Gavin Newsom
Gavin Newsom
Gavin Christopher Newsomis an American businessman and television personality who currently serves as the 49th Lieutenant Governor of California. He is notable for hosting a television show named after him in Current TV and for his guest appearances in HBO's Real Time with Bill Maher. Newsom has been involved in controversial and high-profile relationships, including his former marriage to Fox News contributor Kimberly Guilfoyle and an infidelity scandal in 2007. His political career highlights include his advocacy for same-sex marriage...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth10 October 1967
CitySan Francisco, CA
CountryUnited States of America
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.
The value of an arts education is widely accepted, especially in California.
The arts give us our identity as a community; they also draw new people, fresh visions, and renewable economic opportunity to our community.
Cultural tourism surveys consistently rate San Francisco's art industry as a core reason for visiting
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
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.
We recognize that the arts are an essential part of San Francisco's cultural vitality.
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.
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
These are senseless inexplicable things that are beyond the pale of imagination, ... It makes you, frankly, sick to your stomach to think you live in a society where things like this could have happened.
I am disappointed but I confess I'm not particularly surprised,
My heart is heavy, ... I respectfully disagree with the Supreme Court's decision, but I respect the court and will respect the order.
I feel we are very well prepared for a disaster ... but the reality is you can never be prepared enough. Never.
The extremes are we have over 550 people in San Francisco earning over $100,000 a year, ... Principally, that's based on the ability to generate upwards of 90 percent of their salary in overtime expenditures.