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everything about the gavin christopher newsome is an american politician and businessman serving
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since 2019 as the 40th governor of california his life and everything about him part one
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gavin christopher newsome born october 10th 1967 is an american politician and businessman serving
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since 2019 as the 40th governor of california a member of the democratic party he served from
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2011 to 2019 as the 49th lieutenant governor of california and from 2004 to 2011 as the 42nd mayor
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of san francisco newsome graduated from santa clara university in 1989 with a bachelor of science in
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political science afterward he founded the boutique winery plump jack group in oakville california with
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billionaire heir and family friend gordon getty as an investor the company grew to manage 23 businesses
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including wineries restaurants and hotels newsome began his political career in 1996 when san francisco
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mayor willie brown appointed him to the city's parking and traffic commission brown then appointed
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newsome to fill a vacancy on the board of supervisors the next year and newsome was first elected to the
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board in 1998. newsome was elected mayor of san francisco in 2003 and re-elected in 2007. he was
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elected lieutenant governor of california in 2010 and re-elected in 2014. as lieutenant governor newsome
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hosted the gavin newsome show from 2012 to 2013 and in 2013 wrote the book citizenville which focuses on
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using digital tools for democratic change since 2025 he has hosted the podcast this is gavin newsome newsome
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newsome was elected governor of california in 2018 and re-elected in 2022. during his governorship he
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faced criticism for his personal behavior and leadership during the covet 19 pandemic imposing
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strict lockdown measures considered overly restrictive and economically damaging to the state
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while personally flouting his administration's guidelines controversies and frustration with his
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leadership contributed to an unsuccessful recall effort in 2021 gavin christopher newsome was born on
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october 10th 1967 in san francisco california to tessa thomas nay menzies and william alfred newsome iii
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a state appeals court judge and attorney for getty oil a fourth generation san franciscan newsome comes
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from a prominent family with deep ties to the city his maternal great-grandfather thomas addis was a
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pioneering nephrologist and professor of medicine at stanford university noted for his groundbreaking research on
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kidney disease newsome is a second cousin twice removed of musician joanna newsome and his aunt
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barbara newsome was married to ron pelosi the brother-in-law of former speaker of the united
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states house of representatives nancy pelosi newsome's parents divorced in 1971 when he was three years old
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leaving his mother tessa to raise him and his younger sister hillary newsome callan largely on her own
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tessa worked three jobs often as a waitress bookkeeper and secretary to support the family
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fostering a strong work ethic in her children newsome has called his childhood challenging shaped
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in part by financial instability and his struggle with pretty severe dyslexia a condition he still has
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newsome's education began at ecole notre dame des victoires a french-american bilingual catholic
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school in san francisco that he attended for kindergarten and first grade but his severe dyslexia
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which affected his ability to read write spell and perform numerical tasks dyscalculia prompted
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a transfer he continued at notre dame des victoires from third through fifth grades where he was
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enrolled in remedial reading classes to cope with his learning difficulties throughout his years in
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school newsome relied heavily on audiobooks summaries and verbal instruction he still prefers audio
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interpretations of documents and reports in a 2023 interview he said his dyslexia forced me
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to find workarounds and think differently skills i still use every day as governor at redwood high
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school in larkspur california newsome excelled athletically despite his academic struggles graduating in 1985
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he played basketball as a shooting guard and baseball as an outfielder earning recognition on the cover of
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the marin independent journal for his skills his sister hillary recalled lean christmases when their
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mother warned them not to expect gifts underscoring the family's financial strain tessa opened their
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home to foster children a practice that newsome has said instilled in him a lifelong commitment to
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public service his father's habit of donating much of his income further tightened the family's finances
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leading newsome to take various jobs such as washing cars and working at a local deli during high
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school to help out newsome enrolled at santa clara university on a partial baseball scholarship graduating
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in 1989 with a bachelor of science in political science he tried out for the baseball team during
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his first two years but underwent elbow surgery in late 1985 later revealed as a procedure to repair
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a torn ulnar collateral ligament ending his varsity aspirations he has credited the university's jesuit
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education with fostering his independent thinking and skepticism of conventional wisdom
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during his junior year newsome spent a semester studying abroad in rome italy an experience he
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called eye-opening in a 2019 speech exposing him to global perspectives that influenced his political
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career newsome and his investors created the company plump jack associates lp on may 14th 1991
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the group started the plump jack winery in 1992 with the financial help of his family friend gordon getty
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plump jack was the name of an opera written by getty who invested in 10 of newsome's 11 businesses
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getty told the san francisco chronicle that he treated newsome like a son and invested in his
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first business venture because of that relationship according to getty later business investments were
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because of the success of the first one of newsome's early interactions with government occurred when
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newsome resisted the san francisco department of public health's requirement to install a sink at his
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plump jack wine store the health department argued that wine was a food and required the store to
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install a 27 000 sink in the carpeted wine shop on the grounds that the shop needed the sink for a mop
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when newsome was later appointed supervisor he told the san francisco examiner that's the kind of
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bureaucratic malaise i'm going to be working through the business grew to an enterprise with more than 700
