SF Politics Newsom Now Trying to Court Right-Wing Dudebros So He Can Run For President In his first episode of his transparently dudebro-courting podcast, Gavin Newsom has decided to jump over and join the conservative argument against trans athletes in sports.
SF Politics Gavin Newsom Now Facing Eighth (!) Futile Recall Attempt, But This Time Mel Gibson Is Involved Get ready for the eighth attempt to recall Governor Gavin Newsom in his six years in office, a recall attempt that just kicked off today, but maybe having the washed-up Mel Gibson on board will help this one make the ballot and lose by 25 percentage points again.
SF News Now Gavin Newsom Claims California Has Eliminated Its Budget Deficit, Is Back in Surplus Times Governor Gavin Newsom says last year’s $68 million budget deficit is now completely erased, and he claims the state is running a surplus again, though he won’t say how much of a surplus.
SF News Good News for Newsom, as California Deficit Slashed From $68 Billion to Just $2 Billion What a difference a year makes, as the state’s Legislative Analyst Office said early last December that California had a $68 billion budget deficit, but now that deficit is down to just $2 billion.
SF Politics Katie Porter for Governor? Poll Suggests She Might Do Well Congresswoman Katie Porter, who is not running for reelection in her purple Southern California district following her unsuccessful run for Senate, is hinting she would consider running for governor in 2026.
SF Politics Newsom Signs Off on Bill Allowing One Tiny, Rich-Person Club to Serve Booze Until 4AM Various competing interests have killed multiple bills in the California legislature over the last decade that would have allowed specific cities to grant licenses for liquor service past the longtime 2 am cutoff. But one LA assemblymember has gotten one tiny carve-out passed in her district.
SF Politics Newsom Says He’ll Yank Counties’ Funding If They Don’t Clear Homeless Encampments Aggressively Enough Governor Gavin Newsom is ratcheting up the threat level toward California cities and counties on the homeless encampment front, now saying he’ll cut their funding if they aren’t more aggressive in clearing encampments.
SF Politics Trump Mixes Up Willie Brown and Jerry Brown In Helicopter Story, Newsom Says Willie Brown calls bullshit on Trump's story about sharing a bumpy helicopter ride, but it turns out Trump did ride in a helicopter once with a California politician named Brown.
SF News Newsom Orders State Agencies to Clear Homeless Encampments En Masse in Wake of Supreme Court Ruling Governor Gavin Newsom just issued an executive order that would represent the largest homeless encampment sweep effort in the nation since the Supreme Court handed down their decision that cities can ban sleeping outdoors.
SF Politics SFist Turns 20: The San Francisco Scandals That Made This Website What It Is As SFist celebrates its 20th anniversary, we remember the ridiculous San Francisco City Hall scandals that made us a go-to destination for salacious political gossip and mockery in our early days.
SF News In Goodwill Gesture, Gavin Newsom Sending More Than 60 State Police to Republican Convention In the wake of Saturday’s assassination attempt on Donald Trump, Governor Gavin Newsom is sending five dozen Highway Patrol and state police officers to help keep the calm at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee.
SF Politics Governor Newsom Abruptly Revokes That State Assistance He Offered to Alameda County DA Pamela Price In a very public rebuke of Alameda County DA Pamela Price, Governor Gavin Newsom has suddenly yanked the extra state attorneys he’d offered to Price, saying, “Your office has yet to make use of these resources.”
SF Politics Newsom Heads to Washington For Governors' Meeting With Biden Amid widespread talk of Governor Gavin Newsom being a potential replacement candidate should President Biden decide not to run again in November, Newsom and a group of Democratic governors are headed to D.C. for a Wednesday evening sit-down with the President.
SF Politics After Biden’s Debate Train Wreck, Both Newsom and Harris Insist They’re Not Replacing Him With President Joe Biden giving probably the worst debate performance in modern history Thursday night, the two leading “Break glass in case of emergency” candidates, Kamala Harris and Gavin Newsom, are both holding firm that they won't step into his spot.
SF Politics Gavin Newsom Moving His Family From Sacramento to Marin County Governor Gavin Newsom is becoming a Marin County resident again, part-time at least, while he keeps his Sacramento home in the state capital, but his four kids will be attending Marin County schools.
SF News Gavin Newsom Throwing Around That $6 Billion Mental Health Bond Money Early After his $6.4 billion mental health bond measure just barely squeaked by with voters in March, Governor Newsom will begin disbursing half of it on July 1, and has combative words to the effect that counties better jump on it fast.
SF News Gavin Newsom Trumpets Record California Tourism Spending; Critics Say It’s Just Driven by Inflation California Governor Gavin Newsom climbed atop the Golden Gate Bridge to tout the supposedly record-breaking $150 billion tourism dollars spent statewide in 2023, but cynics point out that may just be because of inflation-driven higher prices.
SF News Newsom Says Highway Patrol Has Seized 42 Pounds of Fentanyl In the Tenderloin Alone This Past Year One year into Governor Newsom sending California Highway Patrol officers into SF in a fentanyl crackdown, he’s touting that they’ve seized 42 pounds of fentanyl just in the Tenderloin, and insists that crime is down significantly in SF.
SF News Newsom’s Highly Touted CARE Court Has Seen Only 22 Referrals In SF In Its First Six Months Gavin Newsom ordered SF to start compelling severely mentally ill people into CARE Court back on October 1. But now six months into the program, it’s only served 22 people.
SF News Newsom Announces He’s Putting 480 More Street Cameras Up In Oakland to Go After Suspected Criminals A new batch of 480 car-surveilling security cameras are going up on the streets and highways of Oakland, in Gavin Newsom’s latest effort to crack down on Oakland crime.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Gavin Newsom’s Prop 1 Finally Passes — Just Barely A Swiss company has bought up a large Genentech facility in Vacaville; storms will make Tahoe roads treacherous this weekend; and Gavin Newsom’s Prop 1 can finally declare victory by a mere two-tenths of a percentage point.
SF Politics Newsom Team Does Quick Cleanup After Story, Says Panera Bread Not Exempt From Minimum Wage Law After a Bloomberg story suggested Governor Gavin Newsom was guilty of cronyism in carving out an exception for a friend to California's minimum-wage law, his team has come out swinging and he's issued a vehement denial.
SF News Leap Day Around the Bay: Gavin Newsom Now Says Panera Won’t Be Exempt From Minimum Wage Law UC Berkeley spent nearly $7 million to clear protesters out of People’s Park; the next ‘Star Wars’ movie will be shot entirely in California; and Gavin Newsom is responding to blowback by saying Panera won’t be exempt from an upcoming minimum wage increase.
SF Politics Sigh, Republican Group Trying to Recall Governor Gavin Newsom Yet Again The same group that blew $276 million in taxpayer money on the 2021 attempt to recall Gavin Newsom, only to get clobbered by 25 percentage points, has served papers for their attempt to recall Newsom yet again.
SF Politics Gavin Newsom on a Blitz Pushing Prop 1, a Statewide $6.4B Mental Health Bond Remember Gavin’s Newsom’s old “Care Not Cash” phrase? He’s dusting off that rhetoric with the new phrase “Treatment Not Tents,” in hopes of pushing California voters to pass his $6.38 billion mental health bond.
