Gavin Newsom

Does your legislature want to fix it? They all intellectually do. But then you have every constituency and every group, and they're showing up 24-7. Then NIMBYism is well-established. You've established it from the mindset. It's not just, by the way, Reagan and CEQA. It's the NEPA. It's Endangered Species Act. It's the Clean Water Act, all the stuff Nixon did. But in any reform, people panic.

Oh, you don't care about it. You've just turned in conservatives. You can't even. I mean, we've had a podcast here. You talk to Republicans. You're like, geez, what the hell is going on? Guy's selling out, sold his soul. So you have reforms around process. In CEQA, people panicked, said, what, you just want to destroy the environment.

Oh, you don't care about it. You've just turned in conservatives. You can't even. I mean, we've had a podcast here. You talk to Republicans. You're like, geez, what the hell is going on? Guy's selling out, sold his soul. So you have reforms around process. In CEQA, people panicked, said, what, you just want to destroy the environment.

Oh, you don't care about it. You've just turned in conservatives. You can't even. I mean, we've had a podcast here. You talk to Republicans. You're like, geez, what the hell is going on? Guy's selling out, sold his soul. So you have reforms around process. In CEQA, people panicked, said, what, you just want to destroy the environment.

So there's a political price you pay for that reform, but you're right, there's a political price for not reforming, which is where the Democratic Party is today. So speed, decision-making, the sense of action and purpose. By the way, a lot of what this president is celebrating is what the last president did. And a lot of the investments

So there's a political price you pay for that reform, but you're right, there's a political price for not reforming, which is where the Democratic Party is today. So speed, decision-making, the sense of action and purpose. By the way, a lot of what this president is celebrating is what the last president did. And a lot of the investments

So there's a political price you pay for that reform, but you're right, there's a political price for not reforming, which is where the Democratic Party is today. So speed, decision-making, the sense of action and purpose. By the way, a lot of what this president is celebrating is what the last president did. And a lot of the investments

I mean, the AI investments that Sam and others announced were making because of the Obama administration.

I mean, the AI investments that Sam and others announced were making because of the Obama administration.

I mean, the AI investments that Sam and others announced were making because of the Obama administration.

Former mayor of San Francisco.

Former mayor of San Francisco.

Former mayor of San Francisco.

Former Republican became Democrat, outperformed a lot of his folks.

Former Republican became Democrat, outperformed a lot of his folks.

Former Republican became Democrat, outperformed a lot of his folks.

I am taking the pain and I'm taking the political. I mean, I can give you proof points of the work we've done in the political capital we've used to get a lot of these reforms advanced. And that's I think that's that's where I struggle a little bit with the book. Just again, the book that I celebrate and I'm handing out to folks is it's not a lot of that is acknowledged the actual politics.

I am taking the pain and I'm taking the political. I mean, I can give you proof points of the work we've done in the political capital we've used to get a lot of these reforms advanced. And that's I think that's that's where I struggle a little bit with the book. Just again, the book that I celebrate and I'm handing out to folks is it's not a lot of that is acknowledged the actual politics.

I am taking the pain and I'm taking the political. I mean, I can give you proof points of the work we've done in the political capital we've used to get a lot of these reforms advanced. And that's I think that's that's where I struggle a little bit with the book. Just again, the book that I celebrate and I'm handing out to folks is it's not a lot of that is acknowledged the actual politics.

policy reforms that we are advancing, that we are marching and moving towards, and how we're actually starting to see some progress in that respect. But with that in mind, I get the speed and the scale. But I also want to make a case. Look, This is a state where we're gaining population again. We're running budget surpluses. We dominate in every innovative category.