California plans to spend up to $12 million on reparations legislation under a budget signed by Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom, marking a milestone in the state’s efforts to atone for a legacy of racism and discrimination against Black Californians. The reparations funding in the $297.9 billion budget Newsom signed over the weekend does not specify […]
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Gavin Newsom’s $20 billion homeless fiasco
Some California Democrats are turning on their Golden State leader after Gov. Gavin Newsom’s homelessness council failed to track whether billions of dollars spent on curbing the homelessness crisis were successful in the last five years. “You come to a budget committee, and there’s no numbers,” Democratic Assemblymember Phil Ting said to Newsom’s housing and […]
Is Newsom’s China trip a prelude to Presidency?
California Gov. Gavin Newsom was in China meeting with CCP President Xi Jinping earlier this week leading many to wonder, including a congressman from his own state, whether he is running a “shadow” campaign for president in case Democrats ultimately look for an alternative to President Biden as crises pile up on his watch at […]
Newsom backpedaling on CA slavery reparations
Democratic California Gov. Gavin Newsom is trying to dig himself out of a political predicament when it comes to slavery reparations proposed by his own task force. Fox News Digital was first to report Tuesday evening that Newsom, after months of complete silence on the issue, declined to endorse the cash payments – which could […]
Ca Reparations Could See Newsom Give Black Americans $223,000 Each
A nine-member Reparations Task Force has estimated that Black Californians could receive more than $223,000 each in reparations for the enduring economic effects of racism and slavery, more than two years on from the murder of George Floyd at the hands of the police. California has become the first U.S. state to require its agencies […]
Newsom signs gun control bill modeled after Texas abortion law
California Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom on Friday signed a gun control bill into law that will allow private citizens to sue anyone who manufactures, sells, transports or distributes illegal “assault weapons and ghost guns.” The measure was crafted in response to last year’s Texas abortion ban that prohibits the procedure once a heartbeat was detected […]
Newsom’s new CA gun control law sure to pass
Even before Sunday’s shooting that left six people dead in downtown Sacramento, Democratic legislators in California had visions of passing yet more laws to control guns, though not one that might actually help prevent such shootings. On Sacramento’s K Street on Monday, there was the detritus of murder: torn crime tape, broken glass from a […]