Gavin Newsom is political career and achievements Every thing about him Part 1

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00:00everything about the gavin christopher newsome is an american politician and businessman serving

00:06since 2019 as the 40th governor of california his life and everything about him part one

00:15gavin christopher newsome born october 10th 1967 is an american politician and businessman serving

00:21since 2019 as the 40th governor of california a member of the democratic party he served from

00:282011 to 2019 as the 49th lieutenant governor of california and from 2004 to 2011 as the 42nd mayor

00:35of san francisco newsome graduated from santa clara university in 1989 with a bachelor of science in

00:42political science afterward he founded the boutique winery plump jack group in oakville california with

00:48billionaire heir and family friend gordon getty as an investor the company grew to manage 23 businesses

00:54including wineries restaurants and hotels newsome began his political career in 1996 when san francisco

01:02mayor willie brown appointed him to the city's parking and traffic commission brown then appointed

01:08newsome to fill a vacancy on the board of supervisors the next year and newsome was first elected to the

01:13board in 1998. newsome was elected mayor of san francisco in 2003 and re-elected in 2007. he was

01:21elected lieutenant governor of california in 2010 and re-elected in 2014. as lieutenant governor newsome

01:28hosted the gavin newsome show from 2012 to 2013 and in 2013 wrote the book citizenville which focuses on

01:35using digital tools for democratic change since 2025 he has hosted the podcast this is gavin newsome newsome

01:43newsome was elected governor of california in 2018 and re-elected in 2022. during his governorship he

01:51faced criticism for his personal behavior and leadership during the covet 19 pandemic imposing

01:56strict lockdown measures considered overly restrictive and economically damaging to the state

02:01while personally flouting his administration's guidelines controversies and frustration with his

02:07leadership contributed to an unsuccessful recall effort in 2021 gavin christopher newsome was born on

02:14october 10th 1967 in san francisco california to tessa thomas nay menzies and william alfred newsome iii

02:23a state appeals court judge and attorney for getty oil a fourth generation san franciscan newsome comes

02:29from a prominent family with deep ties to the city his maternal great-grandfather thomas addis was a

02:35pioneering nephrologist and professor of medicine at stanford university noted for his groundbreaking research on

02:42kidney disease newsome is a second cousin twice removed of musician joanna newsome and his aunt

02:48barbara newsome was married to ron pelosi the brother-in-law of former speaker of the united

02:53states house of representatives nancy pelosi newsome's parents divorced in 1971 when he was three years old

03:00leaving his mother tessa to raise him and his younger sister hillary newsome callan largely on her own

03:06tessa worked three jobs often as a waitress bookkeeper and secretary to support the family

03:12fostering a strong work ethic in her children newsome has called his childhood challenging shaped

03:18in part by financial instability and his struggle with pretty severe dyslexia a condition he still has

03:24newsome's education began at ecole notre dame des victoires a french-american bilingual catholic

03:30school in san francisco that he attended for kindergarten and first grade but his severe dyslexia

03:35which affected his ability to read write spell and perform numerical tasks dyscalculia prompted

03:41a transfer he continued at notre dame des victoires from third through fifth grades where he was

03:47enrolled in remedial reading classes to cope with his learning difficulties throughout his years in

03:52school newsome relied heavily on audiobooks summaries and verbal instruction he still prefers audio

03:59interpretations of documents and reports in a 2023 interview he said his dyslexia forced me

04:05to find workarounds and think differently skills i still use every day as governor at redwood high

04:11school in larkspur california newsome excelled athletically despite his academic struggles graduating in 1985

04:19he played basketball as a shooting guard and baseball as an outfielder earning recognition on the cover of

04:24the marin independent journal for his skills his sister hillary recalled lean christmases when their

04:30mother warned them not to expect gifts underscoring the family's financial strain tessa opened their

04:36home to foster children a practice that newsome has said instilled in him a lifelong commitment to

04:41public service his father's habit of donating much of his income further tightened the family's finances

04:47leading newsome to take various jobs such as washing cars and working at a local deli during high

04:53school to help out newsome enrolled at santa clara university on a partial baseball scholarship graduating

04:59in 1989 with a bachelor of science in political science he tried out for the baseball team during

05:04his first two years but underwent elbow surgery in late 1985 later revealed as a procedure to repair

05:11a torn ulnar collateral ligament ending his varsity aspirations he has credited the university's jesuit

05:17education with fostering his independent thinking and skepticism of conventional wisdom

05:22during his junior year newsome spent a semester studying abroad in rome italy an experience he

05:28called eye-opening in a 2019 speech exposing him to global perspectives that influenced his political

05:34career newsome and his investors created the company plump jack associates lp on may 14th 1991

05:42the group started the plump jack winery in 1992 with the financial help of his family friend gordon getty

05:49plump jack was the name of an opera written by getty who invested in 10 of newsome's 11 businesses

05:55getty told the san francisco chronicle that he treated newsome like a son and invested in his

06:00first business venture because of that relationship according to getty later business investments were

06:05because of the success of the first one of newsome's early interactions with government occurred when

06:10newsome resisted the san francisco department of public health's requirement to install a sink at his

06:15plump jack wine store the health department argued that wine was a food and required the store to

06:21install a 27 000 sink in the carpeted wine shop on the grounds that the shop needed the sink for a mop

06:28when newsome was later appointed supervisor he told the san francisco examiner that's the kind of

06:34bureaucratic malaise i'm going to be working through the business grew to an enterprise with more than 700

