Orwellian: Gavin Newsom’s ’10 Ways California Leads the Nation’

Gavin Newsom claims California simply has no peers, across the spectrum.

Newsom claims in an email Thursday:

• California has a “Golden economy” despite having a record $45 to $73 billion budget deficit and more than $1.5 trillion in unfunded public employee pension debt, and owes the federal government more than $21 Billion after borrowing billions to pay unemployment benefits during the Covid flu lockdowns. And while California already has paid more than $650 million in interest on the loan, there is another $550 million due Sept. 30, 2024;
• that women have “reproductive freedom” in the abortion sanctuary state;
• that California’s gun control laws mean California is Number#1 in the nation for “gun safety;”
• that California feeds 3.2 million kids “who would not normally receive meals during the summer time;”
• that having “health care access” is providing it for free to all lower-income California residents and illegal immigrants;”
• that “California is investing” (spending) $45 billion “to tackle the climate crisis and better prepare California for a more extreme future” despite that California’s summer temperatures are normal according to NOAA’s Extreme Weather Watch.
• That California’s universities are “enhancing students’ social mobility;”
• That “California continues to lead the nation in celebrating people for who they are – being a sanctuary for people seeking gender-affirming care, reproductive health care, and seeking to enshrine LGBTQ+ equality in the state’s constitution,” prioritizing special interests. As for Newsom’s CA vs Hate initiative, hate crimes jumped 33% from 2020 to 2021 – under Gov. Gavin Newsom;
• “The nation’s first high-speed rail system cleared its final regulatory hurdle.” The $100 billion (likely double) non-high-speed train system should be called “California’s High Speed Swindle.” In February 2019, President Trump called for California to return all federal rail funding, following Gov. Gavin Newsom’s state of the state address where the Governor vowed to kill High Speed Rail saying, “there simply isn’t a path to get from Sacramento to San Diego, let alone from San Francisco to LA.” However, Newsom flipped on his promise within the week, announcing he was allowing one odd segment of the rail project to be built in the Central Valley, which I call “the conjugal express,” going from prison to prison, Madera to Bakersfield.  The goal for the strange and unnecessary rail line was so California would not have to return $3.5 billion to the federal government.

Most of this is pure drivel.

Let’s address what California actually leads the nation in. California is in a world of hurt – and not from Climate Change as Gov. Newsom would have you believe, or any future threat from it. California has high crime, high taxes (on everything), high housing costs, high college students (legalized pot), high college tuitions, high inflation, high outbound migration, high gas prices, high homeless population, high rate of State mandated secrecy of gender transitioning children from parents, high illegal alien population, high illegal alien population on state funded healthcare (Medi-Cal), high energy costs, high sex trafficking, high unemployment fraud, high abortion procedures (abortion.ca.gov), high public school teachers strikes, high porn in K-12 curriculum, high Water rationing… (and some say a high governor).

Newsom and Democrat policies have pushed out some of California’s greatest businesses.

Here is Gavin Newsom’s email lauding his policies and “10 ways California leads the nation.” Please read all of this. At the end, consider leaving your comment on this article.

“California is the tentpole of the American economy. Home to the world’s greatest higher-education system. A place where people can love who they want, access the reproductive freedom they deserve, and pursue a dream of a safe and prosperous life – their California dream. Across the spectrum, California simply has no peers.” – Governor Gavin Newsom

Golden economy

California is home to the most Fortune 500 companies – beating out Texas, Florida, and all other states. Travel spending reached an all-time high of $150.4 billion. Plus, leading the next generation, California is home to 35 of the world’s 50 leading AI companies, high-impact research and education institutions, and a quarter of the technology’s patents and conference papers. Additionally, California has one of the most equitable tax systems in the entire country, and is #1 in the nation for new business starts, #1 for access to venture capital funding, #1 for manufacturing, #1 for high-tech, and #1 for agriculture.

Reproductive freedom

Since Roe v Wade was overturned by Republican-appointed Justices on the U.S. Supreme Court, Governor Newsom has signed more than 25 bills protecting and expanding access to reproductive freedom, invested more than $200 million to support patients and providers, and led the effort to pass (overwhelmingly) a state constitutional amendment protecting reproductive freedom – including abortion, contraception, and IVF. Learn more at abortion.ca.gov.

Gun safety

California is ranked as the #1 state in the nation for the strength of its gun safety laws — along with some of the lowest rates of gun deaths and gun ownership — by Giffords Law Center and Everytown for Gun Safety. In fact, If the firearm mortality rate in the rest of the United States had matched California’s between 2013-2022, there would have been nearly 140,000 fewer firearm-related deaths nationwide in that decade alone.

Feeding kids

Taking advantage of a federal program – SUN Bucks – already helping 3.2 million kids and students who would not normally receive meals during the summer time. This comes as more than 13 Republican Governors rejectedthis opportunity.

Health care access

California has expanded access to low-cost, high-quality health care for all lower-income California residents – regardless of age or immigration status – recognizing that providing preventative and continuous health care is more cost efficient, leading to Californians having among the highest life expectancies in the nation.

Climate action

California is investing $45 billion to tackle the climate crisis and better prepare California for a more extreme future. The state is already seeing these investments payoff – earlier this year clean electricity production  exceeded California’s electricity demand during 91 of 102 days (as of June 16) – and has 10,000 megawatts of battery energy storage capacity online to enhance grid reliability. Learn more about California’s nation-leading climate action here.

Except, as Susan Shelley exposes, “when the clock strikes midnight California’s renewable energy dream turns back into reliable natural gas. It’s all a fairy tale. Except your electricity bill. That’s a horror story.”

Higher education institutions

California is home to 3 of the top universities in the world – Stanford, University of California, Berkeley, and the University of California, Los Angeles. When it comes to enhancing students’ social mobility, California is home to 12 of the top 20 universities – including the top 2 and 4 of the top 5: California State University Los Angeles (1), University of California Merced (2), Fresno Pacific University (4), and California State University – Northridge (5).

Research and development

The University of California system is the highest ranking research institution when it comes to the most number of patents earned in the world.

Belonging and unity

California continues to lead the nation in celebrating people for who they are – being a sanctuary for people seeking gender-affirming care, reproductive health care, and seeking to enshrine LGBTQ+ equality in the state’s constitution this November. Earlier this year, Governor Newsom released the Golden State Plan to Counter Antisemitism to address increasing attacks on California’s Jewish communities, and wrote a letter to California’s Muslim, Palestinian American, and Arab American communities. And the state launched CA vs Hate initiative to help individuals and communities targeted by hate.

Transportation

California is working on the nation’s first high-speed rail system, which recently cleared its final regulatory hurdle. This critical mode of transportation will connect Los Angeles and San Francisco with plans to connect further to the south to San Diego and through the central valley up to Sacramento. The Golden State is full steam ahead!

Leave your thoughts and comments – as we said above, most of Newsom’s list is pure drivel. California may be leading the nation – off the cliff into 3rd world status.