"The only thing more astounding than Newsom’s disastrous tenure as governor is the fact that more than half of adults in the state approve of the job he’s been doing, and that he’s a serious contender among Democrats to run for president."
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| Broc Smith |
Issues & Insights "There are two things you can be sure of when it comes to Gavin Newsom. One is that he craves power. Two, he hates his fellow Californians.
OK, the second one might be a stretch. But considering what he’s done to the people of his home state, that’s a fairly reasonable conclusion to draw.
"Newsom has been making headlines these days by “getting tough” with President Donald Trump in ways childish (X with posts written in all caps) and politically poisonous (promising to redraw district boundaries to kill off four or five of the state’s nine Republican seats).
"With that latter move, Newsom once again shows his disdain for Californians, who voted twice – in 2008 and again in 2010 – against gerrymandering of this kind, appointing a bipartisan commission to draw district lines that are fair and equitable. Polls show most California voters oppose Newsom’s scheme to bypass this commission, but Newsom clearly hopes to bypass voters with an (expensive) special election that will attract mainly hard-core partisans.
"But this is hardly the worst of Newsom’s offenses against the people he governs.
Since Newsom took the helm in 2019 and spent the next six years grooming himself for the presidency, the people of California have suffered.
"Some examples:
Homelessness: In his inaugural address in 2019, Newsom declared that “We will launch a Marshall Plan for affordable housing and lift up the fight against homelessness from a local matter to a state-wide mission.” He launched his Marshall Plan, and spent $37 billion on it, only to see the number of homeless climb from 151,000 in 2019 to about 187,000 today." . . .
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