{"id":886,"date":"2010-02-21T15:48:09","date_gmt":"2010-02-21T15:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bluoz.com\/blog\/?p=886"},"modified":"2010-02-21T15:48:09","modified_gmt":"2010-02-21T15:48:09","slug":"Newsom-I-feel-like-the-city-is-run-by-150-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bluoz.com\/blog\/2010\/02\/21\/Newsom-I-feel-like-the-city-is-run-by-150-people\/","title":{"rendered":"Newsom &#8211; I feel like the city is run by 150 people"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mayor Newsom will hold an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kcbs.com\/bayareanews\/Mayor-Newsom-to-Hold-Town-Hall-On-Web\/6404697\">online Townhall meeting on Wednesday<\/a>, viewable <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ustream.tv\/channel\/mayor-gavin-newsom-live\">here<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>SAN FRANCISCO (KCBS)  &#8212; San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom will be live on cyberspace next week to talk about the city&#8217;s budget challenges.<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, for two hours beginning at 5:00 p.m., Newsom will be taking questions live online about the city&#8217;s $522 budget shortfall and discuss how he plans to solve it.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;ll have the opportunity to hear from people that can&#8217;t necessarily come down and visit me,&#8221; Newsom said. &#8220;That can&#8217;t necessarily wait in line or wish to wait in line, that can express their opinions.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Newsom said he welcomes all questions and ideas and not just from the usual suspects at City Hall.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Many times, I feel like the city is run by 150 people. Good special interest, sometimes very bad special interest that represents a good deal of people, some that represent a very small number of people. But, you have to get out of City Hall,&#8221; Newsom said.<\/p>\n<p>Just this week, Samepoint, a search engine that tracks public opinion, named Newsom the nation&#8217;s number one Internet-savvy mayor. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mayor Newsom will hold an online Townhall meeting on Wednesday, viewable here SAN FRANCISCO (KCBS) &#8212; San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom will be live on &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[25],"class_list":["post-886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-8-SF-politics","tag-sf-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bluoz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bluoz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bluoz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bluoz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bluoz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=886"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bluoz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/886\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bluoz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bluoz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bluoz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}