You know Gavin Newsom as the mayor of San Francisco who gay-married all those gay couples in 2004 (which was really awesome until it unwittingly energized the conservative base to vote for gay marriage bans and gave key battleground states to Bush). Unlike our Mayor Mike, whose girlfriend is boringly age appropriate (we imagine him cutting his Friday dates short because it's Silhouette Night with his mother), Dashin' Gavin, 39, is dating a 20-year-old model/waitress named Brittanie Mountz (not her stage name, sadly).

As if the 19-year age gap weren't enough, not-completely-legal Brittanie has been seen drinking grown up drinks. San Francisco's notoriously conservative citizenry is in an uproar, as you can imagine.

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The mayor's office has issued a sort-of-not-really denial, though the picture to the right seems to leave his pants slightly afire. This isn't that big a deal, at least until the naughty IM logs show up, and what is the point of power if it is not used to nail 20-year-old girls and give them booze? But we have to admire Brittanie for proactively diffusing the situation.

At the time, Mountz had a MySpace page that said she was 19. It now says she's 26.


Problem solved. Hell, we change the age on our profile all the time, because we're all about reaching America's youth.

Has the mayor's new girlfriend, who is only 20, been drinking? [SF Chronicle]
Celebrity Watch [Nob Hill Gazette]
Brittanie Mountz [MySpace]