Governor Gavin Newsom (D-CA) pushed back on former White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki during a Sunday interview, effectively warning her to stop giving so much airtime and attention to former President Donald Trump.
Newsom&#8217;s interview took up the majority if Psaki&#8217;s MSNBC show — &#8220;Inside With Jen Psaki&#8221; — and while they spent a fair amount of that time complaining about Alabama and other states where Republicans have implemented restrictions and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-newsom-shares-wild-abortion-ad-showing-alabama-police-pulling-woman-over-asking-for-pregnancy-test" target="_blank" rel="noopener">bans on abortions</a>, Psaki made sure to take a few minutes to attack Trump. But when she prodded Newsom to join her in the attack, he quickly applied the brakes.
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.<a href="https://twitter.com/GavinNewsom?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@GavinNewsom</a>: “When we&#39;re focusing on him, I do worry, electorally, that he has a slight advantage. I&#39;m a little concerned about the overindulgence&#8230; The consequential nature of a criminal trial is profound and outsized in some respects, but not more outsized than democracy.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/wH5z41qetA">pic.twitter.com/wH5z41qetA</a>
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Psaki laughed as she brought up the former president&#8217;s hush-money trial that was scheduled to start Monday morning, asking Newsom to allay her fears that the case might actually work in Trump&#8217;s favor.
&#8220;There was a criminal trial that got underway in this week in New York City, the full jury has been seated, we&#8217;re expecting opening statements on Monday,&#8221; she began. &#8220;There&#8217;s been this kind of chorus out there that&#8217;s been driving me a little crazy, to be honest, suggesting that this case only helps Trump politically. And I&#8217;m curious. You&#8217;ve seen the first week, you&#8217;re talking to an undecided voter about why this case should matter to them — what do you tell them?&#8221;
Newsom addressed the question briefly, saying that of course he believed it should matter that one party&#8217;s presidential candidate was facing criminal charges.
&#8220;That said, may I give you a personal point of view?&#8221; Newsom asked, and pointed out that the constant media coverage of everything he did — whether the coverage was positive or negative — only worked to give Trump more attention. &#8220;This is a guy who doesn&#8217;t care if he&#8217;s the hero or the heel, he just wants to be the star — and in so many ways he gets what he wants, and that&#8217;s the bright spotlight and focus.&#8221;
&#8220;And when we&#8217;re focusing on him, I do worry, electorally, that he has a slight advantage. I&#8217;m a little concerned about the overindulgence around the day to day &#8230; The consequential nature of a criminal trial is profound and outsized in some respects, but not more outsized than democracy,&#8221; Newsom said.

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A cop whipping out a pregnancy test during a traffic stop — this is the highlight of a new abortion ad California Governor Gavin Newsom shared this week.
The Democratic governor posted the eyebrow-raising clip to X on Sunday.
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This ad claims that women are being pulled over and given pregnancy tests by police in Alabama. Just absolute unhinged lunacy. But it will be persuasive to the same crowd of morons who think Florida passed a bill banning residents from saying the word gay. <a href="https://t.co/UxcnGkvzCp">https://t.co/UxcnGkvzCp</a>
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The ad shows a young blonde woman nervously trying to drive across Alabama&#8217;s state line to obtain an out-of-state abortion.
&#8220;We&#8217;re almost there. You&#8217;re going to make it,&#8221; her friend says as they pass a &#8220;State Line 1 Mile&#8221; sign.
Suddenly sirens blare, and a police car pulls the girls over.
&#8220;Miss, I&#8217;m gonna need you to step out of the vehicle, take a pregnancy test,&#8221; a state trooper tells the woman in a thick southern accent.
The officer taps a pregnancy test on the window.
The woman is then shown being handcuffed and bent over the cop car as she looks at the camera with a pained expression.
&#8220;Trump Republicans want to criminalize young Alabama women who travel for reproductive care,&#8221; the ad&#8217;s narrator says.
The ad calls on viewers to &#8220;stop them&#8221; and directs people to a link for Newsom&#8217;s Campaign for Democracy political action committee.
The issue at the heart of the ad is about minor girls traveling for abortions, not women.
Three states, Tennessee, Oklahoma, and Alabama are considering bills that crack down on minors traveling out of state to get an abortion without parental consent, the PAC&#8217;s link explains.
Nevertheless, the PAC&#8217;s <a href="https://act.gavinnewsom.com/signup/right_to_travel/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">website</a> references &#8220;women&#8221; multiple times.
&#8220;They want to lock women and girls down completely, taking away their constitutional right to travel,&#8221; the website reads.
&#8220;These are states that basically want to imprison women and young girls,&#8221; the PAC adds. &#8220;It&#8217;s a backdoor nationwide abortion ban, denying women the opportunity to go to a freedom state.&#8221;
The Daily Wire&#8217;s Matt Walsh reacted to the ad on Monday.
