Keeping An Eye on Mayor Newsom
Matt for Mayor '07

Lots of us who supported Matt Gonzalez in the mayoral election have kept the Matt for Mayor signs in our windows. In Noe Valley, I noticed that someone put up "07" next to their Matt signs. My sentiments, exactly.

In the meantime, we're going to keep an eye on Mayor Gavin Newsom, to hold him to the promises he made, and make sure he doesn't trade any favors for all those campaign contributions he received.

If you weren't there when Matt made his eloquent concession speech, watch it for yourself here.

"When Mayor Newsom is wrong, we're there to oppose him, but ... when Mayor Newsom is right, we gotta get behind him and support him because there are a lot of issues in this city that need our attention and cooperation."

In today's Chronicle:

Mayor says he wants full probe of allegations by city workers
9 say they were told to vote for Newsom

The nine street cleaners said that in the week before the Dec. 9 runoff election they were taken to the Department of Elections and told to cast absentee ballots for Newsom.

Street cleaners said their supervisors told them that if Newsom didn't win they might lose their jobs with the city-funded nonprofit organization called the San Francisco League of Urban Gardeners, or SLUG.

We'll keep an eye on this story, and others as they develop, and see what kind of mayor Gavin Newsom intends to be.

The Matt for Mayor in 2007 starts now.