SAN FRANCISCO MAYOR GAVIN NEWSOM ONE OF A CROWD OF COLORFUL CANDIDATES VYING TO BE CALIFORNIA’S NEXT GOVERNOR

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• Date: Jul 2,2009

BY MARK LEIBOVICH Gavin Newsom, the mayor of San Francisco, has an emergency button under his desk that was installed 30 years ago after former City Supervisor Dan White entered City Hall through a window and fatally shot Mayor George Moscone and Supervisor Harvey Milk. Not knowing what the button was for, Newsom kept pushing it on his first day in office, only to have three sheriffs rush in repeatedly. Newsom says he has not had occasion to press the button since, although the mayor admits