The Newsoms' Striking Pose: In the summer of 2004, Mayor Gavin Newsom incurred the wrath of social critics when he posed for some crassly nouveau riche photos for Harper's. Here, the mayor and Kimberly Guilfoyle Newsom make themselves comfortable on Ann Getty's rug. Chronicle cartoonist Don Asmussen theorized that the pose was inspired by the Vaillancourt Fountain.