Gavin Newsom
April 22, 2025 — Bill Glahn
The extremely ambitious governor and political shapeshifter Gavin Newsom has been sounding more and more moderate and less and less attached to his Democratic party. From an interview in The Hill newspaper, “We have not done a forensic of what just went wrong, period, full stop,” Newsom said. “I don’t think it, I know it. I mean, to the extent that I’m marginally part of this party, I represent the state
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April 16, 2025 — Bill Glahn
California wants to extend its “cap-and-trade” scheme for regulating carbon emissions. The Hill newspaper reports, California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) and top state Democrats announced Tuesday they would seek an extension of the state’s cap-and-trade emissions reduction program — countering Trump administration efforts to thwart such initiatives. I guess you have to admire their commitment to the bit? Pres. Trump gave California an out, but they refused to take it. The Hill
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March 6, 2025 — Steven Hayward
Earlier this week Senate Democrats voted unanimously to block a Republican bill that would ban trans-women from participating in women’s sports, which has become an 80 – 20 issue (that is, 80 percent of Americans support the ban). Among those furious with Democrats is the very liberal Martina Navratilova, one of the greats among women tennis players. And someone else is breaking with Democrats on this core identitarian issue: Gavin
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January 11, 2025 — John Hinderaker
As fires continue to destroy Los Angeles, the incompetence of that city’s leadership, along with that of the State of California, is coming into focus. It is almost incredible that anyone could do as bad a job as Mayor Karen Bass and Governor Gavin Newsom have done. Many instances of their incompetence have come to light, but Michael Shellenberger takes the broad view, explaining how progressive politics inevitably led to
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January 9, 2025 — Steven Hayward
• Having grown up in the LA area, I’ve seen a lot of big fires (sometimes up fairly close) along with our legendary earthquakes, but nothing like this. Although I live 200 miles north these days, many of the places seen on TV are very familiar to me. I used to run every weekend in Eaton Canyon and up the Mount Wilson fire road, and I can recall seeing the
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January 9, 2025 — John Hinderaker
Los Angeles is burning, and the scope of the catastrophe is only now becoming evident. If you want to understand what is going on, check out Duane Patterson’s Hot Air essay. Duane, Hugh Hewitt’s radio producer, lives in Orange County. He traces the total government failure that has led to the present fiery crisis: the lack of water management, despite billions of dollars in appropriations; the incompetent woodland management, driven
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January 8, 2025 — John Hinderaker
Wildfires are raging in Southern California, driven by unusually high winds. There was a report that the Getty Villa, a wonderful museum, had been destroyed. That report turned out to be wrong, at least so far, but only just: Many homes have gone up in smoke, and 30,000 Los Angeles residents have been told to evacuate. Donald Trump, never one to stay on the sidelines during a crisis, says that
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November 25, 2024 — Lloyd Billingsley
Gov. Gavin Newsom, who is paid $234,101.00 by the State of California, recently purchased a $9 million mansion in Marin County. Contrary to some reports, the 5,600 square ft. property is not a move to get his kids into better schools. With this purchase, Newsom’s backers kick off his run for the White House in 2028. As Dan Walters of CalMatters explains Gov. Newsom is part of a “decades-long saga
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October 27, 2024 — Lloyd Billingsley
“I’m with Elon,” claimed California Gov. Gavin Newsom in the wake of Musk’s lawsuit against the California Coastal Commission, but the Coiffed One was quick to clarify. “Look, I’m not helping the legal case,” the governor explained. “You can’t bring up that explicit level of politics.” In his view, the Commission should have confined its debate to the merits of the permit but that’s as far as it goes. “These
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October 3, 2024 — Steven Hayward
You may have followed the news that California’s Governor Gavin Gruesome sought and achieved a statute, AB 2329, outlawing AI-generated “deep fake” political communications ahead of elections. This statute is a blatant violation of the First Amendment, and wouldn’t survive the first five minutes of a Supreme Court oral argument. But it takes time (and a lot of money) to get a case all the way up to the Supreme
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September 20, 2024 — Scott Johnson
The parody ad for Kamala Harris below is of the it only hurts when I laugh variety. It is a work of satirical art. Kamala Harris Campaign Ad PARODY pic.twitter.com/5lBxvyTZ3o — Mr Reagan 🇺🇸 (@MrReaganUSA) July 26, 2024 In a challenge to the regime of the gruesome Gavin Newsom, Elon Musk proclaims: “The governor of California just made this parody video illegal in violation of the Constitution of the United
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August 13, 2024 — Lloyd Billingsley
As Scott noted, “Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff knocked up his daughter’s nanny in the course of his first marriage,” but don’t think such dalliance is a partisan issue. In 1986, Republican Arnold Schwarzenegger married Maria Shriver, daughter of Sargent Shriver, husband of Eunice Kennedy. In 1996, Schwarzenegger had an affair with the family maid and fathered Joseph Baena. When the film star ran for governor in 2003, Maria stood by
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July 30, 2024 — Lloyd Billingsley
The Kamala Harris parody in Steve’s recent post scored millions of views and also got a rise out of California Gov. Gavin Newsom. “Manipulating a voice in an ‘ad’ like this one should be illegal,” Newsom posted. “I’ll be signing a bill in a matter of weeks to make sure it is.” For California’s coiffed governor, this is not a new development. Back in 2019, a video of his one-time
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July 5, 2024 — Lloyd Billingsley
With waxworks effigy Joe Biden in post-debate meltdown, Steve spots a Kamala zeitgeist, starring Harris as Joe’s successor. In this high concept, the younger Kamala, 59, has the advantage over the older Trump, 78, and only Kamala can inherit the Biden-Harris $250 million campaign warchest. For his part, Gavin Newsom is scrapping a plan to put a measure on the ballot to compete with a Republican-backed measure to reform Proposition
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June 30, 2024 — Lloyd Billingsley
There’s only one state in America with a dream – the California Dream. It’s a dream built on opportunity, a dream built on pushing boundaries and celebrating, not merely “tolerating,” diversity. That dream propelled us to the front of the pack in the world. Our values and our way of life are the antidote to the poisonous populism of the right, and to the fear and anxiety that so many
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June 25, 2024 — Lloyd Billingsley
Ellie Garday Holmes is out with a new book on California’s coiffed governor. To read Newsom Unleashed: The Progressive Lust for Unbridled Power, according to Bruce Bawer, is to find one’s contempt for this hideous creature skyrocketing. If he has any redeeming qualities, any special gifts, any attributes that might illuminate an admirable and recognizably human side, there’s no sign of them here. This is a man who, despite having
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May 13, 2024 — Lloyd Billingsley
“California Governor Gavin Newsom is currently working on a memoir, which is expected to come out sometime after the 2024 presidential election,” reports Evan Symon of the California Globe. “Memoirs are what presidential candidates bank on today,” explained literary consultant Glenn Forbes, and Newsom is “in the same corner as Obama was in 2006 or Harris in 2018,” with nothing much beyond name recognition. The governor will “probably go deep
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