San Francisco Mayoral race just got ugly...

[Hell Hath No Fury]

From today's Chronicle:

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2003/11/26/MNG0J3AKES26.DTL

Mayor Brown tells ministers Gonzalez opposes blacks
Attack on candidate, who makes gains on Newsom in new polls

John Wildermuth, Rachel Gordon, Chronicle Political Writers Wednesday, November 26, 2003

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San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown on Tuesday called mayoral candidate Matt Gonzalez a chauvinist and said he was driven to keep blacks from serving at City Hall.

"He's got some kind of defect in his head that makes him believe African Americans aren't qualified," the mayor told about a dozen black ministers gathered for a prayer breakfast in the Western Addition.

Gonzalez refused to respond to what he called Brown's attempt to use race and gender issues as a political weapon for Gavin Newsom, the other candidate in the Dec. 9 runoff for mayor.

"I don't want to start a war over issues like this,'' Gonzalez said.

Newsom joined Brown at the prayer breakfast. The mayor's charges echoed an attack Newsom made on Gonzalez at a debate last Sunday when he asked his opponent why "people you oppose for city commissions disproportionately come from the minority community?"

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A SurveyUSA poll released Tuesday night by CBS 5-TV gives Gonzalez a 52 percent to 45 percent lead among those voters judged certain to go to the polls on Election Day. While a Monday poll done for a group of San Francisco business and trade groups showed Newsom with a 47 percent to 39 percent lead, it also showed the more progressive Gonzalez picking up strength.

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The Western Addition, which is in Gonzalez's supervisorial district, was one of the few parts of the city where he beat Newsom in November. But Newsom and his allies have targeted the city's black voters, including those in that neighborhood, in an effort to derail Gonzalez's campaign.

Brown urged the ministers to let their congregations know how important it is to the city's black community to beat Gonzalez.

"We cannot afford to let this man's candidacy succeed in San Francisco,'' the mayor said.

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I cannot tell you how deeply offended I am by Willie Brown and Gavin Newsom!! What a pair of f*ckers. I knew Newsom was a piece of shit, but this just takes the damn cake.

To throw labels of racism at Matt Gonzalez is a show of how desperate Newsom and his Sugar Tit Brown are. I also find it deeply ironic that these charges come from a man who went to the single most white school (and most racist) in the City and is supervisor to the single most white neighborhood in the City!

The reason Gonzales voted against most of Brown's appointees -- including the African-American ones -- is because they were F*CKING CORRUPT.

For those of you here who are supporting Gavin, take a good look at how low your boy will go to win an election.

And bit me while you're at it.

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