Other than making sure his hair is well oiled and in place, is there anything Gavin Newsom has done successfully as Governor of California?
Here is his latest disaster – as described in Barnini Chakraborty’s article for the Washington Examiner:
Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) was all smiles two years ago when he signed the FAST Recovery Act, creating a $20 minimum wage for fast-food workers in his state.
He called the legislation a win-win-win that would benefit restaurant owners, their employees, and customers alike. Fast forward two years, and all those wins he touted are turning into big losses, according to the Employment Policies Institute.
However, in the two years since the FAST Recovery Act was signed, restaurants have been forced to cut staff, raise menu prices, and turn to automation, EPI said.
California made national headlines when two large Pizza Hut franchises laid off more than 1,200 in-house delivery drivers to cut costs, while others, such as Mod Pizza and Foster’s Freeze, decided to close up shop entirely.
“Newsom’s $20 wage has turned out to be nothing more than a boost to his own ego at the expense of fast food workers,” Rebekah Paxton, research director at EPI, told the Washington Examiner. “His consistent claim that the law is a ‘win’ is out of touch with reality, and lawmakers looking to mirror his job-crushing policies should think twice.”
According to EPI’s analysis, California has lost close to 20,000 fast-food jobs since Newsom signed the law. That’s nearly 25% of the country’s fast-food job losses during that same period, according to an analysis of quarterly data released this month from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
“These grim statistics should be a wake-up call for Newsom and other policymakers pushing for drastic wage hikes that will cause unintended consequences,” Paxton added.
California’s public schools are a horror show. Its poverty rate is the highest in the country. Its major tourist-attraction cities – Los Angeles and San Francisco – have become repositories of homeless and illegal “residents”, many of whom who live on the streets, panhandling (and, quite possibly, a lot worse), while leaving used hypodermic needles and human waste on the sidewalks. Productive Californians are fleeing the state by the hundreds of thousands.
But there’s Gavin Newsom, the Guy Smiley of politics, with that coiffed hair and vapid grin, telling us what everyone else is doing wrong and making it clear he wants to be the Democrats’ presidential nominee in 2028.
The one and only reason this unbelievably failed loser isn’t laughed out of contention? Our wonderful “neutral” media – most of which never seem to get around to reporting on his voluminous list of failures. As long as they give Newsom a free ride, he’s taking that ride…in the hopes that its terminal will be 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.
Then he can do for the country what he has done for California.
Dear God…..
