I'm surprised he's not challenging Brandon.
Gavin Newsom keeps Californians under his thumb with this political trickCalifornia’s Gov. Gavin Newsom sure seems to love "emergency orders." After all, he’s created so many of them.
The governor clearly wants to keep the kind of power that accelerated during the pandemic years. In addition to seemingly endless COVID emergencies, there are many more on the books and more to come.
Wildfires, weather, water… it’s always something else. Newsom knows that any emergency decree quickly steps up control over citizens, creating additional government power while the people lose more of theirs.
This is incredibly ironic, since Newsom has taken pains to criticize others as "authoritarian" and is even touring the nation now deriding those whom he thinks exercise unbridled power.
Of course, emergency orders are always about "public safety" and doing things out of "an abundance of caution." But there’s also an added bonus of making the people more fearful and conditioning them to believe that the only way to be safe is allowing government to exercise more control.
It’s also said that the emergencies are needed to get more federal money to the state. And while that’s often true, we have seen continued abuse of the process for political reasons, especially during COVID Seasons 1, 2 and 3.
Invoking constant emergency powers is also an easy way to mask growing deficits. In the first year of the pandemic, California received so much money from Washington that it appeared that the state had a surplus.
Now that the Uncle Sam cash has gone away, the reality (there before the Fed money) is here.
California is now facing a nearly $24 billion budget deficit this year, which doesn’t count the huge unfunded liabilities for state employee pensions and health care.
Since the state’s COVID emergencies are finally off his "emergency orders" list, there is no shortage of new opportunities for Newsom. Cranking out more "emergencies" keeps him in the public eye as the governor seeks more national exposure for his presumed presidential run.
Now it’s all about weather emergencies. As the atmospheric rivers have continued inundating California this year, Newsom eagerly pops into the state’s emergency control centers, dressed for the photo ops...............
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/gavin-newsom-californians-under-thumb-political-trick
