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Fact-checking Gavin Newsom

Saturday, March 8, 2025, 10:51 am | Randy Thomasson

Is Gavin Newsom lying — again? Probably, maybe, and definitely.

1. CLAIM: On March 1, he declared he was fast-tracking “forest management” to prevent wildfires.

FACT: But Newsom has made window-dressing announcements like this before, such as touting that he “took similar action in March 2019 to expedite forest management projects.” But as liberal Capitol Public Radio reported in 2021: “Overall, California’s response has faltered under Newsom. After an initial jump during his first year in office, data obtained by CapRadio and NPR’s California Newsroom show Cal Fire’s fuel reduction output dropped by half in 2020, to levels below Gov. Jerry Brown’s final year in office. At the same time, Newsom slashed roughly $150 million from Cal Fire’s wildfire prevention budget.”

Does California have a governor or not? If any more wildfires incinerate neighborhoods or communities, know this — it’s Newsom’s fault.

2. CLAIM: On March 3, Newsom ordered state employees to be in the office for “a default minimum of four in-person days per work week.”

FACT: Unfortunately, this order isn’t effective until the summer. Yet Newsom’s own supporters are already crying foul. The largest state employee union (SEIU Local 1000) has filed an “unfair practice charge” with the state’s Public Employment Relations Board. Another government union, the California Association of State Attorney and Administrative Law Judges, also opposes “returning to the office.” If Newsom doesn’t hold union bosses and bureaucrats accountable, his words were mere talk (remember he’s mocked DOGE). We’ll find out July 1.

3. CLAIM: On March 6, Gavin Newsom said it’s “deeply unfair” for “trans” athletes to be in girls’ and women’s sports. This was during a discussion with moral conservative Charlie Kirk on Newsom’s new “This is Gavin Newsom” podcast.

FACT: Yet, at the same time, Newsom didn’t commit to doing anything to stop biological boys from invading girls’ sports. As governor, Newsom has signed many bills to promote transsexuality in classrooms, school restrooms, teacher training, foster homes, libraries, department stores, hospitals, insurance policies, courts, and in other states (Children, come to California for your secret, taxpayer-funded “sex change”). Newsom is pro-”trans” all the way. See his bill signings in 2021, 2022, 2023, and 2024.

My little children, let us not love in word
or in tongue, but in deed and in truth.
The Bible, 1 John 3:18

But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves.
The Bible, James 1:22

UNJUST: Making California homeowners pay for the Dems’ ‘monster’ fires

Saturday, February 15, 2025, 10:29 am | Randy Thomasson

This is so wrong — because it’s wrong in God’s sight for the innocent to be punished for the guilty!

It’s like if you’re the victim of a home invasion, and your whole family is murdered, but you survive and are arrested as a suspect, while detectives say they aren’t investigating anyone else.

Similarly, in a huge financial injustice, the perpetrators of “monster” fires (California’s Democrat-Party-controlled government) are about to “surcharge” California owners of home and fire insurance policies $1 BILLION to indirectly pay for THEIR wildfire damage.

CHRONOLOGY OF THE PROBLEM — READ TO UNDERSTAND:

1. Democrat Party politicians in California became “prostitutes” of their environmental-wacko group “pimps.”

2. The environmental-wacko groups demanded an END TO THE PRO-PEOPLE PRACTICES of clearing out dead trees and brush, thinning overgrown live trees and brush, implementing controlled burns to establish effective firebreaks, building dams, and keeping reservoirs full.

3. Democrat Party Gov. Jerry Brown fully complied with this agenda and foolishly mimicked by Democrat Party Gov. Gavin Newsom.

4. As a result of all this combustible fuel building up, little fires spread rapidly, becoming ferocious and uncontrollable “monster” fires,

5. As a result, many homeowner insurance companies stopped issuing or canceled policies, citing the unmanageable costs.

6. And the State’s “last resort” homeowners insurance called the “FAIR Plan,” has gotten so many customers, with so many of their homes incinerated, the FAIR Plan is in danger of becoming insolvent.

7. New regulations for this year (passed by the supermajority Democrat Party state legislators and signed by Democrat Party Governor Gavin Newsom) will force property insurance customers to pay 50% of costs to “shore up” the FAIR Plan.

8. CalMatters 2/11/25: “California’s last-resort fire insurance provider will impose a special charge of $1 billion on insurance companies — which will in turn pass the costs along to homeowners.”

9. In this year’s special legislative session, Newsom & the Democrats refused to fund wildfire prevention.

10. Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara, a Democrat Party loyalist and homosexual activist, refused to protect the People and rebuke the Legislature, ordered the $1 BILLION “assessment” on Feb. 11, calling it “necessary consumer protection action.”

11. The last time the State approved additional funds for the FAIR Plan was in 1993, when state revenues paid for the shortfall.

12. Democrat Party Governor Gavin Newsom and most Democrat Party state legislators are silent on their $1 BILLION ‘surcharge,’ knowing their unpopular dirty work is done, for now.

13. The $1 BILLION “surcharge” will appear on your property insurance bill sometime this spring.

14. This will also drive up inflation in California and potentially increase rents, since owners of rental property also have to pay this $1 BILLION assessment.

Please share this cause of harm with others!

Like a roaring lion and a charging bear
Is a wicked ruler over poor people.

The Bible, Proverbs 28:15

The best and worst in California in 2024

Sunday, December 29, 2024, 9:51 pm | Randy Thomasson

You deserve to know this! See our list of best and worst in California in 2024, and resolve to stand your ground with SaveCalifornia.com to fight winnable battles in 2025!

Time to buckle up for a bigger fight and more potential wins in 2025! Because your values, your rights, and your family matter. Will you join SaveCalifornia.com to take back territory the Left has stolen?

Your special support will empower us to fight winnable battles, expose harmful bills and agendas, empower parents, rescue children, and reach, inform, and activate countless Californians through radio, social media, web, and more. Can you help? Thank you in advance!

Blessed be the LORD my Rock,
Who trains my hands for war,
And my fingers for battle—
The Bible, Psalm 144:1