Christopher R. Rufo, Ryan Thorpe, Kenneth Schrupp and Haley Strack. Remember those names.
They have joined forces to write an article, just published at City Journal, telling us what has happened to California under Governor Gavin Newsom.
It is fully referenced, painfully detailed…and as complete a demonstration of what a horrible Governor Newsom has been/how badly he has hurt the state of California as you are likely to ever see.
You can read the entire article – which I beg you to do – by clicking here. This is how it begins:
California is a cash machine. The state collects some of the country’s highest income, business, and fuel taxes, and now spends more than $300 billion per year. And yet, everywhere you look, California seems to be falling apart.
The roads are crumbling. Mismanaged wildfires have turned neighborhoods into ash. Drug addiction and homelessness have metastasized, turning parts of Los Angeles and San Francisco into no-go zones. And the cost-of-living crisis is pricing middle-class taxpayers out of basic necessities like groceries and gas, even as the state spends billions on welfare programs that never seem to lift anyone out of poverty.
Californians are beginning to ask: Where is all this money going? On paper, it funds hospitals, universities, schools, prisons, infrastructure, and other public services. But beneath the surface, something else is happening that California Governor Gavin Newsom does not want you to see: massive, systematic, brazen fraud.
We conducted interviews with public officials, fraud experts, and political figures, and reviewed hundreds of pages of government reports, state audits, criminal indictments, and other public records on California fraud. From unemployment insurance and Medicaid to failed homeless initiatives and welfare programs, seemingly every state program has been compromised by criminals. The best estimates suggest that, on the governor’s watch, fraudsters, scammers, and organized crime rings have stolen at least $180 billion from taxpayers.
Welcome to Gavin Newsom’s empire of fraud.
Let me emphasize again: this is not just an anti-Newsom hit piece. It is a fully detailed, fully referenced indictment, based entirely on facts, that completely blows the lid off of Newsom’s governance and its consequences.
Begging one more time: please read the entire piece, not just the beginning I’ve shown you. It is nothing short of jaw-dropping.
Then grow old waiting for most of our mainstream media to follow up on what it says. That is almost certainly not going to happen. Wrong political party.
