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Finally (for now), Newsom’s new “Commission on the State of Hate,” he says, was designed to “assess data on hate crimes in California, provide resources for victims, and make policy recommendations to better protect civil rights.” Uh-huh. Do random attacks against Asians also qualify as “hate crimes,” Gavin?

As is the case with all Democrats, Newsom is a card-carrying member of the “Never let a serious crisis go to waste” club, so following the horrific hammer attack against Speak Nancy Pelosi’s husband Paul Pelosi, the sick lightbulb in the left-wing governor’s head lit up, leading him to find the perfect “aider and abetter” of the brutal attack: Fox News host Jesse Watters. No, really.

So, Jesse Watters aided and abetted the maniac who hit Paul Pelosi on the head with a hammer so hard that he had to have surgery to repair his skull fracture(s)? Of course, he did, Newsom said Monday on “CBS Evening News.” The often-embattled governor began by moaning about the “dehumanization” of Madam Speaker:

I have seen the dehumanization of Nancy Pelosi. I don’t think anyone’s been dehumanized like her consistently. I mean, I watched this one guy, it was Jesse Watters or something on Fox News, what he’s been saying about Paul Pelosi the last six months, mocking him consistently. Don’t tell me that’s not aiding and abetting this. Of course, it is.
It’s sowing the seeds that create a culture and a climate like this. They’re sowing the seeds. They’re creating a culture and climate like this. I mean, look online. Look at the sewage that is online that they amplify on these networks and in social media to dehumanize people like Nancy Pelosi and other political leaders.

Shameless Gavin Newsom Blames Fox News Host for 'Aiding and Abetting' Brutal Attack of Paul Pelosi

redstate.com

 

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Doctors sue California for COVID 'misinformation' law that enforces amorphous 'consensus'​

The plaintiffs include psychiatrist Aaron Kheriaty, fired by the University of California Irvine for refusing its COVID vaccine mandate based on his natural immunity. Kheriaty is also a complainant in the amended lawsuit against the Biden administration for colluding with social media to censor COVID wrongthink.

Also suing: epidemiologist Tracy Beth Hoeg, until recently a physician resident at UC Davis, who is known for her research on COVID interventions, and Stanford University emergency room physician Ram Duriseti, who has "a manuscript in progress re-analyzing a mask randomized controlled trial" and has met with California senators' offices on COVID policy.






Such enforcement is "impractical and borders on the absurd," chiling the speech of doctors by making them constantly guess what the board deems "consensus" at any given moment, which violates the 14th Amendment, the suit claims.

Bonta's office, which represents all defendants, didn't respond to a request for its response.

The plaintiffs have already "directly experienced threats from other doctors in response to their exercise of their free speech rights on social media," sometimes referring to AB 2098. They named the nonprofit No License for Disinformation as having whipped up Twitter mobs to report Kheriaty, Hoeg and plaintiff Azadeh Khatibi, a peer-reviewed researcher who treats infectious diseases.

Kheriaty's declaration warns that the law will undermine trust in physicians by making patients believe they are "simply parroting a government-approved 'consensus' answer" on COVID questions "without regard to whether or not their doctor actually endorses it."

 

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AMATO: California Is So Bad, Hollywood Liberals Are Turning To A Republican To Protect Their Money​

What’s gotten into California? All major newspapers in the state have done something remarkable: They endorsed Republican Lanhee Chen for controller, a highly influential role of chief fiscal officer for the state. Controller is likely the only state official who can put a check on California’s one party-monopoly by exposing government waste and demanding accountability — an important reminder of the importance of state offices. Newspapers up and down the famously liberal state, from the San Francisco Chronicle to the San Diego Tribune, have endorsed Chen.

The controller pays the state’s bills, exposes fraud, and issues financial reports to taxpayers. But the current controller, Democrat Betty Yee, has been sleeping on the job. Under her watch, the state paid over $20 billion in unemployment benefits to known criminals when Governor Newsom decided anyone who applied for pandemic benefits could get them. As a result, California was scammed by prisoners, mobsters from Russia and China, and even wrote a check to Diane Feinstein. Billions of taxpayer dollars wasted.

It’s no wonder the Democrats are ignoring calls to release California’s annual financial report; the last one they released was for fiscal year 2019-2020. This is unbelievable considering California is the world’s fifth-largest economy and is set to overtake Germany to become the fourth-largest.

