Michael Savage’s son gives to Newsom’s campaign
By Josh Richman
Wednesday, May 13th, 2009 at 5:47 pm in 2010 governor's race, Gavin Newsom.
Rockstar energy drink founder and CEO Russell Weiner – son of Michael Weiner, aka Bay Area-based, nationally broadcast conservative talk radio talk host Michael Savage – on Monday made a $25,000 contribution to San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom’s 2010 gubernatorial campaign.
Yes, the son of Michael Savage, who just last October was saying Newsom is “in love again with the gay mafia” and “a whack-job as a mayor – ‘Any-twosome’ Newsom.” Y’know, Savage — the guy the Brits don’t care to have around.
Is this a case of the apple falling far from the tree? It’s not as if the junior Weiner has been some raging liberal: He ran for the state Assembly in 1998 as a Republican, touting the fact that he with his dad had founded the conservative Paul Revere Society (later stripped of its nonprofit status, and now redirecting Web browsers directly to Savage’s site.)
So what’s the deal?
“We’re personal friends, went to the same high school at different times,” Weiner told me a short while ago. “And he’s a businessman, I’m a businessman, so I hope he’ll be good for the business community if he’s governor.”
UPDATE @ 12:05 A.M. THURSDAY: Now here’s something interesting I’d forgotten until a reader brought it to my attention tonight – back in 2006, Michael Savage was supporting Jerry Brown in the race for Attorney General! Wonder if that means this Republican father and son will be disagreeing over who to support in next year’s gubernatorial primary – the Democratic primary, that is.
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May 22nd, 2009 at 1:18 pm
I was just informed, via email by Gavin Newsom’s campaign manager Eric Jaye, “thanks to the information you provided, the campaign is returning this contribution [of $25,000 from ROCKSTAR CEO Russell G. Weiner].”
May 22nd, 2009 at 4:16 pm
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May 22nd, 2009 at 4:16 pm
Quite so. Here’s the update.
May 26th, 2009 at 5:55 pm
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September 17th, 2009 at 2:35 am
I think the Old man michael savage is a gay. No staight white man dresses like that. If he hates SF, move out.
Move to Oklohoma or somewhere like that.
His radio is just to sell books, not informaive. same convrsation all the time.