06:40employees the plump jack cafe partners lp opened the plump jack cafe also on fillmore street in 1993

06:47between 1993 and 2000 newsome and his investors opened several other businesses that included the

06:53plump jack squaw valley inn with a plump jack cafe in 1994 a winery in napa valley 1995 the balboa cafe bar

07:01and grill 1995 the plump jack development fund lp 1996 the matrix fillmore bar 1998 plump jack wine shop

07:10no valley branch 1999 plump jack sport retail clothing 2000 and a second balboa cafe at squaw valley newsome's

07:18investments included five restaurants and two retail clothing stores newsome's annual income was greater

07:24than 429 000 from 1996 to 2001. in 2002 his business holdings were valued at more than 6.9 million dollars

07:35newsome gave a monthly 50 gift certificate to plump jack employees whose business ideas failed

07:40because in his view there can be no success without failure newsome sold his share of his san francisco

07:46businesses when he became mayor in 2004. he maintained his ownership in the plump jack companies outside san

07:53francisco including the plump jack winery in oakville california new plump jack owned cade winery in

07:59anguin california and the plump jack squaw valley inn he is the president in absentia of arrow wines inc

08:07which is connected to the plump jack winery in napa county newsome earned between 141 thousand dollars and

08:14251 thousand dollars in 2007 from his business interests in february 2006 he paid 2 million 350

08:22thousand dollars for his residence in the russian hill neighborhood which he put on the market in april

08:272009 for 3 million dollars at the time of the silicon valley bank collapse in march 2023 it was acknowledged

08:35that at least three of newsome's wine companies plump jack cade and odette were silicon valley bank clients

08:41newsome's first political experience came when he volunteered for willie brown's successful campaign

08:47for mayor in 1995. newsome hosted a private fundraiser at his plump jack cafe brown appointed newsome to a

08:56vacant seat on the parking and traffic commission in 1996 and he was later elected president of the

09:01commission brown appointed him to the san francisco board of supervisors seat vacated by kevin shelley in

09:071997. at the time he was the youngest member of san francisco's board of supervisors newsome was sworn

09:15in by his father and pledged to bring his business experience to the board brown called newsome part of

09:21the future generation of leaders of this great city newsome described himself as a social liberal and a

09:27fiscal watchdog he was elected to a full four-year term to the board in 1998. san francisco voters chose to

09:35abandon at-large elections to the board for the previous district system in 1999. newsome was

09:42re-elected in 2000 and 2002 to represent the second district which includes pacific heights the marina

09:49cow hollow sea cliff and laurel heights which had san francisco's highest income level and highest republican

09:56registration newsome paid 500 to the san francisco republican party to appear on the party's endorsement

10:02slate in 2000 while running for supervisor he was re-elected as a san francisco supervisor newsome

10:09gained public attention for his role in advocating reform of the city's municipal railway muni he was

10:15one of two supervisors endorsed by rescue muni a transit riders group in his 1998 re-election he

10:21sponsored proposition b to require muni and other city departments to develop detailed customer service

10:27plans the measure passed with 56.6 of the vote newsome sponsored a ballot measure from rescue muni

10:34a version of the measure was approved by voters in november 1999. newsome also supported allowing

10:40restaurants to serve alcohol at their outdoor tables banning tobacco advertisements visible from the

10:45streets stiffer penalties for landlords who run afoul of rent control laws and a resolution which was defeated

10:53to commend colin powell for raising money for youth programs newsome's support for business interests at

10:58times strained his relationship with labor leaders during newsome's time as supervisor he supported housing

11:05projects through public-private partnerships to increase home ownership and affordable housing in san

11:10francisco he supported hope a failed local ballot measure that would have allowed an increased condo

11:16conversion rate if a certain percentage of tenants within a building were buying their units

11:20as a candidate for mayor he supported building 10 000 new housing units to create 15 000 new

11:26construction jobs newsome's signature achievement as a supervisor was a voter initiative called care

11:32not cash measure n which offered care supportive housing drug treatment and help from behavioral health

11:38specialists for the homeless in lieu of direct cash aid from the state's general assistance program many homeless

11:44rights advocates protested against the initiative progressives and democrats nuns and priests homeless

11:51advocates and homeless people were furious newsome said the successfully passed ballot measure raised his

11:56political profile and provided the volunteers donors and campaign staff that helped make him a leading

12:02contender for the mayorship in 2003 in a city audit released in 2008 the program was evaluated as largely

12:08successful for lowering average cash payments per person from over 300 to 78 and the number of people

12:15receiving cash payments from over 2500 to about 640. newsome placed first in the november 4 2003 general

12:24election in a nine-person field he received 41.9 of the vote to green party candidate matt gonzalez's 19.6

12:33in the first round of balloting but faced a closer race in the december 9 runoff when many of the city's

12:39progressive groups supported gonzalez the race was partisan with attacks against gonzalez for his

12:45support of ralph nader in the 2000 presidential election and attacks against newsome for contributing

12:50500 to a republican slate mailer in 2000 that endorsed issues newsome supported democratic leadership felt they

12:58needed to reinforce san francisco as a democratic stronghold after losing the 2000 presidential election

13:04and the 2003 gubernatorial recall election to arnold schwarzenegger national democratic party figures

13:10including bill clinton al gore and jesse jackson campaigned for newsome five supervisors endorsed

13:16gonzalez while willie brown endorsed newsome i stop at this point today until next time stay curious

13:23stay informed and keep exploring the world's incredible stories soon we will publish part two thank you for

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