 

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Gavin Newsom warned San Francisco about its housing policies. We aren’t listening​

The current draft of the housing element does little to prevent the Board of Supervisors from adopting new constraints that would vitiate the plan.

The supes could pass an ordinance that purports to implement the housing element’s rezoning program, but in reality, makes the new zoning economically infeasible to use. The ordinance might ratchet up affordability requirements and layer on union-labor rules (like Proposition E tried unsuccessfully), impose new rent controls (as Supervisor Aaron Peskin has urged), add local hiring or sourcing demands, require prohibitively expensive materials or community benefits, and on and on.

The track record of the progressives on the board suggests that this is exactly what’s coming. When housing advocates qualified Proposition D, a development streamlining measure, for the ballot, the supervisors responded with Prop. E, an economically infeasible, poison-pill alternative that served no purpose but to confuse voters.

It worked. Prop. D failed.

 

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Newsom asked cities to set targets for reducing homelessness. Sacramento’s goal? A 71% spike



Cities, counties and partnering local agencies were required this year to complete action plans and set measurable goals for getting more people off the streets and into homes. The plans were designed to hold local communities more accountable while giving officials the chance to earn bonus dollars for meeting their goals.

When the governor saw the proposals submitted by some communities, he was simply dissatisfied..

Local officials and homeless advocates, however, don’t see withholding funding as the solution. And they’re raising questions about the figures the governor used as a basis for his decision — figures some say are distorted by the massive increase in homelessness wrought by the pandemic.

“It’s just creating havoc,” said Lisa Bates, CEO of the nonprofit Sacramento Steps Forward, adding that the governor’s announcement heightened fears about the state’s uncertain funding stream for homelessness.

Read more at: https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article268732512.html#storylink=cpy

 

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Gavin Newsom's reparations committee will recommend handing out $223,200 per person to all descendants of slaves in California for 'housing discrimination' at a cost of $559BN - in nation's biggest restitution effort ever​

• A task force was set up in California to make proposals for slavery reparations
• Descendants of slaves in California could receive $223,200 each, it speculated
• That would total $569billion - more than the entire state expenditure in 2021
• Nearly 6.5% of California residents - 2.5M - identify as Black or African American
• A focus of the task force has involved reimbursing for 'housing discrimination'
• The task force was formed due to a bill signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom in 2020

 

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Gavin Newsom's reparations committee will recommend handing out $223,200 per person to all descendants of slaves in California for 'housing discrimination' at a cost of $559BN - in nation's biggest restitution effort ever​

• A task force was set up in California to make proposals for slavery reparations
• Descendants of slaves in California could receive $223,200 each, it speculated
• That would total $569billion - more than the entire state expenditure in 2021
• Nearly 6.5% of California residents - 2.5M - identify as Black or African American
• A focus of the task force has involved reimbursing for 'housing discrimination'
• The task force was formed due to a bill signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom in 2020

A lot of U-Hauls are going to be heading to Cali.

 

[Kyle]

A lot of U-Hauls are going to be heading to Cali.

And from.

 

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California panel estimates $569 billion in reparations is owed to black residents​

The nine-member panel concluded that black Californians whose ancestors were in the US in the 19th century are due $223,200 each due to housing discrimination practices utilized from 1933 to 1977, the New York Times reported.

The work of the Reparations Task Force, which was created by legislation Gov. Gavin Newsom signed in 2020 — and the potential payouts –represent the largest reparations effort in recent history.

“We are looking at reparations on a scale that is the largest since Reconstruction,” Jovan Scott Lewis, a professor at the University of California, Berkeley, who is one of the nine members, told the Times.

The task force hopes to shrink the wealth gap between white and black Californians.

Nationwide, black households have a median wealth of $24,100, which pales in comparison to white households, where the median wealth is $188,200, according to the most recent Federal Reserve Board Survey of Consumer Finances, cited by the paper.

 

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Biggest lie ever: "I'm from the Government, and I'm here to help."

Looks like Newsome is pulling an LBJ: "(paraphrase) "We get this done and the stupid Ni##ers will vote for us the next 200 years."

 

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Just where is this 560 billion dollars supposed to come from?

The Lotto, the liquor stores and the dope dealers will of course end up with most of it.

California has to be retarded to even spout such a plan. It's freaking ridiculous.

