In an interview with the &#8220;<a href="https://radio.foxnews.com/podcast/fox-news-rundown/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Fox News Rundown</a>&#8221; podcast Thursday, former campaign manager and senior adviser to President Barack Obama, David Plouffe, said that, despite the coronavirus crisis, President Trump is going to turn out his voters &#8220;almost at a historical level&#8221; in November, while Democratic frontrunner Joe Biden&#8217;s inability to get much national attention during the crisis is putting him at a serious disadvantage.
&#8220;You look at the economic situation and say, &#8216;How can an incumbent win in that?&#8217; But, you know, no one&#8217;s blaming Trump for the damage,&#8221; Plouffe said, as reported by <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/david-plouffe-trump-biden-coronavirus">Fox News</a>.
&#8220;I think if you can lay his crisis response at his feet and connect that to the economy, I do think that&#8217;s some headwind he&#8217;s got to run into,&#8221; he said. But so far, he suggested, that&#8217;s not what&#8217;s taking place. Instead, the American people are looking to Trump and other leaders with actual authority, like New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) and California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D), while Biden has largely fallen off the national radar.
&#8220;But, almost no matter what happens,&#8221; said Plouffe, the question remains if Trump can win Rust Belt and other battleground states like Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Florida. The former Obama 2008 campaign manager&#8217;s answer: &#8220;Sure.&#8221;
The reason, he explained, is that Trump&#8217;s base is so &#8220;solid,&#8221; and, he predicts, pro-Trump turnout will be massive. &#8220;I think he&#8217;s going to turn out voters almost at a historical level on his behalf,&#8221; Plouffe said, &#8220;so that makes him very dangerous if you&#8217;re Joe Biden.&#8221;
What&#8217;s making it even harder for Biden, he suggested, is that the crisis is eclipsing the usual campaign season to such a degree that Biden has been forced far into the background &#8212; and &#8220;there&#8217;s nothing he can do about it.&#8221;
&#8220;He&#8217;s not in office. He&#8217;s not a governor. He&#8217;s not the president,&#8221; said Plouffe, as Fox reports. &#8220;And truthfully, Andrew Cuomo, Gavin Newsom [and] Donald Trump, citizens want to hear from those folks because they&#8217;re the folks making decisions.&#8221;
Biden is left having to &#8220;leverage&#8221; interviews and social media every day in an attempt to gain some national attention in the midst of the new cycle-dominating, economy-crushing crisis.
Plouffe also offered his prediction about what the next four years would be under whichever candidate wins. It will be a term &#8220;defined&#8221; by attempting to dig the country out of &#8220;a really deep economic hole,&#8221; he said.
With the Democratic Party already pushing back the date of its national convention from July to August and much talk about a &#8220;virtual convention,&#8221; Plouffe said that the election might also have to be conducted in an unprecedented manner, perhaps entirely by mail-in.
As a result of the state-wide shutdowns of entire industries, a historic number of people have filed for unemployment. In just two weeks, nearly <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/labor-department-reveals-highest-ever-jobless-claims-6-6-million-last-week-nearly-10-million-in-2-weeks">10 million</a> Americans filed jobless claims, blowing away any previous records. Before three weeks ago, the highest number of unemployment claims in the country&#8217;s history was 695,000, which occurred in 1982. In a two-week stretch since the lockdowns orders have been rolling out, 3.3 million and 6.6 million people have filed for unemployment.
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/read-trumps-devastating-open-letter-to-schumer-i-never-knew-how-bad-a-senator-you-are">READ: Trump’s Devastating Open Letter To Schumer: ‘I Never Knew How Bad A Senator You Are’</a>

David Plouffe

Ex-Obama Campaign Manager Explains How Crisis Not Hurting Trump, Setting Back Biden

Andrew Cuomo

Barack Obama

Donald Trump

Gavin Newsom

Joe Biden

California Democratic Governor Gavin Newsom admitted during a coronavirus press conference on Wednesday that he wants to take advantage of the pandemic to implement a leftist political agenda.
Newsom was asked during the news conference if he saw &#8220;potential&#8221; to use the coronavirus &#8220;crisis&#8221; to push for the implementation of a &#8220;new progressive era.&#8221;
After talking for a couple of minutes while trying to qualify his response, Newsom said, &#8220;forgive me for being long-winded, but absolutely we see this as an opportunity to reshape the way we do business and how we govern.&#8221;
Newsom continued, &#8220;And that shouldn&#8217;t put shivers up the spines of you know one party or the other. I think it&#8217;s an opportunity a new for both parties to come together and meet this moment and really start to think more systemically, not situationally, not just about getting out of this moment, but more sustainably and systemically to consider where we can go together in this historic moment if we meet it at a national level, in a state, and sub-national level.&#8221;
&#8220;So, the answer is yes,&#8221; Newsom concluded.
WATCH:
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Calif. Gov. <a href="https://twitter.com/GavinNewsom?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@GavinNewsom</a>: Coronavirus an opportunity to create a new &quot;progressive era&quot;
&quot;We see this as an opportunity to reshape the way we do business and how we govern.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/LongRVqcMS">pic.twitter.com/LongRVqcMS</a>
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<blockquote>QUESTION: I&#8217;m wondering if you see the potential as some others in the party do for a new progressive era, if you want to call it that, in national politics and policy and whether there&#8217;s the opportunity for additionally progressive steps such as the ones that I listed on the national and state level going forward you know because of its crisis?
CALIFORNIA GOVERNOR GAVIN NEWSOM: You know we&#8217;ve had some very deep policy conversations in this space now for weeks let us remind which despite the fact that California was running a historic economic output in terms of our GDP growth, in terms of our net, well from job creation to low unemployment, to record reserves, surpluses. The wealth distribution, the income inequality, was not something that was substantially improving and that&#8217;s the case across the rest of the world. As IT and globalization detonate at the same time you&#8217;re seeing that concentration and fewer and fewer hands, the middle-class feeling squeezed increasingly, the trend lines were suggesting what is self-evident become a headline and that is we were going from a three class society to a two class society, so something was fundamentally flawed in that global context manifested quite acutely here in the state of California, the richest and the poorest state where the number of the most impoverished metros in the country and we long been struggling to address those issues.
So, I see this quite substantively through that lens, that equity lens, looking at those folks that never fully recovered and you look at medium wages for folks coming out of 2008, 2009 in the Great Recession that haven&#8217;t fully recovered even today that are struggling. And so, what is going to happen to those folks in this current crisis and what&#8217;s the opportunity to your question for reimagining a more progressive era as it relates to capitalism? And I&#8217;m a capitalist, I&#8217;m a small business owner, I&#8217;m a job creator, my customers are the job creators, I&#8217;m beneficiary of their support and that helps build that demand that allows me to hire more people and so as a former business owner, now governor, I have had that experience and I have that appreciation of the importance of consumer confidence, consumer spending, in a vibrant middle class and so yes, forgive me for being long-winded, but absolutely we see this as an opportunity to reshape the way we do business and how we govern.
And that shouldn&#8217;t put shivers up the spines of you know one party or the other. I think it&#8217;s an opportunity a new for both parties to come together and meet this moment and really start to think more systemically, not situationally, not just about getting out of this moment, but more sustainably and systemically to consider where we can go together in this historic moment if we meet it at a national level, in a state, and sub-national level. So, the answer is yes.</blockquote>

California Governor Gavin Newsom And Attorney General Becerra Announce Legal Action On Immigration

Gavin Newsom: Coronavirus Pandemic ‘Opportunity’ To Implement Leftist Agenda

California

Coronavirus

The following is satirical.
Officials around the country are devising new plans to deal with the Chi-Com Flu. In New York City, Mayor Vladimir de Blasio has announced that, in order to halt the spread of the virus, he will from now on dress in a bright red military uniform with tremendous epaulettes decorated with a braided gold fringe.
De Blasio, or Generalissimo as he’ll now be known, will proceed to march back and forth on the balcony of Gracie Mansion, shouting commands at New Yorkers to remain indoors until everyone realizes that it is he who should be president and not someone else without a bright red uniform and golden epaulettes and who is not named de Blasio.
In California, Governor Gavin Newsom is dealing with the virus by grinning in a genuinely weird and sort of scary way that seems totally unrelated to the meaningless but high-sounding phrases coming out of his mouth.
After that, he plans to order California neighbors to spy on one another to make sure no one is taking more walks than he’s supposed to. He’ll also order police helicopters to fly overhead for no apparent reason in order to create a sense of futuristic paranoia and oppression.
Baltimore Mayor Jack Young has asked city residents to stop shooting each other in order to free up hospital beds for people with the virus. Baltimorans hope these restrictions will be lifted quickly so as not to harm the city’s economy, which mostly revolves around bullets.
The news media is also chipping in by screaming inflated disease numbers completely out of context and describing worst case scenarios as if they were inevitable while staring into cameras with wide-eyed, fear-haunted faces, before moving on to recount individual agonizing deaths from the virus hoping they will serve an example of how to irresponsibly spread unnecessary terror.
And of course, governors, mayors and the news media will all continue working together to blame Donald Trump for whatever happens next.
More satire from Andrew Klavan: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/flu-side-effects-include-shrinking-reporters-and-forgotten-democrat-candidates-satire">Flu Side Effects Include Shrinking Reporters And Forgotten Democrat Candidates </a>

New York City Mayor Bill De Blasio Accepts Resignation Of NYPD Commissioner O&#8217;Neill, And Names Predecessor

Officials Vow To Battle Chi-Com Flu With Completely Useless But Oppressive Measures [Satire]

