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Gavin Newsom: “We reduced the street population by third.”

Featuring: Gavin Newsom, Democratic | Governor of California

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Conversation Between Gavin Newsom and Michael Savage on Politics, Health, and Society

Published | Video Starts at 43:31

Crack down on these. Well, we did well, remember? I did care. Not cash. My body was burned in effigy. It became the defining issues when I was mayor. We dropped. We reduced the street population by third. Why they still population? Well, it's not a static environment. I wasn't mayor. It's been decade plus and a half. I. I'm the governor, but I'm not the mayor of California. (43:31–43:34)

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Asserts that during his tenure as mayor, the street population in San Francisco was reduced by one-third.

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