By Tim Redmond
Calbuzz, the blog by former Chronicle managing editor Jerry Roberts and former Mercury News politicial editor Phil Trounstine, has a great item about Gavin Newsom’s campaign lingo.
Newsom routinely stems the flow of his words by suddenly inserting a phrase like, “I always say,” then quickly follows with an aphorism that makes it seem he’s channeling Tony Robbins channeling the Book of Proverbs with a dash of Khalil Gibran thrown in. No wonder this guy loves Twitter.
They have some wonderful selections from a recent speech, including:
“I always say . . . the difference between success and failure is the difference between interested people and committed people.” (Wait, didn’t he get that backwards?)
“I always say . . . that it’s decisions, not conditions, that determine our fate.”
And:
“To say is not to do,” he said at least three times, as a way of explaining how his self-described accomplishments as the mayor overseeing the San Francisco Miracle contrast to the utter failure by every other California politician to achieve much of anything at all.
Amazing. To say is not to do. And this from Mr. Press Release, the man who runs the city by saying and not by doing.
Guess maybe he’s right.