Bill de Blasio

China

Satire

Nearly two hundred ventilators sent to California from the federal government needed repairs, California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) said on Saturday. Yet instead of taking the opportunity to bash Trump, Newsom said he sent the ventilators to be repaired and that they would be returned &#8211; working &#8211; on Monday.
Newsom said during a press conference that the ventilators had been sent by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and that they were being repaired by Bloom Energy, The Hill <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/490033-newsom-170-ventilators-sent-from-federal-government-arrived-not-working?amp">reported</a>.
&#8220;Rather than lamenting about it, rather than complaining about it, rather than pointing fingers, rather than generating headlines in order to generate more stress and anxiety, we got a car and a truck,&#8221; Newsom said after he toured the facility where the ventilators would be repaired. “We had those 170 brought here to this facility at 8 a.m. this morning, and they are quite literally working on those ventilators right now.&#8221;
On Twitter, Newsom said the ventilators were expected to be fixed and back in Los Angeles on Monday.
“That’s the spirit of CA,” he added.
Newsom said he learned about the ventilator issues after visiting Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti (D) last week, The Hill reported.
In a <a href="https://www.gov.ca.gov/2020/03/28/video-release-in-sunnyvale-governor-newsom-and-mayor-liccardo-tour-bloom-energy-which-is-refurbishing-ventilators-for-use-in-california-hospitals-during-covid-19-outbreak/">statement</a> released Saturday, Newsom’s office explained that Bloom Energy had “transformed its production facility to quickly refurbish life-saving ventilators to provide California with the critical equipment it needs to prepare for a potential surge in COVID-19 patients.”
The statement also explained that California had 7,500 ventilators across its hospital systems when the coronavirus outbreak began – and set a goal to acquire an additional 10,000 ventilators.
“To date, the state has added 4,252 ventilators, approximately 1,000 of which needed to be refurbished. Through a partnership with the state, Bloom Energy is working to refurbish ventilators in real time. Yesterday, Bloom Energy refurbished 80 ventilators and it expects to refurbish an additional 120 ventilators today,” the statement said.
The statement also announced that “more than 350 businesses and manufacturers in California reached out to offer to re-tool their facilities to make medical supplies and essential products during this crisis.” The Gap and St. John Knits, for example, have committed to making masks, gowns, and scrubs for hospital workers. Anheuser-Busch and other distilleries are working to make hand sanitizer.
Of course, Newsom’s mention of the broken ventilators still created the headlines he claimed he didn’t want. The Hill, for example, used the headline, “California governor: 170 ventilators sent from Trump administration were &#8216;not working.&#8217;” Time used a similar headline: “<a href="https://time.com/5812147/california-coronavirus-broken-ventilators/">California Gov. Gavin Newsom Says Federal Government Sent &#8216;170 Broken Ventilators.&#8217;</a>”
It is unclear whether Newsom intended for this to happen in an effort to knock the Trump administration, or if he simply wanted to highlight how a local business was helping with the crisis – or both.
So far, no other state has said it has received broken ventilators from the federal government. Multiple countries that received coronavirus tests from China, however, said a majority of the tests were faulty. Dutch officials <a href="https://www.straitstimes.com/world/europe/coronavirus-netherlands-recalls-defective-masks-imported-from-china">also said</a> some 600,000 masks received from China “did not close over the face properly, or had defective filters.”

170 Ventilators Shipped To California Didn’t Work, But Instead Of Blaming Trump, Governor Had Them Fixed

California Gov. Gavin Newsom announced Wednesday that five major U.S. banks will temporarily suspend home mortgage payments for people who have been affected by the coronavirus quarantine.
The Associated Press <a href="https://amp.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/mar/25/gavin-newsom-4-banks-suspend-mortgage-payments/">reported</a> that Wells Fargo, U.S. Bank, Citi, and JP Morgan Chase would “defer mortgage payments for three months,” and that state “chartered banks and credit unions will offer similar deferrals.”
“I thought the Great Recession was overwhelming, and we really had to react. This one is much bigger,” Diana Dykstra, CEO of the California-Nevada Credit Union League, told the AP. “People’s health is on the line, it’s deeper and broader than that crisis was. It was a housing crisis. This is a crisis for everyone.”
Bank of America, the fifth bank, was criticized by Newsom for allegedly agreeing to only defer mortgage payments for one month, but spokesman Bill Halldin told the AP the 30-day time frame was not a limit and that they company would consider further delaying payments depending on how long the crisis lasts.
Newsom, the AP reported, also explained that more than “1 million Californians have filed for unemployment benefits since March 13 as businesses shut down or dramatically scaled back because of a statewide ‘stay-at-home’ order to prevent the spread of the virus.” More than 3 million Americans across the country have filed for unemployment benefits during that time, meaning California alone accounts for a third of the total number.
Newsom also said the Golden State is increasing its supply of medical equipment, protective gear, and hospital beds. In a press conference on Sunday, President Donald Trump announced that California would receive four large medical stations with 2,000 beds and help from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), as well as the help of a U.S. Navy hospital ship on the coast near Los Angeles. The president also said he would be sending thousands upon thousands of respirators, surgical masks, face shields, coveralls, and gloves to the state.
California would further be helped by the $2 trillion coronavirus relief bill passed by congress this week. As The Daily Wire previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/senate-passes-2-trillion-relief-bill-pelosi-has-message-for-disappointed-house-democrats">reported</a>, the bill amounted “to some $2.2 trillion in relief measures, including $1,200 checks to most American adults (and another $500 for most children), a $500 billion loan program for struggling businesses, cities and states, nearly $400 billion for employee-retention funds for small businesses and another $130 billion for hospitals, among other provisions.”
The bill would also expand unemployment benefits, increasing weekly benefits by up to $600 on top of what is already provided by states, meaning someone in California could receive up to $1,000 a week in unemployment benefits in addition to the one-time $1,200 checks that would be passed out to American adults. The bill is expected to pass the House of Representatives soon. Democrats had previously blocked a bill that would bring relief for middle-class families while introducing their own bill loaded with left-wing demands that had nothing to do with the coronavirus crisis.
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/senate-passes-2-trillion-relief-bill-pelosi-has-message-for-disappointed-house-democrats">Senate Passes $2 Trillion Relief Bill; Pelosi Has Message For ‘Disappointed’ House Democrats</a>
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-ted-cruz-explains-how-2-trillion-relief-bill-got-passed-and-what-it-means-for-americans">WATCH: Ted Cruz Explains How The $2 Trillion Relief Bill Got Passed And What It Means For Americans</a>

Gov. Gavin Newsom Announces Five Major Banks Won’t Collect Mortgage Payments From Those Affected By Coronavirus Quarantine

Economy

Housing

A newly released poll has found that President Donald Trump&#8217;s approval rating for how he has handled the coronavirus outbreak has skyrocketed over the last week.
&#8220;In the new poll, 55% of Americans approve of the president&#8217;s management of the crisis, compared to 43% who disapprove,&#8221; ABC News <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/coronavirus-upends-nation-americans-lives-changed-pandemic-poll/story?id=69696172">reported</a>. &#8220;Trump’s approval on this issue is up from last week, when the numbers were nearly reversed. Only 43% approved of Trump&#8217;s handling of the pandemic and 54% disapproved in last week&#8217;s poll.&#8221;
The poll comes after China&#8217;s lies and cover-up of a coronavirus outbreak in Wuhan has thrown the world into a recession and has upended life for billions of people across the world.
&#8220;Over the course of a week, the president has shifted his approach and tone, giving daily briefings on the crisis since Saturday, alongside the White House task force leading the response to the coronavirus and announcing some severe measures to combat the virus,&#8221; ABC News added. &#8220;During the two days in which the poll was conducted, the president signed an economic relief bill to help combat the coronavirus, ensuring free testing and paid leave for certain workers, governors and local leaders across the country have imposed more stringent restrictions on travel and day-to-day movements, trading on Wall Street was halted again after the stock market continued to plunge and the number of confirmed cases of the coronavirus hiked to over 9,000 across all 50 states.&#8221;
The number of confirmed cases in the U.S. increased by over 4,000 on Thursday as the U.S. now has over 14,000 confirmed cases, a number that is growing rapidly.
The rapid spread of the coronavirus in California led Democrat Governor Gavin Newsom to declare a shelter-in-place order to stop the rapid spread so that the state&#8217;s hospitals do not get overwhelmed.
“A state as large as ours, a nation-state, is many parts, but at the end of the day, we are one body,” Newsom said. “There is a mutuality and there’s a recognition of our interdependence that requires of this moment that we direct a statewide order for people to stay at home.”
“That directive goes into force and effect this evening and we are confident that the people of the state of California will abide by it, will do the right thing, they’ll meet this moment, they’ll step up, as they have over the course of the last number of weeks to protect themselves, to protect their families, and to protect the broader community in this great state in the world that we reside in,” Newsom continued.
“As I say, there is a social contract here, people I think recognize the need to do more and to meet this moment,” Newsom said. “People will self-regulate their behavior, they’ll begin to adjust and adapt as they have been quite significantly. We will have social pressure that will encourage people to do the right thing, just a nod and look saying, ‘hey, maybe you should reconsider just being out there on the beach, being 22 strong at a park.’”
“I don’t believe the people of California need to be told through law enforcement that it’s appropriate just to home isolate, protect themselves, go about the essential patterns of life but do so by socially distancing themselves from others and do so using your common sense,”  Newsom said.
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<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/BREAKING?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#BREAKING</a>: California&#39;s statewide &quot;stay-at-home&quot; order will go into effect tonight. Newsom says he&#39;s &quot;confident&quot; people will abide by the new order <a href="https://t.co/0tthiG4W6R">https://t.co/0tthiG4W6R</a> <a href="https://t.co/NvY7RAOsTI">pic.twitter.com/NvY7RAOsTI</a>
&mdash; CBS Los Angeles (@CBSLA) <a href="https://twitter.com/CBSLA/status/1240816931025928193?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 20, 2020</a></blockquote>
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President Trump Visits FEMA Headquarters

