Gavin Newsom Running for Governor of Facebook

As Mayor of San Francisco, Gavin Newsom is highly attuned to the latest technology trends. For instance, were it not for the advent of blogging, Newsom's brazen affair with his aide's wife might not have blossomed into the national sensation it quickly became.

Well now Newsom is clued into the hippest trend on the interwebs: Facebook. He's also into the trend of running for governor, and now he's figured out a combination of the two in that most tech-savvy of ways...

Taking out a Facebook ad for his gubernatorial campaign!


Clicking on one of the links (we cast a write-in vote for "tech savviness") sends you to Newsom's Facebook page, which does seem to feature an awful lot of wall posts from San Franciscans asking him why he hasn't been spending more time in their city, considering that he is the mayor and all.

But who needs Facebook naysayers, because Newsom is also on Twitter! And Flickr! And MySpace! And YouTube! And Digg! And Migente! And something called Eons... which we assume is for old people.

Overkill aside, Newsom is probably wise to buttress his online operations at this point. A possible Republican challenger, Meg Whitman, is the previous CEO of eBay and is endorsed by BlackBerry inventor John McCain.

And then there's likely candidate Mary Carey, who may lack Newsom's fan base on Facebook, but almost certainly enjoys a far larger overall internet presence than anyone else in the race.