In the event you assume you understand how dangerous issues are in California, you don’t. In the event you assume you understand how corrupt the state’s main politicians are, it’s worse than that. Sticky-fingered pols pushing woke insurance policies have turned the Golden State into idiot’s gold.
That’s the title of a brand new e book out March 11 by two investigative reporters—Susan Crabtree of RealClearPolitics, and the Authorities Accountability Institute’s personal Jedd McFatter. Idiot’s Gold: The Radicals, Con Artists, and Traitors Who Killed the California Dream and Now Threaten Us All exposes the stunning fact behind California’s fall from grace, and the way progressives need to do it to the remainder of the nation. The e book exposes the corruption of California’s main Democratic lights—Gov. Gavin Newsom, Sen. Adam Schiff, former Vice President Kamala Harris, and former Home speaker Nancy Pelosi.
Jedd and Susan be a part of Peter Schweizer and Eric Eggers on the newest episode of The Drill Down to call names and share what they discovered. “The e book makes an ideal present for all of the California lefties in your life,” Eggers quips.
“Why don’t we begin with the top honcho, Gavin Newsom,” says Schweizer.
“The whole lot about Governor Newsom is performative, not efficiency based mostly,” says Crabtree, who’s a California resident. “The whole lot has been handed to him on a silver platter, from his faculty admission to his winemaking profession to his political rise. He’s principally simply performing, making it up as he goes alongside. That’s why he can say that he cares in regards to the California wildfire victims.”
Her e book exhibits how a lot Newsom has taken from Pacific Fuel & Electrical (PG&E), the state’s largest and most troubled utility firm. “So, PG&E is considered one of a number of utilities in California which have a monopoly… They’re in mattress with the California Democrats. They’ve given $2.5 million to Gavin Newsom, and they’re liable for probably the most lethal wildfire within the state’s historical past (the ‘Camp Fireplace’ that killed 85 folks).”
Newsom’s spouse took $700,000 from the utility for a private campaign. “His spouse was so near PG&E that she produced documentaries that promote transgender ideology,” Crabtree discovered. “And so they got here with a curriculum that she offered to five,000 colleges throughout the nation. So, they’re exporting their values to the remainder of the nation, and so they made a tidy little revenue of $1.4 million.” PG&E gave cash to her movies and even held a screening within the downtown San Francisco skyscraper that’s their headquarters.
However nothing beats the “monument.” McFatter tells the hosts that story.
“Round 2015, there have been some new articles that got here out that talked about this bronze bust that was coming of Gavin Newsom. Gavin shrugged it off. He mentioned he didn’t actually know who was behind it,” McFatter says. “However what we discovered was that in 2016, the ‘behested fee system’ for California exhibits that Gavin Newsom truly solicited tax-exempt funds from three completely different organizations to assist fund both the creation, set up, or upkeep of his personal bronze bust. And two of the businesses that donated cash have been his personal precise firms. So, in that sense, he partially funded his personal statue.”
Schweizer asks why this sort of habits and incompetence isn’t challenged or doesn’t get folks riled up.
Crabtree says, “I’ve talked about this with so many individuals, and it’s a fantastic query, Peter. To start with, the legacy media out right here cozies as much as the Democratic institution and is a part of the issue… It’s principally one-party rule.”
“There’s one-party rule as a result of there’s been a lot immigration into the state that now it’s principally a two-to-one ratio between Democrat registered voters and Republicans,” she says, noting that Donald Trump did higher this time. “Trump obtained 6 million votes to 9 million for Kamala Harris, however nonetheless not sufficient.”
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