&#8220;Just absolute unhinged lunacy. But it will be persuasive to the same crowd of morons who think Florida passed a bill banning residents from saying the word gay,&#8221; Walsh posted on X.
Democrats and mainstream media outlets have made range of dubious claims about the repercussions of state abortion bans, saying they affect everything from miscarriage care to ectopic pregnancy removal.
However, the details of the individual cases <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/texas-woman-denied-abortion-of-baby-with-fetal-anomaly-leaves-state-to-obtain-one">often</a> do <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ap-article-makes-dubious-suggestion-abortion-bans-caused-ers-to-turn-women-away">not support</a> viral allegations that women are failing to get the care they need in states that have implemented abortion bans.
As the presidential election cycle heats up, Democrats have made abortion a key issue, especially the many state bans that took effect in the wake of Roe vs. Wade&#8217;s demise.
Newsom has personally hammered the abortion issue for months, <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco/news/newsom-launches-alabama-ad-campaign-focused-on-abortion-travel-bans/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">signing</a> more than a dozen new abortion laws and urging women in states with bans to come to California to get their abortions.

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A California bill working its way through the legislature would make the crime of buying child sex a serious felony, replacing current statute in the far-left state that treats soliciting a minor for sex as a misdemeanor.
A bipartisan <a href="https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB1414" target="_blank" rel="noopener">bill</a> would raise solicitation of a minor from a misdemeanor to a felony punishable by up to four years in prison, and a fine of up to $25,000. The bill would also require a person convicted of soliciting a minor to register as a sex offender for 10 years.
The <a href="https://sr12.senate.ca.gov/content/sen-grove-introduces-bi-partisan-measure-continue-fight-against-human-trafficking-0#:~:text=%E2%80%9CIt%20takes%20two%20criminals%20to,are%20purchasing%20sex%20from%20children.">measure</a>, introduced by Republican State Senator Shannon Grove in February and co-sponsored by two Democrats, is scheduled for a committee vote on Tuesday, but it faces an uphill battle for passage.
As of Thursday, the new bill did not have the votes to make it out of committee. Critics are concerned it could target minorities, she explained, but criticized that point of view.
&#8220;Red, yellow, black, or white, you should be in prison,&#8221; Grove said during a phone interview with The Daily Wire on Thursday, arguing that putting child sex buyers behind bars for two years will keep them off the streets and prevent them from soliciting more children, at least during that period.
She said she is working on negotiating with her colleagues without giving up the meat of the bill. Last year, Grove was able to convince a skeptical Democrat-controlled legislature to pass a similar bill that reclassified child sex trafficking from a misdemeanor to a major felony, establishing harsher criminal penalties for traffickers. That bill went into effect on January 1.
Democrats in the legislature were forced to reconsider and support the sex trafficking bill after scathing social media backlash criticizing their initial reluctance.
California&#8217;s Democratic governor, Gavin Newsom voiced support for last year&#8217;s bill, saying he personally called Grove about it and was &#8220;surprised&#8221; when it initially failed to pass the committee vote.
Assembly Speaker Robert Rivas (D) also said at the time that the issue was “something that we are addressing and it’s something we are going to get right.”
Neither Newsom nor Rivas responded to a request for comment on whether they would support Grove&#8217;s new bill targeting buyers.
Before Grove&#8217;s successful bill last year, lawmakers had <a href="https://calmatters.org/justice/2023/07/child-trafficking-bill-california-legislature/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">tried</a> at least nine times since 2007 to reclassify child sex trafficking as a more serious crime.
This year, her focus is the purchasers of child sex, Grove said.
&#8220;I want to make the solicitation, the person who&#8217;s going out there going, &#8216;hey little 13-year-old, fourteen-year-old, fifteen-year-old, I want to get that person. I want that person to face felony charges. That&#8217;s what the bill does,&#8221; Grove said during her interview with The Daily Wire.
Grove said she spoke to sex trafficking survivors last year who told her, &#8220;You&#8217;ve got to go after the buyers&#8221; in order to really crack down on the child sex trade.
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A group called Exodus Cry, a nonprofit that works to abolish illegal sex trafficking <a href="https://www.instagram.com/reel/C5jukB9sN-Y/?igsh=MWQ1ZGUxMzBkMA%3D%3D" target="_blank" rel="noopener">posted</a> a viral video to Instagram last week that featured people reacting with shock and disgust to hearing that buying child sex is only a misdemeanor in California.
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Helen Taylor, vice president of impact at Exodus Cry argued that eliminating sex trafficking requires going after the demand and implementing proper deterrents.
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&#8220;For this to currently be a misdemeanor, and frequently prosecuted as such, reveals an inadequate understanding of how serious of a crime sex trafficking is,&#8221; Taylor told The Daily Wire.
&#8220;We want every child in California to be better protected and receive the justice they deserve should they ever be trafficked and exploited at the hands of a sex buyer,&#8221; she said.
Taylor urged committee members to vote in favor of the bill on Tuesday.
