By Tim Redmond
I don’t care about the mayor’s sex life. Frankly, I’d rather not think about it. If he had an affair with a good friend’s wife, that’s between them. Makes him look like a jerk, but whatever.
There is, however, a more serious issue here, which is that Ruby Tourk was Newsom’s employee. An at-will employee who could be fired at any time, at the mayor’s call. That’s why the city may well get sued here, and why this is really kind of a problem.
It really was, to quote the mayor, a lapse in judgment for the chief executive of a major city. Big time.