When they emigrated from the Irish counties of Cork, Sligo, and Dublin, my family sought the American Dream in the Golden State. That story began with my great, great grandfather taking a job as a beat cop in San Francisco. - ThreadSky

governor.ca.gov • 16 hours ago

When they emigrated from the Irish counties of Cork, Sligo, and Dublin, my family sought the American Dream in the Golden State.

That story began with my great, great grandfather taking a job as a beat cop in San Francisco.

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lifechef61.bsky.social•7 hours ago

My father's family came from Colombia via NYC; my dad went into the Navy and then became a SF fire fighter... Served the public his whole life!

katechief.bsky.social•16 hours ago

Up Sligo!

baronsmudge.bsky.social•15 hours ago

Maybe time to come back, or fight the fash?

cardicrew.bsky.social•15 hours ago

And mine from Italy, worked as firefighters & my Dad after a degree at USF, a water dept district manager for the city of S.F. Inmigrants have made our country great #IMOCG

juliamercury.bsky.social•8 hours ago

This has nothing to do a with this post, but Fuck Trump and Adolf Musk. Love you Governor Newsom!

disvi.bsky.social•14 hours ago

My Grandfather walked the beat in Newark, NJ

neptuniandemocracy.bsky.social•13 hours ago

Yes 🙌 fighting Irish through and through ☘️🇮🇪🎶🧑‍🎤🪈
WE THE PEOPLE for FREEDOM

bubbles9333.bsky.social•5 hours ago

You have a proud heritage. I hope you consider running for President one day.

essh12.bsky.social•5 hours ago

He has my vote!!!

chellelavixen.bsky.social•11 hours ago

My family came from Ireland. My grandfather was from Sligo.

robyn.bsky.social•8 hours ago

I also recently traced my Irish ancestors here to the late 1700s! Having difficulty going back further. County Tyrone for me

bentmoeller.bsky.social•14 hours ago

You're Irish then,not American. They are coming to deport you, beware. 😉

redhawk-roxie.bsky.social•6 hours ago

So you are now best buddies with the traitor charlie kirk? So you changed parties immediately? Are you speaking russian soon?

marksdog.bsky.social•16 hours ago

All Erie canal workers & their descendants on my dad's side from western Ireland via Liverpool.

wtfdonald.bsky.social•14 hours ago

And ends with at least one Irish catholic neo nazis here supporting russia, that i know.
So....
Thanks.....

mariaoconnor.bsky.social•13 hours ago

I am also of Irish ancestry.

Do you know that some South American countries, also received great waves of immigrants from Ireland? The one with the higher percentage is Argentina.

https://www.ireland.ie/en/argentina/meet-the-irish-diaspora-in-argentina/

therealunclesam.bsky.social•11 hours ago

You mean he beat people, as a cop, in San Francisco's segregated era. He was from Indiana according to lots of sources online.

brettwalkers.bsky.social•4 hours ago

https://youtu.be/X_nazEA32Rg?si=yRa96-FIxm5so9oT

kalikatfoof.bsky.social•16 hours ago

I went to Star of the Sea grammar school on 8th avenue and Geary Blvd most of the students there were children of mostly Irish cops.

gemini618.bsky.social•11 hours ago

@julesmorgan11.bsky.social is a MAGA TROLL. You know what to do.

witchvagrant.bsky.social•2 minutes ago

Hey, why'd you sit down and talk with alt-right lap dog Charlie Kirk? Why give a racist and sexist asshole a platform?

marie-14.bsky.social•11 hours ago

My Dad’s side came from Dublin. Originally stayed in NY. Then the three brothers had a fight and they split. On stayed in NY, One went to Texas, the other to CA.

paisliegiraffe.bsky.social•15 hours ago

Jesus. Gavin, no one cares. What the fuck are you doing to protect Californians from a hostile federal government controlled by Russia?

abannany.bsky.social•14 hours ago

🙄

aprilcraren.bsky.social•14 hours ago

We want answers!

icyspice.bsky.social•9 hours ago

What, starting a podcast where he interviews far-right personalities isn’t cutting it for you?!

mattj0nes.bsky.social•16 minutes ago

On brand! Newsom comes from a long line of fascists!

birdie56.bsky.social•8 hours ago

I am Irish Canadian 😁

shiolasabra.bsky.social•6 hours ago

Nice to know more about you, your ancestry. There’s a a bit of Irish on my maternal side of the family (some Ukrainian on my father’s side)

larrylee2.bsky.social•15 hours ago

And so the legacy builds! Good on you and your families past present and future, Governor!

