SF Mayor Gavin Newsom Ends Run for CA Governor

The coke-snorting mayor whose arrogant Prop 8 commercial did more to guarantee that measure's passage than anything else in either campaign --



-- has ended his run for the Democratic nomination for Governor.

Strange. You would have thought cocksure stupidity, bigotry and a track record of having turned a jewel of a city into an open-air toilet for transients would have been a cast-iron foundation for a uniter like Newsom to build on.