 

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That’s where the real problems in this report lie. This is not a sincere attempt to secure some kind of justice that was denied a group of people many years ago, as Democrats constantly claim their obsession with reparations is about. This is a social engineering project disguised as justice.

This initial report doesn’t even do much by way of recommending direct financial compensation, although that is an idea that is still being debated in the committee and will surely pop up in their next report, due sometime in December. The task force, however, does recommend a whole host of disturbing “reparations.” As you read ahead, please keep in mind that these provisions will be overseen by a yet-to-be-created Office of African American/Freedmen Affairs. This would be an unelected body of bureaucrats, with one person in charge of the trillions of dollars it would take to pull off such plans and one person making the final decisions on things like education and wages. We’d basically be appointing a new king of California. Or, more pointedly, a mob boss.

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The task forces wants to make anti-racism and “anti-bias” training and curriculum mandatory for all teachers. They are basically asking for mandatory reeducation for all schools and all teachers across the state.

They want to recruit Black educators for k-12 schools. I’m not sure how that would work outside of how hiring already works in our public school systems, but it does set up a failing process that would ultimately lower the hiring bar. Black people make up a mere 13% of the American population, and of that percentage, how many choose to be teachers? And of those, how many are good teachers? The task force is asking for quotas that may be impossible to fill, and that would be race based.

They want to make more investments in “environmental infrastructure.” California loves doing this – creating schemes to divert public funds to green energy cabals. I shouldn’t be surprised they would use the pain of the legacy of slavery to do it. The environmental cultists have no shame.

They want compensation for Black Americans who have been “deprived of rightful profits from artistic, creative, athletics, and intellectual endeavors.” How does that play out? Given the climate of cancel culture the progressives have forced on us, would this mean anyone who is perceived to have “culturally appropriated” Black culture in some way be forced to give up revenues derived from their appropriation? Will Eminem be forced to compensate his much wealthier and much more successful (and Black rap pioneer) producer, Andre “Dr. Dre” Young? Will Lady Antebellum…oh, sorry…Lady A be forced to compensate the Black artist they stole their virtue signaling name change from? I actually wouldn’t be opposed to that, just to watch the looks on their smug, hypocrite faces. But I digress.

Another suggestion? Raising the minimum wage in “predominantly Black industries” like food and agriculture. Just sit and think about that for a second. This is not a “Hey, here’s a bunch of money for your historical pain, you guys. Don’t spend it all in one place!” type of solution. This is a group of overeducated elitists telling “the poors” that the real justice will be them earning another $4/hour flipping burgers. And, by the way, everyone in that industry gets the same wage increase.

My favorite part is the suggestion that we “require scaling up the minimum wage for experienced workers.” So, like, give people promotions for working hard? Revolutionary!

Is the pattern starting to develop? These are all the typical progressive cultist wish list items that they insert into every bad idea they put forth. Just like Black Lives Matter was never really about empowerment for Black Americans but rather the dismantling of the American system, this reparations report is not at all about actual reparations.

It is a social engineering project, plain and simple. The easy thing would be to just drop money for the ADOS community. But that would mean the issue would no longer be on the table to exploit for political gain, and that’s of no use to the California political class.

The Details of the CA Reparations Bill Are Far More Problematic Than at First Glance

redstate.com

 

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Just where is this 560 billion dollars supposed to come from?

The Lotto, the liquor stores and the dope dealers will of course end up with most of it.

California has to be retarded to even spout such a plan. It's freaking ridiculous.

Likely covid money given to the states.

 

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California panel estimates $569 billion in reparations is owed to black residents​

The nine-member panel concluded that black Californians whose ancestors were in the US in the 19th century are due $223,200 each due to housing discrimination practices utilized from 1933 to 1977, the New York Times reported.

The work of the Reparations Task Force, which was created by legislation Gov. Gavin Newsom signed in 2020 — and the potential payouts –represent the largest reparations effort in recent history.

“We are looking at reparations on a scale that is the largest since Reconstruction,” Jovan Scott Lewis, a professor at the University of California, Berkeley, who is one of the nine members, told the Times.

The task force hopes to shrink the wealth gap between white and black Californians.

Nationwide, black households have a median wealth of $24,100, which pales in comparison to white households, where the median wealth is $188,200, according to the most recent Federal Reserve Board Survey of Consumer Finances, cited by the paper.

What about the Chinese slaves who helped build the railroads. Most of the people getting that money will leave the state because $223,200 deosn't buy much in CA.