Trump Approval Rating On Handling Of Coronavirus Skyrockets

California Democrat Governor Gavin Newsom announced during a press conference late on Thursday that he has issued a statewide order for the entire state of California to shelter in place due to the outbreak of the coronavirus, which originated in China.
“We’re not victims of circumstance, we can make decisions to meet moments, and this is a moment we need to make tough decisions,” Newsom said. “This is a moment where we need some straight talk and we need to tell people the truth.”
“We need to the bend the curve in the state of California and in order to do that we need to recognize the reality,” Newsom continued. “The fact is, the experience we are having on the ground throughout the state of California, the experience that is manifesting all across the United States, and for that matter, around the rest of the world, requires us to adjust our thinking and to adjust our activities.”
“In the state of California many people are very familiar with these adjustments,” Newsom continued. “A number of days ago, there were six bay area counties that led with stay-at-home orders. Now, as I speak, some 21.3 million Californians reside in a community in a city and or county that have similar orders.”
“A state as large as ours, a nation-state, is many parts, but at the end of the day, we are one body,” Newsom said. “There is a mutuality and there’s a recognition of our interdependence that requires of this moment that we direct a statewide order for people to stay at home.”
“That directive goes into force and effect this evening and we are confident that the people of the state of California will abide by it, will do the right thing, they’ll meet this moment, they’ll step up, as they have over the course of the last number of weeks to protect themselves, to protect their families, and to protect the broader community in this great state in the world that we reside in,” Newsom continued.
Newsom said that the order would be enforced through social pressure from people&#8217;s peers.
“As I say, there is a social contract here, people I think recognize the need to do more and to meet this moment,” Newsom said. “People will self-regulate their behavior, they’ll begin to adjust and adapt as they have been quite significantly. We will have social pressure that will encourage people to do the right thing, just a nod and look saying, ‘hey, maybe you should reconsider just being out there on the beach, being 22 strong at a park.’”
“I don’t believe the people of California need to be told through law enforcement that it’s appropriate just to home isolate, protect themselves, go about the essential patterns of life but do so by socially distancing themselves from others and do so using your common sense,”  Newsom said.
Newsom said that coronavirus outbreak was spreading so quickly that California that the virus would &#8220;impact&#8221; about 56% of California&#8217;s population.
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<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/BREAKING?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#BREAKING</a>: California&#39;s statewide &quot;stay-at-home&quot; order will go into effect tonight. Newsom says he&#39;s &quot;confident&quot; people will abide by the new order <a href="https://t.co/0tthiG4W6R">https://t.co/0tthiG4W6R</a> <a href="https://t.co/NvY7RAOsTI">pic.twitter.com/NvY7RAOsTI</a>
&mdash; CBS Los Angeles (@CBSLA) <a href="https://twitter.com/CBSLA/status/1240816931025928193?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 20, 2020</a></blockquote>
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This report has been updated to include additional information.

California Governor Gavin Newsom tours Long Beach school while seeking support for Proposition 13.

Gavin Newsom Issues Order For All Of California To Stay Home

In a press release and video statement Wednesday, California Governor Gavin Newsom announced the &#8220;significant&#8221; action he has taken to address what modeling indicates could be the massive impact of the coronavirus among the state&#8217;s largest-in-the-nation homeless population, a development that threatens to overwhelm the state&#8217;s healthcare system.
&#8220;People experiencing homelessness are among the most vulnerable to the spread of COVID-19,&#8221; said Newsom in a quote included in the press release. &#8220;California is deploying massive resources to get these vulnerable residents safely into shelter, removing regulatory barriers and securing trailers and hotels to provide immediate housing options for those most at risk. Helping these residents is critical to protecting public health, flattening the curve and slowing the spread of COVID-19.&#8221;
As <a href="https://news.yahoo.com/california-governor-says-60-000-010314386.html">Reuters</a> reports, Newsom revealed in a video statement streamed online Wednesday that modeling has shown that more than 60,000 homeless people could become infected by the virus in California over the next eight weeks. The potential impact of that development on the healthcare system would be severe, Newsom warned.
&#8220;Over the next eight-week period, we have modeled that of the 108,000 unsheltered Californians that are out on the streets, if you had an attack rate of about 56%, you&#8217;re looking at 60-plus thousand individuals that may have COVID-19,&#8221; Newsom said in a Facebook address, as reported by Reuters. &#8220;That creates a deep point of anxiety for the existing population but moreover for our healthcare delivery system, our capacity to move people in and out of the shelters safely without contacting other people and putting them at risk as well.&#8221;
So far, California has seen 598 confirmed cases of COVID-19 infection and at least 17 reported fatalities as a result of the virus.
Below is the <a href="https://www.gov.ca.gov/2020/03/18/governor-newsom-takes-emergency-actions-authorizes-150-million-in-funding-to-protect-homeless-californians-from-covid-19/?fbclid=IwAR2M-hOQjhwEzAY7nDSzXasrgjszOFooB545al-DRxzitvzJ3mAMeT_C_EA">press release</a> from the office of the governor issued Wednesday detailing the governor&#8217;s &#8220;significant, additional actions to protect Californians experiencing homelessness from COVID-19,&#8221; including $150 million in emergency funding specifically to address the homeless crisis, allowing local governments &#8220;flexibility&#8221; in creating emergency shelters, and the purchasing of trailers and the leasing of hotel and motels for emergency housing:
<blockquote>Governor Gavin Newsom today took a series of significant, additional actions to protect Californians experiencing homelessness from COVID-19. The State of California is providing emergency aid to local governments and implementing emergency protective measures to mitigate the spread of COVID-19 among this particularly vulnerable population, many of whom have no option to self-quarantine or isolate.
“People experiencing homelessness are among the most vulnerable to the spread of COVID-19,” said Governor Newsom. “California is deploying massive resources to get these vulnerable residents safely into shelter, removing regulatory barriers and securing trailers and hotels to provide immediate housing options for those most at risk. Helping these residents is critical to protecting public health, flattening the curve and slowing the spread of COVID-19.”
Today’s actions include:
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<li>Emergency Funding: Governor Newsom directed the first allocation of the $500 million in emergency funding recently authorized by the Legislature for COVID-19 related activities – $150 million for local emergency homelessness actions. To deploy this first funding allocation, the state will provide:
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<li>$100 million directly to local governments, for shelter support and emergency housing to address COVID-19 among the homeless population, and</li>
<li>$50 million to purchase travel trailers and lease rooms in hotels, motels, and other facilities in partnership with counties and cities to provide immediate isolation placements throughout the state for homeless individuals.</li>
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<li>Executive Order for Local Flexibility: Governor Newsom <a href="https://www.gov.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/3.18.20-EO.pdf">signed an executive order</a> providing flexibility to local governments to spend their emergency homelessness funding on immediate solutions tailored to combatting COVID-19 and its impacts on the homeless population. The Governor also waived certain regulatory barriers for any shelters or facilities built with this emergency funding.</li>
<li>Public Health Guidance for Homeless Shelters: The California Health &amp; Human Services Agency issued official public health guidance to homeless service providers statewide about social distancing measures in shelters, access to hygiene supplies, health screening protocols, and isolation protocols for people with COVID-19 or those demonstrating symptoms. That guidance is <a href="https://www.bcsh.ca.gov/hcfc/documents/covid19_homeless_guide.pdf">available here</a>.</li>
<li>Purchasing Trailers: The state is immediately procuring 1,309 travel trailers from FEMA and private vendors to provide quarantine capacity – moving people out of shelters and into isolation placements, focused on people with COVID-19 or those demonstrating symptoms. The purposes of this emergency protective measure is to protect healthy people in those facilities and create capacity in the existing shelter network. These trailers will be deployed to California’s largest population centers.</li>
<li>Leasing Hotels &amp; Motels, in Partnership with Counties: The state provided California’s counties with tailored lists of hotels and motels that are potentially available to lease for the next several months. The state is also offering to contact hotels and negotiate leases, if a county requests that assistance. In total, the state has identified over 950 hotels across 53 counties that are potentially eligible for participation in the state’s leasing program. The state and counties have already begun outreach to these hotels and motels now, and when we identify a willing partner, we initiate lease negotiations with the owner.</li>
<li>First Hotel Leases: Yesterday, the state executed hotel leases for the first two properties and is transferring control to Alameda County. This includes a total of 393 rooms in Oakland. These rooms will be put to use as emergency protective measures by the local governments as isolation capacity for homeless individuals who have tested positive for COVID-19 or are symptomatic, or otherwise at significant risk.</li>
</ul>
Unsheltered people living on the streets and those living in large shelter settings are particularly susceptible to COVID-19. The state has previously issued <a href="https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CID/DCDC/CDPH%20Document%20Library/Self_Isolation_Guidance_03.16.20.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">guidance</a> that people 65 years of age and older and those with underlying medical conditions are particularly susceptible to having serious health impacts as a result of the virus, including higher mortality rates.
On Monday, the Governor issued an <a href="https://www.gov.ca.gov/2020/03/16/governor-newsom-issues-executive-order-to-protect-renters-and-homeowners-during-covid-19-pandemic/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">executive order</a> that authorizes local governments to halt evictions for renters and homeowners, slows foreclosures, and protects against utility shutoffs for Californians affected by COVID-19. This order was in part a preventative measure to ensure that low-income Californians do not lose a safe roof over their head as a result of an eviction related to a loss of income or sickness due to COVID-19. The Governor hopes to see other local efforts to protect renters, low-income homeowners, and small businesses, following the leadership of local jurisdictions such as Los Angeles, San Francisco, Sacramento, and San Jose, which have already implemented or are working towards local measures.
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California Governor Gavin Newsom

