Gavin Newsom Announces His Candidacy for California Governor

San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom formally declared his 2010 campaign for California governor Tuesday with a tech-savvy approach – simultaneous announcements on Facebook, Twitter and YouTube – and a message of “generational” change aimed at the influential young “millennial” voters who helped elect President Obama. Newsom, in an interview with The Chronicle, said his announcement dramatizes his intention to offer voters a far different vision, and resume, than other potential candidates. The mayor said his campaign represents “an opportunity to – I want to use the phrase ‘turn the page’ – but it is an opportunity to spin to the future. That’s something you’ll hear me promoting a lot in the next year and a half.” – from SFgate

San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom officially launched his bid to become the next California governor today, marketing himself as a much-needed change to the Sacramento status quo. “We’ve gotten things done in San Francisco by putting politics aside and focusing on finding solutions to tough problems,” the 41-year-old said in a statement announcing his candidacy. “State government is failing because the politicians in Sacramento spend all their time fighting each other instead of fighting for Californians. We can’t keep returning to the same old tired solutions and expect a different result.” – from USAtoday