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The biggest name at the annual U.S. Conference of Mayors in Miami last weekend wasn’t even a mayor — it was Democratic White House hopeful Sen. Barack Obama, who reached out to local officials to help win in November. Obama held some private group meetings with many of the mayoral attendees, including our own Gavin Newsom, who, it has been portrayed in the press, has had chilly relations with Obama because of his refusal to have his picture taken with Newsom due to that gay marriage “thing” (Obama is on record supporting civil unions) and the mayor’s strong support for Sen. Hillary Clinton. Newsom still bristles at the idea he was shunned, saying it’s all overwrought hyperbole conjured up by other politicians. “The truth is that I was never opposed to his candidacy; I was just supportive of Hillary’s,” Newsom told me. “I couldn’t be more enthusiastic and proud of the choice that [Democrats] made.” Newsom had his own coup at the conference, getting his fellow mayors to vote against spending taxpayer money on bottled water, despite the presence of more than a dozen soda-industry lobbyists on hand trying to defeat the nonbinding resolution. |
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