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Gavin Newsom

lines on the record: 135
first: 2016-02-22
most recent: 2016-02-22
sittings or episodes: 1
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“And we didn't have it with taxi cabs. Now, I Well, there are some controversies around both Uber and Airbnb about the regulatory. And then look at Xenophots just gotten, the CEO got bounced because he was just trying to get rid of the regulatory.”
2016-02-22 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Gavin Newsom, Lieutenant Governor, California · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“No, no, I never thought of it. I was mesmerized by the fact that disruption can occur so quickly. But at the end of the day, what that was about was choice, customization. It was about competition. And we didn't have it with taxi cabs. Now, I love that. So you have a world where it's paralysis contrasted by rebirth. It's Uber versus taxicabs. Well, there are some contracts.”
2016-02-22 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Gavin Newsom, Lieutenant Governor, California · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Up the White House steps. You're all going to deny. I'm not even sure he's a real billionaire. All right. I think he's a, in any case. So you thought of it.”
2016-02-22 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Gavin Newsom, Lieutenant Governor, California · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“He can't buy your way. He doesn't. Oh, you really? You can't? It seems like you can't. No. Peers. Always for the moment, but not in high school. All right. Until he's like...”
2016-02-22 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Gavin Newsom, Lieutenant Governor, California · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, but then I would be miserable and therapy and then thinking everyone takes something from me. I didn't necessarily be fully.”
2016-02-22 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Gavin Newsom, Lieutenant Governor, California · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And does what I seven, eight years trying to disrupt that industry. Couldn't do it. This guy comes along and does it overnight. And so my point is.”
2016-02-22 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Gavin Newsom, Lieutenant Governor, California · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“No, those billboard ads they acknowledge. But yeah, there was a bunch of, well, we were involved in that campaign because. Because I support innovation. I support disruption. I mean, you know, I sat there, I chaired the taxi task force in San Francisco under Mayor Willie Brown. I created the new taxi commission. I created this thing called the MTA to merge the taxi commission because it wasn't working because I wanted cabs to get fixed. We had 400 cabs and all of a sudden Travis comes along with the damn app.”
2016-02-22 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Gavin Newsom, Lieutenant Governor, California · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And then claim to be sustainable in your value proposition. Look, I understand the frustration. They're big bustles. There are big buses and you don't have air conditioning when you get on Muni. I get all that. That's fair game. And the fact originally they weren't quote unquote paying their fair share by sitting there and taking up a lot of parking spaces. But that's been reasonably addressed over the course last few years. But I think that's a profoundly unfair debate. And I've never fully understood it, except I intimately understand it having been in the air of San Francisco 18 years and yeah, and I worked at office and I understand there's something else that's underneath all of that.”
2016-02-22 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Gavin Newsom, Lieutenant Governor, California · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“No, the debate because the idea vomiting on the bus. Well, no, the idea that you would deny buses and then encourage cars?”
2016-02-22 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Gavin Newsom, Lieutenant Governor, California · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“By the way, we were proud. It was a big deal because we worked, I was beating up Larry and Sergei for years to try to get Google to have an office in San Francisco. And it was interesting Larry was very reticent at the time of talking out of school year, but that's what you want me to do. And they finally agreed to open office here right nearby in Barcadero. And it was exactly what Larry feared. Everyone wanted to stay in San Francisco. And all of a sudden they're going to have an issue with where their workforce lies. Right. Same thing with the...”
2016-02-22 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Gavin Newsom, Lieutenant Governor, California · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“It's good to question these companies just FY. I got it, but at the time they were, but they were actually legitimately benign. They were doing no harm. Right, right. At that moment. No, I'm just kidding. They were just preparing the spaceships from the death star. They were still working. And they're very crazy.”
2016-02-22 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Gavin Newsom, Lieutenant Governor, California · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“What is free? What is really free? What is free? You couldn't question these companies just FY. I got it, but at the time they were legitimately benign. They were doing no harm.”
2016-02-22 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Gavin Newsom, Lieutenant Governor, California · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Creative and innovative. I do recall what we wanted to Wi Fi this damn city, and then it got killed by politics. One politician in particular killed it, which is a shame. That was back in 2014. Yes, I remember it.”
2016-02-22 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Gavin Newsom, Lieutenant Governor, California · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I guess we're going to leave that. You never considered a ski lift up California Street. There were a lot of conversations. Lerry and Sergei are very...”
2016-02-22 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Gavin Newsom, Lieutenant Governor, California · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“That conversation except seven or eight different times different times, a ski lifts up the hills, right? They're creative.”
