How dirty is Governor Gavin Newsom?

[Mick]

Pretty dirty, as it turns out. And I’m not talking about his dating a 19 year old when he was 41, or sleeping with his campaign manager’s wife. I’m talking about the fact that if a company donates to his campaign, they will get fat contracts with the State of California including:

• Centene
• Sierra Pacific Industries
• Thomas Safran & Associates
• Reach Air Medical Services
• Sunrun, Inc.

That doesn’t include Newsom appointing Janet Reilly to the UC board after she donated $30k to his campaign, or Anna Ortiz-Morfit to the CSU BoT after she donated $58k.

Or Pacific Steel Group CEO Eric Benson, who donated $45k juuuuust in time to get a $30 million tax credit. AES Clean Energy donated $50k to Nesom and received $6 million in state tax credits.

Same is true, in general terms, for the entertainment industry and Native Americans.

Ol’ Gavin cashes in, big-time.

California is a great place to do business — for Newsom’s donors

 

[Mick]

Non-donor companies find California a bad place to do business, so says the executive chairman of the recently bankrupt Bed, Bath and Beyond:

“California has created one of the most overregulated, expensive, and risky environments for businesses in America,” executive chairman Marcus Lemonis said in a statement. He pointed to what he described as “higher taxes, higher fees, higher wages.

Bed Bath & Beyond chairman calls California ‘overregulated, expensive, and risky’ — and Gavin Newsom hits back

You have to like Newsom’s response, echoing Hillary Clinton’s response when she was asked about the burden her health care program would place on small business: “I can’t be responsible for every undercapitalized business in America” she said.

Here’s Newsom’s response: “After their bankruptcy and closure of every store, like most Americans, we thought Bed Bath & Beyond no longer existed. We wish them well in their efforts to become relevant again as they try to open a 2nd store.”

Nicely tone deaf. And this is the guy whose policies helped eviscerate Union Square in San Francisco, once the busiest retail center on the west coast.

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