Gavin Newsom Biography
Gavin Newsom is an American politician and businessman, he is the 40th governor of California, since January 2019. He is a member of the Democratic Party, from 2011 to 2019 he served as the 49th lieutenant governor of California and as the 42nd mayor of San Francisco from 2004 to 2011.
Gavin Newsom Education
Gavin Newsom graduated from Redwood High School. He joined Santa Clara University where he graduated with a degree in bachelor of political science in 1989.
Gavin Newsom Political career
He began his political career in 1996 when the San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown appointed him to serve on the city’s Parking and Traffic Commission. His first political experience came when he volunteered for Willie Brown’s successful campaign for mayor in 1995. He hosted a private fundraiser at his PlumpJack Café.
His first political experience came in 1995 when he volunteered for Willie Brown’s successful campaign for mayor. He also hosted a private fundraiser at his PlumpJack Café. In 1996 he was appointed by Brown to a vacant seat on the Parking and Traffic Commission, and he was also elected as the president of the commission.
Brown appointed him to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors seat vacated by Kevin Shelley In 1997. He was sworn in by his father who pledged to bring his business experience to the board. Brown called Gavin as a “part of the future generation of leaders of this great city” he then described himself as a “social liberal and a fiscal watchdog”.
He was subsequently elected to a full four-year term to the board in 1998. The San Francisco’s voters chose to exchange at-large elections to the board for the previous district system in 1999, and he was re-elected in 2000 and in 2002 he represented the second district, which includes the Pacific Heights, Marina, Cow Hollow, Sea Cliff, and Laurel Heights.
Gavin faced no opposition in his 2002 re-election. Newsom district had the highest income level and the highest registration of Republicans in San Francisco. He paid $500 dollars to the San Francisco Republican Party in 2000 in order to be on the party’s endorsement slate. As a San Francisco Supervisor, he gained public attention for his role in advocating reform of the city’s Municipal Railway (“Muni”).
He was one of two supervisors endorsed by Rescue Muni, a transit riders group, in his 1998 re-election. Gavin sponsored Proposition B to require Muni and other city departments in order to develop detailed customer service plans. The measure successfully passed with a 56.6% votes. He sponsored a ballot measure from Rescue Muni; which is a version of the measure that approved voters in November 1999.
He also supported and allowing restaurants to serve alcohol at their outdoor tables, banning tobacco advertisements which are visible from the streets, stiffer penalties for landlords, and a resolution to commend Colin Powell raising money for youth programs that were defeated. His support for business interests strained his relationship with labor leaders.
During his time as a supervisor, he supported the housing projects through public-private partnerships to increase homeownership and affordable housing in San Francisco. He supported HOPE, a failed local ballot measure that allowed the increased condo-conversion rate in a certain percentage of tenants in building up their units.
Gavin Newsom Age
Gavin Newsom was born on October 10, 1967, in San Francisco, California, U.S. He is 52 years old as of 2019. His Full names are Gavin Christopher Newsom.
Gavin Newsom Family
Gavin Newsom was born in San Francisco, California, to Tessa Thomas (mother) and William Alfred Newsom III (father) his father was a state court justice and attorney for Getty Oil. His father is an Irish descendant. His father was an advocate for otters and the family had one as a pet.
His great grandfather Scotsman Thomas Addis was a pioneer scientist in the field of nephrology and a professor of medicine at Stanford University. Gavin Newsom is the second cousin to Joanna Newsom who is a musician. Newsom’s parents separated when he was two, and divorced in 1972. At age ten, Newsom moved with his mother and sister to nearby Marin County.
Gavin Newsom Wife
Gavin Newsom was previously married to political analyst, journalist, attorney, and television news personality Kimberly Guilfoyle in 2001 and divorced in 2006. He was then engaged to another relationship with documentary filmmaker and actress Jennifer Seibel whom he married in 2008. The couples were blessed with four children.
Gavin Newsom Children
Gavin Newsom has four children Dutch William Siebel Newsom, Hunter Siebel Newsom, and Brooklynn Siebel Newsom. the other child is not mentioned in his record.