2016-02-22 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Gavin Newsom, Lieutenant Governor, California · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Is still on the sky. Maybe he was misleading me. Yes, he was. But we created a connection, a database around homelessness, and he's now more involved than ever on those issues. Other tech leaders at the time were starting to contribute a little bit more, particularly on those issues. But look, at the end of the day, it's in the interest of those that want to succeed to recognize they can't succeed with the world that's failing. Meaning businesses can't thrive in a world that's failing. So you can't wall yourself off to this reality. So it's incumbent upon businesses to reconcile that world around in the context of being more contributed financially, being more contributory in terms of innovative thinking around civically-minded technology.”
2016-02-22 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Gavin Newsom, Lieutenant Governor, California · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“But we did. I mean, and Mark and I got to know each other literally when I was mayor around homeless issues. And, you know, he introduced me this thing called the cloud, which I thought was in the sky. And all of a sudden we connected. It's in the sky. It is still in the sky.”
2016-02-22 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Gavin Newsom, Lieutenant Governor, California · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Well, it just, I mean, be participatory in real time. Not wait till this moment to quote unquote give back to recognize that their success is impacting and creating some stress in the city. And I think be more engaged in trying to find ways to be more civically or contributing to it. You mayor mayor, what would you say?”
2016-02-22 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Gavin Newsom, Lieutenant Governor, California · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“No, but look, we're the center. The population of the city doubles every single day because we have, relatively speaking, big frustration to residents, but nonetheless one of the best public transit systems in the state. Go down to LA and there is no public transit. Speak of comparatively. And so we have this remarkable feeder system with Bart and obviously Caltrans and SamTrans and all these others that come into the downtown core that aid and abet the city as it relates to its daytime growth. But people, unfortunately, sleep at night elsewhere. And so how do we address that on a much more strategic sense by aligning incentives so there's more regionalism that goes to cultural attractions, not just housing issues, goes to more transportation connections, et cetera.”
2016-02-22 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Gavin Newsom, Lieutenant Governor, California · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, right? Nimbies, whatever you want to call them. But I understand it. And then San Franciscoans that love their diverse neighborhoods and like the cultural competency of each neighborhood and don't want to see every commercial district have 25 story buildings. So that then by definition requires a more regional consideration as it relates to meaning put everyone in Oakland?”
2016-02-22 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Gavin Newsom, Lieutenant Governor, California · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“San Francisco Everybody wants to be, and including these people. They don't want it to change either, right? So we say, well, build more housing, and we can. And by the way, when I left, we had rezoned Treasure Island. We rezoned Baby Hunter's Point for 3,000 units and Transbay Terminal, which everybody goes downtown and frustrated by the traffic. It's a big reason why for all the housing around that. So we did some big things, but at the end of the day, if you want to get serious about housing in San Francisco, then it's a density question. And the question is, okay, can we build up? And who wants to build on the waterfront? No one. Well, that's my view. That's what makes San Francisco special. You're going to build all around Golden Gate Park.”
2016-02-22 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Gavin Newsom, Lieutenant Governor, California · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“During my one year absence. And yet Which So, it's not just San Francisco. Can it be because it is 49 screw? It's like a very contained area that everybody wants to be, and including these people. People don't want it to change either, right? So we say we'll”
2016-02-22 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Gavin Newsom, Lieutenant Governor, California · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Highest inclusionary housing set aside, meaning if you develop something in San Francisco, you'll have to pay a higher percentage of the construction costs for affordable housing than any big city in the country, maybe save one or two. We have rent control. All these things are things you would traditionally do to address the concerns of the stress of the macroeconomic success. And yet it's still not good enough. Which begs the question, what can a city do? You can't do everything. And that's why I think the biggest thing that's missing in the debate around quote unquote San Francisco is you've got to begin to regionalize these solutions as it relates to housing, as it relates to the broader issues of improving a regional sense of vibrancy and dressing them.”
2016-02-22 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Gavin Newsom, Lieutenant Governor, California · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“It's impossible for me to be objective here. I completely will just so whatever I say know that this was my city administrator who I helped orchestrate getting in during my one-year absence when that extended year in my term before I left Lieutenant Governor. He has chief of staff, was my chief of staff, and the administration's pretty much the same. So I'm a friend and I am a fan. And he's, I think, doing the best he can under very difficult times. The problem is, look, success at this scale, the macroeconomic success is so much bigger than the toolkit that a mayor has. There's only so much you can possibly do. Think about this. If our response to social strife and our response to income inequality is to increase minimum wage, well, there's no sitting in the country that's done that degree we have. If it's to provide more workplace safety as it relates to paid sick leave, no city has done what we've done. Universal preschool, universal after school, we're the only city in the United States with universal health care for all residents, including undocumented residents.”
