Newsom’s RiotsNewsom is a 2028 front-runner. All he had to do was set parts of L.A. on fire.June 17, 2025 by Daniel Greenfield When David Huerta, an SEIU union boss, was arrested at a pro-illegal alien rally and charged with a felony for shoving law enforcement personnel, Gov. Gavin Newsom fumed that his political ally was “a respected leader, a patriot, and an advocate for working people” and reposted a message from SEIU urging the mobs to “resist”.
SEIU, which took part in the No Kings rallies against Trump, is a key part of Newsom’s political machine, endorsing the governor and directing $6.6 million to protecting him during the recall election, even while benefiting vastly from Newsom’s actions, such as the FAST Act, which set a fast food minimum wage of as much as $22 an hour and created a Fast Food Council to control the industry despite lacking an actual functional union for fast food employees.
But having spent $82 million on lobbying and millions on keeping Gov. Newsom in power, union bosses like Huerta could get whatever they wanted. And so could Newsom. Including the riots.
There is no way to understand the sudden violent riots in Los Angeles which required the dispatch of the National Guard, without also understanding how California is actually run. The state is not, as its leaders insist, a democracy, it’s an oligarchy run by a small group of powerful political interests, merging elected officials, unions and nonprofits, who move money looted from taxpayers, customers and business back and forth into each other’s pockets.
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