Bet he wishes he used a different excuse to pull out of the governor race, now. San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom will announce today that he's running for lieutenant governor, an election he'll be a frontrunner in. [SFGate via Lucky]

Gay-marriage-hating ex-eBay CEO Meg Whitman is running for governor of California. First stop, the Today Show, where she talked about jobs, jobs, jobs.