Gavin Newsom
40th Governor of California since 2019
Gavin Christopher Newsom (born 10 October 1967) is an American politician and businessman serving as the 40th governor of California since 2019. A member of the Democratic Party, he previously served as the 49th lieutenant governor of California from 2011 to 2019 and as the 42nd mayor of San Francisco from 2004 to 2011.
Quotes
edit- It is called a genocide. That's what it was... No other way to describe it and that's the way it needs to be described in the history books. And so I'm here to say the following: I'm sorry on behalf of the state of California... It's humbling for me, having believed I was educated, to have been so ignorant of our past, to have been so unaware of how ashamed I should be, as a Californian, 5th generation... I'm sorry that we've had generations of your kids and grandkids, your ancestors, that have had to suffer through indignities, lack of capacity, empathy and understanding...
- CEO of Target Brian Cornell selling out the LGBTQ+ community to extremists is a real profile in courage. This isn’t just a couple stores in the South. There is a systematic attack on the gay community happening across the country. Wake up America. This doesn’t stop here. You’re black? You’re Asian? You’re Jewish? You’re a woman? You’re next.
- Quoted in "Newsom knocks Target CEO for pulling LGBTQ merchandise from stores". The Hill. May 24, 2023.
- "Look, I'm a progressive, but more is not better. Better is better. We need to hold ourselves to higher level of accountability and reforming the Old Mental Health Services act, which is a point of pride in California, but no longer is relevant to the world we're living in."
- "I don't know one state, if DeSantis stuck it out that he can win, not one."
