California Gov. Newsom appeared at a staged photo op in Mission Hills Thursday and tried to gaslight voters into thinking he cares about the homeless population that exploded under his regime and during his earlier stint as San Francisco mayor. This is like the guy who burned down your house showing up afterward and saying, “These unsightly ashes are unacceptable. How dare you!”
The governor, who won the job six years ago, now suddenly wants everyone to be “urgent.”
“People are done. If we don’t deal with this, we don’t deserve to be in office,” Mr. Newsom said, tearing into a rancid, garbage-strewn campsite on state property under Interstate 10 in Los Angeles, alongside a crew of state workers with orange vests.
You hit the nail on the head, Newsom. You didn’t do anything about it for years, and you don’t deserve to be in office. He terms out in ’26, so he won’t be governor, but we know he has his sights set on higher office, which should scare us all.
This video depicts the complete lack of authenticity shown so expertly by Democrat presidential nominee Kamala Harris recently on the campaign trail:
And yet #GruesomeNewsom @GavinNewsom has let it run unchecked and rampant in his state and DID NOTHING but encourage it and stand by and let lawlessness run his cities into the ground! F OFF! https://t.co/ex11xT3ZGw
— Its Prime Time (@BaghdadBarbie03) August 8, 2024
So, after all these years of helping bring on this problem, he’s now suddenly issued an executive order and shown up in his “I’m such a regular guy” tight T-shirt? That should fix everything:
California Governor @GavinNewsom is in Mission Hills, CA helping clear-out a homeless encampment. About 2 weeks ago Newsom issued an executive order telling state officials to take down homeless camps. He tells me cities need to have more urgency. #California pic.twitter.com/Lkamf7B4to
— Matthew Seedorff (@MattSeedorff) August 8, 2024
He’s particularly annoyed with leaders in LA, who aren’t jumping aboard with his newfound passion and are resisting his sudden awakening:
Since July 25, when the governor urged California cities to dismantle the street camps that have come to define the state’s homelessness crisis, leaders in Los Angeles have been particularly resistant to Mr. Newsom, making clear that they plan to deal with the issue in their own way and on their own timetable…
His mission, he said, was part public service, part political flex. The governor said that he particularly wanted more “urgency” from the leaders of Los Angeles County, home to nearly 10 million Californians, where unsheltered homelessness decreased last year at about half the rate as it did in the City of Los Angeles, its largest jurisdiction.
“We need partners, not sparring partners,” Mr. Newsom said. “If we can’t move Los Angeles County, we’re not going to move the state.”
These are strong statements that sound good on TV. But the same guy who made them recently vetoed a bill that would have required that authorities actually keep track of the hundreds of millions of dollars they’ve thrown at the situation (with little to nothing to show for it).
Read RedState’s Jennifer O’Connell’s excellent reporting on that ridiculousness.
Newsom’s Mess: Fed Audit Finds Failure to Safeguard Millions of Dollars in Homelessness Funding
Meanwhile, Newsom’s little photo-op does not—unfortunately for him—erase his disastrous record.
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As I’ve noted before, there’s one video that tells you everything you need to know about Newsom and his record on homelessness. He can make all the photo-ops he wants, but he’s shown for years that he simply can’t be trusted:
It’s unclear what Gov. Hair Gel’s next move is. As we’ve reported, he seems to have little interest left in the Golden State and is maneuvering for a national role, perhaps a Cabinet seat in a (God forbid) Kamala Harris administration. Or maybe he’s setting himself up for a ’28 presidential run?
Whatever it is, we must never stop reminding him—and the electorate—of his record of destruction.
