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00:00Devon Christopher Newsome was born on October 10, 1967, in San Francisco to parents Tessa Thomas and William Alfred Newsome III.
00:14His father worked as a court judge and an attorney for Getty Oil.
00:19Newsome's maternal great-grandfather, Scotsman Thomas Addis, was a prominent scientist in nephrology and a professor of medicine at Stanford University.
00:28Newsome himself suffers from dyslexia and throughout his education relied upon audiobooks, informal verbal instructions, and study Digest to navigate his learning difficulties.
00:40Even now he prefers to review documents and reports using audio.
00:44Newsome was born into the best political connections.
00:48Former Democrat Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, who married Paul Pelosi, is his aunt by marriage.
00:54Paul's brother, Ron Pelosi, was married to Gavin Newsome's aunt Barbara Newsome Callan.
01:00They were deeply tied to the family of former California Governor Pat Brown, who was in office from 1959 to 1967,
01:08and his son, Jerry Brown, who later became governor from 1975 to 1983 and again in 2011 to 2019.
01:18He is also the second cousin of musician Joanna Newsome, who was an actress, singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist.
01:27The Getty Oil dynasty and heirs to J. Paul Getty's fortune were extremely close to the Newsomes.
01:32Gordon Getty, in particular, acted as a benefactor to Gavin Newsome and his father, Bill Newsome, who was a state judge and long-time lawyer to the Getty family.
01:41This collective created a powerful and almost unaccountable Democrat royal family who lived by their own rules.
01:49The Getty's invested in Gavin Newsome's early businesses, such as the Plump Jack Wine and Hospitality Ventures.
01:56Without the Getty's, none of this would have ever occurred.
01:59The Pelosi-Brown connections tapped into the Democratic fundraising networks, which brought endorsements and credibility to Newsome's political ambitions.
02:08But how has that worked out?
02:10Newsome has held office since 1996, when San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown appointed him to the city's Parking and Traffic Commission.
02:19He is a lifelong politician and his net worth is about $30 million.
02:23So let's take a hard look at Gavin Newsome's track record as both mayor of San Francisco and as governor.
02:31As historian Victor Davis Hanson puts it,
02:34quote,
02:35This is the California governor who believes he is entitled to the presidency of the United States,
02:41but he's just another privileged San Francisco Bay Area elite who inherited a California paradise and turned it into a purgatory, end quote.
02:50Newsome's career reads like a political disaster novel.
02:53In 2001, as San Francisco's rising star, he married Kimberly Guilfoyle, a former prosecutor and legal analyst for MSNBC, CNN, and Court TV,
03:04who later became a prominent Fox News personality.
03:07Despite his smooth climb into office, Newsome has been dogged by scandal.
03:12While serving as San Francisco mayor, he carried on an affair in late 2005 with Ruby Rippy Gibney, then known as Ruby Rippy Torque, the secretary of one of his own appointees.
03:23At that time, Ruby was married to Alex Torque, Newsome's campaign manager and close friend.
03:29When the affair came to light, Torque immediately resigned and Newsome was forced to face the press,
03:35admitting he had hurt people close to him and announcing he would seek retreatment for alcohol abuse.
03:41The scandal ultimately ended his marriage and his divorce from Guilfoyle was finalized in 2006.
03:48In starting a tradition of avoiding solving problems, Newsome fled for a vacation to Hawaii
03:55when the tanker Costco Busan oil spill occurred at 8.30 a.m. local time on November 7, 2007 between San Francisco and Oakland, California,
04:05in which 53,569 U.S. gallons of IFO 380 or heavy fuel oil, sometimes referred to as bunker fuel, spilled into San Francisco Bay.
04:18The ship was operated by Fleet Management Limited, which struck Delta Tower of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge in thick fog.
04:25This opened up a gash in her hull, subsequently releasing the fuel into the bay, creating a massive environmental disaster,
04:33concentrated along San Francisco's waterfront, the Embarcadero.
04:38The fumes were so strong that many parts of the bay shore were temporarily shut down and evacuated.
04:44It was only after this that Gavin Newsome left for Hawaii.
04:48It wasn't his problem.
04:50That burden fell upon former Mayor Willie Brown and then-Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger,
04:55who had to step in and provide the leadership.
04:58Newsome's financial fortune soared when he became Governor in 2019, succeeding Jerry Brown.
05:06For 2025, he drew a state salary of $291,715 and received an additional $95,063.16 in benefits including free healthcare.
05:19But does that income match his lifestyle?
05:22Consider his lavish purchase of a $9 million dollar home financed on a 30-year mortgage,
05:27that would be a demanding $56,464.75 in monthly payments at today's interest rates.
05:37To qualify for such a loan, lenders typically expect an annual income approaching $2 million,
05:42a level far beyond the earnings of a public servant.
