ou gotta hand it to Gavin Newsom. As far as politicians, go, he is a politician’s politician. Which is to say, he has the morals of an electric eel, the ethics of a bank robber, and the values of a Mafia boss. He’ll do anything, say anything, for power and approval, though he’d always take the power over the approval. Case in point: He just threw fellow lefty Democrat and L.A. Mayor Karen Bass right under a bus so he doesn’t have to accept any responsibility for the trainwreck that is California. Not one thing – affordability, gas prices, housing prices, auto insurance prices, homelessness, etc. – has improved under his watch. In fact, everything has gotten noticably worse. Oh sure, he’ll tell you he’s led the state to become the world’s 4th largest economy, but the downside is literally everything else about life in California is worse under his watch.
On the homelessness issue alone, Newsom has been a horrible failure. Worse, he pinned the problem on local officials during an appearance on “The Prof G Pod” podcast with host Scott Galloway. He barely even acknowledged that, as leader of the state for the past 7 years, he’s been a huge failure on the issue. No doubt, Bass, who’s in a real brawl for her reelection against Palisades fire victim Spencer Pratt, didn’t think much of Newsom’s podcast answer: On the “The Prof G Pod” podcast, Galloway pointed to Los Angeles as an example [of failure]: “LA does feel like as a proxy for – if Democrats can’t figure out a way to run cities and operate them well, we’re just going to have trouble across the whole federal stack in terms of elections.” [Ya think, Gav?] While Newsom said that progress has been made in California, he admitted it has not been visible or felt as much as it should.
The Homelessness Crisis
“The ultimate manifestation of that failure, the byproduct of the affordability crisis, what’s happening as it relates to street homelessness,” he said. “Unsheltered homelessness, encampments in particular, the permissiveness particularly that came at peak during and after COVID as it relates to tents out on the streets and sidewalks, the quality of life, the diminution of quality of life and this notion that we couldn’t do anything about it.” What happened to the $24 billion, buddy? He’d better be hoping and praying that GOP candidate Steve Hilton doesn’t win the governor’s race to replace him: “Somehow we were applying the standard that it was compassionate to step over people in the streets and the sidewalks in the name of, you know, their personal liberty,” he said.
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