Word: newsom
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...Francisco mayor Gavin Newsom defended his issuance of thousands of same-sex marriage licenses to local couples to a crowd of approximately 400 at the Institute of Politics (IOP) last night...
...California voters said they believed the state was going in the wrong direction, according to the nonpartisan Field poll. Today the figure is 38%, and 46% think things are heading upward. "There is a new sense of optimism in the state, new energy flowing from the Governor," says Gavin Newsom, the Democratic mayor of San Francisco and no automatic supporter of Schwarzenegger, who frowned on Newsom's February decision to sanction same-sex weddings in his city hall in defiance of the state...
...marijuana legal. All three filed briefs supporting Left Coast medipot users before the U.S. Supreme Court, which will hear arguments on Nov. 29 on whether patients can cultivate and possess physician-prescribed cannabis. "We happen to believe California's medical-marijuana policy is misguided," says Alabama solicitor general Kevin Newsom. "But this isn't about the drug war. It's about states' rights...
VOIDED. Nearly 4,000 SAME-SEX MARRIAGES sanctioned in San Francisco last February and March; by the California Supreme Court; in San Francisco. The court ruled unanimously that Mayor Gavin Newsom overstepped his authority by issuing licenses to gay and lesbian couples in violation of a 1977 state law that defines marriage as a union between a man and a woman...
...Thorpe, everything was going as planned until Feb. 12. On that day, Phyllis Lyon and Del Martin, who in 1955 founded the nation's first major lesbian group, exchanged vows at San Francisco city hall. Mayor Gavin Newsom, who had taken office the previous month, had ordered officials to license same-sex marriages; eventually thousands of gays showed up. Even though Newsom was acting in defiance of a California "defense of marriage" law defining marriage as one man, one woman--a law that doesn't exist in Oregon--the marriages he engineered became huge news...