Gavin Says…”Hollywood. Silicon Valley. Coachella. Tacos. Beaches. Need we say more? Happy 175th birthday, California!”

Sacramento, CA…California is turning 175 years old today — and we’re celebrating in true Golden State style. For 175 years of statehood, people have come here chasing a dream, and together we’ve built something bigger: a place where innovation meets imagination, where people are our superpower, and where the future gets invented every day.

From redwoods to rocket ships, surfboards to startups — California doesn’t just set trends, we set the standard. Here’s how:

#1 for Innovation & Research

California is where bold ideas become world-changing breakthroughs. Our universities and private sector fuel discoveries in tech, biotech, aerospace, and clean energy. One in four U.S. Nobel Prizes in science has gone to a California institution, and California is home to more Nobel Prize winners than any country in the world except the U.S. itself!

#1 in Sports

California = the world’s sports capital. 1,307 Olympians since 1952. 945 medals. 19 pro sports teams. Legendary college programs. And the world’s biggest games are coming our way: Super Bowls in 2026 & 2027, the FIFA World Cup in 2026, and the LA Olympics in 2028.

#1 in Feeding the Nation

Almost half of America’s fruits, veggies, and nuts come from right here. California’s Central Valley is one of the most productive agricultural regions on the planet. In short: if you’ve eaten today, California was probably on your plate.

#1 in Education & Careers

The University of California, California State University system, California Community Colleges (which offer skills-based training!) — enough said. California’s public universities are the best in the nation and a pipeline for research, talent, and tech that fuels the global economy.

#1 for Startups & Business

California = entrepreneurship. We’re home to 4.2 million small businesses, the most startups in the country, a tech sector worth over $1 trillion, and home to the most Fortune 500 companies in the world. From Silicon Valley to Silicon Beach, this is where ideas take flight.

#1 in AI & Tech Leadership

AI is the new frontier — and California is leading it. 32 of the world’s top 50 private AI companies are here.  We generate 25% of the entire world’s AI patents and publications by ourselves.

#1 for Natural Wonders & Entertainment

Nine national parks — more than any other state — like Yosemite, Sequoia, Joshua Tree. Plus our state parks system offers jaw-dropping landscapes. Add in Hollywood, Disneyland, Coachella, Napa Valley, the coast, and you’ve got the planet’s top bucket list rolled into one state.

#1 for People

No place in the world is more diverse. Cultures from every corner of the globe are represented in California, making us the most dynamic, inclusive, and forward-looking state in the nation.

Celebrate with California 

Visit celebrate.ca.gov to learn what events are happening in your area and share on social media using hashtag #CA175

18 Responses to "Gavin Says…”Hollywood. Silicon Valley. Coachella. Tacos. Beaches. Need we say more? Happy 175th birthday, California!”"

  1. Anonymous   September 9, 2025 12:48 pm - at 12:48 pm

    Shut The Fuck Up newsom…,,,

  2. Anonymous   September 9, 2025 2:05 pm - at 2:05 pm

    This is what winning looks like, not the taco don economy, killing our Midwest ag sector.
    Unemployment resided to -900,000.
    Is this winning?

    What does it take (abuse) to have Republicans, maga wake the F up?

    It is clear taco don is an enemy of America.

    Wake Up !

    • Anonymous   September 9, 2025 6:22 pm - at 6:22 pm

      I guess you missed the multiple reports on the Biden Administrations using their “job employment” numbers by 910,000? Oh thats right, if the legacy media who has lied to ALL Americans didn’t report it, its not true.
      When will you wake up Mr Stupid and face the facts? Your party has lost more of your own voters in 4 years because of your parties, lying, corruption, abuse of our Constitution, and even your right to vote for who YOU want to be YOUR nominee for the democrat party. Yet you’re too blind and pathetic to realize you’re an idiot and nothing but a marionette for your masters of corruption.

    • Anonymous   September 9, 2025 6:34 pm - at 6:34 pm

      How could unemployment be that high if so many illegal criminal migrants have been deported? Oh, maybe the Biden Administration did lie about those employeed under his dictatorship. After all he also said in his 1st year the Autopen Dementia Patient created 14,000,000 jobs, just ask Jackie about that one too, Einstein. Your cult has no boundaries, but its not like anyone believes the Party of the Klu Klux Klan that now has the worst approval rating in their ENTIRE HISTORY.
      AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
      TRUST ME SAID A DEMOCRAT POLITICIAN, I WOULDN’T LIE TO YOU.
      AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAGAHAHAHA
      And the ignorant, leeches known as Dumbocraps did, again and again and again like the little sheep always did.AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

    • Anonymous   September 10, 2025 7:29 am - at 7:29 am

      And joe was the greatest, right?

