Gavin Newsom. (Photo: Kevin Sanders for California Globe)
California’s Politicians No Longer Work for the People
Not the Governor, not state Senators and not State Assembly members
By Katy Grimes, November 1, 2024 3:55 am
California’s politicians no longer work for the people – not the Governor, not state Senators and not State Assembly members. They work against the people, refusing to pass or enforce laws that make our lives better.
Look around you – you see drug addicted vagrants living in parks, on city streets, along rivers and bike trails. You see brazen retail theft when you shop at Target, Macy’s, your neighborhood pharmacy, and convenience stores. You see dangerous highways and daily car crashes. You see run-down, failing public schools.
Do you feel safe in your neighborhood park? Do you feel safe in the parking lot at your grocery store? Is it safe for your child to walk to school?
Can you afford the home or apartment you are renting? How about your PG&E, SCE or SDGE electric and gas bills? How about filling your car with gas – too expensive for a full tank? What about those grocery bills that have more than doubled? And if you have growing kids, you can’t scrimp on food.
What are California’s politicians doing about any of this?
They are passing legislation to restore news media access to California prisons to the level it was in the 1990s, before the state restricted access. (SB 254 by Sen. Nancy Skinner, D-Berkeley)
They are removing the sunset on the small employer family leave mediation program to make it permanent. (AB 2011 by Assemblywoman Rebecca Bauer Kahan, D-Orinda)
Protecting abortion clinics by increasing penalties for harassing patients seeking abortions as well as abortion doctors and nurses. (AB 2099 by Assemblywoman Rebecca Bauer Kahan, D-Orinda)
They banned Plastic Bags. (SB 1053 by Assemblywoman Rebecca Bauer Kahan, D-Orinda)
They passed a bill to authorize a three-year pilot program in the county of San Diego for preventative pelvic floor and core conditioning group exercises within the six to twelve-week postpartum window to help birthing people rebuild their pelvic floor after pregnancy. (AB 2756 by Assemblywoman Tasha Boerner, D-San Diego)
Bill to authorize pharmacists to continue furnishing COVID-19 oral therapeutics to patients who test positive for SARS-CoV-2, without a prior prescription, until January 1, 2025. (AB 1341 by Assemblyman Marc Berman, D-Palo Alto)
They passed a bill to expand what is covered on the firearm safety certificate test to ensure that potential firearm purchases are aware of the risks associated with owning and bringing a firearm into the home. (AB 1598 by Assemblyman Marc Berman, D-Palo Alto)
They passed a bill that removes the ability of California courts to require a juvenile criminal to pay victim restitution, to pay for any crime, or to pay $250 fine to be deposited in the county treasury, or to participate in uncompensated work programs. Instead the new law requires the minor to make amends by participating in a restorative justice program, performing community service, or participating in an educational, employment, youth development, or mental health program. (AB 1186, by Assemblywoman Mia Bonta, D – Oakland)
They passed the Menstrual Equity for All bill, which “Ensures menstrual products are readily available in California prisons.” (AB 1810 by Assemblyman Issac Bryan, D-Culver City)
California media isn’t reporting on these new laws because they are actually harmful or injurious to average Californians. And these bills do nothing to help the average California family feel safer, or help pay their exorbitant bills.
Career politicians
“Citizen representatives” turned into career politicians who won’t leave office, even when quite elderly… geriatric, in fact. Over half of the members of both the U.S. House and Senate are over age 65. Some are still quite relevant, but many are not. They have become useful idiots for their special interest funders.
In California we have term limits, which lessens the issue of lifetime geriatric office holders. But we have politicians who may leave the California Legislature, and then go back to their home counties and run for County Supervisor, or City Council, rather than getting or going back to an actual private sector job.
Republicans in California, an endangered species, can’t get any consequential legislation passed against the Democrat supermajority. So few in number, they can’t even block bad legislation – instead they have to rely on media pressure to raise public awareness to kill bad Democrat bills. Sometimes this works.
And what has California Governor Gavin Newsom been up to? Here are some headlines from the Globe’s reporting:
Gavin Newsom’s Gas Bill Pushing Venezuela-like Price and Inventory Controls on Oil Refineries
Gavin Newsom Chases Another Oil Company Out of California – Chevron and now Phillips 66.