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Gavin Newsom Businessman
Newsom and his investors created the company PlumpJack Associates L.P on May 14, 1991. The group started the PlumpJack Winery with the financial help of his family friend Gordon Getty in 1992. PlumpJack was then named on an opera written by Getty, who invested in 10 of Newsom’s 11 businesses. Getty told the San Francisco Chronicle that he treated Newsom like a son and invested in his first business ventures because of that relationship.
According to Getty, the business investments were because of “the success of the first”. One of his early interactions with the government occurred when he resisted the San Francisco Health Department’s requirement to install a sink at his PlumpJack wine store. The Health Department argued that wine was food and it required the store to install $27,000 dollars to sink in the carpeted wine shop on the grounds of the shop that needed the sink for a mop.
He was later appointed as a supervisor, he told the San Francisco Examiner: “That’s the kind of bureaucratic malaise I’m going to be working through.” The business grew up to an enterprise with more than 700 employees. in 1993, the PlumpJack Cafe Partners L.P. opened the PlumpJack Café on Fillmore Street.
Between 1993 and 2000, Jason and his investors opened other businesses that included the PlumpJack Squaw Valley Inn with a PlumpJack Café (1994), winery in Napa Valley (1995), Balboa Café Bar and Grill (1995), PlumpJack Development Fund L.P. 1996, the MatrixFillmore Bar 1998, PlumpJack Wines shop Noe Valley branch 1999, PlumpJackSport retail clothing 2000, and the second Balboa Café at Squaw Valley 2000.
Some of his investments included five restaurants and two retail clothing stores. His annual income was greater than $429,000 dollars. In 2002, his business holdings valued more than $6.9 million. He gave out a monthly gift certificate $50 to PlumpJack employees whose business ideas failed, because in his view, “There can be no success without failure.”
Jason sold his share of his San Francisco businesses when he became mayor in 2004. He continued to maintain his ownership in the PlumpJack companies outside San Francisco that included the PlumpJack Winery in Oakville, California, new PlumpJack-owned Cade Winery in Angwin, California, and the PlumpJack Squaw Valley Inn.
He is the president in absentia of Airelle Wines Inc, which is connected in the PlumpJack Winery in Napa County. He earned between $141,000 to $251,000 in 2007 from his business interests. He paid $2,350,000 for his residence in the Russian Hill neighborhood in February 2006, which he put on the market in April 2009, for $3,000,000.
Gavin Newsom Salary
Gavin Newsom earns a salary of $151,000 per month. The state commission voted on Friday to increase Gov. Gavin Newsom’s salary from $202,000 to $210,000 in December.
Gavin Newsom Net Worth
Gavin Newsom is an American politician and businessman who has an estimated net worth of $ 15 million dollars as of 2019.
Gavin Newsom Mayor of San Francisco
In September 2006, the contract dispute was settled. In 2005, Newsom pushed for a state law to allow communities in California to create policy restricting certain breeds of dogs. In 2009, Newsom came under attack from the San Francisco Democratic Party for his failure to implement the City of San Francisco’s sanctuary city rule, under which the city was to not assist U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
In 2009, Newsom received the Leadership for Healthy Communities Award, along with Mayor Michael Bloomberg of New York City and three other public officials, for his commitment to making healthful food and physical activity options more accessible to children and families.
In 2008, he had hosted the Urban-Rural Roundtable to explore ways to promote regional food development and increased access to healthy affordable food, and he secured $8 million in federal and local funds for the Better Streets program, which ensures that public health perspectives are fully integrated into urban planning processes.
He signed a menu-labeling bill into law, requiring that chain restaurants print nutrition information on their menus. In 2010, Newsom was named “America’s Most Social Mayor” by the Same point, based on analysis of the social media profiles of mayors from the 100 largest cities in the United States.
Gavin Newsom Quotes
You can love me or hate me and disagree with me, but you sure as hell know where I stand.
You need to let go of your fear and anxiety of being judged by others.
The tech genie is out of the bottle; you can’t put it back in.
You’ve got to change incentives for good behavior as opposed to just disincentivizing bad behavior.
Take responsibility. Step up and step in. Because at the end of the day, folks, we are our behaviors.
I’ve never been a fan of pretense or procrastination. After all, our state is defined by its independent, outspoken spirit.
We must continue to step in and stand up to resist reckless rhetoric and actions in a peaceful and forceful manner.