05:46Buying it outright would put him in the company of rock stars, hedge fund moguls,
05:50Hollywood producers, or drug traffickers, not a career politician.
05:54Adding to the questions, the property carries an annual tax bill of more than $117,000,
06:01or roughly 1% of its value.
06:03Yet, as reporter Jennifer Van Laar revealed in 2020, Newsome had chronically delinquent property taxes in both Marin and Sacramento counties.
06:15According to latest reports, Newsome is currently delinquent on more than $20,000 in property taxes for his Kent Field estate,
06:22which was last listed for $5.9 million, according to the Marin County Department of Finance's website.
06:30Now, this is interesting, because in 2018-2019, an LLC registered to Newsome's cousin, business partner, and co-president of Plumpjack,
06:40Jeremy Scherer paid $3.7 million cash for a 12,000-square-foot Fair Oaks estate in December of 2018.
06:49In October 2019, the LLC gifted the home to the Newsomes, free and clear, claiming Newsome was a member of the LLC to avoid a $4,000 transfer tax.
07:02In January 2020, the Newsomes received $2.7 million tax-free when they obtained a cash-out refinance, Jen Van Laar reported at Red State.
07:13This left very little from the $5.9 million sale of their Marin home, the Globe reported.
07:19Except, according to Van Laar, that home was mortgaged to the hilt.
07:23And, Newsomes' financial disclosure forms don't mention the LLC or the GIFs, which far exceed the $500 legal limit, which must be reported and which is a crime in the state, but not for well-connected Democrats.
07:37The Newsomes retained the six-bedroom Fair Oaks $3.7 million home, where he spends several nights a week with his wife, Jennifer Siebel Newsome.
07:47For your information, there is no state audit or investigation for violating those laws.
07:52So, the Newsomes now have two multi-million dollar homes which do not actually belong to them.
07:58So, who owns them?
08:00Who is investing so heavily in Gavin Newsome?
08:03Who is providing his lifestyle for the rich and famous to the Newsomes, and what do they expect in return?
08:10Looks like investments masking future campaign contributions to a future presidential candidate, and people like to call in favors.
08:18As governor, he approved spending $1 billion of California taxpayer funds on masks from a Chinese company BYD during COVID,
08:27rather than use the American manufacturer who had a better product at the same price, if not lower, hence that financial connection.
08:36He raised the minimum wage to $20 per hour, and fast food owners and restaurant owners were forced to lay off employees and close restaurants.
08:46He cost jobs.
08:48Many left the state, such as In-N-Out Burger going to Tennessee.
08:52He passed policies and regulations killing manufacturing, forcing more businesses to flee that state.
08:59Newsome passed policies bolstering a service economy rather than high-paying manufacturing jobs.
09:06He limited energy production to renewable energy only, solar and wind.
09:11He limited gas and oil production, creating a shortage, forcing people out of their cars and onto public transportation,
09:18and forced people into electric vehicles, and he ordered all internal combustion cars banned by 2035.
09:25To push this plan, he is responsible for the highest gas prices and gas taxes in the nation.
09:32He mandated an all-electric state, including autos and trucks and all-electric homes and commercial buildings in new construction,
09:41but he did not have the foresight to upgrade the power grid, which is the least dependable in the nation.
09:47He signed a bill to install thousands of floating offshore wind turbines at a cost of $150 billion,
09:54and, bear in mind, his friends in the Communist Chinese party are the primary manufacturers of these turbines.
10:01Newsome legalized recreational drugs and reduced criminal penalties for sex with minors in SB 145,
10:09legalized abortion up to a baby's birth,
10:12destroyed the public education system by watering down actual disciplines of math and English,
10:17pushing a woke agenda, while sending his own children to private schools.
10:22Public school student scores plummeted far below the grade average nationwide.
10:27He still promotes affirmative action, racial preferences, and DEI hiring,
10:32exploding state government jobs over merit-based hiring.
10:36This is a large contributor to so many of the state employees being incompetent.
10:41Newsome vetoed a bill that would cap co-pays for insulin at $35.
10:46For people struggling with medical costs, this was widely criticized.
10:51But remember, Big Pharma donates heavily to Newsome and Pelosi, among other Democrats.
10:56Having stock in those drug companies also may have influenced his decision.
11:01See our video on Senator Elizabeth Warren as an example of a politician getting Big Pharma money.
11:06He creates fake crises and pushes climate change under reparations.
11:11Newsome made deals with Chinese companies, making solar panels along with the COVID masks,
11:16as he pushed the environmentalist message.
11:19He doubled the drug-addicted, vagrant, homeless population living on California streets,
11:25while spending $24 billion on them.
11:28But there is no telling where that money went.
11:30But remember, he does have those expensive homes.
