Newsom and fraud in California
Someone needs to make this make sense
“Tim Walz is getting destroyed for a billion dollar fraud scandal, but nobody’s talking about California
– Tim Walz lost only a billion dollars. Federal investigation, people going to prison
– Gavin Newsom, $32 billion in unemployment fraud, $13 billion in Medi-Cal, $6 billion in food stamps. That’s over $50 billion gone
– Tim Walz is facing house oversight, treasuries investigating terrorist ties
– Gavin Newsom, no investigation, no oversight, no consequences.
One party rule, zero accountability.
Well, both states have Democrat rule. But Walz is facing some accountability only because he is a political liability to the Democrats, not because of the fraud itself although that’s the ostensible reason. Walz is an odd bird who just isn’t politically viable outside of Minnesota, and probably not now even in Minnesota.
Newsom is another story, for the simple reason that he’s much better-looking and much smoother. He is considered the leading 2028 Democrat candidate for president (or certainly one of them), not for any actual accomplishments but for those two reasons: looks and smoothness.
AAAND…Pelosi’s nephew?
(Adds new meaning to “insider trading”, perhaps….)
In any event, another Cal-based corporation has—finally—decided to cut bait…to the tune of, oh, 1.1 billion…
“Valero Eats $1.1 Billion Loss to Escape Newsom’s Toxic California”—
https://legalinsurrection.com/2025/12/valero-eats-1-1-billion-loss-to-escape-newsoms-toxic-california/
File under: Scummy Cal.
Best to keep any dirt on him until he’s nominated.
California is a target rich environment for opposition research. Billionaire Tom Steyer is running for governor, not against Newsom, who is termed out. He is running against the poor condition of the state. His commercials talk about the cost of living, poor schools, the huge number of bums and junkies. The commercials are plastering the airwaves.
But Newsom, or whoever the Democrat candidate is, will not run against the Republican candidate. He will run against Trump. That has worked repeatedly for the Democrats in California and probably will work in other left-leaning states. The question is how it plays in the swing states if Trump is not on the ballot.
Is that “smoothness” or “slickness”?
Either way, he creeps me out.
I’d go with “revoltingly slippery sliminess” but it’s far worse than that.
OMMV.
I love that Newsom can be on camera for about five minutes with his prepared shtick and then completely runs out of steam. He’s a perfect soundbite candidate if you can wrap it up quickly without rebuttals.
I always thought that Grey Davis was the ultimate blow-dried politician, utterly lacking in substance. A creation of Bob Shrum. (RIP 2024) Newsom is not much different.
I don’t really find Newsom attractive, but then, I didn’t fall for Bill Clinton either. Newsom always seems so insincere, even when not outright lying. He’s always acting a part.
Kate on December 16, 2025 at 8:32 pm:
” Newsom always seems so insincere, even when not outright lying. He’s always acting a part.”
Whereupon I had the thought that if you squint just right, Newsom looks somewhat like Martin Sheen on the West Wing.
Another scandal is brewing in Sacramento. An Annex to the State Capitol building is coming under scrutiny by at least one reporter. It seems $1.1 BILLION dollars was earmarked for this project, that has somehow evaded oversight and regular updates about costs and the overall details, which by state law are required but have been totally ignored.
One party (super-majority no less) rule is awesome. So much democracy.
Just another high-speed train.
And another.
And another.
(Cf. the somehow “way-over-budget” grotesque monstrosity slated to be “The Barack Obama Presidential
LibraryUrban Fortress.)Which reminds one: the Democratic Party candidate had better win in 2028 so that the grift-generated, tax-embezzlement financing schemes supporting blue cities and states will be able to get those cities and states out of the stupendous budget hole they’re currently—and understandably—in. (To be sure, “Harris” would have taken care of the shortfall, and then some, had she managed to fake even the faintest modicum of ability…but as we all know, this was so beyond her that the best and brightest were “forced” to conclude that “America was not yet ready to elect a female President”, etc.).
Indeed, follow the grift…in all its glory…
Fraud International, Inc.
…wherein the most fascinating thing about the following video, aside from the number of cars (and undamaged buildings), are the scads of clearly emaciated people barely able to walk—limping and lurching around like human skeletons.
It simply defies belief.
https://instapundit.com/763062/
LXE – I had similar thoughts. Time it one of two ways: either drop the indictments right after the Dem convention, or do it so that the trials are happening between the conventions and election day.
No matter how miserable Newsom’s record is in governing Calif., about half of all voters in the USA will vote for him in the next presidential election.
This is a sad, sad indictment of a significant percentage of american voters.
The fact that Newsom has a very good chance of becoming president is truly frightening. And there is a very high probability that the next president will need to appoint a justice (or two) to the SCOTUS.
Can you imagine; one or two more justices in the mold of Kentanji Jackson.
The USA is in very deep shit when incompetent, deceitful frauds like Newsom or Cackling Harris – and their ilk – have a good chance of becoming president and hate-America-first people like Ketanji Jackson can wind up on the SCOTUS.