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Same-sex marriage
In 2004, Newsom gained national attention when he directed the San Francisco city-county clerk to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples, in violation of the then-current state law. In August 2004, the Supreme Court of California annulled the marriages that Newsom had authorized, as they conflicted with state law at that time.
Still, Newsom’s unexpected move brought national attention to the issues of gay marriage, solidifying political support for Newsom in San Francisco and in the LGBTQ+ community. During the 2008 election, Newsom was a prominent and vocal opponent of Proposition 8, the ballot initiative to reverse the California Supreme Court ruling that there was a constitutional right to same-sex marriage.
Proposition 8 supporters released a commercial featuring footage of Newsom saying the following in a speech regarding same-sex marriage: “This door’s wide open now. It’s going to happen, whether you like it or not.” Some observers noted that polls shifted in favor of Proposition 8 following the release of the commercial; this, in turn, led to speculation that Newsom had inadvertently played a role in the passage of the amendment
Gavin Newsom Lieutenant Governor of California
In April 2009, Newsom announced his intention to run for Governor of California in the 2010 election. In September 2009, he received the endorsement of former president Bill Clinton. During the campaign, Newsom remarked that, if elected, he’d like to be referred to as “The Gavinator” (a reference to Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger’s nickname, “The Governator”).
Throughout the campaign, however, Newsom suffered low poll numbers, trailing Democratic frontrunner Jerry Brown by more than 20 points in most polls. In October 2009, Newsom dropped out of the gubernatorial race. In February 2010, Newsom filed initial paperwork to run for lieutenant governor and officially announced his candidacy in March.
He received the Democratic nomination in June and won the election on November 2, 2010. Newsom was sworn in as lieutenant governor on January 10, 2011. The one-week delay was to ensure that a successor as mayor of San Francisco was chosen before he left the office. Edwin M. Lee, the city administrator, took office the day after Newsom was sworn in as lieutenant governor.
In May 2012, he debuted on Current TV as the host of The Gavin Newsom Show. In 2012, Newsom drew criticism for his negative view of California’s state capital Sacramento. On November 4, 2014, Newsom was re-elected as Lieutenant Governor of California, defeating Republican Ron Nehring with 57.2% of the vote. His second term began on January 5, 2015, the same date when Governor Brown was sworn in for a second term after his re-election.
Gavin Newsom Office
Governor Gavin Newsom is the executive in charge of the state of California, directing state agencies and departments. The Governor also works with state legislators on legislative proposals and signs or vetoes legislation. Within the Governor’s office, there are many units including the Cabinet, Legislative, Legal, Communications, Scheduling and Advance, Appointments, Constituent Affairs, Operations, and the First Partner’s Office.
The office is located in the State Capitol. Governor Newsom is widely recognized for his willingness to lead repeatedly developing, advocating, and implementing innovative and groundbreaking solutions to some of the state’s most challenging issues.
His top priorities for his administration are tackling our state’s affordability crisis, creating inclusive economic growth and opportunity for every child, and standing up for California values from civil rights to immigration, environmental protection, access to quality schools at all levels, and justice.
Sacramento Office:
State Capitol
Sacramento, CA 95814
Phone: 916-445-2841
Fax: (916) 558-3160
Los Angeles Office:
300 South Spring Street, Suite 16701
Los Angeles, CA 90013
Phone: 213-897-0322
Fax: (213) 897-0319
Washington Office:
444 North Capitol Street, Suite 134
Washington, DC 20001
Phone: 202-624-5270
Fax: (202) 624-5280
San Francisco Office:
455 Golden Gate Avenue, Suite 14000
San Francisco, CA 94102
Phone: 415-703-1057
Fax: (415) 703-2803
Gavin Newsom Contacts
Mailing address:
Governor Gavin Newsom
1303 10th Street, Suite 1173
Sacramento, CA 95814
Phone: (916) 445-2841
Fax: (916) 558-3160
Gavin Newsom California Dream
California is in an affordability crisis. From the sky-high price of housing to rising costs of health care, childcare, and higher education, too many families are being priced out of the California Dream. Gavin believes we must tackle the challenge of affordability head-on and build an upward economy that works for every Californian.
Gavin Newsom California’s Values
California’s values aren’t just a point of pride; they are the very fabric of the state’s history and our future. Gavin has been on the leading edge of change, enacting bold reforms that reflect those values – jumpstarting the marriage equality movement, passing universal healthcare and universal pre-k, and advancing first-in-the-nation gun safety and criminal justice reforms. He believes that California has a responsibility and opportunity to show the country and the world what inclusive, progressive government can achieve.
