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Newsom’s Grueling Final Gauntlet
California’s recall election is getting ugly.
There are plenty of Democrats, in California and out, who believe Governor Gavin Newsom brought the narrow recall he is currently facing on himself.
He failed to file his paperwork properly- and so won’t be listed as a Democrat on the ballot. He dined maskless at the ultra-exclusive $350 per plate minimum French Laundry for a political event during the worst of COVID- after lecturing Californians to avoid doing the same.
Under his leadership, over $11 billion dollars of COVID-19 unemployment aid, and possibly as much as twice that, was stolen by organized crime rings in foreign countries. Though he blamed the Trump Administration, the fact remains that Newsom’s administration failed to take appropriate measures to prevent theft on this scale, as others states did.
Homelessness has gotten worse under Newsom’s watch; much, much worse. The news this week that the state of California under Newsom also mismanaged $316 million dollars earmarked by the Federal Government to assist with homelessness can’t be welcome either.
“After collecting $316 million from the federal CARES Act to house homeless people during the Covid-19 pandemic, California simply held onto the funds instead of distributing it,” concluded Adam Andrzejewski for RealClear Policy…