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‘Let’s Make a Deal:’ Newsom Admin. Inks Backroom Deal With Kaiser for Statewide Medi-Cal Health

February 5, 2022 10:01 amFebruary 7, 2022 12:00 pm

Only days after California’s proposed Single Payer state-controlled health care bill failed to even get to a vote on the Assembly floor last week, a medical industry news website announced “California inks sweetheart deal with Kaiser Permanente, jeopardizing Medicaid reforms.”...

Gov. Newsom’s Cruel, Indefinite Lockdown of Californians 340 Days Later

February 22, 2021 8:00 amFebruary 23, 2021 2:39 pm

The statewide confusion and anger over California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s coronavirus lockdown vs. re-opening orders has only heightened with every day this drags on. It was March 4, 2020 when we were told to shelter in place for two weeks...

Gov. Newsom’s Brother-in-Law Arrested on Alleged Domestic Violence Charges

January 17, 2021 9:18 amJanuary 17, 2021 12:31 pm

Two recent alleged domestic abuse cases by people closely connected to Gov. Gavin Newsom rather quietly made the news. Joshua Schiller, brother-in-law to Gov. Newsom, was arrested on Thursday for alleged domestic violence in Ross, Calif., according to a statement...

New Federal Lawsuit Accuses Gov. Newsom of ‘Gross Abuse of Power’ and Violation of Due Process Clause

December 21, 2020 1:36 pmDecember 21, 2020 2:25 pm

“It is time — past time — to make plain that, while the pandemic poses many grave challenges, there is no world in which the Constitution tolerates color-coded executive edicts that reopen liquor stores and bike shops but shutter churches,...

Gov. Newsom’s Hollywood Lockdown Exemptions Facilitated by Lobbyist Pals

December 13, 2020 10:50 amJanuary 13, 2021 10:42 am

If industries can buy themselves an exemption from Gov. Gavin Newsom’s COVID-19 lockdown restrictions, then there is no real deadly pandemic. If the coronavirus was really as deadly as the Spanish Flu, no one would be lobbying the governor for...

Reputation Repair: Gov. Gavin Newsom Hiring Lobbyist As Chief of Staff

December 10, 2020 3:31 pmDecember 12, 2020 8:23 am

California is a bit of a mess. The COVID virus has been weaponized by Gov. Gavin Newsom, and he now faces a devastated economy, record bankruptcies and permanent business closures, a distrustful public, and millions of angry parents whose children...

Gov. Gavin Newsom’s ‘Dinnergate’ Apology Grows From Little White Lie to Whopper

November 23, 2020 5:26 pmNovember 25, 2020 4:40 pm

We know that with too many politicians “the ends justify the means,” meaning the desired result is so important that any method, even a morally bad one, may be used to achieve it. Gov. Gavin Newsom was caught in recent...