Claim: “While California is dying … Gavin (Newsom) is vacationing in Stevensville, MT!”
Verdict: REFUTES

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title: Gavin Newsom
text: out of San Francisco and bought a house in Kentfield, California, in Marin County. Gavin Newsom Gavin Christopher Newsom (born October 10, 1967) is an American politician and businessman who is the Governor-elect of California. A member of the Democratic Party, he has been the 49th Lieutenant Governor of California since 2011, and previously served as the 42nd Mayor of San Francisco from 2004 to 2011. He will be sworn in as the 40th Governor of California on January 7, 2019. He is a national progressive figure who was a prominent early advocate for same-sex marriage, immigrant rights, universal health

title: Gavin Newsom
text: Gavin Newsom Gavin Christopher Newsom (born October 10, 1967) is an American politician and businessman who is the Governor-elect of California. A member of the Democratic Party, he has been the 49th Lieutenant Governor of California since 2011, and previously served as the 42nd Mayor of San Francisco from 2004 to 2011. He will be sworn in as the 40th Governor of California on January 7, 2019. He is a national progressive figure who was a prominent early advocate for same-sex marriage, immigrant rights, universal health care, gun control, and the legalization of cannabis. Newsom attended Redwood High School, and

title: The Gavin Newsom Show
text: to his spokesman "The Gavin Newsom Show was a great opportunity for which he is grateful," spokesman Peter Ragone said in a prepared statement. "The lieutenant governor's's original agreement with Current is set to expire this month and he had already decided on moving in a new direction." According to his spokesman the departure was unrelated to Current's acquisition by Al Jazeera Media Network which happened around the same time. The Gavin Newsom Show The Gavin Newsom Show was a weekly one-hour talk show hosted by the Lieutenant Governor of California, Gavin Newsom, and airing on San Francisco-based Current TV.

title: William Newsom
text: in the bathtub. Newsom was married to Tessa in 1966 and their son Gavin was born the next year; a daughter followed in 1968. Newsom was divorced shortly afterwards and Tessa died in 2002. In 2004 he administered the oath of office to Gavin upon his appointment as mayor of San Francisco. Newsom died on December 12, 2018, at his home, in San Francisco, California. He was 84 years old. William Newsom William Alfred Newsom III (February 15, 1934 – December 12, 2018) was an American state appeals court judge, administrator of the Getty family trust, and the father of

title: The Gavin Newsom Show
text: The Gavin Newsom Show The Gavin Newsom Show was a weekly one-hour talk show hosted by the Lieutenant Governor of California, Gavin Newsom, and airing on San Francisco-based Current TV. The show featured one-on-one interviews with notable residents of California, past guests including Marissa Mayer and Sergey Brin. Mia Haugen, a former executive at The Street, Forbes and CNN, was the executive producer. It was According to Newsom, "a political show without politicians. Meaning, I'm in politics, I'm on a network that's dominantly political, and I happen to believe, firmly, that for politics to change, public policy needs to change,

title: William Newsom
text: the ransom money for the release of John Paul Getty III. In 1967, he married Tessa Menzies, and had two children (including Gavin) before divorcing after five years. In 1968, he ran unsuccessfully against State Senator Milton Marks, a popular Republican. In 1975, Jerry Brown appointed Newsom to the Superior Court bench in Auburn (Placer County) and later to the state Court of Appeal in San Francisco, where he served until his retirement in 1995. In this role he ruled on several prominent cases including the right of privacy for sufferers of HIV, the liability of the San Francisco 49ers

title: Gavin Newsom
text: Show" on Current TV, and wrote the 2013 book "Citizenville". Gavin Christopher Newsom was born in San Francisco, California, to Tessa Thomas (née Menzies) and William Alfred Newsom III, a state appeals court justice and attorney for Getty Oil. He is a fourth-generation San Franciscan. His father is of mostly Irish descent; one of Newsom's maternal great-grandfathers, Scotsman Thomas Addis, was a pioneer scientist in the field of nephrology and a professor of medicine at Stanford University. Newsom is the second cousin, twice removed, of musician Joanna Newsom. Newsom's parents separated when he was two, and divorced in 1972. At

title: Gavin Newsom
text: union members on a picket line in front of the Westin St. Francis Hotel. He vowed that the city would boycott the hotels by not sponsoring city events in any until the hotels agreed to a contract with workers. The contract dispute was settled in September 2006. In 2005, Newsom pushed for a state law to allow communities in California to create policy restricting certain breeds of dogs. He requested that then state senator Jackie Speier introduce a change to then-existing California law, which stated that counties could not target specific breeds of dog. The animal control agency under his

title: Mayoralty of Gavin Newsom
text: are terminally ill; after an investigation by the San Francisco City attorney; however, Newsom and all those involved were later cleared of legal wrongdoing. Newsom apologized for the affair at a news conference on February 1, 2007, saying, "I hurt someone I care deeply about, Alex Tourk, his friends and family, and that is something that I have to live with and something that I am deeply sorry for." After being approached by concerned colleagues, he announced that he would seek treatment for alcohol abuse. Newsom later said that the difficult times during the exposing of the affair refocused him

title: William Newsom
text: William Newsom William Alfred Newsom III (February 15, 1934 – December 12, 2018) was an American state appeals court judge, administrator of the Getty family trust, and the father of former San Francisco Mayor, current Lieutenant Governor of California, and Governor-elect of California Gavin Newsom. Newsom was born in San Francisco, California, the son of Christine Anne (née Brennan) and William A. Newsom II. He was known as Bill to all friends and family. A lifelong San Franciscan, Newsom had longstanding political and financial ties. His father ran the Pat Brown campaign for San Francisco district attorney, who then later

