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Vote: | A primary goal of my administration will be to expand housing opportunities in and around the downtown, with an emphasis on building walkable, fullservice neighborhoods for our growing workforce. |
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Vote: | Accessing capital to start a business can be a daunting process, especially for entrepreneurs who start out with a great idea, but have no real familiarity with the business world. |
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Vote: | An arts education helps build academic skills and increase academic performance, while also providing alternative opportunities to reward the skills of children who learn differently. |
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Vote: | As a major international City, San Francisco must form strong partnerships with federal and state agencies to prepare for emergencies. |
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Vote: | As mayor of San Francisco, I will provide the vision and work hard to make San Francisco a beautiful, well-planned city with excellent housing and transportation options. |
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Vote: | As Mayor of San Francisco, I will work hard to ensure that, in the event of natural or man-made disasters, San Franciscans are prepared and our City is protected. |
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Vote: | As Mayor of San Francisco, I will work to make San Francisco a strong, vibrant community by supporting our small businesses. |
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Vote: | As Mayor, I will fully support my Arts Commission and its professional selection committees so that they can commission a full range of public art that is daring and, when appropriate, daringly traditional. |
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Vote: | As Mayor, I will lead city government, businesses, and community groups to support innovative projects that will make San Francisco streets and public places vibrant and healthy. |
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Vote: | As Mayor, I will partner with community organizations, nonprofits, the business community and residents to improve San Francisco's quality of life. |
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Vote: | As Mayor, I will use my experience to make San Francisco a place where small businesses can thrive. |
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Vote: | But living in uncertain times does not mean San Franciscans must live in fear. |
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Vote: | City government can and must help San Franciscans prepare for emergencies in order to avoid tragedy where possible and minimize loss of life and property when emergencies occur. |
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Vote: | Cultural tourism surveys consistently rate San Francisco's art industry as a core reason for visiting. |
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Vote: | During my term as mayor, we will de-politicize city planning, promote smart growth, and implement innovative best practices for making a livable city. |
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Vote: | During the 1990s, San Francisco lived through one of the most intense economic booms of its history. |
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Vote: | Green and clean neighborhoods are essential to the quality of life, economic development, social fabric, and environmental health of San Francisco. |
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Vote: | Historically, San Franciscans have not valued street trees as much as other communities have. |
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Vote: | In order to provide an arts and culture-friendly infrastructure, San Francisco needs to foster employment and small business opportunities suited to a broad range of skills, ensuring that the broadest possible range of employers continue to do business in San Francisco. |
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Vote: | Involvement in the arts engages kids in their community, improves self-esteem, reclaims at-risk youth, and builds the creative skills that are required of a 21st century workforce. |
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Vote: | Like any small business owner, I experienced the pressures of building a company from the ground up - developing a business plan, balancing the books, meeting payroll and building a customer base. |
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Vote: | Livable neighborhoods with a vibrant street life will stimulate our economic life as well. |
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Vote: | Livable neighborhoods with a vibrant streetlife will add to San Francisco's quality of life, in addition to our economic recovery. |
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Vote: | Locally, the San Francisco cultural market is the third largest in the United States. |
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Vote: | My journey as an entrepreneur began 11 years ago when I started the PlumpJack Wine Shop. |
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Vote: | San Franciscans expect a sophisticated and lively arts culture and have proven their willingness to invest in and patronize it. |
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Vote: | San Franciscans know we live in the most beautiful city in the world, a jewel on the edge of the Golden Gate. |
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Vote: | San Francisco businesses face many challenges, including high rents, regulatory burdens, and the rising cost of workers compensation insurance and employee health plans. |
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Vote: | San Francisco can no longer afford to be a city divided between downtown and neighborhoods, with a downtown that becomes a ghost town when workers go home for the evening. |
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Vote: | San Francisco has long been a leader in the arts, nurturing generations of painters, sculptors, poets, novelists, playwrights, film-makers, and performing artists and innovators of every kind. |
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Vote: | San Francisco lags behind other communities in providing a vital, vibrant and ecologically sustainable urban canopy, as well as open space in the city. |
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Vote: | San Francisco offers a wealth of public and community resources for emerging entrepreneurs and small business owners. |
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Vote: | Street and park trees provide tremendous benefits to cities. |
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Vote: | The 21st Century has begun as an era of uncertainty, with a heightened focus on security and public safety. |
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Vote: | The arts can play a vital role in revitalizing neighborhoods, using and improving vacant space, bringing new jobs and new sense of opportunity, and improving public safety by generating more foot traffic and more eyes on the street. |
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Vote: | The arts give us our identity as a community; they also draw new people, fresh visions, and renewable economic opportunity to our community. |
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Vote: | The time has come to renew our funding commitment to affordable housing for those San Franciscans most in need. |
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Vote: | The U.S. Geological Survey estimates there is a 67% chance a major earthquake will occur in the Bay Area in the next 30 years. |
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Vote: | The value of an arts education is widely accepted, especially in California. |
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Vote: | We can build new housing while preserving the quality and character of adjacent residential districts and ensuring infill development strengthens the surrounding neighborhood. |
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Gavin Christopher Newsom (born October 10, 1967) is the 42nd Mayor of San Francisco, California. He was elected mayor on December 9, 2003, succeeding Willie Brown. Newsom was inaugurated as the mayor of San Francisco on January 8, 2004.
