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San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom broke his silence amid a nearly month-long absence and the city's "half billion dollar deficit" to restart interviews. He asserted, "I've been here focused in San Francisco," and, "We've done 69 public events." He dismissed critics, saying, "I don't read the press. It is comical, some of the things that have been written." He noted missed appearances and said, "I had the flu that week." On his Hawaii trip, he stated, "I was gone for forty eight hours." He argued he deserved time with his family after a long campaign. He referenced a staff shakeup and remarked, "The press secretary gave gave my guess to the press and then he resigned." Confronting finances, Newsom said, "There is a big deficit." He added, "Deficit. $522,000,000. We just got a lot of work ahead of us." He closed, "Off the record, I'm amazingly disappointed."