Gov. Gavin Newsom Trying to Distance Himself from Himself with Latest Vanity Podcast

 

By Katy Grimes | The California Globe

Apparently concerned about his political future, California Governor Gavin Newsom announced his latest vanity project – another podcast, this one called, “This is Gavin Newsom”, as if we couldn’t figure that out.

California’s Governor is so desperate to control the narrative and news surrounding his tenuous job and multiple crises, he admits it:

“We need to change the conversation. And that’s why I’m launching a new podcast,” Newsom said on X Wednesday. “And this is going to be anything but the ordinary ‘politician’ podcast. I’m going to be talking with people I directly disagree with, as well as people I look up to. But more important than anything else, I’ll be talking with you, the listener.”

Newsom is trying to distance himself from himself. And in doing so, thinks he can pass off his new podcast as a friendly FDR-style fireside chat, in which he can garner Americans’ support for his anti-American policies: blaming climate change for his own failures, his undermining the voters’ passage of Prop. 36 to make crime illegal again, allowing boys in girls sports, violating parental rights in public schools, making California the Abortion Sanctuary State, providing illegal aliens Medi-Cal health care, starving the state of water, his war on the oil and gas industry… and so much more.

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California Democrats grow quieter on ‘sanctuary’ for immigrants as Trump promises mass deportation

By Yue Stella Yu | CalMatters

In 2017, faced with President Donald Trump’s threat to crack down on illegal immigration, Gavin Newsom urged his fellow Democrats to fight back with “sanctuary policies” aimed to shield immigrants in the country without authorization from deportations.

“You are looking at the poster child for sanctuary policy,” Newsom, then California’s lieutenant governor, said on one of his gubernatorial campaign stops that year. He touted his record as former mayor of San Francisco, which has for decades limited local law enforcement’s participation in federal immigration operations.

“What the heck is wrong with the Democratic Party that we don’t have the courage to stand up for it?” Newsom said. “…It’s about people. And it’s about a fundamental principle about trust.”

 

But the once-vocal Trump critic has now grown quieter: As Trump again promises sweeping deportations, Newsom has avoided the word “sanctuary” after frequently evoking it during Trump’s first term. He has vetoed before — and now promised to veto again — legislation that would expand “sanctuary” protections to immigrants in state custody.

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California lawmakers scramble to fix ‘lemon’ vehicle law — again

By Ryan Sabalow | CalMatters

For more than half a century, California’s “lemon” law was considered one of the best in the nation at giving consumers the legal right to demand car companies fix or replace defective vehicles still under warranty.

Now, California lawmakers are scrambling to repair recent changes they made to the law to satisfy the very car companies accused of making so many lemon vehicles that their lawsuits have been clogging the state’s courts.

But the “fixes” lawmakers are considering have angered consumer groups, frustrated legislators and seemingly divided the car makers between ones that face a lot of lemon lawsuits and the ones that don’t.

“I think what we have is a messy and frankly — all due respect — illogical resulting situation,” Sen. Roger Niello, a Republican whose family owns several car dealerships in the Sacramento area, said at a hearing last week. “I feel like I’m in Alice in Wonderland, quite frankly. What’s up is down and what’s down is up.”

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