Californians Paid $400 Million Just to Say No
State Belches in Relief after Gavin Newsom’s Most Expensive Dinner
How Do You Spell R-E-L-I-E-F: I’d like to say I knew it would play out like this all along. But like a lot of people, I was hugely relieved that what we told ourselves “couldn’t happen” actually didn’t. For a change.
Along the way, however, more than $120 million in campaign donations got picked from the pockets of the unholy, and taxpayers will be on the hook for $278 million just to maintain — and no doubt reinforce — the status quo.
I’ve never been a huge fan of Gavin Newsom. Maybe it’s the hair, or maybe I can’t get over the fact he was briefly married to Kimberly Guilfoyle — operatic shriek and harridan of the right, not to mention Don Junior’s main squeeze. But the stubborn fact is Newsom’s done a better-than-decent job trying to navigate a state big enough to be five separate countries through a minefield of insanely impossible disasters — COVID, wildfires, drought, homelessness, and housing — all exploding simultaneously.
