- About 50 feet away, [Gavin] Newsom was at the foot-cleaning station, rubbing down a homeless man's feet with a rag and chatting him up. Fenske noticed as she paused for a moment and shook her head in amazement.
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The chief aide for Supervisor Chris Daly, who led a Monday hearing at City Hall critical of the mayor's homeless initiatives and called the monthly gathering needlessly redundant with existing programs, was still unimpressed.
In a phone interview Thursday night, John Avalos said it was great for the volunteers to interact with homeless people, but ultimately, it was all "more like an opportunity for the mayor to showcase his policies."
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DALY ISCARIOT:
Woman your fine ointment, brand new and expensive
Should have been saved for the poor.
Why has it been wasted? We could have raised maybe
Three hundred silver pieces or more.
People who are hungry, people who are starving
They matter more than your feet and hair!
NEWSOM:
Surely you're not saying we have the resources
To save the poor from their lot?
There will be poor always, pathetically struggling.
Look at the good things you've got.
Think while you still have me!
Move while you still see me!
You'll be lost, and you'll be sorry when I'm gone.