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On Wednesday evening, California officials announced severe restrictions on events and gatherings, including calling for the cancellation or postponement of all events involving more than 250 people and specifying how smaller events should be managed. The move comes as San Francisco and counties in Washington and Oregon have imposed similar restrictions on gatherings.
California Governor Gavin Newsom announced the state&#8217;s actions in a <a href="https://twitter.com/jessemelgar/status/1237982304733024256?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1237982304733024256&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.businessinsider.com%2Fcalifornia-bans-gatherings-250-prevent-coronavirus-six-foot-spacing-rule-2020-3">press release</a> Wednesday evening.
&#8220;Governor Gavin Newsom announced that California public health officials this evening issued an updated policy on gatherings to protect public health and slow the spread of COVID-19,&#8221; the press release reads. &#8220;The state&#8217;s public health experts have determined that gatherings should be postponed or canceled across the state until at least the end of March. Non-essential gatherings must be limited to no more than 250 people, while smaller events can proceed only if the organizers can implement social distancing of 6 feet per person.&#8221;
&#8220;Gatherings of individuals who are at higher risk for severe illness for COVID-19 should be limited to no more than 10 people, while also following social distancing guidelines,&#8221; the new restrictions specify.
&#8220;Changing our actions for a short period of time will save the life of one or more people you know,&#8221; Newsom said in a statement included in the release. &#8220;That’s the choice before us. Each of us has extraordinary power to slow the spread of this disease. Not holding that concert or community event can have cascading effects — saving dozens of lives and preserving critical health care resources that your family may need a month from now. The people in our lives who are most at risk — seniors and those with underlying health conditions — are depending on all of us to make the right choice.&#8221;
Below is the full text of the California Department of Public Health&#8217;s<a href="https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CID/DCDC/CDPH%20Document%20Library/Gathering_Guidance_03.11.20.pdf"> new policy on gatherings</a> (formatting adjusted):
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To protect public health and slow the rate of transmission of COVID-19, gatherings as described below should be postponed or canceled across the state of California for at least the remainder of the month of March.
The California Department of Public Health finds the following:
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<li>Large gatherings that include 250 people or more should be postponed or canceled.
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<li>This includes gatherings such as concerts, conferences, and professional, college, and school sporting events.</li>
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<li>Smaller gatherings held in venues that do not allow social distancing of six feet per person should be postponed or canceled.
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<li>This includes gatherings in crowded auditoriums, rooms or other venues.</li>
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<li>Gatherings of individuals who are at higher risk for severe illness from COVID-19 should be limited to no more than 10 people.
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<li>This includes gatherings such as those at retirement facilities, assisted living facilities, developmental homes, and support groups for people with health conditions.</li>
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<li>A “gathering” is any event or convening that brings together people in a single room or single space at the same time, such as an auditorium, stadium, arena, large conference room, meeting hall, cafeteria, or any other indoor or outdoor space.</li>
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This applies to all non-essential professional, social, and community gatherings regardless of their sponsor. Gatherings that do not meet the aforementioned criteria should only be conducted when they are essential—that is, if the activity is essential and could not be postponed or achieved without gathering, meaning that some other means of communication could not be used to conduct the essential function.
What will this achieve?
The timely implementation of aggressive strategies that create social distance and those that reduce close contact of people not regularly together, including limiting gatherings, has proven effective in prior pandemics at delaying rates of transmission and reducing illness and death.
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By decreasing the prevalence of disease across California we will:
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<li>Reduce the number of Californians who contract COVID-19 before an effectivetreatment or vaccine is available.</li>
<li>Protect those most likely to experience severe symptoms, such as older Californians andthose with underlying chronic conditions.</li>
<li>Preserve and protect our health care delivery system, including our health care workforce,so they can care for the least healthy individuals in the community for any medicalcondition, not just COVID-19.</li>
<li>Minimize the social and economic impacts of COVID-19 over the long run.</li>
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How long will these limitations apply?
This guidance will remain in place at least through the month of March. As with all guidance that relates to COVID-19 response, authorities will revisit this guidance on a regular basis to evaluate the continued public health need for it and to evaluate if any elements need to be changed. To stay informed, continue to monitor this link: <a href="https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CID/DCDC/Pages/Guidance.aspx">https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CID/DCDC/Pages/Guidance.aspx</a>
What is Social Distancing and how is it achieved?
Social distancing is a practice recommended by public health officials to stop or slow down the spread of contagious diseases. It requires the creation of physical space between individuals who may spread certain infectious diseases. The key is to minimize the number of gatherings as much as possible and to achieve space between individuals when events or activities cannot be modified, postponed, or canceled.
Although the Department expects most events with more than 250 attendees to be postponed or canceled, we emphasize that the venue space does matter. Achieving space between individuals of approximately six feet is advisable. Additionally, there is a particular focus on creating space between individuals who have come together on a one-time or rare basis and who have very different travel patterns such as those coming from multiple countries, states or counties.
What can be done to a make a gathering safer if it is essential or small?
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<li>Stagger activities.</li>
<li>Add frequency of an event to spread out attendance, e.g. hold more, smaller gatherings.</li>
<li>Add distance between where individuals sit or stand around tables.</li>
<li>Add additional hand washing stations and restrooms.</li>
<li>Limit the number of people in lines.</li>
<li>Avoid direct physical contact, such as hand-shaking, holding hands, and hugging.</li>
<li>Extend hours to allow for staggering of attendance or participation.</li>
<li>Use phones, videos or video conferencing to reduce the need for close interactions.</li>
<li>Consider ways to encourage anyone with fever and respiratory symptoms to stay homewhen sick, such as
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<li>Offering refunds or support reselling of tickets for persons who become ill.</li>
<li>Placing messages on websites, tickets, and venue entrances reminding people to protect one another by staying home if sick.</li>
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Examples of Essential Events this Does Not Apply To
The goal of this recommendation is to prevent people physically coming together unnecessarily, where people who have the infection can easily spread it to others. This guidance does not apply to activities such as attendance at regular school classes, work, or essential services.
Please see the <a href="https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CID/DCDC/Pages/Guidance.aspx">guidance for schools document</a> for additional information.
Certain activities are essential to the functioning of our state and must continue. Hence, this does not apply to essential public transportation, airport travel, or shopping at a store or mall. Other <a href="https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CID/DCDC/Pages/Guidance.aspx">specific guidance</a> can be found on the CDPH website to help people take actions that can protect them in those settings.
This does not apply to congregate living situations, including dormitories and homeless encampments. For more information on what can be done to protect homeless individuals, please see the <a href="https://www.bcsh.ca.gov/hcfc/documents/covid19_guidelines.pdf">Guidance for Homeless Assistance Providers on Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19)</a> (PDF).
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California Announces Severe Restrictions On Events, Gatherings

On Monday morning, Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX), who routinely clobbers leftist politicians on Twitter when they assert something outrageous, targeted California governor Gavin Newsom for his ridiculous pronouncement in his State of the State address that a way to solve the rampant homelessness in his state was to have doctors write prescriptions for housing.
Newsom tweeted a snippet of the address, writing, “Doctors should be able to write prescriptions for housing the same way they do for insulin or antibiotics.”
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Doctors should be able to write prescriptions for housing the same way they do for insulin or antibiotics.
&mdash; Gavin Newsom (@GavinNewsom) <a href="https://twitter.com/GavinNewsom/status/1230889348167434240?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 21, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Cruz decided he had heard enough fanciful nonsense, tweeting, “This is the Leftist mind: write a slip of paper &amp; a house will magically appear. Never mind that the person doesn’t have a job, the contractor can’t get a CA permit to build the house, rent control has caused a housing shortage &amp; homeless people are crapping on the doorstep.”
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This is the Leftist mind: write a slip of paper &amp; a house will magically appear. Never mind that the person doesn’t have a job, the contractor can’t get a CA permit to build the house, rent control has caused a housing shortage &amp; homeless people are crapping on the doorstep. 🤡 <a href="https://t.co/giz3z7vHFB">https://t.co/giz3z7vHFB</a>
&mdash; Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) <a href="https://twitter.com/tedcruz/status/1231996492057063427?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 24, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Newsom also tweeted:
<blockquote>10 million Californians—1 in 4—suffer from some type of behavioral health condition. It’s not a narrow issue. It’s not a new issue. Physical health and brain health are inextricably linked. And our healthcare system has been designed to treat only one of those.
Let’s be clear: Massive failures in our mental health system and disinvestment in our social safety net—exacerbated by widening income inequality and our housing shortage— has led us to where we are today: too many Californians left to live on our streets.</blockquote>
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10 million Californians—1 in 4—suffer from some type of behavioral health condition. 
It’s not a narrow issue.
It’s not a new issue.
Physical health and brain health are inextricably linked.
And our healthcare system has been designed to treat only one of those.
&mdash; Gavin Newsom (@GavinNewsom) <a href="https://twitter.com/GavinNewsom/status/1230892301100011520?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 21, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Let’s be clear: Massive failures in our mental health system and disinvestment in our social safety net—exacerbated by widening income inequality and our housing shortage— has led us to where we are today: too many Californians left to live on our streets.
&mdash; Gavin Newsom (@GavinNewsom) <a href="https://twitter.com/GavinNewsom/status/1230896433428979713?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 21, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Cruz eviscerated that, too, writing, “Maybe stop giving them needles that they leave en masse in public parks? And refusing to prosecute them when they engage in theft or vandalism? How ‘bout drug treatment programs instead?”
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Maybe stop giving them needles that they leave en masse in public parks? And refusing to prosecute them when they engage in theft or vandalism? How ‘bout drug treatment programs instead? <a href="https://t.co/r7MXQ5rJYl">https://t.co/r7MXQ5rJYl</a>
&mdash; Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) <a href="https://twitter.com/tedcruz/status/1231996994031378434?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 24, 2020</a></blockquote>
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What made Newsom’s remark about doctors writing prescriptions especially ironic is that it was obviously framed as a soundbite. Yet in that same State of the State address, Newsom stated, “The State of California can no longer treat homelessness and housing insecurity as someone else’s problem, buried below other priorities which are easier to win or better suited for soundbites.”
Yet Newsom framed the issue by using a soundbite of his own.
As <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/democrat-gov-gavin-newsom-doctors-should-be-able-to-prescribe-housing-like-medication">The Daily Wire</a> has reported:
<blockquote>A December <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/homelessness-is-on-the-rise-in-the-u-s-and-one-state-is-driving-it">report</a> from the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) revealed that homelessness is on the rise in the U.S. and that Democrat-controlled California was the main force driving the increase in the U.S. homelessness rate.</blockquote>
“While the rest of the country experienced a combined decrease in homelessness in 2019, significant increases in unsheltered and chronic homelessness on the West Coast, particularly California and Oregon, offset those nationwide decreases, causing an overall increase in homelessness of 2.7 percent in 2019,” HUD <a href="https://www.hud.gov/press/press_releases_media_advisories/HUD_No_19_177">said</a> in a statement. “Twenty-nine states and the District of Columbia reported declines in homelessness between 2018 and 2019, while 21 states reported increases in the number of persons experiencing homelessness. Homelessness in California increased by 21,306 people, or 16.4 percent, which is more than the total national increase of every other state combined.”
In January, Newsom <a href="https://grabien.com/story.php?id=269269">admitted,</a> “Let’s just be candid; the state of California has been nowhere to be found on the damn issue of homelessness &#8230; It’s happened on our watch over the last decade; in particular, it’s really gotten bad over the last decade. And we were just slow to respond.”

