Huh? California Gov Newsom: ‘Vast majority’ of homeless in San Francisco are from Texas
By J.E. Dyer ï August 15, 2019 California’s Governor Gavin Newsom was the mayor of San Francisco (2004-2011) before he became lieutenant governor. So it’s reader’s choice whether to see him as especially expert on this subject, or as especially motivated to make claims about it that reek of political theme-placing.
Whichever way you prefer to see it, the conservative fact-checking site Politifact California took it on this week, after the Los Angeles Times picked up on Newsom’s claim, from an Axios on HBO interview he did in June 2019. (The video is not posted online, but a promo clip can be viewed here. Newsom is seen making another drive-by allusion to “toxic masculinity,†like the one LU caught for you in our Web Crawler headlines on Wednesday.)
Politifact California summarizes the governor’s point:
Newsom said most of the homeless people on the street when he left office were not from California, but added “we took responsibility†for them.
He then made the head-scratching claim about Texas.
“The vast majority (of San Francisco’s homeless people) also come in from — and we know this — from Texas. Just (an) interesting fact,†Newsom said.
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