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Gavin, Gavin, we love you!’

Deborah Friedell: Will Newsom run?, 4 June 2026

Young Man in a Hurry: A Memoir of Discovery 
by Gavin Newsom.
Bodley Head, 291 pp., £25, March, 978 1 84792 946 4
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... The Gettys​ were one of the richest families in the world, and Gavin Newsom’s father was their ‘consigliere’. In 1973, when John Paul Getty III was kidnapped by the Calabrian mafia, it fell to Bill Newsom to fly to Italy to get him back. At first he suspected that his godson – ‘Little Paul’, a trust fund kid locked out of his trust – might have staged his own abduction, but changed his mind when an Italian newspaper received Paul’s severed ear in the post ...

Short Cuts

Aziz Huq: Gerrymandering, 23 October 2025

... the redistricting.Democratic states have threatened to retaliate. In California, Governor Gavin Newsom has scheduled a special election on Proposition 50, which would temporarily suspend the state’s independent redistricting commission, making it possible for the Democratic legislature to flip five Republican seats (43 of California’s 52 ...

Testing Woes

Jonathan Flint, 6 May 2021

... in Silicon Valley and elsewhere weren’t slow to notice). The governor of California, Gavin Newsom, issued an executive order suspending certification and licensing requirements for any researcher with relevant skills and an authorised laboratory to run Covid-19 tests.Geneticists love this sort of challenge. We’ve been processing ...

Diary

Meehan Crist: California Burns, 21 November 2019

... are hiring their own private firefighters, at a cost of around $2500 a day. When the governor, Gavin Newsom, held a press conference about the Kincade Fire and insisted that ‘this is not the new normal,’ I understood that to mean he’s working on the PG&E problem. But I also wondered if he knows what he’s talking ...

Not a Tough Crowd

Christian Lorentzen: Among the Democrats, 12 September 2024

... backdrop of ruthless, money-soaked California politics. He traces her on-and-off alliance with Gavin Newsom, now governor of California and previously Brown’s successor as mayor of San Francisco, who with Harris administered the country’s first gay marriages; her rivalry with his ex-wife, Kimberly Guilfoyle, now the fiancée of Donald Trump ...

In the Shadow of Silicon Valley

Rebecca Solnit: Losing San Francisco, 8 February 2024

... city’s real (but hardly unique) fentanyl crisis. On a TV debate in November between former mayor Gavin Newsom (now governor of California) and Ron DeSantis (far-right governor of Florida and failed candidate for the Republican nomination), DeSantis brandished a (made-up) map of human excrement in San Francisco that was supposed to clinch his ...

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