Mayor's Spokesguy Says Newsom NOT a Co-Sponsor of Proposal to Screw Newspapers
Last week Matt Smith wrote about a bloc of lefty supervisors proposing a budget-reform charter amendment that would, among other things, eliminate the requirement that the city advertise public notices in local newspapers like the Chronicle. After the story appeared, an aide to Board President David Chiu -- one of the aforementioned lefty supervisors -- pointed out that Mayor Gavin Newsom was a co-sponsor of the charter amendment. In other words, the ballot measure wasn't just the brainchild of progressives on the board eager to punish the Chron. 
Will Harper Gavin likes the cameras and the cameras like him. As for print media, that's not so simple.
Now, Newsom is known for being prickly and impatient with the local press, but would he really screw over the biggest paper in town while he's running for governor? We sent an e-mail to Newsom's spokesman, Nathan Ballard, asking for an explanation.
Ballard wrote back that the mayor supports everything in the proposed charter amendment except the stuff about newspaper advertising.
SF Weekly then asked: Are you telling me the mayor didn't know all the details in a proposal that had his name on it?
"No," Ballard replied, "I'm saying the people who draft these things screwed up and said he supported something he didn't."
Who drafted it?
"One of [our] friends at the board accidentally submitted the wrong draft, I suppose," Ballard wrote. "It will be fixed."
If that's the case, you might wanna tell "one of your friends at the board" about it, 'cause it looks like the un-fixed version of the charter amendment is on the Rules Committee agenda tomorrow.
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