Just about 5 hours ago the mayor of San Francisco Gavin Newsom used his official Twitter account to announce that he is now running to be the next governor of California.

NPR is reporting that the Baltimore mayor Sheila Dixon is indicted for theft and perjury. I learned about this while updating my Twitter and saw one of the users posting this breaking story about Sheila Dixon's indictment.

Everyone knows former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick is in jail for lying about his sex life and role in the demotion of two police officers. And that some Detroit City Council members are currently being investigated by the FBI for accepting bribes to approve a waste hauling contract. Honest politicians may not be easy to find in Detroit.

The City Council of Poteet in Texas took only ten minutes to to vote unanimously to oust the already convicted sex offender mayor Lino Donato from the mayor's office. The Poteet City Council declared Mayor Lino Donato's position vacant because he has missed three consecutive council meetings, city attorney Frank Garza said.

Mayor L. Douglas Wilder will not run for reelection. He announced his decision this morning. Style Weekly has the story.

A group of business and political leaders is forming a legal defense fund called Detroit Justice Fund to help Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick fight felony perjury charges.

Carmen Kontur-Gronquist, the mayor of Arlington, Oregon, has been ousted of her position after racy MySpace pictures of her surfaced over a month ago.

A gunman stormed City Hall during a council meeting in Missouri, killing two police officers and three city officials before he was shot by law-enforcement officers. The mayor was severely injured in the shootout too.

The entire city was waiting for an explanation of the steamy sex text message scandal. And they got it.

Kym Worthy, Wayne County Prosecutor has decided to investigate the charges of perjury against Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick and his Chief of Staff Christine Beatty. A conviction of lying under oath can bring up to 15 years' imprisonment. Local Detroit labor Union AFSCME 207 has called for Kilpatrick's resignation.