When 53-year-old California Gov. Gavin Newsom was caught red handed Nov. 6 dining at the chic Wine Country restaurant French Laundry violating all his Covid-19 guinelines, the real Gavin Newsom came out. Holding California to the strictest Covid-19 rules in the country, Newsom proved for all to see he’s a complete fraud, following in the footsteps of 80-year-old House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-San. Fran.), caught Sept. 1 getting her hair done at a shuttered San Francisco hair salon. While Newsom and Pelosi thumb their noses at their own rules, the rest of California’s small, medium and large businesses face insolvency over Newsom’s tough restrictions. But when the California Medical Association [CMA] ponies up $2.1 million to lobby, they get to do as they please while the rest of the state suffers. Newsom showed he’s a complete fake, worthy only of an active petition to have him recalled.
Newsom’s recall petition got some new life when Superior Court Judge James P. Arguelles extended the deadline for a recall petition to collect the needed 1,495,709 signatures by March 17, 2011. Secretary of State Alex Padilla passed on seeking oral arguments to stop the recall petition, allowing Californians seeking to recall Newsom to move forward. Newsom’s appearance without a mask at French Laundry was the last straw to the recall drive, more motivated than ever to collect enough signatures to force Lieutenant Gov. Eleni Kounalakis to hold a special election within 50 days. Newsom’s recall should be less related to breach of public trust dining at French Laundry, than grossly mismanaging the state’s budget. Newsom inherited a $20 billion budget surplus from his 82-year-old predecessor former Gov. Jerry Brown Jan. 3, 2019 when he assumed office.
Newsom’s abysmal decision making during the Covid-19 crisis squandered the surplus, leaving the state $54 billion in the red. Newsom shut down the state economy, mandating such severe restrictions that ordinary workers lost their jobs at record numbers. Newsom says he listens to “scientists” that told him March 15 that the state would have 25.5 million Covid-19 cases by May 15. Newsom’s knee-jerk, panicked reactions sent the state into an economic tailspin, shutting down businesses all over the state. Newsom says he relies on “science,” to make his decisions that have adversely impacted the state’s workers and businesses, driving the budget into whopping deficits. Newsom’s failed Covid-19 policy has driving California into the worst recession since the Great Depression. No one forced Newsom to shut down California’s economy, other than himself.
Toasting $500 a bottle Napa Pinot Noir, Newsom clinked glasses with California Medical Assn. [CMA] CEO Dustin Cocoran and chief lobbyist Janus Norman, both of whom lobbied the California Department of Insurance [DOI] for coronavirus test protocols outlined by DOI . “The dinner was held in accordance with state and county guidelines,” said CMA spokesman Anthony York. York knows that it doesn’t fit any guideline to meet indoors with a party of over 20 not wearing masks. Newsom also said that he followed state and county guidelines, only later apologizing for making a mistake. “I should have stood up and . . . drove back to my house . . .The spirit of what I’m preaching all the time was contradicted,” Newsom told reporters. “I need to preach and practice, not just preach.” Newsom apologized Nov. 16, after he announced more restrictions on residents and business.
California already has a 11.4% unemployment rate, bound to spike up again once his new restrictions take place. With President-elect Covid-19 spokesman former Obama Surgeon General Vivek Murthy saying he sees no need for national lockdowns, Newsom shows abysmal judgment implementing more restrictive measures. Newsom’s counting on Biden working with Pelosi after Trump’s out of office to bailout California with a new $3.4 trillion Heroe’s Act, promising to bailout cities and states. But Newsom knows that federal stimulus can only last so long if the state can’t generate enough tax revenue from full employment. With more restrictions on businesses, Newsom has guaranteed that California’s budget will face whopping deficits and a credit downgrade into the foreseeable future.
California’s only hope now is that the Recal Gavin Newsom petition collects enough signatures to remove the governor from office. In his short tenure as governor, he’s shown he wasn’t ready for primetime, running the state into the ground. No one forced Newsom to make the overly severe Covid restrictions that’s driven the state’s unemployment rate and budget deficits into the stratosphere. Instead of telling seniors and other vulnerable groups to stay sheltered in place while the rest of California residents followed Center for Disease Control [CDC] Covid-19 guidelines, Newsom painted everyone with the same broad brush. Newsom has made a bad situation worse, imposing new restrictions on California workers and business. Violating his own rules at the ultra-chic French Laundry exposes Newsom’s phoniness for all to see, hoping the recall petition collects enough signatures.