&#8220;Our laws send a message about what behaviors we are willing to tolerate. Paying money to abuse a child is something we will not tolerate,&#8221; Taylor said. &#8220;It is surely a &#8216;no brainer&#8217; to make buying a child for sex a felony in California and if not, we have a serious problem.&#8221;

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A California sheriff who is championing an effort to roll back the state’s 2014 proposition that reduced the penalties for certain crimes slammed Governor Gavin Newsom (D-CA), saying that voters had been “lied to and misled by our state.”
In 2014, California passed Proposition 47, which altered some low-level crimes from felonies to misdemeanors. “According to state data obtained by KQED, about 15% of theft cases resulted in an arrest in 2013, the year before Proposition 47 passed. In 2022, that number had dropped to 6.6%. That means in more than 90% of reported cases of theft, no one is ever arrested,” KQED <a href="https://www.kqed.org/news/11975692/prop-47s-impact-on-californias-criminal-justice-system" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.kqed.org/news/11975692/prop-47s-impact-on-californias-criminal-justice-system&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1712758521114000&amp;usg=AOvVaw3c4G47XUkjQnOL6zVdP0Rb">reported</a>.
Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco spoke of his efforts to support the Homelessness, Drug Addiction, and Theft Reduction Act, telling <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/ca-sheriff-blasts-newsoms-failed-leadership-on-crime-proposes-solution-fix-disaster" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Fox News</a>, “California, we&#8217;re in a very trying time right now when it comes to public safety and for the most part, from a law enforcement perspective, we can say that, we can attribute the majority of our issues that we are having, or at least, there&#8217;s some type of a correlation to them, to the passage of Prop 47.”
“Quite frankly, we were lied to and misled by our state, in that the name and the description on the ballot was not something that we were getting,” Bianco continued. “We voted for a proposition that was named the Safe Schools and the Safe Streets Initiative and it contained absolutely nothing to do with safe streets or safe schools, and it was everything that is bad about public safety right now, directly contributing to the increase in homelessness, mental health and drug addiction. Directly resulted in what we see now in our serial theft cases, in our retail theft cases and issues in crime of residential burglaries and those types of things.”
The Homelessness, Drug Addiction, and Theft Reduction Act, which is currently gathering signatures in order to be eligible for the November 2024 ballot, <a href="https://casafecommunities.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/CA-Safe-Communities-Fact-Sheet-March-2024.pdf" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://casafecommunities.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/CA-Safe-Communities-Fact-Sheet-March-2024.pdf&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1712758521114000&amp;usg=AOvVaw2rLW0HBXosnWfsCA2PSM4Q">states</a> that it will classify “repeated theft as a felony for individuals who steal less than $950 if they have two or more prior theft-related convictions,” allow “stolen property values from multiple thefts to be combined so repeat offenders can be charged with a felony if the total exceeds $950, countering tactics by career criminals to avoid harsher penalties,” and authorize “judges to impose an enhanced penalty when an offender steals, damages, or destroys property by participating in organized theft with two or more offenders or by causing losses of $50,000 or more.”
&#8220;If you need help to get fixed, then we should be able to help you. If you just flat out refuse, and you&#8217;re going to continue to use drugs and cause us all to be victimized by your drug addiction and your theft and everything else, then you&#8217;re going to suffer the consequences of jail time,” Bianco stated. &#8220;It&#8217;s just plain and simple. But the reality is, without consequences, there is no reason for anyone to change behavior, and we need to get past this feel good way of what our legislators are doing now in this, this notion that it&#8217;s somebody else&#8217;s fault and you&#8217;re not responsible for your own actions. We need to move past that, and we need to get back to a time of common sense that would tell us if we can put you in rehab and help you, then great. We&#8217;ve helped you. We’ve helped society. But otherwise, then you&#8217;re going to have to do jail time, so we stop you from victimizing the rest of us.”
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“The governor is going to have no choice but to get on board because this is 100% complete common sense,” Bianco said. “We have a complete failed political agenda in this state. It&#8217;s been a social experiment that has been led by the governor, from his time as mayor of San Francisco, into lieutenant governor and now governor, which has been made worse by our attorney general, who has absolutely no desire to fix any of these issues with crime and protect Californians.”
“Right now, they are against it because, in elementary terms, I guess they&#8217;re going to have to admit that Prop 47 was a disaster that they have tried to defend for years since its passing and the reality of a leader, a true leader, is someone that can say, &#8216;Look, we had good intentions of something, but, we had some unintended consequences that now we have to fix.&#8217; That would have been a leadership way for our government to come out of this ahead. But instead, for the past 10 years, they have completely defended Prop 47. They have lied to the public,” he concluded.