Newsom was born in San Francisco, but raised primarily in Marin County. He graduated from Santa Clara University in 1989 with a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science. In December 2001 he married Kimberly Guilfoyle Newsom, a former attorney for the San Francisco District Attorney's office and former model who is currently a legal analyst and commentator who appears on television networks including Court TV, CNN, and MSNBC. She is based in New York City, having moved there shortly after he was sworn into office. Mrs. Newsom caused an amusing controversy in October 2004 when remarks and gestures she made at a gay rights dinner suggested that her husband is very well-endowed and would never cheat on her because of her skill at oral sex (she made no denials of her husband's endowment, but claims she never meant to imply oral sex). However, on January 7, 2005 the couple jointly filed for divorce, citing difficulties due to their careers on opposite coasts.
Gavin Newsom's first taste of public office was in 1996 when he was appointed President of San Francisco's Parking and Traffic Commission. Later in 1996, he was appointed to fill a vacant seat on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors. Voters re-elected him to the Board of Supervisors in 1998, 2000 and 2002. He gained public attention for his role in advocating reform of the city's beleaguered Municipal Railway (Muni). He sponsored a ballot measure from the transit riders group Rescue Muni; a version of the measure was approved by voters in November 1999.
Aside from public service, Newsom has built several successful businesses in northern California. He is a partner/owner of the PlumpJack Wine Shop (his first business, opened in 1992), the PlumpJack Cafe, the Balboa Cafe, the Matrix/Fillmore, the Squaw Valley Inn, and the PlumpJack Management Group.
Newsom, a Democrat, ran for mayor in 2003, finishing first in the November general election with 42% of the vote, but because he did not receive a majority, he was forced into a December runoff against President of the Board of Supervisors and Green Party member Matt Gonzalez, which Newsom won with 53% of the vote. During the runoff campaign, Newsom — accused of being excessively pro-big business by his Green opponents — was endorsed by former U.S. Vice President Al Gore and former U.S. President Bill Clinton (Michael Moore, however, endorsed Gonzalez, characterizing Newsom as "a Republican masquerading as a Democrat" in a speech Moore gave during a visit to San Francisco). Newsom campaigned on a pledge to crack down on the city's notorious homeless problem, adopting much of the same agenda pursued by Rudolph Giuliani in New York City a decade earlier; the centerpiece of Newsom's reform proposals was known as "Care Not Cash," which substituted direct aid in the form of rent vouchers, etc., for cash payments heretofore made to indigents under the state's General Assistance program. Implementation of Care Not Cash began on July 1, 2004.
Meanwhile, Newsom gained international attention in February 2004 when he ordered county workers to change marriage certificate application documents to allow for same-sex marriage, which are not recognized by the state under voter-approved Proposition 22. Because of this order, on February 12, 2004, 50 gay and lesbian couples became some of the first in the United States to receive official government-sanctioned marriage licenses recognizing their relationships, and about 4,000 same-sex couples were married in San Francisco until the weddings were stopped by the California Supreme Court on March 11. (See Same-sex marriage in the United States for more information.) Some prominent Democrats such as Senator (and former San Francisco mayor) Dianne Feinstein and Representative Barney Frank speculated that Newsom's actions helped doom the party's Presidential candidate, John Kerry, but Newsom rebuffs any such finger-pointing, saying that national security issues and Kerry's campaign themes were the real reasons for defeat, not gay marriage. In fact, Newsom used a rally marking the one-year anniversary of the "Winter of Love" to rip Feinstein for her comment that the marriages were "too much, too fast, too soon," saying, "It is no longer acceptable for politicians to come to you every electoral cycle and ask you for money and then turn around and say, 'It's too much, too soon.'" Newsom also blasted New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg for giving his verbal support to gay marriage at the same time he was appealing a February 2005 ruling that struck down New York state's gay marriage ban as unconstitutional, and led the crowd in a chant of "Shame on you, George Bush."
On June 1, 2005, a tape was released of San Fransisco 49ers' PR director Kevin Reynolds impersonating Newsom and making not-so-subtle jabs at the mayor's same-sex marriage stance and personal character. As the video was supposed to help the 49ers learn diversity training, Newsom had given advance permission for some scenes to be filmed in his office. Newsom denounced the tape for its anti-Asian, anti-gay images and will insist on seeing the content of a project before allowing any project to film inside City Hall.
External links *Official website of the Office of San Francisco mayor
*About Gavin Newsom - profile from SFGov
*"Gavin Newsom: The First Year" — from the San Francisco Chronicle, January 2, 2005
*Profile of Gavin Newsom — from the San Francisco Chronicle, December 7, 2003
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