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Far-left California Democratic Governor Gavin Newsom said on Wednesday that he believes medical doctors should be able to prescribe people housing in the same manner that they prescribe medication to people who are sick.
&#8220;Health care and housing can no longer be divorced. After all, what’s more fundamental to a person’s well-being than a roof over their head?&#8221; Newsom said during his State of the State address. &#8220;Doctors should be able to write prescriptions for housing the same way they do for insulin or antibiotics.&#8221;
&#8220;Why not?&#8221; Newsom continued. &#8220;That’s the aim of CalAIM, transforming Medi-Cal as we know it, backed by a $695 million budget request to make this real.&#8221;
&#8220;Of course, the effectiveness of all of this hinges on an individual being capable of accepting help, to get off the streets and into treatment in the first place,&#8221; Newsom added. &#8220;Some, tragically, are not. That’s why we need better legal tools, ones that allow local governments, health providers, and law enforcement to more effectively help people access the treatment they need.&#8221;
&#8220;California&#8217;s behavioral health laws may have been ahead of their time, but today, call out for reform,&#8221; Newsom continued. &#8220;We must tailor these policies to reflect the realities of street homelessness today, which are so different than they were 50 or even 15 years ago when these laws were enacted.&#8221;
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Newsom, getting deep: “Doctors should be able to write prescriptions for housing the same way they do for insulin and antibiotics. Why not?” <a href="https://t.co/8BD7eSkla8">pic.twitter.com/8BD7eSkla8</a>
&mdash; Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) <a href="https://twitter.com/tomselliott/status/1230211225713283077?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 19, 2020</a></blockquote>
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A December <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/homelessness-is-on-the-rise-in-the-u-s-and-one-state-is-driving-it">report</a> from the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) revealed that homelessness is on the rise in the U.S. and that Democrat-controlled California was the main force driving the increase in the U.S. homelessness rate.
“While the rest of the country experienced a combined decrease in homelessness in 2019, significant increases in unsheltered and chronic homelessness on the West Coast, particularly California and Oregon, offset those nationwide decreases, causing an overall increase in homelessness of 2.7 percent in 2019,” HUD <a href="https://www.hud.gov/press/press_releases_media_advisories/HUD_No_19_177">said</a> in a statement. “Twenty-nine states and the District of Columbia reported declines in homelessness between 2018 and 2019, while 21 states reported increases in the number of persons experiencing homelessness. Homelessness in California increased by 21,306 people, or 16.4 percent, which is more than the total national increase of every other state combined.”
“As we look across our nation, we see great progress, but we’re also seeing a continued increase in street homelessness along our West Coast where the cost of housing is extremely high,” said HUD Secretary Ben Carson. “In fact, homelessness in California is at a crisis level and needs to be addressed by local and state leaders with crisis-like urgency. Addressing these challenges will require a broader, community-wide response that engages every level of government to compassionately house our fellow citizens who call the streets their home.”
HUD noted the following key findings from its report [emphasis is HUD’s]:
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<li>567,715 people were homeless, representing an overall 2.7 percent increase from 2018 but a nearly 11 percent decline since 2010.</li>
<li>37,085 Veterans were reported as homeless, a decline of 2.1 percent from 2018 and 50 percent since 2010.</li>
<li>53,692 families with children experienced homelessness last January, down nearly 5 percent from 2018 and more than 32 percent since 2010.</li>
<li>Homelessness increased in California by 21,306 people, or 16.4 percent, accounting for more than the entire national increase.</li>
<li>The estimated number of persons experiencing long-term, chronic homelessness increased 8.5 percent between 2018 and 2019. This increase was concentrated on the West Coast, with the largest increases in California.</li>
<li>The number of unaccompanied homeless youth and children in 2019 is estimated to be 35,038, a 3.6 percent decline since 2018. HUD and local communities are engaged in a more intense effort to more accurately account for this important, difficult-to-count population.</li>
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Democrat Gov Gavin Newsom: Doctors Should Be Able To Prescribe Housing Like Medication

On Monday, the head of San Francisco Public Works (SFPW), who refers to himself as “Mr. Clean” on Twitter, and whose department is charged with cleaning up the drug needles, feces and urine on the city’s streets, was arrested by the FBI on suspicion of public corruption.
Mohammed Nuru, the head of SFPW, was arrested on suspicion of accepting bribes for airport concession contracts, NBC Bay Area reported, according to <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/san-francisco-public-works-official-arrested">Fox News</a>. The <a href="https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/SF-Public-Works-Director-Mohammed-Nuru-arrested-15010510.php">San Francisco Chronicle</a> reported, “FBI agents on Monday arrested Nuru, 57, and Bovis, 56, at their Bay Area homes before unsealing a federal complaint Tuesday for one charge of wire fraud. Nuru is separately charged with lying to the FBI after initially being arrested on Jan. 21 and being told to keep quiet about the investigation.”
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This is a sad day for San Francisco. 
These charges against Director Nuru demonstrate the need for much broader reforms. 
We urgently need a top to bottom restructuring of the Dept, with much stronger public oversight, accountability and transparency.<a href="https://t.co/p6SO003TJU">https://t.co/p6SO003TJU</a>
&mdash; Matt Haney (@MattHaneySF) <a href="https://twitter.com/MattHaneySF/status/1222252399617642497?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 28, 2020</a></blockquote>
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The Chronicle added, “Nuru is a visible department head who’s been at the post for nearly two decades and is deeply intertwined in San Francisco’s so-called city family, which includes former Mayors Willie Brown, Gavin Newsom and Ed Lee and current Mayor Breed.” The Chronicle <a href="https://www.sfchronicle.com/local-politics/article/SF-official-arrested-by-FBI-was-go-to-guy-for-15011155.php">opined</a>, “ … a succession of four mayors ignored bright red flags about his performance for decades … Mayors Willie Brown, Gavin Newsom, Ed Lee and London Breed counted on Nuru to respond to a call or text at any hour … City Hall observers said privately that Nuru’s loyalty may have discouraged mayors from looking too closely at how he ran his ship at Public Works <a href="https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/Cleanup-wizard-in-a-messy-scandal-DPW-aide-has-2795062.php">despite documented complaints over the years</a>.”
The Chronicle detailed, “In 2004, a Chronicle investigation uncovered accusations that nine people from Nuru’s nonprofit, SLUG, were forced to do work for Newsom’s mayoral campaign and were pressured into voting for him for mayor. They reportedly were told their jobs with the city would be in danger if they didn&#8217;t cooperate.”
David Anderson, U.S. attorney for the Northern District of California, stated on Tuesday, “The complaint alleges corruption pouring into San Francisco from around the world,” and accused Nuru of “corruption, bribery kickbacks and side deals by one of San Francisco’s highest-ranking public employees.”
Nuru supervises 1,600 employees as well as the design and construction of city facilities.
Nick Bovis, the owner of the sports bar Lefty O-Doul’s, was also arrested. In 2017, the two men supported “Tiny Potties” that the Chronicle said were supposed to resemble the Painted Ladies Victorian homes near Alamo Square.
Supervisor Matt Haney slammed Nuru, saying, “It’s a shock. I think that department has been run like a one-person fiefdom for a long time. There’s an understanding that ‘everything goes through Mohammed,’ and if you piss him off, there’s retribution. I think there needs to be an overhaul of that department. We need much more accountability and transparency there.” He added, “When you have a department head who can make everything or nothing happen, it’s disastrous for both potential corruption and effective city services. Both failed. He was created by mayors for their own purposes to be able to deliver things they wanted.”
Supervisor Sandra Lee Fewer echoed the news “came as a complete shock … There was no buzz at City Hall, and that’s a place where secrets are hard to keep.”

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The fundamental inability to prioritize the sanctity of human life on the part of progressives has struck again. California Governor Gavin Newsom has allocated some $50 million toward ending euthanasia for pets according to the <a href="https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article239174863.html">Sacramento Bee</a>:
<blockquote>Specifically, Newsom’s budget calls for a $50 million one-time general fund allocation to the UC Davis Koret Shelter Medicine Program to develop a grant program for animal shelters, with a goal of helping local communities “achieve the state’s policy goal that no adoptable or treatable dog or cat should be euthanized,” according to the budget summary.</blockquote>
Though the idea of “no kill” animal shelters is not without merit, it’s maddening to witness the constant devaluing of human life among progressives like Newsom amid so many crises we’re confronted with on a societal level. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-feminist-promotes-brags-about-abortion-amanda-prestigiacomo">Infanticide masquerades</a> as a cause, the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/khan-addiction-fuels-homelessness-crisis-not-lack-sharif-khan">addiction epidemic</a> continues to fester, and a profound sense of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/khan-faith-in-a-dark-time">hopelessness</a> grows unabated.
More to the point, when it comes to actual human beings, euthanasia is now actively encouraged in California.
As the <a href="https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/newsom-make-california-no-kill-state-for-animals-but-not-sick-people/">National Review</a> reports:
<blockquote>Ironically, as the governor works to save animals from death, California not only legalized assisted suicide but allows <a href="https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/california-bill-okays-assisted-sucide-encouragement/%20/t%20_blank">encouraging suicide</a> to the terminally ill, and moreover, promulgated a regulation granting access to doctor-prescribed death to dying patients who are <a href="https://www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives/2016/11/a-right-to-assisted-suicide-for-the-institutionalized-mentally-ill%20/t%20_blank">involuntarily committed</a> in psychiatric hospitals due to mental illness.</blockquote>
However, it should all come as no surprise considering progressives have deconstructed morality, tradition, and the very idea of sanctity into oblivion. Their values are completely at the mercy of whim and fancy. Worse, these values often corrode into monstrous proclamations.
Take contemporary philosopher <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Singer">Peter Singer</a>. Singer, a lauded professor of bioethics at Princeton, is notorious for such vile and outlandish statements as the <a href="https://petersinger.info/faq/">following</a> in his very own FAQ found on his website:
<blockquote>Newborn human babies have no sense of their own existence over time. So killing a newborn baby is never equivalent to killing a person, that is, a being who wants to go on living.</blockquote>
Singer is not only an ardent advocate for abortion, he actually dehumanizes newborn infants as well. This is nothing short of madness.
But wait, there’s more! Singer considers the very notion of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanctity_of_life">sanctity of life</a> to be a worn, outdated ideal as he states in his very opening line for a piece in <a href="https://foreignpolicy.com/2009/10/20/the-sanctity-of-life/">Foreign Policy</a>:
<blockquote>During the next 35 years, the traditional view of the sanctity of human life will collapse under pressure from scientific, technological, and demographic developments. By 2040, it may be that only a rump of hard-core, know-nothing religious fundamentalists will defend the view that every human life, from conception to death, is sacrosanct.</blockquote>
Again, Singer is a highly influential philosopher and a professor at one of the world’s most prestigious universities. He’s even considered by <a href="https://www.currentaffairs.org/2017/04/now-peter-singer-argues-that-it-might-be-okay-to-rape-disabled-people">many</a> to be one of the world’s most highly regarded ethicists today.
One is reminded of how necessary and vital something as deceptively simple as Thomas Aquinas’ <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_chain_of_being">Great Chain of Being</a> remains. At the very least, it offered some semblance of meaning and coherence to existence. One could find a secure foothold in the grand scheme of things. More importantly, human life was afforded sanctity and proper dignity and not relegated to the bottom of the barrel as so many secular progressives insist upon doing. That’s not hyperbole or political pandering either. The foul dogma from the likes of Singer proves it. Worse, progressive politicians like Gavin Newsom keep falling for it, hook, line, and sinker.