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For several years now, Democrats in the state of California have enjoyed all the perks of one-party rule. With supermajorities in the state assembly, they don&#8217;t have to deal with an opposition party. They certainly don&#8217;t need to provide any kind of transparency to the public. They&#8217;re completely free to enact the Democratic Party&#8217;s grand vision — just like the leaders of notorious utopias like Baltimore, Selma, Detroit, or Oakland. If states are the laboratories of democracy, then California is the laboratory of the Democratic Party. Whatever Democrats want, they get.
That&#8217;s why hundreds of thousands of people flee California every year and it&#8217;s why a lot more are about to leave the state. California, without much discussion or debate, just raised its minimum wage for certain fast-food workers to $20 an hour. This is a 25% wage hike, up from $16 an hour. The law applies to chains with 60 or more locations in California, including franchises — many of which are family-owned.
The totally foreseeable and inevitable followed, and a bunch of fast-food chains announced mass layoffs. Others started raising prices, and at least one restaurant so far has closed down completely. Watch:
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Those employees at Foster&#8217;s Freeze went from $16 an hour to zero dollars an hour, thanks to the minimum wage hike which California declared a &#8220;win for workers.&#8221; And they&#8217;re not alone.
When this law was signed, two large Pizza Hut franchisees <a href="https://www.nrn.com/top-500-restaurants/two-california-pizza-hut-franchisees-lay-delivery-workers-ahead-minimum-wage" target="_blank" rel="noopener">laid off</a> more than 1,200 delivery drivers. In San Jose, The Wall Street Journal reports that two small Vitality Bowls restaurants have <a href="https://www.wsj.com/business/hospitality/california-restaurants-cut-jobs-as-fast-food-wages-set-to-rise-eb5ddaaa" target="_blank" rel="noopener">cut their workforce</a> in half. Restaurants like Jack in the Box are &#8220;testing fryer robots and automated drink dispensers&#8221; so they can fire more employees soon. Hours are being cut and of course, prices are going up too, across the board. 
The New York Post <a href="https://nypost.com/2024/04/02/us-news/californias-20-fast-food-wage-raises-prices-by-up-to-1-80/#" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>, at one Los Angeles-area Burger King, prices for a Texas Double Whopper went from $15.09 on March 29 to $16.89 on April 1, once the law went into effect. That&#8217;s an increase of nearly $2 for the same exact — already horrifically overpriced — food in just two days. The Big Fish meal went up by $4, from $7.49 to $11.49. That&#8217;s the precise increase in hourly wage, passed directly onto customers. Several other menu items went up &#8220;anywhere from 25 cents to a dollar,&#8221; the Post found. 
From what I’ve seen, some of the advocates of the minimum wage hike on social media have tried to dismiss the concerns over the price hikes by saying that 25 cents to a dollar isn’t a very steep increase. But what they’re ignoring is that, first of all, as a percentage of the overall price of the item, these hikes are already significant. And second, this law has been in effect for less than two days and this is what has happened only in that time frame. We can assume that prices will continue to go up.
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One of the many fast-food companies raising prices is the fried chicken restaurant Raising Cane&#8217;s. The CEO of the company went on CNBC recently to talk about the impact of this legislation on his business.
Now, based on everything you&#8217;ve just read, you might assume that the CNBC anchor conducting the interview would have a dim view of this new legislation. After all, you&#8217;d expect someone at a business-oriented network to understand that higher prices and fewer jobs are generally a bad thing. But here&#8217;s how she frames her question:
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The CEO doesn&#8217;t really answer the question, probably because he&#8217;s there for a nice PR opportunity and he doesn&#8217;t get adversarial or maybe he wasn&#8217;t paying attention. But it&#8217;s an incredible question to ask in earnest, which she appears to be doing. If you give minimum wage workers a raise, but in the process make it more expensive for them to live and eat, you have not really given them a raise. You haven&#8217;t made it easier for them to purchase more chicken fingers.
This is especially the case for the many workers who have already lost their jobs because of it, and the many more who will in the near future.
The fact that this is apparently difficult to say out loud — even for the CEO of Raising Cane&#8217;s — tells us a lot about how California got in this position. Very few people in the state seem to understand basic principles of economics — or at least, they don&#8217;t want to talk about them. But the fast food workers themselves understand what&#8217;s going on here. They realize that they didn&#8217;t actually get a raise.
Here’s an employee from Jack in the Box explaining a basic economic reality that the governor of her state doesn’t seem to comprehend:
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How does a fast-food worker understand the economics of this situation better than the CNBC anchors? Why is she raising issues that California politicians don&#8217;t seem to understand? Whatever the answer is, this is getting to be a running theme in California.
A couple of years ago, California sent out millions of &#8220;inflation relief checks,&#8221; which accomplished <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/30/politics/inflation-relief-checks/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">nothing</a> except making inflation even worse. But there was no opposition party that could block those checks, just like there&#8217;s no opposition party to block this minimum wage increase.