Gov. Gavin Newsom’s $20 Per Hour Fast-Food Minimum Wage is Tanking the Industry
Gov. Gavin Newsom Signs Dangerous Parent Secrecy Bill AB 1955
Will Gov. Gavin Newsom Face a Reckoning with His $73B Deficit in the $330 Billion Budget?
Here is what Gavin Newsom has been up to since being elected governor in 2019:
Doubled the drug-addicted vagrant population living on California’s streets.
Created a housing shortage – doubling down on forcing cities and small towns to comply with his order to build “affordable housing.”
Cut water off to rural areas in the state; supported dam removal and hydroelectric plant removal.
Limited water deliveries to farmers and ranchers.
Raised the minimum wage so high, fast food owners and restaurant owners are forced to lay off employees.
Passed policies killing manufacturing.
Passed policies bolstering a service economy (rather than manufacturing).
Limited energy production to renewable energy only.
Limited gas and oil production creating a shortage, forcing people out of their cars and on to public transportation.
Ordered all internal combustion cars banned by 2035.
Mandated an all-electric state, including autos and trucks.
Signed bill to install thousands of floating offshore wind turbines at a cost of $150 billion.
Legalized drugs.
Legalized sex with minors.
Legalized abortion up to baby’s birth.
Destroyed the public education system by watering down actual disciplines of math and English, while sending his own children to private schools.
Promotes affirmative action, racial preferences over merit.
Creates fake crises – climate change, reparations.
Infringed on the people’s right to keep and bear arms by passing laws which nibble around the edges of the 2nd Amendment, creating defacto gun control.
Stopped prosecuting crime.
Decriminalized certain crimes, resulting in emptying out state prisons.
Raised corporate taxes to discourage businesses from expanding.
Raised taxes and fees on public services and energy.
Raised income taxes on all income brackets.
Made it easier for local governments to raise taxes.
Tried to impose a wealth tax.
Supported initiative to radically alter property taxes for inherited homes.
Forced doctors to comply with state medical directive, and punish those who refuse to comply. (Court overturned this law)
Has allowed millions of illegal immigrants into the state.
Provides free health care and welfare payments to illegal immigrants.
Allows illegal immigrants to vote in local elections.
Expanded the size of government by hiring hundreds of thousands of state workers.
Created more labor unions jobs by expanding state government.
Encouraged public schools to convince kids they are another gender; provide secret counseling to those kids; shelter kids from parents.
Has limited media access in State Capitol; reward compliant media.
Remember, Gov. Gavin Newsom and the compliant Democrat Supermajority in the California Legislature closed your children’s schools, shut down your businesses, ordered your churches closed, cancelled holidays, masked your kids, mandated Covid shots to go back to work and school… while they exempted themselves from these mandates.
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Most of Mark Twain’s derogatory (and accurate) criticisms of politicians can be found here: https://www.azquotes.com/author/14883-Mark_Twain/tag/politician
He would have a field day with the A-holes currently running California.
this article is full of misinformation and downright lies. all the data contradicts everything that this website says.
your a liar .
I cannot understand d why the right has to lie all the time . if their way is better they shouldn’t have to lie. but they do all the time.
Hi, this is all true. Do you live in CA? I do and this is what he has done. Check the AB’s he has passed and did not allow to pass. If you ever lived in San Diego or Orange County or even Sacramento you’d be very aware of most of all of this.
He is anti-life, pro-abortion, anti-children, anti-families, anti-freedom, anti anything having to do with God’s Word or His people.
These are very evil and dark times we are living in, especially in New York and in California.
boy your an stupid idiot.
he’s a dictator.
I came from a dictator country and that’s the bullshit they do and eventually worse like we are mix races and got booted out of the country or be dead.
This is an all-encompassing hard-hitting article. Thank you. It would look like the odds of survival as we know it are stacked against us and that the California dream has turned to mush. If we keep moving the way we, are I would agree. Look for a major course correction soon. Stealth Newsom is not long for the position that he occupies. His greed/arrogance and lust for absolute power is going to be his downfall.
