Gavin Newsom, nephew of Nancy Pelosi. Waste & self-enrichment at taxpay
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Gavin Newsom inherited a healthy budget surplus from his predecessor.
History will — or at least should — see a $165 billion error in revenue estimates as one of California’s most boneheaded political acts.
It happened in 2022, as the state was emerging from the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Gov. Gavin Newsom’s Department of Finance, based on one short-term spike in income taxes, projected that revenues from the state’s three largest sources would remain above $200 billion a year indefinitely.
Newsom then declared that the budget had a $97.5 billion surplus, although that number never appeared in any documents.
“No other state in American history has ever experienced a surplus as large as this,” Newsom bragged as he unveiled a 2022-23 fiscal year budget that topped $300 billion.
With that in mind, he and the Legislature adopted a budget with billions in new spending, most notably on health and welfare programs and cash payments to poor families.
Within a few weeks, Newsom and legislators learned that real revenues were falling well short of the rosy projections. But the damage, in terms of expanded spending, was done.
Two years later, buried in its fine print, the deficit-ridden 2024-25 budget acknowledged that sales taxes and personal and corporate income tax revenues would fall well short of the $200 billion a year projection, estimating a $165.1 billion shortfall
over four years.
Fast forward to January 2025, Newsom's idiocy and petty politics resulted in the most costly wildfire in US history.
With a forestry budget alone of nearly $800 billion, Newsom and the other Democrat leadership charged with forest maintenance and brush clearing, failed to perform those duties.
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California's High-Speed Rail Needs Another $100 Billion. That's a Great Reason Not To Build It.
When Californians were first pitched, in 2008, on the idea of a high-speed rail line connecting San Francisco and Los Angeles, the price tag was an estimated $33 billion—and about 75 percent of those costs would come from federal taxpayers or private
sources, the Los Angeles Times editorial board assured its readers at the time.
On Tuesday, the project's CEO told state lawmakers in Sacramento that another $100 billion—yes, in addition to what state and federal taxpayers have already contributed—will likely be needed to finish the project. Meanwhile, there's still no timeline
for when passengers will be able to take the train due to ongoing environmental reviews, Sacramento-based KCRA reported.
At the state Senate Transportation Committee hearing where High-Speed Rail Authority CEO Brian Kelly delivered the expensive news, at least one lawmaker asked the obvious question: "How do we get the public on board with something," asked state Sen.
Kelly Seyarto (R–Murrieta), "that has this much of a downside funding wise?"
Kelly, of course, told lawmakers to just keep throwing money in the hole. "It feels impossible until it's not and then you grind, you do the work, you perform better and you deliver," he said.
Or you give up, walk away, and stop wasting public money—which is what California should have done a long time ago.
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On January 10, 2024, Governor Newsom announced his 2024-2025 State budget proposal for $291 billion with a $37.9 billion proposed deficit. For water projects, the proposal is remarkably similar to his proposal from last year. The main differences as
compared to last year’s proposal are bigger cuts (to many of the same areas cut last year) and less funding for new projects.
Turning to cuts specifically focused on water, the three areas we highlighted last year as receiving substantial cuts received even more substantial cuts this year:
Watershed Resilience Programs:
$88.4 million reversion this year and $350 million reduction over the next two years
$56 million budget
Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substance (PFAS) Clean Up:
$71.6 million reversion and $30 million reduction
$53 million budget
Water Recycling:
$174.4 million reversion and $100 million shift
$348 million budget
Other notable reductions to water projects include a $50 million reversion in dam safety and a $175 million delay for the Department of Toxic Substances Control’s Cleanup in Vulnerable Communities Initiative Program.
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Newsom and his rapidly declining aunt Nancy are responsible for the Trump hatred in the state of California.
That's going to prove very expensive for the citizens of the state.
Will they do anything about it?
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Multiple wildfires have burned nearly 40,000 acres over the last week, with dangerous Santa Ana winds expected to complicate the firefight this week.
At least two dozen people have been killed in the fires, according to the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner's Office, and officials estimate that between the Palisades and Eaton fires, more than 12,000 structures have been either damaged or destroyed.
A new analysis estimates that the fires burning across Southern California may cost between $250 and $275 billion — nearly twice its initial estimate.
Those new numbers would mean these fires would cost more than the entire 2020 wildfire season in California and more than last fall's Hurricane Helene, which is estimated to cost between $225 and $250 billion.
California cannot afford Gavin Newsom or Nancy Pelosi any longer.
Get rid of them both.
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CA POLS Who Need To Go on Fri Jan 17 18:38:27 2025
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On 1/17/2025 6:13 PM, CA POLS Who Need To Go wrote:
Gavin Newsom inherited a healthy budget surplus from his predecessor.
Shit, e.g. COVID-19, happens.
Newsom is *not* the nephew of Nancy Pelosi. Gavin Newsom's aunt, Barbara Newsom,
was once married to Nancy Pelosi's *brother-in-law*, Ron Pelosi. For Gavin Newsom to be Nancy Pelosi's nephew, one of Gavin Newsom's parents — *not* his aunt — would have to be a sibling of either Nancy or Paul Pelosi. Neither of Gavin Newsom's parents is a sibling to either Pelosi.
Here, once again, we see how stupid shit-4-braincell Trumpswabs *always* fall for cheap easy fiction (lies) rather than investing the time and effort to find the truth. Stupid shit-4-braincell knuckle-dragging Trumpswabs *always* prefer lies to truth — *always*.
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Rudy Canoza <
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Shit, e.g. COVID-19, happens.
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