 

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One bad thing about the idea of reparations is it will not end there with a payout. It will never be enough.

 

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One bad thing about the idea of reparations is it will not end there with a payout. It will never be enough.

Nope ... Afirmative Action and Endless Welfare ... 1 trillion spent since the 1960's

 

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‘Sick and tired’ of high gas prices, California seeks to punish oil companies with new penalty​

But the initial bill language is vague, failing to define the profit threshold that oil companies would be penalized for exceeding and lacking an explanation of who would be eligible for the rebates. Newsom said those specifics will be sorted out over the course of the special session.

The move comes two months after the Democratic governor first unveiled a plan to levy a windfall profits tax on oil companies that were running up record earnings while Californians were getting squeezed at the pump. He subsequently called for a special session beginning to hammer out the plan.

“These guys have been gaming the system for decades,” Newsom said Monday about the oil and gas industry. “... I think we’ve got a lot of remarkable legislative leaders here that get it and they’re sick and tired of paying the price in terms of dirty air.”

 

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Attention CA Residents: Gov. Newsom Gives Your Private COVID Vax Records to a 'Consulting Firm'​

Political consulting firm Street Level Strategy, LLC, a custodian of Californians’ private medical records, bills itself as “a public affairs firm that specializes in grassroots mobilization, community organizing, digital organizing, and strategic consulting for a range of clients including Fortune 500 companies, non-profits, and trade associations.”

One L.A. resident quoted in the report said, “I’m being stalked by the state of California. I just got a call from a guy who told me he has my file and he sees I got the Pfizer vaccine, but not a booster.”

Pressed for comment, the California Department of Public Health (CDPH) responded that “MyTurn, the state’s vaccine appointment program launched by CDPH, shares a list of booster eligible California residents with Street Level Strategy, LLC that includes names, age, gender, ethnicity, contact information and vaccination history in order to prioritize equity, with a focus on reaching communities that have been disproportionately impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic.”

(Vaguely defined “equity,” of course, being the ultimate excuse for state abuse of power, since challenging any program devoted to promoting “equity” automatically renders one a bigot.)

California taxpayers are footing the bill for Street Level Strategy’s important “equity” work that consists of contacting California residents unsolicited and harassing them to get their mRNA injections to the tune of $12.7 million — awarded, unsurprisingly, through a no-bid contract under the state’s March 4, 2020, COVID-19 emergency declaration.

If all of this sounds vaguely illegal and definitely unethical, your instincts are correct. Per the CDC, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) “is a federal law that required the creation of national standards to protect sensitive patient health information from being disclosed without the patient’s consent or knowledge.” The spirit of the law, and likely the letter as well, has clearly been violated here.

 

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California Figures Out How to Make Gasoline Even More Expensive​

While the rest of the nation’s consumers pay less for their fuel in a competitive, national market — one with more producers and distributors — California wrestles with fewer and fewer of each.

Much of this regulation was designed to clean the air fouled by millions of cars (and, in ye olden days, factories) in the Los Angeles Basin. Many Californians can remember a childhood clouded by smog so severe that they were locked indoors like Midwesterners on snow days; they even called them smog days. In this World Before Air Conditioning, schools, offices, and homes closed their doors and windows and curtailed outdoor activities, especially, of course, driving. This is the state that created the smog check and the catalytic converter and — in a short and stupid, failed experiment — added methanol to our gasoline. Some changes in gasoline helped clean up the Los Angeles Basin, but because (as the state agencies responsible for climate told us in the 1970s) “smog respects no political boundaries,” what was expedient in Los Angeles quickly became necessary across the entire state.

It’s reasonable, in other words, to argue that California regulators monkeyed with fuel recipes and the externalization of other energy-related activities for good purposes. Today, the cost of all state taxes and those exotic blends puts the price per gallon of gasoline in California at about $1.18 higher than anywhere else in the nation.

The governor and his allies call that the “mystery surcharge.” In January, Republican Kevin Kiley, then a state assemblyman from northern California’s Placer County, offered a proposal: Eliminate the largest of the state gasoline taxes. Democrats who control the statehouse refused even to assign Kiley’s bill to a subcommittee. It died for want of air and light. Two months later, with fuel prices rising faster following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Kiley asked his colleagues to waive the assembly’s procedures and jump the bill to floor debate. The supermajority clobbered him.

 

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