Another devastating list (thank you AGAIN Katy Grimes) of the outright harm and destruction, useless trivia, and damage through neglect, that Gavin Newsom, the Worst Governor Ever, alongside our weak, wrong-headed, often power-mad and greedy Dem-Marxist legislature have consistently burdened and suffocated Californians with.
Just imagine what a parallel universe of earnestly helpful and public-minded politicians (even if imperfect), governor and legislature, statewide officeholders and local officials, would be doing for residents of this state over all of these years. It would be a freaking paradise compared to what these politicians have wrought: A stinking, smoldering, dangerous, blighted, dysfunctional, always-on-fire, broke and broken, torturous pit of a hell hole, which was once rightfully called the Golden State.
Democrat politicians are responsible for the cesspool we are living in now. What more does anyone need to wake up? We need to STOP our human tendency to adapt and get used to what is simply UNACCEPTABLE in this state and has been for a long time. And what’s happening in California is completely UNACCEPTABLE. The biggest most positive change in our state will come when we simply make up our minds to STOP voting for Democrat politicians.
DID YOU KNOW THIS? Gavin Gruesome is now giving a further $827 MILLION away to cities to “battle the homeless crisis” after BILLIONS have already gone down a hole to slush funds AND after Gruesome himself vetoed this year a homeless money audit so he could prevent us from knowing WHERE all the past money went and whether it did ANYTHING AT ALL to ameliorate homeless/vagrancy (it didn’t):
“Newsom Announces Millions for Combating CA Homeless Crisis”
https://www.foxla.com/news/newsom-announces-millions-for-combating-california-homeless-crisis
Showandtell, nothing will change until government and the public do everything and anything to separate drug addicts from their drugs. In Singapore you can receive the death penalty for selling drugs. There is little dug use in Singapore. Shocking, isn’t it?
In the meantime, Newsom and his cronies continue to pump billions of dollars into non-profits whose sole objective is to increase drug use and the predictable increase in homelessness. “We’re trying our best to solve homelessness. We simply need more money.”
Oh yes, Fed Up, and a lot needs to change to uproot this outrageous state of affairs, which after all is only one more HUGE MESS added to Katy Grimes’ compilation of huge messes above, and ALL of it (imagine) brought to us by Gavin Newsom & His Friends.
Couldn’t resist posting this to 1) show the latest example of how Gavin the Jerk continues without conscience or end to fund, fund, FUND his helpers whose only desire is to grow, grow, GROW and profit from homeless vagrancy, and 2) add to the fury of CA voters so they will NEVER allow in the governor’s office a giant-shoed, red-bulb-nosed, horn-honking, tricycle-riding circus clown like Gavin Newsom AGAIN.
We’ve been heading here for almost 30 years. The only hope is those who have been bought off with Taxpayer Sponsored goodies start losing them so they can give them to the newly arrived and vote against those who took it from them. In the meanwhile those who pay the taxes are leaving. Billions in debt and still spending up a storm, it’s all coming down, it has to.
When was the last time pols actually worked for the people in this state? Have they ever?
Yup, it is now a one party State which is quickly becoming the butt of jokes that are anything but funny to the average Californian. Some quick analysis shows, as you pointed out, most of our “legislation” is for special interests failing to meet the needs of Joe California. Our population centers are commanded, literally and figuratively, by radical, progressive policy makers with foolish voters in ignorant lockstep. With fools like Adam Schiff allowed to continue in a fail up system and Governors, like Newsome and others, seeking higher office leaving devastation in their wake and a complicit media aiding and abetting. Until what’s left of middle class and those upper middle class that begin to feel their own decline, socially and economically, vote to demand representation the cycle will, sadly, continue.
California is a dictatorship.
Newsums theame song is
” If you got the money, I’ve got the sign(nature).
The headline should instead be: “California’s Democrats No Longer Work for the People – Not the Governor, not state Senators and not State Assembly members.” Every one of those laws that Katy Grimes listed which is actually harmful or injurious to average Californians was passed by a Democrat lawmaker and signed into law by Gavin Newsom. How many constituents of those Democrat lawmakers had requested those laws be passed into law? Few to none? No doubt Newsom and his criminal Democrat mafia cronies in the legislature work for their paymasters like the WEF globalists, CCP, cartels, Soros, etc.? Every Democrat in office has sold their soul to the dark side for wealth, power and control?