2016-02-22 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Gavin Newsom, Lieutenant Governor, California · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Things on the retail side of things, but also as a lifelong resident, you know, a lot of businesses that have been around through earthquakes and booms and busts 100 plus years can't survive success right now because of the markets.”
2016-02-22 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Gavin Newsom, Lieutenant Governor, California · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And so it's a wonderful way to describe a city. It's always been on the leading and cutting edge, a city of dreamers and doers, of entrepreneurs, of innovators. So we've always had that spirit. And you've got to think back the history of the city. It was a small fishing village. 20,000 people till the discovery of gold and hundreds of thousands of people came from all over the world for riches and new beginnings. So that's part of the DNA. That's part of our proud past. It's got an international flare, but it's a city that really, at the end of the day, prides itself on being constantly in the future business, being on the edge. And its values are important to it. So when the values are attacked by success, when success becomes the biggest stress, then people are anxious because they feel you're losing that diversity, socioeconomic diversity, not just ethnic diversity. And that's a legitimate concern. I'm a fifth generation San Francisco, and I've seen that. And I participated in it as a business person. I've got 21 small businesses, seven or eight in San Francisco. And so I understand it from the commercial side of it.”
2016-02-22 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Gavin Newsom, Lieutenant Governor, California · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Ever since technically. At the end of the day, San Francisco, I mean, we lost a member of the Jefferson airplane last week who famously said San Francisco's 49 square mile city surrounded by reality.”
2016-02-22 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Gavin Newsom, Lieutenant Governor, California · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Voted on it. We're all kicked. I mean, it was really a referendum on what was going on in the city and the stress and frustration people had that it was too much, too soon, too fast in arts organizations were being moved out and rents were going up. A lot of the issues that we're addressing today, but again, the politics changed. Willie Brown had a difficult reelection against a writing candidate. The Planning Commission changed. The Board of Appeals changed. A lot of things fundamentally changed. But at the end of the day, the city ultimately recovered after the bust settled in. But now we're seeing contours of something that's more sustainable. We're not seeing the political change as much as we're seeing the nature of San Francisco begin to subsequently change. What is that?”
2016-02-22 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Gavin Newsom, Lieutenant Governor, California · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Well, it's interesting. I would go back even further. I was on the board of supervisors in the 1990s, so we experienced a lot of the dot-com boom bust and a lot of the justification concerns. The city radically changed when Mayor Willie Brown was in office politically. And people forget that. I mean, the Board of Supervisors, which I was a member, I lost four colleagues because they were kicked out of office. Mayor Brown.”
2016-02-22 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Gavin Newsom, Lieutenant Governor, California · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“The big Just right near the end, we started to see it. When Zynga opened there at quarters, Mark Beneoff was trying to find any space he possibly could. He was looking to do the major expansion. Twitter was no longer quote unquote, just a sound. People started realize there was something real here. In fact, they started to look elsewhere outside of San Francisco. And we entered into negotiations to create a tax break, which ultimately materialized after I left. So the embers of the industry were certainly taking place.”
2016-02-22 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Gavin Newsom, Lieutenant Governor, California · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“That's the goal here. Things Seven years. Seven years. Yeah, two terms I left a year early. What year was that? That was until four to whatever, 10.”
2016-02-22 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Gavin Newsom, Lieutenant Governor, California · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“All right, important. Okay. All right. That's somewhat important. Really, actually. Right That's another conversation. All right, okay So you're like the vice president of the Senate. You're like the vice president. Work with the governor.”
2016-02-22 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Gavin Newsom, Lieutenant Governor, California · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And then chair of State Lands. So if you care about onshore oil drilling, offshore oil drilling, three miles off the coast, all jurisdiction of land up in mineral rights, all that. Chair of the Economic Development Commission. Not really, actually. Because we don't even have a quorum, but that's another conversation. All right. Okay. And then I serve on all these other boards on the Coastal Commission every other year, Ocean Protection Council. So you're like the vice president of the Senate. You're like the Vice President.”
2016-02-22 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Gavin Newsom, Lieutenant Governor, California · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Read the obituary. Which time we went out to lunch No one even cares about it. You actually went, I'm Lieutenant I'm in the UC region, CSU Board of Trustees, so higher education. It's like an hour. Go ahead. No, there's subcommittees. All right. Special sessions.”
2016-02-22 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Gavin Newsom, Lieutenant Governor, California · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Let's start with you. Besides, read the objectual one. One time we went out to lunch. And then there was a car appearing near you with security. I'm like, what's that for? No one even cares about it. I'm lieutenant governor. I'm like, oh, I forgot. What are you doing as lieutenant governor? No, I do.”
2016-02-22 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Gavin Newsom, Lieutenant Governor, California · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT