NEWSOM SAID REPLACING CHIEF OF STAFF PHIL GINSBURG WITH STAFFER WADE CROWFOOT
29 January 2008
Photo by Bill Wilson © 2008
BELIEVE IT OR WHAT
BY PAT MURPHY
Sentinel Editor & Publisher
Copyright © 2007 San Francisco Sentinel
The Newsom gloves came off today as the mayor scorched Board of Supervisors Aaron Peskin.
Peskin, Mayor Newsom alleged, threatened to have Newsom senior staffer Wade Crowfoot fired (Crowfoot once worked as legislative aide to Peskin).
Crowfoot confirmed to the Sentinel “yes” Peskin had threatened to have him fired, repeatedly declining to say more about the incident.
And Nathan Ballard, the mayor’s press secretary, confirmed that Crowfoot two weeks ago filed a request with the City Attorney’s Office to determine illegality of the alleged threat.
Today all tongues in the chattering class clacked that Phil Ginsburg, chief-of-staff for the Newsom administration, was about to be replaced by Crowfoot himself.
Ballard responds: “Phil Ginsburg remains Chief of Staff.”
And Wade Crowfoot’s current or new position: “Same.”
With “same” response for Heather Fong, too.
See Related: MAYOR NEWSOM LIVID OVER ALLEGATION OF BUDGET IMPROPRIETY
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 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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