In fact, in California, the labor unions <a href="https://www.kcra.com/article/california-fast-food-law-panera-newsom-nda/60117858" target="_blank" rel="noopener">obtained</a> nondisclosure agreements during the negotiations for the minimum wage bill. So no one can talk about how exactly this bill came about. There&#8217;s never going to be a full explanation for why Gavin Newsom&#8217;s friend and donor at Panera Bread managed to secure an exemption for fast-food restaurants that make bread, for example. (Not that we really need an explanation for that. It&#8217;s the kind of naked corruption that one-party states are well known for).
But you don&#8217;t need an insider&#8217;s look into the legislative process to know how poorly conceived this law is. That&#8217;s because, after the bill was passed, legislators went back and <a href="https://news.bloomberglaw.com/in-house-counsel/california-airports-stadiums-now-exempted-under-fast-food-law" target="_blank" rel="noopener">added</a> a bunch of other exemptions, including fast-food locations in airports and stadiums. That&#8217;s how you know you&#8217;re dealing with a very well-thought-out law — the legislators just go back and redo it a few weeks later. These are the people manipulating the economy in the most populated state in the country. They&#8217;re doing it as haphazardly as you&#8217;d expect.
The truth is that raising the minimum wage (by 25%, which is obviously a very sizable hike) in the midst of inflation and a struggling economy is incredibly stupid. There&#8217;s really no other word for it. It attempts an end-run around the actual problems facing Californians. Except, really, it&#8217;s worse than that. They aren&#8217;t just avoiding the problems, but actively making everything worse. They’re trying to solve problems by creating more of the problems they’re allegedly trying to solve. And they aren’t done. 
In fact, some leaders in California think that $20 an hour is still too low. It’s not even half of what they think the minimum should be. Here’s Rep. Barbara Lee:
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Just do the math. Do the math, says the woman who apparently can’t add two plus two. She wants to mandate six-figure incomes for the people who run the cash register at McDonald’s. You notice that she was asked about the economic sustainability of such a plan and did not pretend to even address that concern. That’s because it is, of course, not sustainable at all. $20 an hour isn’t even sustainable. $20 an hour has already caused a bloodbath of layoffs and price hikes. $50 an hour would simply be the end of commerce in California, which means the end of California itself. So, on second thought, maybe her plan has some benefits.
But you notice what Lee said in that clip. She said that a family of four needs a six-figure income just to get by. That’s not really true — you can get by on less, my family did at one time — but think about how that applies here. She’s saying that minimum wage workers need a massive, mandatory raise because that’s what’s necessary for families of four to survive. This obviously implies that there are a lot of single-income households of four where the breadwinner makes minimum wage. But that’s not generally the case, and this is really, perhaps, the most important point here. Minimum wage jobs are not meant to be careers. These are supposed to be jobs for teenagers working part-time while they finish high school. These aren’t jobs that grown adults with kids and mortgages are supposed to be doing for years on end. So if you’ve been working at a job for five or ten years and you still make minimum wage, there’s obviously a serious problem — and it’s not one a minimum wage hike can solve.
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Personally, I want every minimum wage worker to get a hefty raise. But that can be achieved, and should be achieved, by earning a raise. It can also be achieved by getting some work experience under your belt and then finding a better job somewhere else. Minimum wage is supposed to be a stepping stone. Not a foundation to build your life on.
It’s a bit like if lawmakers passed a law declaring that all tent manufacturers must make their tents big enough and sturdy enough that they can be lived in for six months at a time. But that’s not what tents are supposed to be used for. That’s not what a tent is. A tent is something you stay in for a few days at a time. Now, lawmakers in California might respond, “No that’s not true. In our state lots of people live in tents for years. They set them up right on the sidewalk!” Yes, but the problem there is not that the tents are insufficient homes. The problem is that those people are trying to turn tents into homes. The problem is with how the tent is being used. Minimum wage is like the tent of salaries. It’s meant to be very temporary.
The advantage of working a minimum wage job is that the bar is pretty low. Show up on time, look presentable, put in the effort, be reliable, be moderately competent, cover all the basics, and you’ll be on the fast track to a better job — either at your current place of work or somewhere else. You don’t need to wait around for the government to force your employer to give you a raise.
As I’ve said plenty of times before, the best way for a minimum wage worker to make more money is to not be a minimum wage worker anymore. That’s a basic truth that you won’t hear from politicians like Barbara Lee. Instead they’ll promise you the pie in the sky. The bad news is that they probably won’t deliver on that promise.
The worse news is that they might. And then everyone’s problems will get much worse.

California Minimum Wage Rises To $20 For Fast Food Workers

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Fast-food restaurateurs in California are warning customers to expect price bumps ahead of a new minimum wage for the industry, which will go into effect on Monday.
California Democratic Governor Gavin Newsom signed a bill in September lifting the minimum wage for fast food workers from the state minimum of $16 an hour to an industry-specific rate of $20 an hour. The bill is set to go into effect on April 1.
With the new wage floor just days away, fast-food businesses are preparing to cut jobs and hike prices to offset the increase in costs.