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employees the plump jack cafe partners lp opened the plump jack cafe also on fillmore street in 1993
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between 1993 and 2000 newsome and his investors opened several other businesses that included the
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plump jack squaw valley inn with a plump jack cafe in 1994 a winery in napa valley 1995 the balboa cafe bar
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and grill 1995 the plump jack development fund lp 1996 the matrix fillmore bar 1998 plump jack wine shop
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no valley branch 1999 plump jack sport retail clothing 2000 and a second balboa cafe at squaw valley newsome's
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investments included five restaurants and two retail clothing stores newsome's annual income was greater
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than 429 000 from 1996 to 2001. in 2002 his business holdings were valued at more than 6.9 million dollars
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newsome gave a monthly 50 gift certificate to plump jack employees whose business ideas failed
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because in his view there can be no success without failure newsome sold his share of his san francisco
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businesses when he became mayor in 2004. he maintained his ownership in the plump jack companies outside san
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francisco including the plump jack winery in oakville california new plump jack owned cade winery in
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anguin california and the plump jack squaw valley inn he is the president in absentia of arrow wines inc
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which is connected to the plump jack winery in napa county newsome earned between 141 thousand dollars and
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251 thousand dollars in 2007 from his business interests in february 2006 he paid 2 million 350
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thousand dollars for his residence in the russian hill neighborhood which he put on the market in april
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2009 for 3 million dollars at the time of the silicon valley bank collapse in march 2023 it was acknowledged
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that at least three of newsome's wine companies plump jack cade and odette were silicon valley bank clients
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newsome's first political experience came when he volunteered for willie brown's successful campaign
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for mayor in 1995. newsome hosted a private fundraiser at his plump jack cafe brown appointed newsome to a
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vacant seat on the parking and traffic commission in 1996 and he was later elected president of the
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commission brown appointed him to the san francisco board of supervisors seat vacated by kevin shelley in
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1997. at the time he was the youngest member of san francisco's board of supervisors newsome was sworn
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in by his father and pledged to bring his business experience to the board brown called newsome part of
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the future generation of leaders of this great city newsome described himself as a social liberal and a
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fiscal watchdog he was elected to a full four-year term to the board in 1998. san francisco voters chose to
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abandon at-large elections to the board for the previous district system in 1999. newsome was
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re-elected in 2000 and 2002 to represent the second district which includes pacific heights the marina
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cow hollow sea cliff and laurel heights which had san francisco's highest income level and highest republican
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registration newsome paid 500 to the san francisco republican party to appear on the party's endorsement
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slate in 2000 while running for supervisor he was re-elected as a san francisco supervisor newsome
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gained public attention for his role in advocating reform of the city's municipal railway muni he was
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one of two supervisors endorsed by rescue muni a transit riders group in his 1998 re-election he
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sponsored proposition b to require muni and other city departments to develop detailed customer service
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plans the measure passed with 56.6 of the vote newsome sponsored a ballot measure from rescue muni
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a version of the measure was approved by voters in november 1999. newsome also supported allowing
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restaurants to serve alcohol at their outdoor tables banning tobacco advertisements visible from the
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streets stiffer penalties for landlords who run afoul of rent control laws and a resolution which was defeated
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to commend colin powell for raising money for youth programs newsome's support for business interests at
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times strained his relationship with labor leaders during newsome's time as supervisor he supported housing
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projects through public-private partnerships to increase home ownership and affordable housing in san
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francisco he supported hope a failed local ballot measure that would have allowed an increased condo
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conversion rate if a certain percentage of tenants within a building were buying their units
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as a candidate for mayor he supported building 10 000 new housing units to create 15 000 new
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construction jobs newsome's signature achievement as a supervisor was a voter initiative called care
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not cash measure n which offered care supportive housing drug treatment and help from behavioral health
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specialists for the homeless in lieu of direct cash aid from the state's general assistance program many homeless
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rights advocates protested against the initiative progressives and democrats nuns and priests homeless
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advocates and homeless people were furious newsome said the successfully passed ballot measure raised his
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political profile and provided the volunteers donors and campaign staff that helped make him a leading
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contender for the mayorship in 2003 in a city audit released in 2008 the program was evaluated as largely
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successful for lowering average cash payments per person from over 300 to 78 and the number of people
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receiving cash payments from over 2500 to about 640. newsome placed first in the november 4 2003 general
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election in a nine-person field he received 41.9 of the vote to green party candidate matt gonzalez's 19.6
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in the first round of balloting but faced a closer race in the december 9 runoff when many of the city's
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progressive groups supported gonzalez the race was partisan with attacks against gonzalez for his
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support of ralph nader in the 2000 presidential election and attacks against newsome for contributing
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500 to a republican slate mailer in 2000 that endorsed issues newsome supported democratic leadership felt they
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needed to reinforce san francisco as a democratic stronghold after losing the 2000 presidential election
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and the 2003 gubernatorial recall election to arnold schwarzenegger national democratic party figures
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including bill clinton al gore and jesse jackson campaigned for newsome five supervisors endorsed
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gonzalez while willie brown endorsed newsome i stop at this point today until next time stay curious
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stay informed and keep exploring the world's incredible stories soon we will publish part two thank you for
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