Gary Newsom

    

The Honorable Gary Newsom
Newsom in 2019
Kingdom of Sierra Senator from Tahoe
Incumbent
Assumed office October 16, 2018 Serving with Wilbur Schlatt and Peter Shulga
Preceded by	Able Brown
Chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Incumbent
Assumed office May 4, 2020
Preceded by	Richardio Sanchez
Mayor of Sacramento
In office January 4, 2010 – January 12, 2018
Preceded by	Tony Jensen
Succeeded by	Daisey Romero
Personal details
Born	(1968-10-18) October 18, 1968 SF City, San Francisco, Kingdom of Sierra
Political party	Democratic-Republican
Spouse(s)	Amelia Campbell (m. 2001, div. 2006) Jennifer Sewbel (m. 2008)
Children	4
Education	Santa Clara University

Gary Edward Newsom (born October 18, 1968) is a Sierran politician and businessmen serving as a Senator for the Province of Tahoe since 2018. Previously, Newson had served as the Mayor of Sacramento from 2010 until 2018 and has been Chairman of the Sierran Senate Committee on Foreign Relations since 2020. A member of the Democratic-Republican Party, Newsom has been a notable figure witin the party and has been described as political ambitious by many commentators.

Born in 1968, Newson was raised by Willian and Emilia Newson and was born in San Francisco City, the provincial capital of the province of San Francisco. He attended Redwood High School and later attended Santa Clara Univeristy after graduating high school. After graduating college, he and his childhood friend, Gordan Jackman, founded a wine company known as Bay Area Vines which has shops in all provinces in Federal Sierra as of 2020. Newson had been involved in politics before, but mostly renegaded to activism durign his younger years and volunteer work. He would first get invovled in 2010 where he ran for the position of Mayor of Sacramento and won succeeding Tony Jensen. He would be mayor until completing a full eight year term in 2018 and was succeeded by Daisey Romero.

Later that year, Newsom ran in the 2018 Sierran Senate elections and ran for the Democratic-Republican nomination to run against Royalist Senator Able Brown. Newsom won the nomination and would defeat Brown winning 56.5% of the popular vote against Brown. Newsom was sworn in on October 16, 2018 to the Senate was assigned to the Senate of Foreign Relations. During his tenure, he would emerge as a prominent member of the moderate faction of the Democratic-Republican Party and as part of the moderate/centrist New Democratic Coalition. Following the Democratic-Republican victory in the 2020 Sierran Senate elections, Newsom was appointed Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee by the Senate Democratic-Republican Caucus. Throughout his senatorial career, Newsom has been a proponent of bipartisanship calling it "essential and needed" for political stability and unity and has worked with politicians from various parties from the Social Democrats to moderate Royalists in the Red Tory Association on a variety of issues and legislation.

Newsom identifies as a social liberal and a moderate. On social issues, he's been a vocal supporter of LGBT rights in Sierra donating to various LGBT rights organizatiosn and observing the Day of Silence during his tenure as Mahor of Sacramento. Newsom also supports liberal abortion laws and opposes restrictions, supports drug liberalization on marijuana, and opposes proposed legislation to bar transgender athletes from competing in sports. Newsom has supported raising the minimum wage and regulations on major coporations along with a ban on assault weapons and military grade weapons having a grade of D- from the National Rifle Association of Sierra. On foreign policy, Newsom is a supporter of the Conference of American States and identifies as an American unionist. He supports normalizing relations with the United Commonwealth, but has expressed skepticism towards the intent and sincerity of the Continental government. Newsom is opposed to normalizing relations with China citing their conflict with Manchuria and annexation of Rehe Province.

Senator of Tahoe (2018–Present)

Committee assignments

• Committee on Foreign Relations (Chairman)
  • Subcommittee on Asia and the Pacific
  • Subcommittee on North America and Western Europe
• Committee on Judiciary
  • Subcommittee on Law and Legal Policy

Caucus memberships

• New Democratic Coalition
• Senate Compromise Coalition

Political positions

Social issues

Gary Newsom identifies as a social liberal and supports policies advancing LGBT rights, reproductivec rights, immigrant rights, and is opposed to all socially conservative policies, proposals and legislation. Newson supports legal gay marriage and praised his home province of Tahoe in 2012 for legalizing same-sex marriage via legislative action calling it "long overdue" and openly attended pride marches in Sacramento during his time as mayor. When Boulangier v. the Deseret passed in 2022, Newsom praised it and called it "absolutely necessary and long overdue". He also publicly denounced the regional government in the Deseret for its opposition to LGBT rights, the most intense in the country, and supports dismanteling the Deseret's theodemocratic political system to advance LGBT rights.

On abortion, Newson identifies as pro-choice and is opposed to any legislation restricting and banning abortion. When the Heartbeat Act in Maricopa passed in early 2022, Newsom denounced the act as authoritarian and accused governor Cory Grumann and the provincial government of "trampling on women's rights to advance a delusional agenda no one supports".

Foreign policy

Newson holds a mixed record in regards to the relations between Sierra and the United Commonwealth. In general, Newson has supported normalizing relations between the two countries and supported Susan Kwon during her visit to the United Commonwealth in April 2021. Newsom has opposed an aggressive stance towards the United Commonwealth for much of his political career, calling it unnecessary, however has expressed concern over the authenticiy of the Continental government's commitment towards cooperation and peaceful coexistence. Following the Amazonas incident in December 2021 and the beginnning of the Caribbean diplomatic crisis, Newson denounced the United Commonwealth and has supported almost all proposed sanctions against them, even supporting the Economic Freedom and Trade Act, but has called for it to be ammended to exempt certain Continental allies such as Tournesol and Bolivia among others.