Blue state Dems turn on governor as homeless council can't account for $20B in spending
Newsom officials on defense as Dem lawmaker asks where $20B allocated for homelessness went
Jamie Joseph By Jamie Joseph Fox News
Published May 10, 2024 8:30am EDT
 
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Some California Democrats are turning on their Golden State leader after Gov. Gavin Newsom's homelessness council failed to track whether billions of dollars spent on curbing the homelessness crisis were successful in the last five years.

"You come to a budget committee, and there’s no numbers," Democratic Assemblymember Phil Ting said to Newsom's housing and homelessness officials during Monday's budget committee hearing. "How many people have we helped? How many people are off the street?"

"Because that's what people want to know," he added.


A California Interagency Council on Homelessness (CICH) executive responded that they're dealing with "data quality issues," so metrics are not yet available for how more than $20 billion was spent since the council's inception.

"We're working expeditiously," executive officer Meghan Marshall said.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/blue-state-dems-turn-governor-homeless-council-cant-account-20b-spending

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I never had anyone waiting on the pier for me after we came home from the South China Sea.  Twice.  It wasn't all bad because I would stand duty for anyone who had duty but also family to welcome him home.  It was nice to see the family of the guy who I replaced get together again.  He also didn't have to repay me by taking one of my watches.  It was a small price to pay for helping someone whose family could be there.  I suspect there were more guys who didn't have family waiting than those who did.  And a lot of those who didn't, did as I, take a watch for some other guys so they could be with their families.  A lot of guys who technically were supposed to stay on the ship, got to be with his family one day early because someone stepped in to help them out.

Last I heard, the debt was somewhere around $60B, not $21B...someone's cooking the books.

The State of California has been cooking the books for so long that the books have transitioned from "hammered" to "whole burnt offering". $$ gets shuffled from one budgetary area to another. Gas tax and DMV fee $$ that should be used for road/highway building and maintenance has been funneled into Sacred Mass Transit boondoggles for decades (think Moonbeam 1.0). Teachers' and state employees' pension funds have been underfunded for decades.

This is a big part of why I was and am so POed that R Mo-o-o-o-o-oooooooderates ego-stroked Ahnold the RINO into running for governor in the Gray Davis recall. State Rep Tom McClintock would have won instead, and he knew where every budgetary skeleton-closet was and where every budgetary body was buried. Ahnold the RINO was a budgetary invertebrate!

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