From Matier and Ross
Movement: San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom and his wife, Jennifer Siebel Newsom, finally moved into their new home in the upper Haight over the weekend – only to have someone promptly defecate and urinate on their doorstep.
Welcome to the neighborhood, Gav!
a recent letter the editor suggested the mayor walk a few blocks down to Haight street to see that, but it looks like he didn’t have to go that far
As a resident of the Haight-Ashbury, I welcome Mayor Gavin Newsom and his wife to their new home on upper Masonic
I would recommend, however, that His Honor walk down the hill a few blocks to Haight Street itself, where I live.
There he will see scores of nomadic addicts and alcoholics living on the street. He will watch as they harass passers-by, urinate and defecate on the sidewalks, ditch used needles in planter boxes, throw garbage everywhere and pound on drums around the clock.
When he first ran for mayor, Newsom promised that he would get this outrageous situation under control. But it has actually gotten worse during his tenure in office.
Maybe his lieutenants have been misleading him about the facts. Now that he’s a neighbor, he can walk a few blocks downhill, to where humbler folks live, and see for himself.
ARTHUR EVANS, San Francisco