“I don’t trust him, but I’ll vote for him again.”

Gotta wonder what’s in the water in San Francisco. Now, I could care less about the mayor’s affair, but I did get a chuckle out of one of the “man on the street” remarks at the bottom of the story.

Tom Abbott, 36, an executive recruiter, said that having an affair with a loyal aide’s wife was “a total slimeball move.

“Any guy who puts that much mousse in his hair can’t be trusted,” Abbott said. “You don’t screw over your own boys.”

However, Abbott said that he would probably vote for Newsom in November.

“He’s a slimeball. I don’t trust him. He screwed over the people closest to him. (more ways than one) But I’ll vote for him!” I wonder what, other than being conservative, would cause your average Joe San Franciscan to not want to vote for someone?

Construction worker Geremy Curtis, 34, agreed that while the news out of Newsom’s office made for interesting gossip, “it will be laughed off,” he said.

“We put these people on a pedestal and think they are above all usual activities, and when they do something that is completely human, we are astonished,” he said.

Curtis predicted that San Francisco voters would forgive the mayor if he owned up to any lapses in judgment.

Usual activities? Having an affair with your secretary, who also is the wife of the guy who helped get you elected, is a “usual activity?” San Francisco.