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Dear Friend, Alex Tourk
I kinda thought Gavin Newsom was a reptilian slime creepy guy. Today I found a story from 2007 that confirms my impressions of him… Back at this time, Gavin Newsom was the Mayor Slime of San Fransisco, he was running for re-election. Then his campaign manager, and dear friend of more than 10 years, Alex Tourk, suddenly resigned for personal reasons.
It turns out that Alex’s wife, Ruby, had been an alcoholic. As she was going through her 12 steps to battle her alcoholism, she confessed to her husband that she’d had an affair with the Gruesome Mr. Newsom. Mayor Newsom happened to be out of town (at Davos) at the time she confessed to her husband. Tourk waited until Newsom was back to tender his resignation in person. (Whoa! To be a fly on the wall in that meeting!)
It happened to have been a fairly indiscreet affair. As soon as the resignation went public, every newspaper in the state published stories explaining how personal the reasons for the resignation were…
My OH my!!!
The video seems to have been scrubbed off YouTube… I wonder if someone would ever ask how he’s ‘living with it now’? Or if he ever sought forgiveness from Alex Tourk? Or why Ruby didn’t go public during the ‘MeToo’ time… Perhaps she got a boatload of money from Aunt Nancy for an NDA?
Gavin Newsom is a terrible candidate because of the policies he advocates, and the effects those policies have on his city and his state. I didn’t realize that his personal life was also a complete dumpster fire…
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Look, we aren’t going to find people of good morals among the left – at any level. Schizophrenia aside, the human psyche is a single thing. It can’t be immoral in only one dimension.
And Newsom’s apology ended with his real point, that he was not going to let this breaking news interrupt his governance for the next few months.
The dude gives off a Damien Thorn vibe.
Dude! Patrick Bateman all the way! Even the resemblance to the actor (Christian Bale) is uncanny. Its like the producers knew Gavin Newsom…
(From the book/movie American Psycho)
Have to say that this occurs all over the political spectrum.
We’re so lucky that unlike that Newsom creep, the Republican candidate for president has an unimpeached and unimpeachable reputation for honesty, probity, integrity, and fidelity to his many wives.
Some of us are voting for the creep who better represents us.
Think of all the places Newsome has ruined – now he wants to ruin the country. His new-ish persona remind me of Max Headroom. His new hair color and style don’t reproduce well electronically I think. Too much contrast and it looks really artificial. Maybe it is? What a(nother) loathe some fellow.
Still on youtube:
All The Orange One has to say is, “Well, I never showered with my daughter nor banged my best friend’s wife.” And if he wants to take a cheap shot at Gavin, ” . . . and my wife never had sex with Harvey Weinstein.”
EDIT: I’ve wondered for a while now why Newsom would say that. Is it a complete lack of self-awareness, knowledge that the MSM will cover for him, thinking that no one remembers? Fair enough on the last, I suppose, because it was a local story. I was living in the Bay Area then, so I saw a lot of reports about this particular mess, along with his drunken rant about SSM.
Interesting. According to wikipedia Kimberly Guilfoyle divorced Newsome in 2006. I wonder if that affair led to the divorce?
And now Guilfoyle is the fiancée of Donald Trump Jr. Kinda weird, Newsome > Trump Jr.
Yes, being found liable for sexual battery in a civil trial and betraying your wife by banging a porn star demonstrates that Trump is a far more principled character, doesn’t it?
Funny. The woman who made the claim couldn’t remember the year in which it happened. And no jurors were in the room when Trump and Stormy supposedly made the beast with two backs. OTOH, we have Newsom’s admission on video for anyone to view.
Newsom’s apology was not the worst I’ve ever seen, not by far. He admitted it was all true, took responsibility, said he had harmed others, and said he was sorry.
That liable for sexual is Soviet style political bullying and you either know that or should know better. No matter how disgusting Trump’s sex life is, it isn’t worth undermining the rule of law.
So, Trump does how a far higher moral character than leftist lawyers in New York. Also, we have seen in his four years he doesn’t use the government to go after his political opponents.
I can respect that. Can he please apologize for what he did to California. That was alot worse and hurt alot more people than having one affair.
Not as weird as the three Soong sisters. Elites are disturbingly inbred.
It is not as though he had any choice in the matter. The evidence was undeniable. My initial reaction back then was sort of what my old redneck running mates would have said, but unfortunately that would violate the CoC if I spelled it out here. What I can’t stand now is his obvious hypocrisy. Who the [redacted] is he to criticize Trump?
He is a sociopath. He just happens to be a rich one, so he gets to do things which are immoral, but not necessarily illegal. As I recall from a criminology class I took back in the 1960s, that qualifies him as a scoundrel. Either way, the people who elected him got the mayor and then governor they deserve.
Actually doesn’t sound all that weird. Pretty women like Guilfoyle who have certain ambitions do tend to get passed around among powerful men. She is certainly not a victim.
Newsom is Patrick Bateman from “American Psycho”.
As far as being found guilty for sexual battery goes, that result will be tossed on appeal. E Jean Carol literally lobbied for a change in the law to enable her lawsuit. That she can’t remember the day, date nor year – its impossible to defend against. I am sure if they presented Donald Trump with a specific allegation… Like on Tuesday in September 1995, you did this … He could provide an alibi – he could defend against it…
But this isnt even an allegation, its a baseless smear…