Imagine a California that had politicians that worked in the best interests of the people not the special interest groups and highly paid lobbyists!
A California with lower gas prices, abundant access to water, safe roadways freshly paved and lined, a tax rate below 5% or no state income tax at all, less crime and no homeless encampments!
I can imagine. It can become a reality if people vote differently and hold local politicians accountable for bad policy. It can happen if we bring back traditional primaries, not the anything goes “jungle primary”.
Stop voting for entrenched career politicians.
Think bigger, vote for sound policy not personality and the first( fill in the blank).
Did you see the Sen. Padilla comments that after Harris wins they hope to make every state like California?
Chilling.
Beyond chilling!
So essentially, Sen. Padilla wants the United States to be a 3rd world country.
Rod and Cali Girl –
Partial list of Useful Tool and Newsom Appointee Sen Alex Padilla’s skullduggery:
As SOS, in April 2016, Padilla appeared before a small group of students and others at Pitzer College and said, “Voter fraud is virtually non-existent in this country,” which was met with a burst of laughter because it was so preposterous. Video of this appearance is no longer available online. He also asserted in that appearance that newly-licensed illegals would not be able to vote.
In 2018, as SOS, Padilla appeared to be behind an effort to change L.A. County voters to permanent “absentee voter” status. My own registration and my husband’s were changed without our knowledge or permission that year. This looks like evidence that Covid fake govt hysteria had as one of its main goals to change CA to Vote-by-Mail. And in early March of 2020, before CA lockdown, Padilla wanted absentee ballots sent to all L.A. County voters.
In October 2020, SOS Padilla and then-AG Xavier Becerra absurdly and almost comically marched up to the press podium and threatened Republicans with a “cease and desist order” for (legal) ballot harvesting, which had been legalized by Dems years before and was done under the radar by Dems before it was legal. They were, in the end, forced to drop the threat but it had already had its effect.
And then there was this in Oct 2020:
https://californiaglobe.com/fr/update-state-controller-rejects-secretary-padillas-35-million-voting-contract-with-team-biden-pr-firm/
Again this is only a partial list. Alex Padilla is bad news and always has been. As you know….
Good reminders, ShowandTell!
We need to keep their dirty deeds and outright lies front and center!
We can remedy this problem by bringing back single day voting, paper ballots, requiring id’s to vote and not accepting late ballots past midnight on election day. Anyone who votes illegally should serve jail time and if they are not a citizen should be immediately deported!
Do they accept late file tax returns after midnight on Tax Day?
Exactly.
The CA Dems’ agenda shows more than they do not work for the people and believe they can do almost whatever they want with impunity, the CA Dems’ agenda shows they hate the people they rule.
In the eighteenth century a handful of men began a revolution against the tyranny of the privileged elites of a society ruled by a dictator. All of those that signed on lost everything to succeed.
It is now time to do it again, who will risk as they did to get it done?
Stop the democrats’ heir apparent to the legislative body and the throne.
i like the messaging. its all about recognizing authority. try as they may the elite insist the slaves have no rights. happening in america right now, americans becoming aware the government does not represent the people. everyday more citizens realize the authority the government wields as a weapon on its citizens is a weapon created by the people. no recognition, no authority, no weapon, no suffering at the hands of the corrupt.
Noisome and company work for the WEF and Klaus Schwab. Make no mistake that the WEF is the enemy of all mankind. Check out their agenda for total slavery of mankind.
Here’s only some of what we’ve lost thus far.
By decree of the Cali supreme Court taxation without representation implemented.
Election integrity eviscerated
Critical petroleum refining infrastructure essentially gone and going from California
An assault on personal real estate valuations
Unreconcileable state and federal deficits the moronic private sector will be forced to burden
The extensions of the aforementioned plus a plethora and myriad of addition unseen conspiratorially implemented liabilities and castrophies all and clearly scripted by the WWF agenda.