robin1955.bsky.social•15 hours ago

Just got my Irish citizenship. Waiting on my Passport. I am also a proud Irish descendant.

tullypoo.bsky.social•13 hours ago

Lucky you, how did you swing that ?

robin1955.bsky.social•13 hours ago

Foreign Births Registration. My grandad was born in Ireland.

gemini618.bsky.social•11 hours ago

Lucky you. I have to go back too many generations so my choices are Canada and Portugal.

robin1955.bsky.social•11 hours ago

Both are excellent choices.

c-birdz.bsky.social•14 hours ago

Ready for the bidding war between Denmark and Canada to buy California, Oregon, and Washington states 🙌🏼

jeepsypainter.bsky.social•13 hours ago

I would be good with joint custody.

krokintoad.bsky.social•14 hours ago

We could go splits...or time share! Either way, those states would benefit in SO many ways! Welcome aboard...here's your health cards and I'll post a link to all of our 'socialist' benefits...

mainstreetsaint.bsky.social•13 hours ago

While not full blooded Irish, I have Irish on both my Mother's and Father's sides. It's a part of who I am.

madukes.bsky.social•14 hours ago

Through Ireland America and Canada have many cousins

chertfelder.bsky.social•15 hours ago

Foxford, County Mayo!

dmartinfahey.bsky.social•14 hours ago

Ballintemple/Swinford. Neighbors!

chertfelder.bsky.social•13 hours ago

Nice to meet you.

dmartinfahey.bsky.social•13 hours ago

Likewise - dia dhuit!

governor.ca.gov•16 hours ago

This Irish American Heritage Month, we celebrate the contributions of the more than 2.1 million Californians who made their way to America from the shores of the Emerald Isle.

smokeythebearesse.bsky.social•15 hours ago

The Irish also believe deeply in liberty. No Taxation without Representation. Impoundment is illegal and if Congress doesn’t control the purse, then my elected representative and governor should, find a way to fix that.

aprilcraren.bsky.social•14 hours ago

💯💯💯💯

jaybythebay.bsky.social•15 hours ago

Follow up: any way our Fed income tax withholding can go to an account in Sacto first, before being sent to the IRS?? Would much rather have my taxes stay here.

nomoretyranny.bsky.social•7 hours ago

👍

irish-norgie.bsky.social•14 hours ago

I knew you were one of us…

calexitnoworg.bsky.social•15 hours ago

The Irish fought for and gained independence from a repressive government. All we ask is that you put a referendum on the 2026 ballot for Californian independence. Let us voice our desire for a free and independent California.
#CalExitNow

earlydoors.bsky.social•16 hours ago

My family emigrated from Sligo to Lancashire, England in 1851.

ballybuffet.bsky.social•15 hours ago

Also an Irish immigrant. I urge your country to stand up and fight for the dream that our fathers and mothers, who emigrated to the USA from Ireland 🇮🇪 had for you, before it disappears. ☘️

dollystewart.bsky.social•14 hours ago

You are loved. 🤟🏻

foxux.bsky.social•5 hours ago

This is much more endearing than that Charlie Kirk bullshit

sue19721954.bsky.social•15 hours ago

👍

stanleygilroy.bsky.social•10 hours ago

California and the rest of the Democracy & Freedom loving states need to Secede and leave the MAGAty Welfare states behind.

Democracy and Freedom are over in the USA, do you want to live in the Fascist Dictatorship?

letsgohawksgpg.bsky.social•16 hours ago

My husbands family are from Limerick a short drive from Cork …we checked the LEAHY name at Ellis Island there’s hundreds 💚🤍🧡🇺🇸

drumrollplease.bsky.social•16 hours ago

We are a nation made stronger by immigrants—just as our own families once were, and as you perfectly illustrate here.

aprilcraren.bsky.social•14 hours ago

What’s the plan to protect California from trump? I’m getting worried because you haven’t addressed it

trish22bee.bsky.social•13 hours ago

My great-grand parents were from Counties Tyrone, Galway, and Cavan. They all came to San Francisco! Proud to be San Francisco Irish-American.

pepe-mccormack.bsky.social•13 hours ago

Gangs of SF?

