“I think (Newsom’s) political career really begins during the time of when California kind of leads the way on on gay marriage,” says Tom Hogen-Esch, chair of political science at California State University Northridge, pointing to when as mayor of San Francisco in 2004, Newsom unilaterally ordered the city clerk to marry same-sex couples just a month into his term. When Newsom ran for governor in his second attempt more than a decade later, he won handily, at the age of 51, succeeding long-time California Gov. Jerry Brown, and was expected to pursue an even more progressive agenda for the state.
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