Where Old Politics Meets New Politics

David Kurtz has an interesting and wide-ranging chat with SF Mayor Gavin Newsom. Apparently Newsom met Ella Baker Center head honcho Van Jones (whom Newsom introduced at a panel at Netroots Nation) when Jones was protesting outside SF City Hall... a token gesture of the 'new politics,' or the very old-politics trick of 'keeping your enemies closer'?

Is Newsom usually this garrulous? And does he really think Jerry Brown is his main competition in the Dem primary for Governor?