“It’s going to be a pretty significant increase to our labor,” Chipotle chief financial officer Jack Hartung said during an earnings call last year, according to the Los Angeles Times. Hartung said that a significant amount of the cost would be passed on to customers in “a mid-to-high single-digit” percentage price increase.
“We are definitely going to pass this on,” Hartung said.
A Starbucks spokesman said the company would offset the added labor costs “through a variety of levers—including near-term pricing as well as other efficiencies.”
In addition to price increases, some employees will be cut to make way for cheaper automated options. Other business owners may quit California entirely.
“Where they can automate, they will automate more,” said Harry Holzer, Georgetown University professor and former Labor Department chief economist. “Maybe some franchises will move out of state.”
Jamie Bynum, a Dickey’s Barbecue Pit franchisee, said the new law would raise expenses at his southern California location by $3,000 to $4,000 monthly, additional costs he will pass on to customers.
“People don’t understand that when wages rise, so do the prices,” Bynum told <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/28/business/economy/fast-food-minimum-wage-california.html">The New York Times</a>. He said that in the past, when he has been forced to raise prices, fewer customers have come to his business, eating away at his earnings and forcing him to make cuts to his workforce.
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The new law will make California’s minimum wage for fast-food workers the second-highest in the country for minimum wage workers. The only other place with a higher floor is a small city outside Seattle, where the minimum is set at $20.29 for some.
The bill signed by Newsom last year will force most fast food chains to raise pay, though the bill included a carveout for businesses that also make and sell bread as a separate menu item. The carveout was criticized as some alleged it was a favor to one of Newsom’s financial backers, Greg Flynn, a billionaire whose business runs two dozen Panera locations in the state. Newsom <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/4499331-gavin-newsom-says-panera-not-exempt-from-california-minimum-wage-law/">denied</a> the accusation and insisted Panera was not exempt from the new law. Still, Flynn <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/05/business/panera-franchise-california-to-raise-minimum-wage/index.html">pledged</a> to increase the hourly wage at his Panera locations to $20 an hour after criticism erupted over the exception in the law.

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Governor Gavin Newsom (D) pushed back last week on accusations that Panera Bread is exempt from California&#8217;s new $20 minimum wage for fast-food restaurant employees.
Republicans have accused Newsom of giving the chain special treatment because a high school classmate and donor to Newsom&#8217;s campaigns, Greg Flynn, runs two dozen Panera Bread restaurants in California. Bloomberg News first reported that Panera appeared to be exempt from the new minimum wage law, which takes effect in April and raises the minimum wage for fast-food workers from $16 to $20.
The law carves out an exception for businesses that produce their own bread on the premises. The exemption was added late in the bill&#8217;s process, and Newsom&#8217;s administration has not explained the reason for it — but now his team contends that Panera won&#8217;t be exempt from the law.
“The Governor never met with Flynn about this bill and this story is absurd. Our legal team has reviewed and it appears Panera is not exempt from the law,” Newsom spokesman Alex Stack <a href="https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article286132126.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>.
Previously, Assembly Republican Leader James Gallagher called for an investigation and accused Newsom of setting his special interests up with “favors at the expense of regular Californians.”
“This type of crooked dealmaking is wrong and exactly why our constituents think the government isn’t looking out for them,” Gallagher said.
“Campaign contributions should not buy you exemptions in legislation. The public deserves to know the truth about the allegations of Governor Newsom’s crony capitalism,” Senate Minority Leader Brian Jones (R) said in a statement.
Bloomberg reported that Newsom had fought for Panera&#8217;s exemption.
Newsom&#8217;s office <a href="https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article286131426.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">argued</a> that Panera is not exempt since the restaurants do not technically &#8220;produce&#8221; their own bread. The law says the minimum wage increase does not apply to businesses with a bakery that “produces for sale on the establishment’s premises bread.”
Panera locations do not make their own dough on the premises, although they do bake their own bread.
Bloomberg&#8217;s reporting also named Paris Baguette and Great Harvest Bread Co. as exempt from the minimum wage hike. It is unclear whether those companies produce their own bread entirely on the premises.
Flynn <a href="https://fox40.com/news/california-connection/newsom-now-says-panera-bread-is-not-exempt-from-californias-minimum-wage-hike/amp/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reportedly</a> donated $100,000 to Newsom in 2021 to help him fight a recall effort, as well as $64,800 in 2022 for Newsom&#8217;s re-election campaign.
Flynn said that while he opposed the minimum wage bill, he never asked for special treatment.
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“To be clear, at no time did I ask for an exemption or special considerations. In fact, the idea never even occurred to me and I was surprised when the exemption appeared in the final legislation. I also never met with Governor Newsom about this bill, though I did meet with his staff in a group meeting with other restaurant owners,” Flynn <a href="https://fox40.com/news/california-connection/newsom-now-says-panera-bread-is-not-exempt-from-californias-minimum-wage-hike/amp/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>.
