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...system of taxation. Schwarzenegger is pushing for a gargantuan water-sharing agreement that could help prevent the state from running dry. And his potential successors are also formidable go-getters with forward-thinking credentials - including former governor and current attorney general Jerry Brown, golden-boy San Francisco mayor Gavin Newsom and former eBay CEO Meg Whitman. Brown, the early front runner, was widely mocked as Governor Moonbeam back in the 1970s, but some of his ideas - including energy efficiency, as well as the emergency-communications satellite that inspired his nickname - no longer seem so flaky. (Download a PDF on California...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why California is Still America?s Future | 10/23/2009 | See Source »

...think he was somewhat of a zealot. I don't have a problem with him pushing an agenda; it's the way he did it.' MIKE THOMAS, a doughnut-shop owner in Bay County, Florida, criticizing Dr. Jason Newsom's antiobesity campaign's slogan AMERICA DIES ON DUNKIN...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Verbatim | 8/31/2009 | See Source »

...have never been known for my subtlety.' NEWSOM, who was forced to resign as the county's health-department director over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Verbatim | 8/31/2009 | See Source »

...initiative mess, the Bay Area Council, a 64-year-old San Francisco--area business lobby, has proposed a new California constitutional convention, an idea backed by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, 2010 gubernatorial candidates Meg Whitman, Gavin Newsom and Jerry Brown and, polls suggest, two-thirds of voters. The 1879 state constitution is the third longest in the world, and it has more than 500 amendments. But to gather this convention, Bay Area Council CEO Jim Wunderman has to put an initiative on the 2010 ballot. "It's ironic, right? We need an initiative," he says, "to get rid of the initiative...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Joel Stein on California's State of Insanity | 6/8/2009 | See Source »

...civil rights struggle, gains are made by spectacular boldness, and Newsom was spectacularly bold." - Kate Kendell, a gay rights activist, on Newsom's decision to let same-sex couples get married in San Francisco, The New Yorker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom | 4/23/2009 | See Source »

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