All S.F. residents asked to volunteer for a day

The San Francisco Chronicle reports:

Mayor Gavin Newsom today will call on all San Francisco residents to take time out and give a day to their city.

Plant a tree. Hand out clothes to the homeless. Deliver dictionaries to a classroom. Teach someone how to surf the Web.

Following in the footsteps of presidents George Herbert Walker Bush, who tried (and failed) to get Americans to volunteer, and John F. Kennedy, who formed the Peace Corps, Newsom is making his own attempt to inspire the masses through a program called SF Connect, which he hopes will get residents to pick up a shovel or maybe even write a check to help make the city a better place to live.

Though still in its infant stages, SF Connect already is causing concern among some local politicians and government watchdogs who say that while there's nothing illegal about it, the perception of impropriety can be created when people donate unlimited funds or resources to a cause championed by a powerful politician.

Newsom says the motivation is much more altruistic.

"We haven't scratched the surface as a city in terms of what we're capable of doing and what we're capable of becoming," he said Monday, the day before more than 2,000 people were expected to gather at the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium for an SF Connect launch party. "The spirit of this is about unleashing that."

Mayor Newsom wants people to work for free for the state.Part time slavery.It appears there's no limit in, San Francisco,on the government.