Gavin Newsom
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Gavin Christopher Newsom is an American politician and businessman currently serving as the 40th governor of California, a position he has held since January 2019. A member of the Democratic Party, Newsom previously served as the mayor of San Francisco from 2004 to 2011 and as the lieutenant governor of California from 2011 to 2019. His tenure as governor has been marked by significant policy initiatives, including efforts to address climate change, housing affordability, and healthcare reform.
California has some of the most biodiverse environments in the world—with over 5,500 plants, animals, and other life forms.
I hope that my home state of California can show the rest of the country what is possible by fully abolishing its death penalty.
You know, I'm going to take care of the forest and maintain the forest, all of that kind of stuff.
The incoming storm could bring an increased risk of power outages, flooding in small streams and low-lying areas, and debris, rocks and mudslides on roadways.
The Governor is mobilizing state personnel and resources to support communities and help prevent mudslides and debris flows in burn scar areas.
The funding will assist legal groups in safeguarding the civil rights of California’s most vulnerable residents.
Federal firefighters are the backbone of protecting public safety and putting fires out in the state of California.
The Governor expressed his appreciation for the Trump Administration's early collaboration and specifically thanked EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin for his agency's swift action, including over 1,000 personnel on the ground focused on debris…
Thank you President Trump for coming to our communities to see this first hand, and meeting with me today to continue our joint efforts to support people impacted.
We're working across the aisle, as we always have, to ensure survivors have the resources and support they need.
As we approach one month since the devastating wildfires across Southern California, we continue to cut red tape to speed up recovery and clean up efforts as well as ensure rebuilding efforts are swift.
Thank you for being here. It means a great deal to all of us and not just the folks in Palisades, the folks in Altadena that were devastated. We're going to need your support. We're going to need your help.
It's a little different world now, today, with batteries, not just car batteries, but battery packs, people with solar, those Tesla wall batteries and the like. So the hazmat side of this is made a little bit more complicated.
We need answers to ensure this does not happen again. And we have every resource available to fight these catastrophic fires.
Local folks are trying to figure that out. I mean, just when you have a system where it's not dissimilar to what we've seen in other extraordinarily large-scale fires, whether it be pipe, electricity, or whether it just be the complete…
I don't know what is going on with this water issue. Obviously, that's something that that officials here have to look into and figure out.
I stood next to a president of the United States of America today, and I was proud to be with Joe Biden. And he had the backs of every single person in this community. He didn't play politics, didn't try to divide any of us.