  3. Anonymous   September 9, 2025 3:08 pm - at 3:08 pm

    Commiefornia, 50th in 2A Freedom.

  4. Anonymous   September 9, 2025 6:13 pm - at 6:13 pm

    #1 in worst financially run state in the Nation.
    #1 In the worst quality of life in the Nation.
    #1 In the highest taxes in the Nation.
    #1 In the highest gas prices in the Nation.
    #1 In the worst state to have a business in the Nation.
    #1 In the least educated adults aged 26 plus in the Nation.
    #1 In the most homeless in the Nation.
    #1 In the most debt state in the Nation.
    #1 as the least transparent state in the Nation.
    #1 In the shortest state in the state report by any Governor in the Nation.
    #1 Question to any CA democrat, ‘where’s Governor Newsom been the last 2 weeks? Even the Governors office won’t answer, just like his 2025 calendar? He , they, won’t publish it, even though they’re suppose too.
    .
    (psst) rumor is he’s in Italy on George Clooney’s yacht begging to have Clooneys blessing for the Presidential election nominee. You remember that where you had your Constitutional right in voting? Oh thats right, you lost that when your politicians said NO, we picked Kamala for you, so shut the fuck up…and you did like good little dumb fucks you are.

    That’s why you’re know as Dumbocrats.

    • Anonymous   September 10, 2025 7:32 am - at 7:32 am

      And Newsom think he’s president material,
      HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
      HOHOHOHOHOHOHOHOHOHOHOHOHOHO
      HEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHE

  5. Anonymous   September 10, 2025 7:10 am - at 7:10 am

    Good lord What in the fuck have you been smoking

    • Anonymous   September 10, 2025 7:35 am - at 7:35 am

      God going to punish you.

  6. Anonymous   September 10, 2025 7:12 am - at 7:12 am

    The World Hates Trump moron

    • Anonymous   September 10, 2025 7:37 am - at 7:37 am

      No they don’t, fake news coming from live oak ct..

  7. Anonymous   September 10, 2025 8:45 am - at 8:45 am

    Sniveler are you riding Hopper today I’d like to stab you?

  8. Anonymous   September 10, 2025 9:33 am - at 9:33 am

    Trump is killing small businesses. Destroying the credibility of America. He is a convicted felon. Sexual assaulter. Just Saying

  9. Anonymous   September 10, 2025 9:53 am - at 9:53 am

    Just returned from Livermore, a ride that is clogged with cars, trucks on 580. The farmland around Manteca and Tracy is being gobbled up by mega warehouses, cheap apartments, fast food restaurants, and crap you don’t need. I did a little investigating on these mega warehouses, and a lot of the funding is coming from investors ( Drs, lawyers, professional people) that need some place to dump their wealth for tax benefits. Nice little racket, eh? Forfeit this great farmland for investors who could give a s—- about the food that was and is being raised there! This is California at its best!
    Newsome can go away, far away, he is so removed from reality it’s frightening!

    • Anonymous   September 13, 2025 10:13 am - at 10:13 am

      ^^Hey Einstein. That’s happening all over this country. Billionaires are gobbling up everything they can get their hands on for their own benefit, nothing else. And they depend on brain dead heavers like yourself to sow division within the populace. I’ll take Newsome ANY DAY over Trump. Trump is the one slowly fuking you to death. And you don’t even know it.

  10. Anonymous   September 10, 2025 10:30 am - at 10:30 am

    TACO Trump
    TACO & TWAT

    And lets not forget him getting Epstein’s seconds, sloppy seconds.
    Now he’s calling for death penalty for that dude back in N. Carolina.
    Guys mentally ill, should obviously be dealt with. Locked up forever.

    Member’ when Trump called for the death penalty for the Central Park 5?
    The 5 black teenaagers he called for the death penalty for?
    The five that were found to be wrongly accused?
    He wanted to snuff out their lives didn’t he?

    That spineless bich would cry like a baby if ever cornered and have to fight his way out of any incident. Just cry like a baby. He’s a pussssy, no doubt about it.
    A bully who would fold like a manila envelope if stood up to.
    See how he likes to pick on female reporters? How he likes to stand over them and berate and bully them?
    THE SURE SIGN OF A PUSSY!!! Stand over 9 out of 10 men like that and they would bich slap you until you wimpered like the little punk you are Don.

    TACO TACO TACO. He just a pussssy, no doubt about it. Matter of fact from Don down through Barron, and what a manly name that is, all of the males in the current Trump clan are punks in the need of a good ass whippin.

    So there.

  11. Anonymous   September 13, 2025 10:17 am - at 10:17 am

    Better watch out or Eric will come kick your ass for talking about his absentee father like that.

    hahahahahahahahaha