There’s a deeply troubling ongoing pattern in Gov. Gavin Newsom’s approach to land and water policies in California involving closed doors, backroom deals and disingenuous — or more often than not — inadequate community engagement to move projects forward.
Circumventing guardrails and sidestepping public opinion have become the norm with the Delta Conveyance Project and voluntary water agreements, all while the Newsom administration continued its attempts to fast-track California Forever — another potential boondoggle.
Billionaires, lobbyists and administrative insiders should not be shaping California’s future; Californians should. This pattern of bad governance is preventing the people of California from receiving the transparency and due process they deserve, along with the chance to weigh in on decisions that directly impact their communities.
Who exactly is bearing the cost for these projects? The rest of us.
Yeah, let’s keep it from progressing past “hopeful”. Dude is a corpo piece of shit.
Newsome should be unacceptable as a presidential candidate for the left. He’s about as centrist and business forward as they come. Almost all his projects directed at Californians have a business windfall attached to them.
He’s a rich boy, with a rich boy haircut who has no concept of how his constituency struggles. We Californians voted him in because… Well look at him, he’s gorgeous. Like we are that stupid. We voted for Arnold for Christ sake.
He’d be a terrible as a socialist politician. Corrupt and inept. It’s people like him that allow the right to paint the left with a broad brush.
Unfortunately, California can’t seem to escape the constant succession of shit governors.
Neither is raping young girls, yet here we are.
If we set the bar at “better than Trump”, we’re going to get someone worse than Trump within 10 years.
Like the other person said; the road to fascism is paved with moderates. Each ineffectual moderate undermines trust in democratic institutions until they’re either saved by leftists or swept aside by whichever demagogue reaches critical mass first.
Newsome just gearing to be the Blue MAGA candidate for president.
That’s not how to be a Democrat that works for We The People. Do any Dems that have a chance to win president, but the story is they won’t get the big money needed to win. Need spending limits, ranked choice and other ways that more people who aren’t sold to Evil Corp, can win.
Sold to Evil Corp,
Don’t work for We The People,
Where are honest ones?
In recent days he tried again with the “gut and amend” SB 492. He tried to rush through liability limitations for electric companies after they burn down our communities. It’s like he’s following the Dem playbook from the 1990s of seeking corporate money in exchange for cushy laws.
Fuck him.
A deeply incompetent individual who wasted tens of billions of tax dollars meant for public projects that failed. Also a corporate shill and bought off by government worker employee unions in order to support a $265 billion unfunded pension liability the state won’t be able to pay off. It’s a widely abused system where people get 110% of their income for the rest of their life and many double-dip to get two pensions. All private workers are stuck struggling and their retirement future is not so bright. Yet, California manages to have some of the highest tax rates and fees in the nation. So if they’re not openly corrupt, it’s definitely implied.
Socialism works when it’s run by competent, ethical individuals. Unfortunately, there are no legal consequences to bad actors who use their political office for financial gains.