11:33Newsome attacked the right to keep and bear arms by passing laws which nibble around the edges of the Second Amendment,
11:39creating de facto gun control and making ownership and purchase too expensive and almost impossible.
11:46Newsome created a housing shortage, doubling down on forcing cities and small towns
11:51to comply with his order to build affordable housing and multi-family units.
11:56But somehow he forgot to pass those requirements on to the wealthy areas where his Democrat millionaire friends live.
12:03That would have lowered their property values, and he could not have that.
12:08Newsome, even when warned by Donald Trump in his first administration,
12:12and was offered federal aid to correct the problem, refused to address the water crisis.
12:17He wasted two of the wettest years in recent California history by sending the abundant water flowing out to the Pacific Ocean for environmental purposes,
12:25rather than collecting it in reservoirs and using it for agricultural irrigation and storing it the rest for a dry year.
12:34He also cut water off to rural areas in the state and limited water deliveries to farmers and ranchers.
12:40In one of the greatest sleight of hand maneuvers in political history,
12:43he spent millions of Proposition 1 funding designated for dam reservoir construction for additional water storage,
12:50but instead he helped demolish four dams on the Klamath River, destroying hydroelectric power and beautiful lakes.
12:59The Klamath Dam removals are a shining example of what we can accomplish when we act according to our values,
13:05Newsome said in a letter to Warren Buffett asking for his backing.
13:09This was supposed to appease the far-left Green News Scam Collective.
13:13Gavin Newsome and the California Department of Public Health issued a directive in 2021 during COVID to suspend nursing home regulations,
13:22sending contagious COVID patients to nursing homes, much like Cuomo did in New York.
13:28California had already passed Proposition 47 in 2014 before Newsome's governorship,
13:34which reduced many nonviolent drug and property felonies to misdemeanors.
13:40But Newsome opposed Proposition 36 in 2024.
13:45This was a ballot measure that increased penalties for certain thefts and drug crimes.
13:50He also supports cashless bail.
13:52Californians must never forget Newsome's cruel leftist policies that harm men, women, and children.
13:58And this is not even a complete list by any stretch.
14:01But this was why so many people and businesses have fled the state.
14:05For example, the best estimates are that 1.2 million people at least have escaped California since Newsome took office of governor.
14:15In 2023, there was a net out-migration of 533 firms that abandoned the state, far more firms left than entered.
14:24Over 200 major companies have fled California since 2019, and these are a few examples.
14:31McKesson left in 2019 for Las Colinas, Texas.
14:35Charles Schwab also left San Francisco in 2019 for Westlake, Texas.
14:40Oracle skipped out of Redwood City in 2020 and relocated to Austin, Texas.
14:46Hewlett Packard Enterprise left San Jose in 2020 for Houston, Texas.
14:51Tesla saw the light and fled from Palo Alto in 2021, relocating to Austin, Texas.
14:58Palantir left Silicon Valley from 2020 to 2021, relocating to Denver, Colorado.
15:05CBRE left Los Angeles in 2020 for Dallas, Texas.
15:10Chevron left San Ramon in 2024 for Houston, Texas.
15:14Just these companies alone cost the state billions in lost tax and operational revenue.
15:20As a result, these companies' stocks rose in value.
15:24The only companies with possible higher stock returns are Penske, U-Haul, and other moving companies, if you can get their trucks.
15:31While not responsible for the high-speed rail fraud impacting California taxpayers after voters approved Proposition 1A in 2008,
15:41Newsom has done nothing to stop the waste.
15:44The cost of a full-duration system, the Los Angeles to San Francisco, Anaheim, and line extensions was estimated to cost $33 billion.
15:54But, corruption and incompetence derailed that plan.
15:58The cost for the initial 171-mile segment from Merced to Bakersfield, also known as the Central Valley Stretch alone,
16:06is now projected to be about $35 billion and may grow to $38.5 billion due to inflation, material cost increases, etc.
16:16The total cost for completion of the Phase 1 project from San Francisco to Los Angeles, Anaheim, has a completion cost estimated at $128 billion in newer reports.
16:28This does not include the Central Valley Line.
16:32Between rising costs of concrete, steel, copper, and the environmentalists opposing large sections halting construction,
16:40forced planned rerouting, the expected cost has only risen.
16:44Regulatory and environmental compliance, land acquisition delays, acquiring permissions, clearing environmental hurdles,
16:52relocating utilities, full cost of structures, tunnels, bridges, extending completion dates, all take time and money.
17:00All of this would have been done prior to beginning construction if a competent authority were involved in the planning,
17:06from which California does not benefit, unfortunately.
17:10But common sense did prevail when the U.S. Department of Transportation, under the Trump administration,
17:16terminated about $4 billion in unspent federal grants to the project,
17:21arguing that there was no viable path forward under existing terms.