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President Trump&#8217;s war of words with Democrats over the homelessness crises plaguing progressive strongholds, particularly California and New York, continued over the weekend. The president took to Twitter Saturday to offer some federal help with the escalating problem of homelessness in the Democrat-controlled states, but on one condition: they&#8217;ve got to learn some manners.
Trump&#8217;s feud with Democratic leaders over the growing number of homeless people in the two highest population Democrat-run states — which has reached a critical point in California over the last year, with some <a href="https://bigthink.com/politics-current-affairs/los-angeles-homeless-crisis">60,000 homeless people</a> now living in Los Angeles County alone — ratcheted up in recent days after California Gov. Gavin Newsom attempted to shift some of the blame for the growing crisis to the Trump administration.
Trump’s Department of Housing and Urban Development, Newsom suggested, bears some of the blame for the problem. The department is “not serious” about the issue because they are not prioritizing &#8220;housing first,&#8221; as he believes they should.
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In spin room at <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/DemDebate?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#DemDebate</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/GavinNewsom?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@GavinNewsom</a> slams Trump Administration and HUD for doing “nothing” on “housing first,” the priority to solve homelessness. <a href="https://t.co/AQXRHUwZys">pic.twitter.com/AQXRHUwZys</a>
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Trump did not appreciate the attempt to put the crisis, which has been many years in the making in California, on his administration.
&#8220;Governor Gavin [Newsom] has done a really bad job on taking care of the homeless population in California,&#8221; Trump said in a Christmas Day response to a tweet highlighting Newsom&#8217;s comments (tweet below). &#8220;If he can’t fix the problem, the Federal Govt. will get involved!&#8221;
Trump addressed the issue again on Saturday, this time offering the government&#8217;s help in a slightly different tone.
&#8220;California and New York must do something about their TREMENDOUS Homeless problems,&#8221; he tweeted. &#8220;They are setting records! If their Governors can’t handle the situation, which they should be able to do very easily, they must call and &#8216;politely&#8217; ask for help. Would be so easy with competence!&#8221;
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Governor Gavin N has done a really bad job on taking care of the homeless population in California. If he can’t fix the problem, the Federal Govt. will get involved! <a href="https://t.co/2z8zM37PUA">https://t.co/2z8zM37PUA</a>
&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1209964406324510720?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 25, 2019</a></blockquote>
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California and New York must do something about their TREMENDOUS Homeless problems. They are setting records! If their Governors can’t handle the situation, which they should be able to do very easily, they must call and “politely” ask for help. Would be so easy with competence!
&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1210916803800707072?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 28, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Trump&#8217;s Christmas Day tweet was posted in response to Fox Nation host Tomi Lahren calling out Newsom for the blame-shifting. &#8220;Take accountability, Gavin,&#8221; she <a href="https://twitter.com/TomiLahren/status/1208077788323831809?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1209964406324510720&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.dailywire.com%2Fnews%2Ftrump-urges-strong-response-to-horrific-attack-on-nyc-jewish-community">wrote</a>. &#8220;This is your state and you and your democratic cohorts created this mess. You can’t blame [President Trump] forever. Step away from the hair gel and get to work!!!&#8221;
As highlighted by <a href="https://bigthink.com/politics-current-affairs/los-angeles-homeless-crisis?rebelltitem=1#rebelltitem1">Big Think</a>, research reported by the <a href="https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-homeless-count-encampment-affordable-housing-2019-results-20190604-story.html">Los Angeles Times</a>, paints a grim picture of the state of California, where some of its biggest cities have seen a massive spike in homelessness over the last year. In the city of Los Angeles, the homeless population has topped 36,000 and is nearing 60,000 in the county:
<blockquote>Los Angeles County now boasts nearly 59,000 homeless, a 12 percent increase from last year. In the city itself, there are over 36,000 homeless, representing a 16 percent increase. The city estimates that 75 percent of this number, roughly 44,000 citizens, live outdoors.
It&#8217;s not only Los Angeles. Orange County has noted a <a href="https://www.ocregister.com/2019/04/24/homeless-count-in-orange-county-shows-increase-but-with-more-accurate-picture-of-whos-out-there/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">42 percent uptick</a> in homeless residents, mostly due to new, more comprehensive <a href="https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-homeless-orange-county-increase-study-20190425-story.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">counting measures</a>. In nearby Alameda County, the number of homeless is up <a href="https://www.mercurynews.com/2019/05/16/its-definitely-not-getting-better-homelessness-up-43-percent-in-alameda-county/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">43 percent</a>; in Kern County, a whopping <a href="https://www.bakersfield.com/news/percent-increase-found-in-county-s-homeless-population-over-last/article_b358e6c8-4a8c-11e9-80da-b3062e64dc0f.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">50 percent</a>. Further upstate, San Francisco&#8217;s homeless population has seen a <a href="https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/SF-homeless-population-swells-by-17-in-latest-13851897.php" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">17 percent</a> increase.</blockquote>
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/california-governor-under-fire-after-paroled-immigrant-murder-convict-immediately-taken-into-ice-custody">California Governor Under Fire After Paroled Immigrant Murder Convict Immediately Taken Into ICE Custody</a>

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Trump Offers To Help California, New York Democrats With Their Homeless Problem, On One Condition

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California Democrat Governor Gavin Newsom bragged on Twitter this week about his achievements in fighting homelessness in the state despite recent reports showing that California&#8217;s increase in the number of homeless tops that of all other states combined.
Newsom&#8217;s remarks came after President Donald Trump blasted him and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi in a tweet early Thursday morning, writing: &#8220;Nancy Pelosi’s District in California has rapidly become one of the worst anywhere in the U.S. when it come to the homeless &amp; crime. It has gotten so bad, so fast — she has lost total control and, along with her equally incompetent governor, Gavin Newsom, it is a very sad sight!&#8221;
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Nancy Pelosi’s District in California has rapidly become one of the worst anywhere in the U.S. when it come to the homeless &amp; crime. It has gotten so bad, so fast &#8211; she has lost total control and, along with her equally incompetent governor, Gavin Newsom, it is a very sad sight!
&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1210183406904074240?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 26, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Newsom responded, &#8220;I imagine Trump’s Christmas to be like that scene when the Grinch yells &#8216;I’m an idiot!&#8217; and his echo yells back &#8216;you’re an idiot!!'&#8221;
Newsom then retweeted a tweet from his office&#8217;s official Twitter account, which stated: &#8220;CA is doing more than ever to tackle the homelessness crisis despite the federal administration&#8217;s roadblocks: -$1B investment including $650M in emergency aid. -New legislation to help cities &amp; counties. -Homelessness experts to identify solutions + more.&#8221;
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CA is doing more than ever to tackle the homelessness crisis despite the federal administration&#39;s roadblocks: ➡️$1B investment including $650M in emergency aid ➡️New legislation to help cities &amp; counties ➡️Homelessness experts to identify solutions + more<a href="https://t.co/1ZMjC1eSOt">https://t.co/1ZMjC1eSOt</a>
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Trump fired off a tweet later Friday afternoon: &#8220;California leads the nation, by far, in both the number of homeless people, and the percentage increase in the homeless population — two terrible stats. Crazy Nancy should focus on that in her very down district, and helping her incompetent governor with the big homeless problem!&#8221;
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California leads the nation, by far, in both the number of homeless people, and the percentage increase in the homeless population &#8211; two terrible stats. Crazy Nancy should focus on that in her very down district, and helping her incompetent governor with the big homeless problem!
&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1210347885386178560?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 26, 2019</a></blockquote>
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A report from the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) last week revealed that homelessness was on the rise in the United States in large part because of Democrat-controlled California.
“While the rest of the country experienced a combined decrease in homelessness in 2019, significant increases in unsheltered and chronic homelessness on the West Coast, particularly California and Oregon, offset those nationwide decreases, causing an overall increase in homelessness of 2.7 percent in 2019,” HUD <a href="https://www.hud.gov/press/press_releases_media_advisories/HUD_No_19_177">said</a> in a statement. “Twenty-nine states and the District of Columbia reported declines in homelessness between 2018 and 2019, while 21 states reported increases in the number of persons experiencing homelessness. Homelessness in California increased by 21,306 people, or 16.4 percent, which is more than the total national increase of every other state combined.”
HUD Secretary Ben Carson said in a statement: “As we look across our nation, we see great progress, but we’re also seeing a continued increase in street homelessness along our West Coast where the cost of housing is extremely high. In fact, homelessness in California is at a crisis level and needs to be addressed by local and state leaders with crisis-like urgency. Addressing these challenges will require a broader, community-wide response that engages every level of government to compassionately house our fellow citizens who call the streets their home.”
Conditions in California have become so bad that the state experienced its lowest growth rate in nearly 120 years as people are fleeing the state in record numbers. The Los Angeles Times <a href="https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2019-12-21/california-population-continues-to-decline-with-state-emigration-a-major-factor">reported</a>:
<blockquote>The estimates, which indicate that California’s population grew by 141,300 people between July 1, 2018, and July 1, 2019, nonetheless signal a 0.35% growth rate, “down from 0.57% for the prior 12 months — the two lowest recorded growth rates since 1900,” [Department of Finance] officials underscored.
According to the agency, natural increase (with 452,200 births and 271,400 deaths) accounted for an additional 180,800 people to the state. Still, these gains were offset by losses in net migration — that is, the total amount of people moving into the state minus the total amount of people moving out. Notably, said Eddie Hunsinger, a demographer with the Department of Finance, even though the net international migration added to the state’s population, there was substantial negative domestic net migration, which resulted in a loss of 39,500 residents. This, said the department, marks “the first time since the 2010 Census that California has had more people leaving the state than moving in from abroad or other states.”</blockquote>