gretafied.bsky.social•15 hours ago

Do republicans ever report on there heritage? Or is it easier to dismiss your heritage and those you left behind since you want America to leave NATO and lap Putin's Russian balls

notifiedmedia.bsky.social•16 hours ago

The "Hyphen-American" concept is a reflection of America's ongoing struggle to reconcile its diverse population with its national identity. This could be the ongoing problem that we as US Citizens currently are in. Lets drop yesteryear and move forward together.

nodonut.bsky.social•15 hours ago

You were born in 1967. On average, one's great, great grandparents are born 100 yrs before them. If your great, great grandfather was a cop in SF it was during a time when the cops were notorious for being as bad as the criminals. Read the history of San Francisco - Sam Brannan, John Fremont, etc.

nodonut.bsky.social•15 hours ago

History is written about the many lawless and corrupt cops in the earliest days of San Francisco up and through the SFPD's illegal union strike in the 1970s.

julesmorgan11.bsky.social•14 hours ago

And you destroyed San Francisco.

alexathymia.bsky.social•13 hours ago

Governor Newsom, I might be distantly related to you! My Irish ancestors came from Sligo, Cork, and Dublin, (but then to Liverpool and Canada). <>

captspotty.bsky.social•14 hours ago

I'm not sure where my ancestors came from but DNA tests reveal a lot of Scandinavian ancestry with some Irish mixed in. A mutt I am!

I do know that they immigrated tough.

Free education, diversity and progressive truths are, or once were, a great thing......a great thing for democracy.

gemini618.bsky.social•11 hours ago

That's because the Vikings invaded Britain and Ireland before the 1st millenia.

thrillmer.bsky.social•9 hours ago

Governor Newsom, what the hell is this? Why are you giving this fascist cumstain any oxygen? https://bsky.app/profile/atherton.bsky.social/post/3ljnuisyxls2w

thetellurian.bsky.social•12 hours ago

How would your Irish ancestors feel about you befriending people who do Nazi salutes?

kurtnielsenkcrock.bsky.social•14 hours ago

REVALUATION 2025... SAVE AMERICA APRIL 15

RICH DON'T PAY TAXES!!! SHOULD WE? REVALUATION 2025.

CAN'T JAIL US ALL!!! TRUMPS LAYING OFF IRS(7000).

WE THE PEOPLE WILL WIN 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 🌎☮️ 🙏

fellatesheohhhh.bsky.social•15 hours ago

Thank you sir!

boisebodyworker111.bsky.social•11 hours ago

My relatives are from County Cork

damsel64.bsky.social•11 hours ago

I am first generation American, my mom traveled here from Clontarf,Dublin Ireland.
🇮🇪… dad from Germany🇩🇪.

k2rm.bsky.social•10 hours ago

Go back!

notpirateradio.bsky.social•8 hours ago

My great grandparents on my mom's side came to SF from Ireland 🇮🇪. He was a plasterer and a janitor. In the early 1880's they built a house on Lyon St @ Pine/Jackson that still stands today. The family sold it in the 1940's.

notpirateradio.bsky.social•4 hours ago

Correction: Lyon between Bush/Pine

veevee65.bsky.social•16 hours ago

Ours began with 5 sisters emigrating from County Cavan to Boston. My great-great-grandmother, came from Boston by ship around South America to San Francisco in 1900 to marry her childhood sweetheart. The family settled in Half Moon Bay CA in the dairy business

cshrode-noble.bsky.social•15 hours ago

💙Wonderful Governor Newsom, a real leader with integrity🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊

krystnaphywel.bsky.social•15 hours ago

This mess has grown to deep for just resistance
Every Democrat there should have walked out when they threw Representative Green out
Ya'll should be forming the opposition, together you are strong, divided, you are useless
GET IT TOGETHER
THIS IS YOUR JOB
BE THE HEROES

weriseupagain.bsky.social•15 hours ago

Awesome!

athenagabriel.bsky.social•15 hours ago

💚💚💚

m0nkeyl1ce.bsky.social•16 hours ago

The California dream is as a free and independent nation, not a subservient state begging for scraps as it "donates" $100B away to a hostile government. Grow a spine and put the California independence referendum on the 2026 ballot.
https://calexitnow.org @calexitnoworg.bsky.social

tullypoo.bsky.social•13 hours ago

Russia won't allow it.

jaybythebay.bsky.social•15 hours ago

Should be a bunch of former fed workers and military that we could use in setting up a new nation.

stopthebombs.bsky.social•16 hours ago

I know it’s New York but the sentiment is the same

stopthebombs.bsky.social•16 hours ago

https://youtu.be/MwKNcSRSUnw?si=wtskepaG2SqMTktV

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