California Governor Gavin Newsom just issued a proclamation declaring July 2020, as “California for All Small Business Month.” Yet just last week, ahead of weekend Independence Day celebrations, he ordered beaches closed, ordered the closures of restaurants, wineries, tasting rooms, movie theaters, family entertainment centers, zoos, museums, cardrooms and bars in 19 counties. Newsom also issued an order declaring there would be “no singing or chanting in churches” in the state, and no 4th of July parties or fireworks, and he promised enforcement in the form of his appointed “strike teams,” California Globe reported.
“Enforcement is a difficult one, and I am not naive about that … not Pollyannish about it,” Newsom said. “We have I think a responsibility … to go after people who are thumbing their noses, being aggressive, being reticent.”
How do you celebrate small businesses while at the same time locking them down and sending enforcement officers to cite and fine them?
The Governor’s Task Force on Business and Jobs Recovery, co-chaired by Ann O’Leary, Newsom’s Chief of Staff, and Tom Steyer, Chief Advisor to the Governor on Business & Jobs Recovery, is apparently launching a new campaign encouraging Californians to help small businesses in their communities operate safely during the pandemic. But the irony is rich as most restaurants and small businesses cannot function, much less function cost effectively, under the governor’s on-again-off-again, lockdown restrictions and mask-wearing mandates.
“The state’s new campaign, Calling All Californians: #ShopSafeShopLocal, partners with industry-leading companies, such as Nextdoor, Google, and UPS, to connect California’s small business owners with critical tools and resources to help them adapt to new consumer and market demands and create safer shopping experiences by improving their online presence,” Newsom’s press statement said.
Is this Gov. Newsom’s “new normal,” where businesses must “adapt” to the random shut down orders and loss of business revenue?
Many restaurants throughout the state have announced their closures are permanent because of Newsom’s shutdown orders.
The text of the Governor’s proclamation includes this bizarre message, with no acknowledgment of the latest business closure order, or his enforcement “strike team:”
“During California for All Small Business Month, we are proud to launch the Calling All Californians: Shop Safe Shop Local campaign to lift up our small businesses, their employees and the neighborhoods they serve. Together, we can help our local small businesses succeed in this new marketplace – rallying Californians to safely spend locally and online, while amplifying resources to support small businesses and help all of our diverse neighborhoods thrive.”
The “Shop Safe Shop Local campaign” does not explain how Californians can shop locally when only big box stores, and those businesses which Newsom deemed “essential,” like pot shops, liquor stores and dog groomers, have been open throughout the governor’s statewide lockdowns, while the majority of small business owners have been prohibited from operating, or operating with severe restrictions.
Is this a proclamation to make it appear as if Gov. Newsom cares about small businesses, while he actually encourages county officials to threaten businesses with hefty fines if they don’t willingly comply?
Yesterday, Yolo County passed an urgency ordinance authorizing county code officers fine businesses up to $10,000 for refusing to comply with Newsom’s “safety measures,” including not requiring patrons to wear masks and allowing indoor dining.
Newsom’s ‘Strike Team’ Strikes Fear in Businesses
Over the July 4th weekend, Newsom’s “strike team” of plain clothes enforcement officers “contacted” 483,000 businesses, but issued only 52 citations. Did they visit the businesses in person
Newsom’s “strike team” is made up of agencies that license hair stylists, barbers and bars, the California Highway Patrol, CalOSHA and the California Labor and Workforce Development Agency, Business Oversight, Consumer Affairs, Food and Agriculture, the Labor Commissioner’s Office, and the Governor’s Office of Business and Economic Development.
In his daily briefings, Newsom is relying only on the increasing number of positive test results for coronavirus as justification for his lockdown orders. However, what the governor is not admitting is the state is doing over twice as much testing, which means more people are testing positive, but a lot more people are testing negative, and deaths continue to go down significantly, even with the increased testing.
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You have to mentally sick to do it.
What he want us to celebrate. Pretty soon we gonna dance on our own funeral.
It's not funny any more at all.
Just goes to show that reality is weirder than fiction.
This man has to go. He is evil.
https://recallgavin2020.com/
“nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity”
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
This whole absurd clown show hair-gel is the ring-master for is really starting to resemble a bad game of simon says. Except when you do not obey simon ( aka hair-gel ) he has you punished by one of his nazi henchmen, and even worse if someone else does not obey simon then he punishes YOU for what THEY did.
The entire state is falling apart due to him and the democrat destruction machine as this clown is even starting to act as though he demands worship in the form of compliance. The constant rebellion must be getting to him and I’d bet the fireworks middle-finger from north to south on July 4th might have put him over the edge.
????, I agree, we had beautiful fireworks displayed all over my neighborhood. I sat with a family doing safe fireworks but we got to see them all. Newsom has let his power to GOVERN go to his crazy head. We will take him down this time. Personally I think if ppl don't have any symptoms at all they should stop getting tested. The more ppl that get tested the more the curve goes up,the more the curve goes up Newsom is going to close places down . Why are ppl getting tested? There's nothing you can do if you are positive but wait it out. I'm praying for this China virus to just go away. I'm praying for ppl to stop being so cruel to each other. We all have a right to our own choices. Let's bring the amount of the positives down. Stay home n don't get tested. Vote RED OR AMERICA IS DEAD. AMEN ????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????
Lol, the same logic Trump used...”If we slowed down the testing, there’d be very few cases of any at all” just like if a pregnant woman never took a pregnancy test that means she’s not pregnant right? What kind of logic operates through your brain? Ignorance isn’t bliss.
‘Small Business Month’: in Houston....
Gavin needs to be recalled he has done nothing but destroy California
This is called rubbing salt in our wounds. He must be laughing himself silly.
And the "King" has spoken.....
Gavin & Co. and those like them have always operated this way it seems, but this is like the old trick on steroids. For one thing, it's a sign of their contempt for the people they are supposed to be working for. They think we're stupid and thus glossing something over or dedicating a month to it instead of taking meaningful action will placate us. It's like the local school district, once sensible parents start pulling their kids out in droves, hiring a public relations firm to improve their reputation instead of working to actually improve ruined, non-performing schools. Or changing the name of a city because the old name is associated with out-of-control crime and deterioration and the new name will fix everything. This time around it looks completely phony if not delusional because (fortunately) most Californians are fully aware of how the governor and his cronies have destroyed small businesses in this state.