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California Governor Gavin Newsom Thinks He Is Doing A Good Job Fighting Homelessness

Pro-&#8220;sanctuary state&#8221; California Governor Gavin Newsom (D) has come under fire from left-wing immigrant rights groups for &#8220;choosing to work with ICE.&#8221;
&#8220;It&#8217;s deeply disappointing that the governor is choosing to work with ICE,&#8221; said Asian Law Caucus attorney Anoop Prasad, as reported by <a href="https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2019-12-23/newsom-paroles-immigrant-who-is-immediately-detained-by-ice">The Los Angeles Times</a>.
Newsom&#8217;s &#8220;deeply disappointing&#8221; actions, according to Prasad and other immigrant rights activists, is his decision to allow a paroled immigrant who served two decades behind bars for murder to be handed over to federal immigration authorities, a process Prasad decried as &#8220;unjust and illogical&#8221; and &#8220;tearing apart communities in California.&#8221;
The outrage from immigration rights groups stems from the case of Cambodian refugee Tith Ton, 40, who served 22 years in prison for the murder of a rival gang member.
Upon Newsom approving his parole, Ton was immediately transferred into the custody of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
Immigration rights groups are demanding that Newsom further expand California&#8217;s &#8220;sanctuary state&#8221; policies by refusing to cooperate with federal authorities in such circumstances.
According to the LA Times, Ton&#8217;s case, as well as other convicts from Southeast Asia facing deportation, drew &#8220;dozens&#8221; of rallyers last month, who gathered on the lawn of the state Capitol to attempt to pressure the state to further thwart federal authorities by ending a corrections policy of notifying them about the release of convicts listed on ICE detainers or arrest warrants.
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Their demand would expand the state&#8217;s already radical &#8220;sanctuary&#8221; policy, the &#8220;Trust Act&#8221; (SB 54), which &#8220;prohibits state and local law enforcement from holding people longer than 48 hours for federal immigration agents — unless they’ve been convicted of certain crimes, most of them serious or violent,&#8221; as the Times <a href="https://www.latimes.com/politics/la-pol-ca-trust-act-sanctuary-state-immigration-20170910-htmlstory.html">explained</a> in 2017.
The revised Trust Act (2017) &#8220;curb[s] state and local agencies from collecting or sharing their personal information and release dates from jail or prison with federal immigration officials.&#8221;
&#8220;Ton was picked up Monday by a private government contractor in what immigrant groups contend is a violation of federal law, his attorney said,&#8221; the Times reports. &#8220;Newsom this year vetoed a bill that would have blocked private companies from picking up paroled immigrants in California.&#8221;
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Asked about the decision to approve the parole and transfer of Ton, Newsom&#8217;s office offered no comment. A corrections department spokesman, however, did respond, succinctly telling the LA Times, &#8220;We followed normal procedure.&#8221;
Prasad says that while in prison Ton turned his life around and has become a substance abuse counselor. Since Newsom approved his parole, he must agree that Ton no longer poses a threat to the community, Prasad maintains.
Newsom has made national headlines in recent days due to a public feud with President Trump. Newsom has attempted to shift the blame for the homeless crisis in California away from the progressive policies Newsom has supported to Trump&#8217;s Department of Housing and Urban Development &#8220;doing nothing&#8221; on the &#8220;housing first&#8221; initiative.
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In spin room at <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/DemDebate?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#DemDebate</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/GavinNewsom?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@GavinNewsom</a> slams Trump Administration and HUD for doing “nothing” on “housing first,” the priority to solve homelessness. <a href="https://t.co/AQXRHUwZys">pic.twitter.com/AQXRHUwZys</a>
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In response, Trump offered to get the federal government more involved in Newsom&#8217;s state: &#8220;Governor Gavin [Newsom] has done a really bad job on taking care of the homeless population in California. If he can’t fix the problem, the Federal Govt. will get involved!&#8221;
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Governor Gavin N has done a really bad job on taking care of the homeless population in California. If he can’t fix the problem, the Federal Govt. will get involved! <a href="https://t.co/2z8zM37PUA">https://t.co/2z8zM37PUA</a>
&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1209964406324510720?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 25, 2019</a></blockquote>
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California Governor Under Fire After Paroled Immigrant Murder Convict Immediately Taken Into ICE Custody

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After taking a brief break from battling his political opponents to wish his 68 million followers a Merry Christmas and retweet a &#8220;peace, love and happiness&#8221;-filled statement from the First Lady on Christmas Day, President Trump returned to firing away at Democratic leaders, particularly House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and California Gov. Gavin Newsom.
In a series of posts that started Christmas Day and ratcheted up the next morning, Trump unloaded on Pelosi and her fellow Democrats for how they&#8217;ve conducted the partisan impeachment campaign.
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&#8220;Why should Crazy Nancy Pelosi, just because she has a slight majority in the House, be allowed to Impeach the President of the United States?&#8221; he tweeted Wednesday (tweets below).
&#8220;Got ZERO Republican votes, there was no crime, the call with Ukraine was perfect, with &#8216;no pressure,'&#8221; Trump said, referencing the Ukrainian president&#8217;s repeated insistence that he felt no pressure from the Trump administration to conduct investigations.
&#8220;She said it must be &#8216;bipartisan&#8230;&#8230;&amp; overwhelming,&#8217; but this Scam Impeachment was neither,&#8221; Trump continued. &#8220;Also, very unfair with no Due Process, proper representation, or witnesses. Now Pelosi is demanding everything the Republicans weren’t allowed to have in the House. Dems want to run majority Republican Senate. Hypocrites!&#8221;
Trump continued to blast away at Pelosi and company on Thursday morning, this time highlighting their claims that the need for impeachment was urgent because Trump supposedly poses a &#8220;threat to national security.&#8221;
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&#8220;The Radical Left, Do Nothing Democrats said they wanted to RUSH everything through to the Senate because &#8216;President Trump is a threat to National Security&#8217; (they are vicious, will say anything!), but now they don’t want to go fast anymore, they want to go very slowly. Liars!&#8221; he wrote, referencing Pelosi&#8217;s widely criticized decision to delay handing over the articles of impeachment to the Senate so the trial can begin.
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To illustrate his &#8220;do nothing&#8221; characterization of the Democrats, Trump then pointed to the deteriorating state of Pelosi&#8217;s district.
&#8220;Nancy Pelosi’s District in California has rapidly become one of the worst anywhere in the U.S. when it come to the homeless &amp; crime,&#8221; he wrote. &#8220;It has gotten so bad, so fast &#8211; she has lost total control and, along with her equally incompetent governor, Gavin Newsom, it is a very sad sight!&#8221;
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Trump&#8217;s shot at Newsom continued a theme he began on Christmas Day.
In response to Newsom attempting to blame his state&#8217;s homeless crisis on Trump&#8217;s Department of Housing and Urban Development doing &#8220;nothing&#8221; about homelessness rather than California&#8217;s progressive policies (video below), Trump wrote, &#8220;Governor Gavin [Newsom] has done a really bad job on taking care of the homeless population in California. If he can’t fix the problem, the Federal Govt. will get involved!&#8221;
The tweet was a response to conservative Tomi Lahren likewise slamming Newsom. &#8220;Take accountability, Gavin,&#8221; she wrote. &#8220;This is your state and you and your democratic cohorts created this mess. You can’t blame [Donald Trump] forever. Step away from the hair gel and get to work!!!&#8221;
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&#8230;&amp; overwhelming,” but this Scam Impeachment was neither. Also, very unfair with no Due Process, proper representation, or witnesses. Now Pelosi is demanding everything the Republicans weren’t allowed to have in the House. Dems want to run majority Republican Senate. Hypocrites!
&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1210035580140175361?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 26, 2019</a></blockquote>
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The Radical Left, Do Nothing Democrats said they wanted to RUSH everything through to the Senate because “President Trump is a threat to National Security” (they are vicious, will say anything!), but now they don’t want to go fast anymore, they want to go very slowly. Liars!
&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1210172955982016512?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 26, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Nancy Pelosi’s District in California has rapidly become one of the worst anywhere in the U.S. when it come to the homeless &amp; crime. It has gotten so bad, so fast &#8211; she has lost total control and, along with her equally incompetent governor, Gavin Newsom, it is a very sad sight!
&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1210183406904074240?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 26, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Governor Gavin N has done a really bad job on taking care of the homeless population in California. If he can’t fix the problem, the Federal Govt. will get involved! <a href="https://t.co/2z8zM37PUA">https://t.co/2z8zM37PUA</a>
&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1209964406324510720?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 25, 2019</a></blockquote>
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In spin room at <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/DemDebate?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#DemDebate</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/GavinNewsom?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@GavinNewsom</a> slams Trump Administration and HUD for doing “nothing” on “housing first,” the priority to solve homelessness. <a href="https://t.co/AQXRHUwZys">pic.twitter.com/AQXRHUwZys</a>
&mdash; Carla Marinucci (@cmarinucci) <a href="https://twitter.com/cmarinucci/status/1207882406612455424?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 20, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Trump Takes Aim At Nancy Pelosi, Gavin Newsom On Christmas