Thanks to the law, some fast food will become more expensive in California. McDonalds and Chipotle, which are not exempt from the minimum wage increase, have already <a href="https://ktla.com/news/california/fast-food-in-california-is-about-to-get-more-expensive/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">announced</a> plans to raise prices.

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Calls are growing in Sacramento for a criminal investigation to be launched into California Democrat Governor <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/gavin-newsom" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Gavin Newsom</a> after an explosive story published this week said that Newsom created an unusual special carveout in a piece of legislation that benefited one of his top donors.
Bloomberg News <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-02-28/panera-bread-exempt-from-california-s-minimum-wage-increase-for-fast-food-worker" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> that billionaire Greg Flynn was getting a “new boost” after his chain of Panera Bread locations were exempted from a new law that forces fast food restaurants to increase their minimum wage from $16 to $20 per hour. Flynn is the largest “restaurant franchisee in the US, if not the world,” the report added.
Panera Bread was spared from the law because it offered “unusual exemption for chains that bake bread and sell it as a standalone item.” The report states that Newsom “pushed for that break.”
The report showed the numerous connections that the two men have, including going to the same high school, Flynn donating significant sums of money to Newsom’s political campaigns, Flynn allegedly bragging about his easy access to Newsom, and Flynn buying a resort managed by a company that Newsom owned.
Flynn owns thousands of restaurants, including Applebee’s, Pizza Hut, Taco Bell, Wendy’s, Panera Bread, and more. The only restaurants he owns in California are Applebee’s — which is exempt from the law because it’s not a fast food restaurant — and Panera Bread.
California Assembly Republican Leader James Gallagher responded to the report on X: “Can any franchisee get an exemption from the $20 minimum wage law or do they need to donate more than $150k to Newsom first? This crooked deal needs to be investigated.”
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Dan Schnur, a political science professor and government ethics expert, told the San Francisco Chronicle: “It’s the governor’s obligation to explain why Panera (should benefit) from this. Absent that explanation, most voters are going to assume he did a big favor for a big donor.”
Republican Assemblyman Joe Patterson also called for a criminal investigation should be launched, saying that the FBI needed to be involved. He said that the Democrat supermajority in the state should not be trusted to investigate itself.
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Republican Assemblyman Joe Patterson is calling for outside investigation into Gov. Newsom’s ties to billionaire Panera franchisee, even going as far to say the FBI should be involved.
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On Thursday, former President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/donald-trump" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Donald Trump</a> shared a new moniker for California Democratic Governor <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/gavin-newsom" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Gavin Newsom</a>, a top campaign surrogate for President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/joe-biden">Joe Biden</a> who is widely seen as a potential White House contender in the future.
The swipe at Newsom happened as Trump delivered remarks during a visit to the U.S.-Mexico border in Eagle Pass, Texas, while speaking on the topic of illegal immigration — a hot button issue in the run-up to November&#8217;s election.
&#8220;You look at what this Governor New Scum from California — isn&#8217;t that his name? New Scum. What he&#8217;s done to California is unbelievable,&#8221; Trump said while critiquing policies that he argued were driving illegal immigration into the United States.
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Trump visited Eagle Pass, the epicenter of a standoff between Texas and the Biden administration over how to deal with migrants and illegal crossings, as Biden paid a visit to the border in <a href="https://twitter.com/cspan/status/1763319064607216079" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Brownsville, Texas</a>.
It remains to be seen if the nickname for Newsom sticks, but Trump has a history of bestowing upon his political opponents mocking nicknames, dating back to the 2016 Republican nomination contest.
During his CPAC speech last weekend, Trump <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-at-cpac-lets-fire-crooked-joe-biden-break-out-of-the-nighmare" target="_blank" rel="noopener">called</a> the president &#8220;Crooked Joe Biden,&#8221; repurposing a label he used against Hillary Clinton. He also took a shot at Newsom during that same address.
“A lot of people think Gavin Newsom is going to run. In a certain way, I hope so,” Trump <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-at-cpac-lets-fire-crooked-joe-biden-break-out-of-the-nighmare" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>. “I hope so. Because he&#8217;s destroyed California.”
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Newsom spoke critically of Trump during <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/meet-the-press/meet-press-february-25-2023-n1308936" target="_blank" rel="noopener">an interview on NBC&#8217;s &#8220;Meet The Press</a>,&#8221; which aired on Sunday, as he rejected the notion that Democrats are underestimating the former president in the 2024 election.
&#8220;I think he&#8217;s weakness masquerading as strength. I think he&#8217;s more unhinged. He&#8217;s more – he’s less interesting than he was even a few years ago,&#8221; Newsom said.
