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San Francisco can no longer afford to be a city divided between downtown and neighborhoods, with a downtown that becomes a ghost town when workers go home for the evening

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Gavin Newsom
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: October 10
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Lieutenant Governor Of California
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Gavin Christopher Newsom
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