Bottled water for he, but not for thee

Your Tuesday afternoon funny (h/t: ST reader CQM):

This week, the City Insider spotted an almost empty case of bottled water in the back of Mayor Gavin Newsom’s hybrid sport utility vehicle as it was parked in front of City Hall. At least one full bottle of Crystal Geyser Alpine Spring Water remained under the plastic covering.

This from the mayor who in June 2007 issued an executive order directing city government to no longer purchase bottled water, saying the containers clog landfills while the city owns a pristine reservoir in the Sierra Nevada that produces some of the country’s best-rated tap water.

Newsom, a former restaurateur, last year called on the restaurant industry to stop selling bottled water to customers and start serving local tap water instead.

Because of that, the mayor generally declines bottled water at any event or meeting, lest he be photographed with an offending bottle.

The mayor occassionally slips, said his spokesman, Nathan Ballard. But in this case, the bottled water belonged to the mayor’s security detail and wasn’t purchased with city funds, Ballard said.

“The mayor will be the first to admit that he occassionally indulges in bottled water,” Ballard said. “It’s not something he’s proud of.”

Gavin Newsom: The first inductee into the soon-to-be-built-somewhere-in-CA Bottled Water Hall of Shame?

The not-so-funny-thing is that this is the kind of “bad behavior” the lefties in SF would actually get offended over him doing. On the other hand, him cheating on his (now ex-) wife with the wife of his former campaign manager? Not so much.

Update: JWF (who I just realized snagged the cute post headline before I did) makes a great point:

[Newsom is] another hypocrite who, by his own standards, is an environmental criminal.

Environmental criminal. That has a nice ring to it, especially when you take into account the many hypocrites on the issue on the left hand side of the aisle like Gore, Edwards, etc.

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