Newsom also said Biden should <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/newsom-says-biden-should-debate-trump" target="_blank" rel="noopener">debate Trump</a> in the general election and shrugged off concerns about Biden&#8217;s fitness to lead at the age of 81, saying, &#8220;It&#8217;s because of his age that he&#8217;s been so successful.&#8221;
When pressed on whether he would completely rule out a presidential run in 2024, Newsom claimed, &#8220;100%. It&#8217;s not even an interesting conversation.&#8221;

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California Governor <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/gavin-newsom" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Gavin Newsom</a>, who is considered a rising star in the Democrat Party, is under fire after a report this week revealed that he pushed for a special carveout in the state&#8217;s new $20 minimum wage law that affects businesses owned by one of his top political allies and donors.
Bloomberg News <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-02-28/panera-bread-exempt-from-california-s-minimum-wage-increase-for-fast-food-worker" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> that billionaire Greg Flynn was getting a &#8220;new boost&#8221; after his chain of Panera Bread locations were exempted from a new law that forces fast food restaurants to increase their minimum wage from $16 to $20 per hour. Flynn is the largest &#8220;restaurant franchisee in the US, if not the world,&#8221; the report added.
Panera Bread was spared from the law because it offered &#8220;unusual exemption for chains that bake bread and sell it as a standalone item.&#8221; The report states that Newsom &#8220;pushed for that break.&#8221;
The report showed the numerous connections that the two men have, including going to the same high school, Flynn donating significant sums of money to Newsom&#8217;s political campaigns, Flynn allegedly bragging about his easy access to Newsom, and Flynn buying a resort managed by a company that Newsom owned.
Newsom and his office refused to disclose details about how they decided to create the carveout that benefited Newsom&#8217;s donor and only claimed that it was the &#8220;result of countless hours of negotiations with dozens of stakeholders&#8221; and was &#8220;part of the sausage-making&#8221; in politics.
The report noted that Flynn, who has also been involved in &#8220;business dealings&#8221; with the governor, would not respond to questions about his connections to Newsom. Panera Bread also would not respond to requests for comment, according to Bloomberg.
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Flynn strongly opposed the law, dubbed the FAST Act, saying that it would harm franchise businesses. The report said that he &#8220;urged the governor’s top aides to reconsider whether fast-casual chains such as Panera should be classified as fast food,&#8221; which ultimately went nowhere.
&#8220;The Service Employees International Union, a labor group that was the driving force behind the bill, decided to accept a narrower carve-out as the talks progressed — one that would only apply to restaurants operating bakeries,&#8221; the report added. &#8220;That position was adopted as a means of winning the governor&#8217;s support for the legislation, said a person with knowledge of the discussions. The rationale was the governor’s longstanding relationship with a Panera franchisee, the person said.&#8221;
The report highlighted multiple examples of major entities in the fast food industry who were puzzled about the special carve out and who also said that law was a &#8220;devastating financial blow&#8221; to businesses.
Flynn owns thousands of restaurants, including Applebee&#8217;s, Pizza Hut, Taco Bell, Wendy’s, Panera Bread, and more. The only restaurants he owns in California are Applebee&#8217;s — which is exempt from the law because it&#8217;s not a fast food restaurant — and Panera Bread.

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Newsom made the remarks during a Sunday interview on NBC News&#8217; &#8220;Meet The Press&#8221; with Kristen Welker when asked whether Democrats were underestimating Trump&#8217;s strength as a candidate hearing into the 2024 presidential election.
&#8220;I think he&#8217;s weakness masquerading as strength,&#8221; Newsom said. &#8220;I think he&#8217;s more unhinged. He&#8217;s less interesting than he was even a few years ago. I mean, you&#8217;ve heard his comments just this week. More just overt racist comments that he&#8217;s made. It’s just extraordinary how quickly he is unraveling in real time, including just on basic policy issues like repealing Obamacare, which is overwhelmingly supported. The highest ACA enrollment that we&#8217;ve seen in decades, or rather in years and years, just the last few weeks.&#8221;
&#8220;So the reality, at the end of the day, he&#8217;s unhinged. He&#8217;s a much weaker cannon than he was a few years ago,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;Democrats are stronger. We&#8217;re winning – ‘18, ‘20, ‘22, ‘23. You saw it in New York three. We continue to win. We continue to outperform. And Donald Trump is a big part of that. And he&#8217;s going to be the nominee of the Republican Party.&#8221;
Welker noted the serious concerns that Democrat voters have with President Joe Biden given his advanced age — repeated falling, numerous gaffes, and memory issues — and asked if he was ruling out getting in the 2024 race.
&#8220;I mean you&#8217;ve got to be kidding,&#8221; Newsom responded. &#8220;I am here celebrating the extraordinary accomplishments of the Biden-Harris administration, making the case that we need to make to lift up the issues, lift up the record, drive contrast with the Republican nominee to beat Donald Trump so that we can win for four more years.&#8221;
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When asked if he has received calls from top Democrat donors urging him to run, Newsom would not answer the question.
Newsom later <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/newsom-says-biden-should-debate-trump">added</a> that he believes that Biden should debate Trump.
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