Question: Which Lieutenant Governor of California issued proclamations for "Exotic Erotic Ball Day" in San Francisco? 
Context: The Brandeis School of San Francisco, or Brandeis, is an independent, co-educational, Jewish day school for students in kindergarten through eighth grade, located in the Park Merced neighborhood of San Francisco, California.  From its founding in 1963 until 1973, the school was known as Brandeis.  Following the merge with the Hillel School, the school was known as Brandeis Hillel Day School.  As of July 1, 2015, the San Francisco campus of the former Brandeis Hillel Day School is now The Brandeis School of San Francisco. In 1981, Nichidatsu Fujii dispatched his followers to march and chant around the globe in support of the U.N. 2nd.  special session for disarmament.  In the U.S. marchers began in New Orleans, L.A. and San Francisco, in Canada marchers began in Montreal and Toronto.  The San Francisco March began on Oct. 21, 1981 with a ceremony on Alcatraz.  13 marchers, being Buddhist followers of Nipponzan-Myōhōji, Native Americans, U.S. and German citizens, began the S.F. march.  marching about 20 mile per day they were hosted each night by community groups in every town and on Native reservations.  many mayors and town councils made proclamations and such honoring the peace and disarmament marchers.  Over the course of the march citizens were moved to join.  By the time they arrived in Chicago the S.F. marchers numbered about 30.  In May 1982 the group of about 40 marchers from Toronto joined the S.F. group in Buffalo N.Y. at the International Peace Bridge doubling the size of the group.  Through the state of N.Y. 10 to 20 people joined the march daily.  When the S.F. group walked across the George Washington Bridge they numbered about 300.  The groups on other march routs also grew over the 7 months.  On June 12, 1982, in Central Park Nipponzan-Myōhōji marchers from the U.S.A., Europe, Africa, and Asia, joined with mobilization for survival organizers and religious and peace groups from around the world in a peaceful demonstration for disarmament of many million people. The San Francisco plague of 1900–1904 was an epidemic of bubonic plague centered on San Francisco's Chinatown.  It was the first plague epidemic in the continental United States.  The epidemic was recognized by medical authorities in March 1900, but its existence was denied for more than two years by Henry Gage, the Governor of California.  His denial was based on business reasons: the wish to keep the reputations of San Francisco and California clean and to prevent the loss of revenue from trade stopped by quarantine.  The failure to act quickly may have allowed the disease to establish itself among local animal populations.  Federal authorities worked to build a case to prove that there was a major medical health problem, and they isolated the affected area.  Proof that an epidemic was occurring served to undermine the credibility of Gage, and he lost the governorship in the 1902 elections.  The new governor, George Pardee, quietly implemented a medical solution and the epidemic was stopped in 1904.  There were 121 cases identified, including 113 deaths. Edwin Mah Lee (, born May 5, 1952) is an American politician and attorney who is the 43rd and current Mayor of San Francisco, California.  He was appointed by the Board of Supervisors on January 11, 2011 to serve out the remainder of former mayor Gavin Newsom's term, after Newsom resigned to take office as Lieutenant Governor of California.  Lee won the election on November 8, 2011 to serve a full term as Mayor.  He was re-elected in 2015. The four authors were all friends prior to writing the book.  Jackie Speier is a Congresswoman from California, and was a candidate for Lieutenant Governor of California in 2006.  Speier survived five gunshot wounds when she was shot by members of Peoples Temple in 1978 when she traveled to Jonestown with Congressman Leo J. Ryan.  Jan Yanehiro is a broadcast journalist, and co-hosted "Evening Magazine" which aired on San Francisco's KPIX.  Yanehiro is a co-executive producer of "Pacific Fusion", a television magazine program featuring Asian American lifestyle, which airs on KRON. Gavin Christopher Newsom (born October 10, 1967) is an American politician and businessman who is the Lieutenant Governor of California since 2011, and former mayor of San Francisco.  He was a prominent early advocate for same-sex marriage and was influential in legalizing cannabis in California. John Raymond Garamendi (born January 24, 1945) is an American rancher, businessman, politician and member of the Democratic Party who has represented areas of Northern California between San Francisco and Sacramento, including the cities of Fairfield and Suisun City, in the United States House of Representatives since November 2009.  Garamendi was previously the California Insurance Commissioner from 1991 to 1995 and 2003 to 2007, the U.S. Deputy Secretary of the Interior from 1995 to 1998 and the 46th Lieutenant Governor of California from 2007 until his election to Congress. Yerba Buena was the original name of the settlement that later became San Francisco, California.  Located near the northeastern end of the San Francisco Peninsula, between the Presidio of San Francisco and the Mission San Francisco de Asís, it was originally intended as a trading post for ships visiting San Francisco Bay.  The settlement was arranged in the Spanish style around a plaza that remains as the present day Portsmouth Square. The Exotic Erotic Ball (often referred to as The Ball or Perry Mann's Exotic Erotic Ball) was held annually around Halloween time (usually the weekend before Halloween Night) in the San Francisco Bay area of California and was the longest-running public adult-themed event in the world.  Over three decades, the annual indoor event became a major attraction in the San Francisco Bay and was attended by nearly half a million people since its inception with steadily increasing growth in attendance each year until 2010, when the event was cancelled due to poor ticket sales and cost overruns.  The 2011 ball was never planned.  Due to the worldwide popularity of the event the City of San Francisco issued three proclamations for “Exotic Erotic Ball Day”, twice by Mayor Willie Brown in 1999 and again in 2001, and once by Mayor Gavin Newsom in 2004.  In 2011 and 2012, similar but unrelated events, Masquerotica and the XO Ball & Expo, respectively, filled the void left by the demise of the original Exotic Erotic. Edmund Gerald "Pat" Brown Sr. (April 21, 1905 – February 16, 1996) was an American politician and lawyer who served as the 32nd Governor of California from 1959 to 1967.  Born in San Francisco, Brown had an early interest in speaking and politics; he earned a LL.B.  degree in 1927, and subsequently began legal practice.  As district attorney for San Francisco, he was elected Attorney General of California in 1950 before becoming the state's governor in 1959.  As governor, Brown embarked on massive projects, building important infrastructure and redefined the state's higher education system.  While running twice for President in 1960 and 1964, finishing second and first in the primaries, respectively, he was never a serious contender in the national conventions.  While losing his bid for a third term in 1966 to future President Ronald Reagan, his legacy earns him regard as the builder of modern California.  His son Edmund G. "Jerry" Brown Jr. was the 34th and is currently the 39th Governor of California; his daughter, Kathleen Brown, was the 29th California State Treasurer.
Answer: Gavin Newsom