San Francisco Chronicle (http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2007/05/13/BAGNLPQ5BQ1.DTL&type=politics)
Phillip Matier, Andrew Ross
His image masters are trying to put the best face forward, but there's no erasing the red from San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom's mug after the very public slap he took with the election of Theresa Sparks as the first transgender president of the city Police Commission.