Gavin Newsom Technology in government
Gavin Newsom released his first book, Citizenville: How to Take the Town Square Digital and Reinvent Government, on February 7, 2013. The book discusses the Gov 2.0 movement that is taking place across the United States. Following the release of Citizenville, Newsom began to work with the Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society at the University of California, Berkeley, on the California Report Card (CRC).
The CRC is a mobile-optimized platform that allows California residents to “grade” their state on six timely issues. The CRC exemplifies ideas presented in Newsom’s Citizenville, encouraging direct public involvement in government affairs via modern technology.
In 2015, Newsom partnered with the Institute for Advanced Technology and Public Policy at California Polytechnic State University to launch Digital Democracy, an online tool that uses facial and voices recognition to enable users to navigate California legislative proceedings.
Education
In November 2015, Newsom joined then-Long Beach City College Superintendent Eloy Oakley in an op-ed calling for the creation of the California College Promise, which would create partnerships between public schools, public universities, and employers and offer a free community college education.
Throughout 2016, Newsom joined Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf at the launch of the Oakland Promise and then-Second Lady Jill Biden and LA Mayor Eric Garcetti at the launch of the LA Promise. In June 2016, the Lieutenant Governor helped secure $15 million in the state budget to support the creation of promise programs throughout the state.
In December 2015, Newsom called on the University of California to reclassify computer science courses as a core academic class in order to incentivize more high schools to offer computer science curriculum. Newsom sponsored successful legislation signed by Governor Brown in September 2016, that began the planning process for expanding computer science education to all California students, beginning as early as kindergarten.
In 2016, the Lieutenant Governor passed a series of reforms at the University of California to provide student-athletes with additional academic and injury-related support, and to ensure that contracts for athletic directors and coaches emphasized academic progress. This came in response to several athletics programs, including the University of California Berkeley’s football team, which garnered the lowest graduation rates in the country.
Cannabis legalization
In 2014, Newsom was the only statewide politician to endorse California Proposition 47, a piece of legislation that decriminalized non-violent offenses like drug and property crimes, turning them into misdemeanors as opposed to felonies. The measure was passed by voters in the state of California on November 4, 2014.
In July 2015, Newsom released the final report of the Blue Ribbon Commission on Marijuana Policy, which he had convened with the American Civil Liberties Union of California in 2013. The report’s recommendations to regulate marijuana were intended to inform a legalization measure on the November 2016 ballot.
Newsom supported the resulting measure, Proposition 64, which legalized cannabis use and cultivation for California state residents who are 21 or older. In response to pro-enforcement statements made by Press Secretary Sean Spicer, Newsom sent a letter on February 24, 2017, to Attorney General Sessions and President Trump, urging them not to increase federal enforcement against recreational cannabis firms opening up in California.
He wrote, “The government must not strip the legal and publicly supported industry of its business and hand it back to drug cartels and criminals Dealers don’t card kids. I urge you and your administration to work in partnership with California and the other eight states that have legalized recreational marijuana for adult use in a way that will let us enforce our state laws that protect the public and our children while targeting the bad actors.”
Newsom responded to comments by Spicer which compared cannabis to opioids saying, “Unlike marijuana, opioids represent an addictive and harmful substance, and I would welcome your administration’s focused efforts on tackling this particular public health crisis.”
Capital punishment
Newsom supported a failed measure in 2012 that sought to end capital punishment in California. He claimed the initiative would save California millions of dollars, citing statistics that California had spent $5 billion since 1978 to execute just 13 people.
Newsom also supported failed Proposition 62 in 2016, which also would have repealed the death penalty in California. He argued that Prop 62 would get rid of a system “that is administered with troubling racial disparities”. He also stated that the death penalty was fundamentally immoral and did not deter crime.
Gavin Newsom Governor of California
On February 11, 2015, Newsom announced that he was opening a campaign account for governor in the 2018 elections, allowing him to raise funds for a campaign to succeed Jerry Brown as Governor of California. On June 5, 2018, he finished in the top two of the nonpartisan blanket primary and defeated Republican John H. Cox by a landslide in the gubernatorial election on November 6. He was sworn in as Governor of California on January 7, 2019.
