Gavin Newsom is running for governor. And so he’s throwing an “Unconventional ‘08” event in Denver at the Democratic Party Convention to honor “generation Obama”.

Guess who’s sponsoring it?

The two top-billed sponsors are AT&T and PG&E. Any coincidence with Newsom’s opposition to the San Francisco Clean Energy Act, which PG&E is spending millions of dollars to defeat?

So Gavin gets to party with some pretty good bands in Denver, while the rest of us suck peaker plant smoke in Potrero. The question for November is whether Clean Energy will win over Dirty Money.

I was pleased to see that San Francisco’s Van Jones was tapped to give one of the keynote speeches at Netroots Nation, the liberal bloggers’ conference that took place last week.

I was less pleased to see that Gavin Newsom managed to finagle the privilege of introducing Van. I’ve known Van for a long time, and while we haven’t agreed on everything, when we disagreed, more often than not, he was right. I cannot say the same for Newsom.