The Los Angeles Times recently endorsed San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom for California lieutenant governor, calling him "creative and thoughtful" and "unusually innovative, experimenting with new ways to provide health care, house the homeless and make the city more livable." What the Times failed to mention was that Newsom has presided over a city with a $438 million deficit in the 2009-10 fiscal year and a $483 million deficit in the 2010-11 FY.