title: Gavin Newsom
text: 2004. He maintained his ownership in the PlumpJack companies outside San Francisco that included the PlumpJack Winery in Oakville, California, new PlumpJack-owned Cade Winery in Angwin, California, and the PlumpJack Squaw Valley Inn. He is currently the president in absentia of Airelle Wines Inc., which is connected to the PlumpJack Winery in Napa County. Newsom earned between $141,000 and $251,000 in 2007 from his business interests. In February 2006, he paid $2,350,000 for his residence in the Russian Hill neighborhood, which he put on the market in April 2009, for $2,995,000. Newsom's first political experience came when he volunteered for

title: Mayoralty of Gavin Newsom
text: Hawaii during the 2007 San Francisco Bay oil spill. Newsom defended his decision to continue with his three-day vacation plans, claiming that he was in constant contact with his aides and that other agencies were overseeing the crisis. In February 2008, Newsom and Peskin's back and forth actions and comments led the Chronicle to conclude that the two were in a "war of words". Newsom has also been criticized by opponents of gay marriage for legalizing gay marriage in San Francisco. He was criticized by conservative pundits for issuing a proclamation to honor Colt Studio Group, a gay porn studio.

title: Gavin Newsom
text: also supported failed Proposition 62 in 2016, which also would have repealed the death penalty in California. He argued that Prop 62 would get rid of a system "that is administered with troubling racial disparities". He also stated that the death penalty was fundamentally immoral and did not deter crime. On February 11, 2015, Newsom announced that he was opening a campaign account for governor in the 2018 elections, allowing him to raise funds for a campaign to succeed Jerry Brown as the fortieth Governor of California. On June 5, 2018, he finished in the top two of the non-partisan

title: Gavin Newsom
text: graduated from Santa Clara University. After graduation, he founded the PlumpJack wine store with family friend Gordon Getty as an investor. The PlumpJack Group grew to manage 23 businesses, including wineries, restaurants, and hotels. Newsom began his political career in 1996, when San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown appointed him to serve on the city's Parking and Traffic Commission, and as a member of the Board of Supervisors the following year. Newsom was formerly married to former Fox News on-air personality Kimberly Guilfoyle, and has four young children with his second wife, film-maker Jennifer Siebel Newsom. He hosted "The Gavin Newsom

title: Jennifer Siebel Newsom
text: on helping indigenous populations and creating business enterprise opportunities for women. Newsom is the second wife of former San Francisco Mayor and current Lieutenant Governor of California Gavin Newsom. Jennifer met Gavin on a blind date set up by a mutual friend at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in October 2006. The couple announced their engagement in January 2008. Jennifer and Gavin wed in July of the same year at her parents' ranch in Stevensville, Montana. It was Jennifer's first marriage and Gavin's second. In September 2009, she gave birth to a daughter, Montana Tessa Siebel Newsom. Newsom

title: Gavin Newsom
text: age ten, Newsom moved with his mother and sister to nearby Marin County. In May 2002, he assisted in his mother's own suicide ("we gave her the drugs") following a five-year fight with breast cancer. While Newsom later reflected that he did not have an easy childhood, he attended kindergarten and first grade at the French American bilingual school in San Francisco. He eventually transferred because of severe dyslexia that still affects him. His dyslexia has made it difficult for him to write, spell, read and work with numbers. He attended third through fifth grades at Notre Dame des Victoires,

title: Oregon (Awake)
text: move to Oregon. The episode opens in the "red reality" (where Hannah is alive and Rex is not from the car accident), and Michael Britten (Jason Isaacs) is jogging around Los Angeles. When Michael gets home, he talks to his wife Hannah (Laura Allen), who is in Oregon looking at a university. Later in the "green reality" (where Rex is alive and Hannah is not), Michael and Rex (Dylan Minnette) are stuck in traffic, and Michael is later called into work. His partner in the "green reality", Isaiah "Bird" Freeman (Steve Harris) talks to Michael, then Michael goes for a

title: Gavin Newsom
text: has a "strong sense of faith that is perennial: day in and day out". In December 2001, Newsom married Kimberly Guilfoyle, a former San Francisco prosecutor and legal commentator for Court TV, CNN, and MSNBC and later became a prominent personality on Fox News Channel. The couple married at Saint Ignatius Catholic Church on the campus of the University of San Francisco, where Guilfoyle attended law school. The couple appeared in the September 2004 issue of "Harper's Bazaar", a fashion magazine, in a spread of them at the Getty Villa with the title the "New Kennedys". In January 2005, they

title: Gavin Newsom
text: and the highest Republican registration in San Francisco. In 2000, Newsom paid $500 to the San Francisco Republican Party to be on the party's endorsement slate. As a San Francisco Supervisor, Newsom gained public attention for his role in advocating reform of the city's Municipal Railway ("Muni"). He was one of two supervisors endorsed by Rescue Muni, a transit riders group, in his 1998 re-election. He sponsored Proposition B to require Muni and other city departments to develop detailed customer service plans. The measure passed with 56.6% of the vote. Newsom sponsored a ballot measure from Rescue Muni; a version

title: Gavin Newsom
text: up in jail were now being housed and treated. In 2004, Newsom gained national attention when he directed the San Francisco city–county clerk to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples, in violation of the then-current state law. In August 2004, the Supreme Court of California annulled the marriages that Newsom had authorized, as they conflicted with state law at that time. Still, Newsom's unexpected move brought national attention to the issues of gay marriage, solidifying political support for Newsom in San Francisco and in the gay community. During the 2008 election, Newsom was a prominent and vocal opponent of Proposition