SAN FRANCISCO MAYOR NEWSOM RIDICULES NATIONAL REPUBLICAN COMMITTEE - Mayor Rudy Giuliani their bigger problem than simplified municipal ID cards
1 December 2007
Reconciling New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani support for NYC as a sanctuary city presents the Republican National Committee with a bigger problem than San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom leadership on simplified municipal ID cards, Newsom refuted national Republicans.
BY PAT MURPHY
Sentinel Editor & Publisher
Copyright © 2007 San Francisco Sentinel
San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom today ridiculed the Republican National Committee (RNC) as pathetic and laughable, in response to an RNC press release framing Newsom leadership on municipal ID cards as hurting the Hillary Clinton presidential campaign.
Despite last night’s RNC allegation, Newsom will campaign with Clinton in Des Moines on December 15, the Sentinel learned.
San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom
Photo by Bill Wilson © 2007
Newsom responded this morning to the RNC broadside.
“That’s just politics and I think it’s sort of pathetic,” said Newsom
“I think they should look in the mirror. The Republican Congress was in control for years. They’ve hade a Republican President.
“They’ve done nothing to secure our borders. They’ve done nothing on national immigration.
“They have no one to blame but themselves.
“They are specifically, precisely the people that should be pointed to in terms of abdicating responsibility to solve the national immigration problem.”
LAUGHABLE
“It’s truly laughable that they don’t recognize their own responsibility,” Newsom continued.
“What happens is cities deal with reality based business, and that’s why you have sanctuary cities across this country.”
GIULIANI SPINS AWAY FROM RECORD
“That’s why Mayor Giuliani dealt with that reality and it’s just so enjoyable to watch him try to spin out of that as a sanctuary mayor.
IMMIGRANT ID CARDS CONSISTENT WITH SANCTUARY CITY EFFORTS SINCE 1989
“This is very consistent with the sanctuary city status that we’ve have enjoyed since 1989 because it’s just an extension of that narrative.
“But what it is not, from my perpsective, it is not a major immigration issue — municipal ID cards.
“They want it to be framed as such because that helps them politically I think.
“I don’t think so.
“The fact is we will prove them wrong once again because at the end of the day this is a City that has a lot of unique city services for its residents that we can provide in a much easier way and manner through the issuance of municipal ID cards.
“It’s much easier to have one card as opposed to six or seven other cards for people to go to the golf course at Harding, to get health care, to get city discounts in cultural institutions, to get discounts at zoos and libraries and the like. It’s just easier.
“From our perspective, I think it’s really much todo about nothing.
“It’s an administrative benefit for the City and it’s predictable that these guys would try to take advantage of it in political frame, to do the obvious — and that is to try to deflect responsibility.
SHAME
“And shame on the RNC to deflect responsibility for their complete failed leadership on this issue.
RNC BIGGER CONCERN IS MAYOR RUDY GIULIANI
“The RNC are more concerned about their leading candidate,” the San Francisco mayor observed.
“Mayor Giuliani. I think they should be much more concerned about him than me.
“How do they square their leading candidate for nomination who led a city that advanced the same principles — the sancuarty status.
“I mean it’s sort of funny.
“They’re spinning.
“They’re a little desperate and they are trying to create the new gay marriage issue.
“There was about a nine month lull where it kind of seemed to go away. It was clear they wanted to make this the new gay marriage issue, immigration.
“And then it reattached itself in terms of top of my national agenda.
“They’re going to jump all over it, try to nationalize it.
“It’s sort of sad from my perspective.
“This is not a major illegal immigration issue.
“This is just more pragmatic than that.
“It is so benign.
“And I think it will prove itself to be so much more benign than that.
“It is administrative as much as more than anything else but they’re trying to frame it in this national debate.”
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PAT MURPHY
Sentinel Editor & Publisher
In his youth, Pat Murphy worked as a General Assignment reporter for the Richmond Independent, the Berkeley Daily Gazette, and the San Francisco Chronicle. He served as Managing Editor of the St. Albans (Vermont) Daily Messenger at age 21. Murphy also launched ValPak couponing in San Francisco, as the company’s first San Francisco franchise owner. He walked the bricks, developing ad strategy for a broad range of restaurants and merchants. Pat knows what works and what doesn’t work. His writing skill has been employed by marketing agencies, including Don Solem & Associates. He has covered San Francisco governance for the past ten years. Pat scribes an offbeat view of the human family through Believe It or What. Email Pat Murphy at SanFranciscoSentinel@yahoo.com.
BILL WILSON
Sentinel Photographer
Bill Wilson is a veteran freelance photographer whose work is published by San Francisco and Bay Area media. Bill embraced photography at the age of eight. In recent years, his photos capture historic record of the San Francisco LGBT community in the Bay Area Reporter (BAR). Bill has contributed to the Sentinel for the past three years. Email Bill Wilson at wfwilson@sbcglobal.net.
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