SFist.) Second, Mayor Gavin Newsom was ecstatic to hear Obama talk about homelessness, which is a serious problem here in San Francisco.

In today's GDOT, we set you up with a mysterious reply from the Gav.

He's getting green on us again.

Mayor Gavin Newsom is still in SoCal, whipping up the masses into a stiff peaks during his Golden State tour. Let's see what he has to say today.

March 17, 2009 will go down in the history books, and Ryan Seacrest will be looked back on as the Woodward/Bernstein of our time. See, the American Idol host blew the lid off of one Gavin Newsom's biggest secrets yesterday. While on his Golden State tour, San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom's finally --finally! -- revealed his haircare product of choice on on KIIS-FM (102.7).

SF Mayor Gavin Newsom was on television today? Did you catch it?

Slow day over on the GavinNewsom feed. One tweet so far this Friday. He @s a SoCal Gwen Stefani fan with the following.

In an effort to sweet talk SoCal during his run for Governor, Mayor Gavin Newsom will be the Grand Marshall at the Long Beach Queer Pride Parade. Whether you like it or not. While the mayor isn't an actual homosexual, he did spearhead efforts to legalize gay marriage in 2003. The SoCal pride prance will take place on May 17, running along Ocean Boulevard. In somewhat related news, Newsom will also have one of his signature town hall meetings in Santa Monica next Tuesday.

It just gets better and better. Behold: