Gavin Newsom
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"Gavin Christopher Newsom" is an American politician. He is the List of lieutenant governors of California/49th and current lieutenant governor of California, after being elected in 2010. In 2003, he was elected the 42nd Mayor of San Francisco, the city’s youngest in a hundred years. Newsom was re-elected in San Francisco mayoral election, 2007/2007 with 72 percent of the vote. In 2010, a Samepoint study named Newsom the Most Social Mayor in America’s largest one hundred cities.

In 1996 San Francisco mayor Willie Brown (politician)/Willie Brown appointed Newsom to serve on the city’s Parking and Traffic Commission, and then as a member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors/board of supervisors the following year. Newsom drew voter attention with his San Francisco Proposition N (2002)/Care Not Cash program, designed to move homeless people into city-assisted care.

Newsom graduated from Redwood High School (Larkspur, California)/Redwood High School and Santa Clara University. He has co-founded 11 businesses, 10 in which family friend Gordon Getty has been an investor.

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All I can think of is, what's next? ... That's what's so exciting - how do we top this?

It's difficult to argue, or suggest, we should cut someone's budget, ... when you're dealing with the hearts and souls of San Francisco residents. Particularly San Francisco residents that disproportionately fear the advent of another earthquake.

It's the old adage, 'Nothing ventured, nothing gained, ... While this is unique, we consider ourselves unique.

However, no one is more disappointed than the tens of thousands of couples and their families that won't have the same rights and privileges that Maria Shriver and Arnold Schwarzenegger have been afforded.

A chance to see its beauty with their own eyes.

You know we're the only city -- I think we're the only big city in America ... there may be an exception or two ... that women are running the Police Department, Fire Department and our emergency services. That's why I feel so safe. And I'll tell you why. Women put their egos aside. You get these guys in uniform, all of a sudden it's their way or no way.

I do not believe it's appropriate for me ... to discriminate against people.

You don't hire those positions. You get the money that was set aside, for over time costs.

This is real. This is about basic, fundamental rights. It's about laying a foundation of equality for everybody, and he missed a golden opportunity to stand on history and to do something that is noble and appropriate. By no means was this a profile in courage. What a wasted moment for his administration.