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President Donald Trump took aim at California governor Gavin Newsom Sunday morning over wildfires raging across the southern and western parts of the state, chastising Newsom for letting environmentalists run the show, preventing the state from adquately clearing brush and dead vegetation.
Trump also threatened to cut off Federal funding to California for fire abatement and land management if Newsom doesn&#8217;t shape up.
<a href="https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/nov/3/donald-trump-rips-gavin-newsom-threatens-cut-feder/">The Washington Times</a> reports that Trump took a break from tweeting about the Democrats&#8217; plan to open public impeachment proceedings to declare Newsom a failure.
&#8220;The Governor of California, @GavinNewsom, has done a terrible job of forest management. I told him from the first day we met that he must &#8216;clean&#8217; his forest floors regardless of what his bosses, the environmentalists, DEMAND of him. Must also do burns and cut fire stoppers&#8230;..&#8221; Trump tweeted.
&#8220;Every year, as the fire’s rage &amp; California burns, it is the same thing-and then he comes to the Federal Government for $$$ help. No more,&#8221; the president continued. &#8220;Get your act together Governor. You don’t see close to the level of burn in other states.&#8221;
&#8220;But our teams are working well together in putting these massive, and many, fires out. Great firefighters! Also, open up the ridiculously closed water lanes coming down from the North. Don’t pour it out into the Pacific Ocean. Should be done immediately. California desperately needs water, and you can have it now!&#8221; he concluded.
Newsom took a while to fire back, electing to hit Trump over his own environmental policies. &#8220;You don’t believe in climate change. You are excused from this conversation,&#8221; Newsom tweeted back at the President.
The pair enjoy sparring over Twitter, and Sunday&#8217;s exchange is the latest in a series. Trump and Newsom tangled over Newsom&#8217;s &#8220;gross mismanagement&#8221; of California&#8217;s forests last year at this time, as a different set of forest fires raged across the state. Earlier in October, Newsom and Trump <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2019/10/08/donald-trump-gavin-newsom-california-gas-prices-twitter/3915811002/">exchanged barbs over California&#8217;s outrageous gas prices</a> and Newsom&#8217;s plan to mandate the adoption of electric cars (a plan that now seems to be on hold given Newsom&#8217;s war of words with California electricity provider, PG&amp;E).
The tiff between the two leaders seems to be largely a social media phenomenon. Newsom speaks with Trump fairly regularly &#8212; <a href="https://www.politico.com/states/california/story/2019/07/31/newsom-spoke-to-trump-on-same-day-he-demanded-trumps-tax-returns-1124371">even on the same day</a> he officially demanded Trump&#8217;s tax returns &#8212; and recently declared a state of emergency in California, opening the state up for Federal aid. When state legislators tried to punish the Trump Administration for rolling back EPA regulations on wetland preservation, <a href="https://www.mercurynews.com/2019/09/14/gavin-newsom-says-hell-veto-trump-defying-california-environmental-bill/">Newsom vetoed their bill</a>.
Trump&#8217;s take on the wildfires does have its problems &#8212; much of the area currently on fire is Federal land, for example, and not the state of California&#8217;s responsibility &#8212; and his quip about water seems to assume that the eternal battle between California&#8217;s water-hoarding environmentalists and its desperate farmer, who need more water to irrigate crops has an impact on the state&#8217;s ability to fight fires. But it does draw attention to an issue Newsom seems to regularly gloss over: that climate change may have very little (if anything) to do with California&#8217;s wildfire problem.
<a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-california-wildfires-forest/explainer-blame-climate-but-crowded-forests-also-fuel-california-fires-idUSKCN1NJ1G6">Reuters pointed out</a> during last year&#8217;s spate of wildfires that California&#8217;s land management does seem to be partially to blame, and human encroachment on natural forest land contributes to the uptick in visible damage. California&#8217;s forests are overgrown, but that&#8217;s by design. Logging is restricted. And environmentalists in California have pushed policies to increase forest area (in order to help draw more carbon from the atmosphere) without a plan to clear dead and decaying trees and undergrowth.
The Trump Administration has a plan to ease environmental restrictions and speed forest thinning, according to <a href="https://www.sacbee.com/news/california/fires/article231482868.html">Business Insider</a>, but those changes have yet to take effect &#8212; and it may take years for progress to happen, even when they do.
The plan also might not have much effect on fires like the ones burning in California at the moment. The Getty fire is burning on a hillside, not in a forest, and the Kincaid fire is burning across farmland. At least one of this year&#8217;s fires was sparked by a faulty electric grid, putting the state&#8217;s electricity provider, PG&amp;E into the mix. PG&amp;E has, in turn, shut off electricity to millions while it assesses its grid, complicating the situation.

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President Trump Takes Aim At California Governor Gavin Newsom Over Wildfires, Threatens To Cut Funding

If there’s one thing the government is good at, it’s fixing massive crises.
If you just rolled your eyes to that statement, then you’ll know that Gov. Gavin Newsom’s (D-CA) threat to take over energy company PG&amp;E is just as absurd as it sounds.
That’s not to say PG&amp;E can handle the issues that have sparked massive wildfires in California &#8212; clearly they can’t &#8212; but the idea that the government can step in and solve the problem is laughable.
Newsom said Friday that he wanted get involved in PG&amp;E’s bankruptcy case to get to a solution faster.
“We want to broker that mediation and are calling on all the parties to come in early next week to jumpstart those negotiations,&#8221; Newsom said at a news conference, as <a href="https://www.npr.org/2019/11/01/775621356/calif-governor-seeks-to-jumpstart-pg-e-bankruptcy-talks-threatens-state-takeover">reported</a> by NPR.
As the outlet reported, Newsom “left little doubt” that he wanted the state government to take part in the company’s restructuring.
“It is my hope that the stakeholders in PG&amp;E will put parochial interests aside and reach a negotiated resolution so that we can create this new company and forever put the old PG&amp;E behind us,&#8221; Newsom said in an official <a href="https://www.gov.ca.gov/2019/11/01/governor-newsom-outlines-state-efforts-to-fight-wildfires-protect-vulnerable-californians-and-ensure-that-going-forward-all-californians-have-safe-affordable-reliable-and-clean-power/">statement</a>. &#8220;If the parties fail to reach an agreement quickly to begin this process of transformation, the state will not hesitate to step in and restructure the utility.&#8221;
Newsom’s statement made several suggestions as to how this restructuring would occur, and the steps he has taken to already make changes to PG&amp;E.
“The major wildfire safety bill that I signed into law earlier this year – AB 1054 – requires PG&amp;E to make these fundamental changes. It forces PG&amp;E to make massive investments in safety, ties executive compensation to the utility’s safety record and demands that every year the utility earn a safety certification from the state,” Newsom said. “And earlier this week, a newly energized California Public Utilities Commission took strong action by opening a major investigation into PG&amp;E’s use of Public Safety Power Shutoffs (PSPS), and vowing a total reform of the rules and regulations governing power shutoffs.”
He also said California “is developing the blueprint for a transformed utility. Consistent with AB 1054, PG&amp;E must incorporate that blueprint into its bankruptcy plan.”
Newsom has also appointed an “Energy Czar” to figure out a way to take over PG&amp;E if the bankruptcy case end unsatisfactorily.
“ &#8230; I have tapped my Cabinet Secretary, Ana Matosantos, to serve as the state’s Energy Czar to lead a dedicated energy team with Ann Patterson, our lead attorney on the matter, Alice Reynolds, our lead energy and environmental policy expert, and Rachel Wagoner, our senior legislative strategist, spearheading the Administration’s energy efforts,” Newsom said. “They will work closely with other senior leadership in my office, outside legal, financial and energy advisors, and leadership across state government to game out every option and prepare a plan should the state need to intervene. All options are on the table.”
PG&amp;E’s incompetence has resulted in millions of Californians losing their power due to blackouts purposefully implemented by the company. The company said the blackouts were necessary to prevent its outdated and ill-maintained equipment from causing more fires.

Governor Gavin Newsom

California Governor Threatens To Take Over Energy Company As Wildfires Rage

The following is satirical.
Hurrah! Here in the socialist state of California, Kommissar Gavin Newsom has gifted us with rolling electrical blackouts that glorify the great progress we have made under Marxist rule.
The blackouts will prevent high capitalist winds from blowing over PG&amp;E’s rotting equipment and causing even more of the glorious forest fires which are all part of the genius of the wonderful socialist programs which have lifted our state to greatness over the past 30 years.
Under our socialist rule, the state’s Public Utilities Commission has forced PG&amp;E to spend as much as $500 million a year to meet our glorious five year plan of reducing the cost of wind and solar energy to low income households.
Thus, our socialist overlords have guided the electric company to join the heroic workers’ fight against evil capitalist climate change which, as our infallible socialist computer models have predicted, will surely destroy the world by seven years ago.
Of course, spending all that money on green energy means PG&amp;E has no money for repairing the rotten electrical equipment with which billionaires indulge themselves in useless luxuries like electric lights and cooked food. And since PG&amp;E can’t repair its equipment, it often blows over and starts the beautiful forest fires which, in turn, serve our glorious socialist aims by forcing capitalist running dogs to abandon their energy-inefficient single-family homes.
Under our brilliant socialist plan, the fires also spread to our cities so that they can chase away the rats that have been gathering there due to our deep socialist charity to the poor who would have no place to sleep or even go to the bathroom if we did not let them sleep and go to the bathroom on our streets. And of course fire is a wonderful way to purge our air of the evil capitalist bubonic plague that the rats carry.
And so, comrades, under socialism, California is eliminating plague, rats, homelessness, houses and electricity by burning the entire state to the ground.
Once again: Hurrah! Now on to Texas!
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