Capital punishment
On March 13, 2019, Newsom announced that he ordered a moratorium on the state’s death penalty, preventing any execution in the state as long as he was still in office as governor. The move also led to the withdrawal of the state’s current lethal injection protocol and the closure of the execution chamber at San Quentin State Prison.
In a CBS This Morning interview, Newsom stated that the death penalty was “a racist system. You cannot deny that.” He also stated that it was “a system that is perpetuating inequality. It’s a system that I cannot in good conscience support.” Gavin Newsom is against the death penalty and has issued a moratorium on all executions which granted a temporary reprieve for the 737 inmates on the state’s death row, the largest in the Western Hemisphere.
Clemency
In response to Trump’s administration crackdown immigrants with criminal records, he has given heightened consideration to people in this situation. In his first acts of clemency as Governor, he pardoned seven formerly incarcerated people in May 2019, including two Cambodian refugees facing deportation.
A pardon can eliminate the grounds for deportation of immigrants who are legal permanent residents. Pardon requests from people facing deportation are provided with an expedited review by the state Board of Parole Hearings per a 2018 California law.
Gun control
As Lieutenant Governor in 2016, he was the official proponent of Proposition 63. The ballot measure required a background check and California Department of Justice authorization to purchase ammunition among other gun control regulations.
In response to the 2019 mass shooting in Virginia Beach, he called for nationwide background checks on people purchasing ammunition Later that year, he responded to the Gilroy Garlic Festival shooting with, “Tonight, CA stands with the Gilroy community.”
“Grateful for the law enforcement’s efforts and their continuous work as this situation develops.” He visited with survivors and the families of victims. While stating his support for the 2nd Amendment, he said he would like national cooperation controlling “weapons of goddamned mass destruction”.
Health care
Reducing the cost of health care and increasing access to California were priorities he campaigned on. He also supported creating a universal health care system in California. The budget passed in June 2019 addressed these priorities by expanding eligibility for Medi-Cal to undocumented youth ages 19 to 25.
The state’s health program for the poor already includes eligibility for those 18 and younger but California will become the first state to expand eligibility to undocumented young adults.
Housing shortage
In his first week of office, Newsom threatened to withhold state funding for infrastructure to communities that failed to take action to alleviate California’s housing shortage. In late January 2019, he announced that he would sue Huntington Beach for preventing the construction of affordable housing. Newsom has been characterized as an opponent of NIMBY (not-in-my-back-yard) sentiment.
Travel
He chose El Salvador as his first international trip as governor. With nearly 680,000 Salvadoran immigrants living in California, he felt that the “state’s relationship with Central America is key to California’s future”. He was also concerned about the tens of thousands of Salvadorans that were fleeing the smallest country in Central America for the U.S. each year.
As governor of a state impacted by the debate of illegal immigration, he went to see first-hand the factors driving it and to build business and tourism partnerships between California and Central America. He said he wanted to “ignite a more enlightened engagement and dialogue.”
Gavin Newsom Religion
Gavin Newsom was baptized and reared in his father’s Roman Catholic faith. He describes himself as an “Irish Catholic rebel […] in some respects, but one that still has tremendous admiration for the Church and very strong faith”.
When asked about the current state of the Catholic Church, he said the church was in crisis. Newsom said he stays with the Church because of his “strong connection to a greater purpose, and […] higher being […]” Newsom identifies himself as a practicing Catholic, stating that he has a “strong sense of faith that is perennial: a day in and day out”.
Frequently Asked Questions About Gavin Newsom
Who is Gavin Newsom?
Gavin Newsom is an American politician and businessman.
How old is Gavin Newsom?
He is 52 years old as of 2019.
How tall is Gavin Newsom?
He stands at a height of 6′ 3″
Is Gavin Newsom married?
Yes, he is married and he is married to Jennifer Siebel Newsom a filmmaker and actress.
How much is Gavin Newsom worth?
He has an estimated net worth of $15 million dollars as of 2019.
How much does Gavin Newsom make?
Gavin Newsom receives a salary of $201,680 dollars.
Where does Gavin Newsom live?
He lives in Greenbrae California U.S.A
Is Gavin Newsom dead or alive?
He is still alive and in good health.
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