17:25California and the HSR authority contested this move because that cuts into their kickbacks,
17:31which favored companies getting contracts.
17:33Newsom's had moments of aggressive rhetoric such as fight Republicans, punch these sons of bitches,
17:40which critics say to flame polarization and perhaps encourage political violence.
17:44We have recently seen this with the murder of Charlie Kirk.
17:49While his administration was imposing limits on private gatherings during the COVID-19 pandemic,
17:54Newsom attended a birthday party at the French Laundry restaurant in Napa Valley,
17:59with more than three households present.
18:01The event was indoors or partially enclosed.
18:04His own mask compliance was ignored and photos contradicted his initial claims that they were masked.
18:10Ironically, he oversaw legislation benefiting specific big donors.
18:15For example, AB 1228, the minimum wage for fast food workers,
18:21included an exemption for bakery cafes owned by Greg Flynn,
18:25the owner of 24 Panera Bread locations who donated heavily to his campaign.
18:30Also, a law, AB 3206, gave Steve Ballmer, owner of Intuit Dome and the LA Clippers basketball team,
18:39a special alcohol last-call exception, allowing them to serve alcohol after the legal time
18:45after all other businesses closed.
18:47Ballmer's wife had donated $1 million to Newsom's campaign.
18:51Critics accused him of pay-to-play favoritism.
18:55During COVID, Newsom locked down small businesses,
19:00but he allowed the big box stores, strip clubs, and liquor stores to remain open,
19:04as those are consistent tax sources, many being campaign donors.
19:09Newsom oversaw California as it gave $11.4 billion in unemployment benefits
19:14to ineligible claimants under the Federal Pandemic Unemployment Assistance Program.
19:20An additional $19 billion in claims fell under investigation.
19:25Meanwhile, legitimate applicants faced long delays.
19:29The Newsom administration failed to set up effective safeguards against fraud despite warnings.
19:35All of these events and his actions promoted the recall attempt of 2021.
19:40Newsom remained governor, but the election was close and very questionable,
19:45given unrestricted mail-in ballots, no scrutiny of legitimate or multiple ballots cast,
19:50and lack of transparency in counting those ballots and no voter ID requirements.
19:56Regarding the Palisades fire, Newsom oversold the state's readiness
20:00or did not push hard enough on preventive measures.
20:03Many fire hydrants ran dry or lost sufficient water pressure impairing firefighting efforts.
20:09He shares the blame with L.A. Mayor Karen Bass, and see our video on her.
20:14In a move to deflect his own culpability, he ordered investigations following the failures,
20:20such as hydrant pressure loss, to understand what went wrong and how to prevent recurrence.
20:26He does not have to look far. It was his fault.
20:29Although the liberal fact-checking organizations denied this fact,
20:33Newsom allowed California to expand its Medicaid program, called Medi-Cal,
20:38to include many illegal immigrants being able to access some health coverage paid for with public taxpayer funds.
20:46As of 2025, about 1.6 million undocumented immigrants, otherwise known as illegals,
20:53are enrolled under these expanded Medi-Cal provisions,
20:56and citizen taxpayers are struggling to reap the benefits given to illegals.
21:01Due to the outcry, Newsom proposed damage control,
21:04freezing new enrollment in free Medi-Cal for all undocumented adults over 19 years of age,
21:10starting January 1, 2026.
21:13But Medi-Cal health benefit costs keep rising, leading to chronic shortfalls.
21:18Newsom also proposed a $100 a month premium for already enrolled undocumented adults,
21:24meaning, again, illegals, beginning in 2027 as a cost-cutting measure.
21:29Probably never occurred to him just get rid of the illegals or stop giving them benefits.
21:36But then again, California Democrats expect illegals at some point in time to become Democrat voters.
21:42The Department of Homeland Security is investigating California's program, called CAPI,
21:48a cash assistance program for immigrants, to see if illegals improperly received Supplemental Security Income,
21:55or SSI, or other federal benefits.
21:57Thousands of illegals in California were given Social Security cards through the Biden administration in violation of federal law.
22:05Then, in 2022, Newsom claimed that the state budget had a $97.5 billion surplus.
22:14That projection was based on the assumptions that revenues from capital gains, income taxes, and corporate taxes, etc. would continue growing.
22:23He was severely wrong.
22:25In fact, the state faces a gap between revenue and spending of $20 billion.
22:31So, I guess Newsom forgot about all those high-tech and high-taxed companies that fled the state taking their money with them.
22:37So, in true socialist fashion, Newsom's administration tapped reserves, borrowed from special funds, pension funds, delayed payments,
22:45and other non-recurring revenue sources which are not sustainable long-term solutions.
22:50So, is Gavin Newsom a viable candidate for higher political office such as the presidency?
22:56We'll let you decide.
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