Yahoo! News - Newsom Wins San Francisco Mayoral Race


So Newsom won, and it's might be Willie Brown all over again. That's not good for this city. But to me, the huge shining hope in this is that 50% of registered voters turned out, and they also got a "record number" of absentee ballots. I think that's pretty amazing. Also amazing is that the vote was nearly 50/50, when Democrats are 54% of the registered voters, and Greens are only 3%... I gather faith from all this that there is potential in the future to re-engage people in politics, and in believing that they can make a change in their environments.

I wonder what the future holds, with Newsom as mayor, but Gonzalez as president of the board of supervisors, a board which has opposed Newsom many times in the past.