Newsom sex scandal

[thatsrightimirish]

That's right folks I don't have a link, but apparently Gavin Newsom had a sexual affair with his campaign managers wife. Just on the news.

Ohhhhhhhhhhhhh boy. Well, we know now he's not gay. I don't think he has much of a future now outside of San Francisco.

[AtomicKitten]

1. Woo-hoo -- home town entertainment !!

We've had to exist on his underage Republican girlfriends drinking at public events til now.

[Newsjock]

2. Link here

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/01/31/BAGM3NSFGQ7.DTL

San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom's re-election campaign manager resigned Wednesday after confronting the mayor about an affair Newsom had with his wife while she worked in the mayor's office, City Hall sources said.

Alex Tourk, 39, who served as Newsom's deputy chief of staff before becoming his campaign manager in September, confronted the mayor after his wife, Ruby Rippey-Tourk, told him of the affair as part of a rehabilitation program she has been undergoing for substance abuse, said the sources, who had direct knowledge of Wednesday's meeting.

Rippey-Tourk, 34, was the mayor's appointments secretary from the start of his administration in 2004 until last spring. She told her husband that the affair with Newsom was short-lived and happened about a year and a half ago, while the mayor was undergoing a divorce from his then-wife, Fox News host Kimberly Guilfoyle, said the sources, who spoke on condition they not be identified.

Alex Tourk "confronted the mayor on the issue this afternoon, expressed his feeling about the situation in an honest and pointed way, and resigned," said one source close to Tourk and his wife.

[Erika]

3. Rehab? n/t

[Ignacio Upton]

4. Great, there goes any respect I had for him

He seemed like a good guy for promoting marriage rights, but fuck him (no pun intended) in this case. Since the Mayoral election is non-partisan, and since this is freakin' San Francisco, if he gets replaced, it'll be by a progressive (either a Democrat or a Green...the Green candidate in the 2003 race, Matt Gonzalez, only narrowly lost to Newsom.)

[Ninja Jordan]

5. Sucks if true.

[Pithy Cherub]

6. IIRC, Newsom's wife worked for Faux.

They haven't on edit (had not) been married all that long. This is going to be interesting...:crazy:

[MonkeyFunk]

8. No

she worked for CNN, CourtTV and MSNBC. They filed for divorce 2 years ago.

[Pithy Cherub]

14. Actually she started at Fox 1/06

blech...

[MonkeyFunk]

18. ah

sorry, I didn't see that when I searched. She sure moves around a lot!

[MADem]

11. I thought they divorced around the time of the marriage brouhaha

The irony of the whole thing was interesting...

[Freddie Stubbs]

22. Yes, but apperently the woman he was farking wasn't divorced yet

[skipos]

27. Off the subject

Why do you have the picture in your signature?

[frankenforpres]

7. newsom rocks

he and arnold are the mack supreme in cali


i dont think arnold nailed the wife of any of his pals, maybe that is something he can aspire to

[cboy4]

9. I think I'm going to wait for a few more facts before I convict

the guy in the media as some people on this board are doing.

It may be true, but I think it's irresponsible to jump to conclusions without more information.

http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?section=local&id=4991759




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RIP MOLLY

[MonkeyFunk]

20. Newsom

was just on TV, saying it's all true and apologizing.

[Clark2008]

35. Who cares about all that. The big question is:

Who would name their kid Ruby Rippey?

:7

That sounds like a cocktail... which, um, may be an unfortunate choice of words.

[Psephos]

10. Cheating with the wife of your close friend is as ugly as it gets

But Tourk was also his deputy chief of staff and election campaign head.

Newsom has just shown that he's both an unusually stupid politician and a maliciously deceitful friend. I can think of nothing more brutal he could have done to Tourk short of physical violence...maybe not even that.

Peace.

[MADem]

12. Any cheating, even with a stranger's spouse, is kinda lousy

Sure, it happens, but it's not good. It would be nice if people could always end one entanglement before starting another...

This type thing didn't end the career of Rudi "I wed three wives" Giuliani...and he was the POSTER BOY for fucking around in lousy fashion. So who knows, maybe he can recover, if his pal there doesn't get too shitty about it.

[yellowcanine]

15. "if his pal there doesn't get too shitty about it." Nice. Why don't you go ahead and blame the

victim in this? According to this account, Tourk has behaved a lot better than one could ask for when he found out that a good friend was banging his wife. Maybe he has a right to get a little shitty about it? It is a shitty situation and so far he has been the one who was shat on.

[frankenforpres]

13. far worse than physical violence...but let's

not be so easy on the dude's wife, i dont think newsom raped her

[geek tragedy]

17. Newsom was her boss too.

An all-around pig.

[rinsd]

21. It was also his subordinate when the affair started

I like his policies but he seems to be a fairly shitty person.

[goodhue]

16. Gonzalez for mayor!

He will run again, won't he?

But I'm not sure this hurts Newson that much in San Fran. When I was out there a few weeks ago, news centered round his dating barely legal 18-year old.

[zulchzulu]

19. Mayor McDreamy has his faults...I wouldn't say it's over

There have been recent political figures that made it to the White House that had a history of messin' around. SF needs a story like this...now you'll see Ruby outfits everywhere...

[Ninja Jordan]

32. Newsom isn't making it to the WH. Rest assured.

[transeo]

23. So what?

Has nothing to do with his ability to do his job. If true, it was a crappy thing to do, but we all screw up in our personal lives sometimes and Newsom is not some hypocritical republican preaching family values to others while behaving differently.

[geek tragedy]

24. Problem is that he had an affair with a woman who

worked for him, and her husband was a close personal friend and advisor.

Someone who would do something like this can't be trusted.

[rinsd]

25. Fucking a subordinate who is married to another subordinate has nothing to do with his job?

[cherokeeprogressive]

26. Sleeping with subordinates DOES affect your job performance.

Is that hard to wrap your mind around? Consider this: Staff meeting... You're sitting across from your boss... he's looking you in the eye knowing that he's screwing your wife... but you don't. Is your boss going to be PERFECTLY OPEN AND HONEST during the staff meeting?

I don't think so.

[UCLA Dem]

28. Such a damn shame.

[musiclawyer]

29. Next CA governor not named Arnold will be named Antonio

We cannot expect squeeky clean candidates, but we need to demand ones with squeeky clean character. Sorry Gavin, some mistakes are consequential.

[jcrew2001]

30. Hot wife

Gavin has/had a very hot wife, but she lived on the East Coast. i can't blame him.

[Ninja Jordan]

31. Apparently it's true. This guy is a POS.

[IndianaGreen]

33. A male San Francisco mayor having an opposite sex relationship

He should be running for Governor! :-)

[AtomicKitten]

34. All the local SF indie papers here

give him a really hard time about being gay - so maybe this is an orchestrated salvo to assert his hetero-ness.

He is most definitely sponge-worthy.