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That desire to march into the breach likewise infected another participant at the meeting, Jon Schnur, who in 2000 co-founded New Leaders for New Schools, which seeks to recruit and train principals to work in inner-city schools. Schnur, cheery and tenacious, began lobbying his skeptical board members to open an office in New Orleans. When they finally agreed, he moved there from his New York headquarters, along with his pregnant wife and their 2-year-old son. This spring their daughter was born there. "Jon has drunk the waters of the Mississippi and is a true believer," Sarah...
...Adultery isn't a political disqualifier for him," Republican consultant Dan Schnur tells TIME. It has been 20 years since Gary Hart came clean about his extramarital affair with Donna Rice, he recalls, which ruined the Democratic Senator's 1988 presidential bid. Many more political sex scandals have made headlines since. "Bill Clinton rode out the Lewinsky scandal, because it was such a small percentage of the overall amount of information that voters had about him," Schnur says. "Right now, most people outside of San Francisco only know two things about Gavin Newsom: he supports same-sex marriage...
...However, the lasting, corrosive damage to Newsom's political star may not be the affair itself, but instead, the betrayal of a loyal pal and devoted adviser. "Voters aren't going to condemn him for having an affair," says Schnur, "But they are going to be much more upset that he betrayed such a close friend and colleague." City Hall insiders seem to agree. "It has less to do with his popular, external perception," according to a well-placed official who works closely with Newsom. "It's what this has done to the internal organization. Alex Tourk is a very...
...that having conservatives balk at some of his more centrist policies isn't an altogether bad thing politically. "The next time his name will be on the ballot in California is going to be in a campaign for the U.S. Senate four or six years from now," says Dan Schnur, a former Republican strategist. "The more the conservatives do to push back at him, the more moderate he will look by comparison. As long as he doesn't raise taxes it's difficult to see a conservative candidate beating him in a primary, which means he's free to situate...
...districts. These are the sort of good-government ideas that political scientists-and wonky columnists-love but that politicians avoid because they arouse fanatic opposition from entrenched interests and inspire massive gusts of apathy from the public. "This stuff is about as sexy as campaign-finance reform," says Dan Schnur, a Republican political consultant. "Voters aren't ready to go to the ramparts over them, but Arnold realized that these were the things standing in his way if he was really going to change the system. Unlike most politicians, he hasn't spent 20 years working...