Governor Newsom and state Democrats need to get their stories straight
Only 10 days ago, President Trump visited Los Angeles, flying in and viewing the destruction of the Pacific Palisades fire from Marine One, and meeting with several state and local leaders to discuss wildfire recovery.
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During his visit, Trump announced two conditions in order to receive federal aid: voter ID laws and for the state to stop diverting water flows to the Pacific Ocean, and instead send Northern California water to the southern state.
Trump also hunted that FEMA could either be overhauled or eliminated.
It’s only Democrat politicians who push for no voter ID to vote, who push for illegal aliens to have a valid ID, and who have allowed California’s water to flow to the ocean instead of to farmers and Central and Southern California cities.
Governor Gavin Newsom had a tarmac talk with the President, hoping to secure hundreds of millions of dollars in federal recovery aid.
I wonder if Trump was thinking about the day after the November Election when the California Governor wasted no time after Trump’s landslide win, harassing and threatening the soon-to-be 47th president.
As the Globe reported, Newsom issued a bridled threat “to stand with states across our nation to defend our Constitution and uphold the rule of law.”
He followed that subtle threat with specifics – planned lawsuits against the Trump administration:
Newsom issued a proclamation convening a special session of the California Legislature “shoring up California’s defenses against an incoming federal administration that has threatened the state on multiple fronts.”
That’s government-speak for “we will be suing the Trump administration as fast as we can prepare the lawsuits” over “an agenda that could erode essential freedoms and individual rights, including women’s rights and LGBTQ+ rights,” Newsom actually said.
The lawsuits will likely be over California’s environmental policies and climate change woo woo, as well as any federal policies impacting California like withholding High Speed Rail funding, offshore drilling/fracking for natural gas, water policy, dam removal, forest management, to name just a few.
It is quite telling that California’s Democrat supermajority is prioritizing frivolous lawsuits against the president rather than cleaning up their own very messy state.
The Assembly Democrats just passed two bills appropriating $50 million taxpayer dollars to “Trump proof” California. “We do not trust President Donald Trump,” Assembly Speaker Robert Rivas said.
Yet it was Speaker Rivas who had the temerity to tell Trump not to play politics when it comes to California wildfire recovery aid. Pot, meet kettle.
California Democrats need to get their act together… and get their stories straight, or the Trump Administration may just withhold federal funding. Spending $50 million to sue Trump and his administration won’t endear the state’s legislative Democrats to the President.
We have watched a 40 assault on Democracy and centralized dictatorship in the State of Calif.
Generally do you expect your elected officials to obey the laws? If so you must be terribly disappointed in the Democrat party.
You idiot D’s cry over illegals but will not enforce the same laws of voting for illegal Mexicans have to face when voting in Mexico.
Isn’t it time for you idiots to watch the destruction of the country and say enough?
Newsom and his lieutenants are pure psychopaths. I have never witnessed a person that can put on such a show as he did with Trump on the tarmac recently. He wasn’t groveling to Trump. NO, he was arrogantly arguing with him, from how it appeared. I wish I knew what he was saying. The audacity of Newsom and the CA legislators who are in collusion with the schemes to waste more CA taxpayer money and then turn around and ask the feds for more. I want CA to be DOGE’d.
It has been shown time and time again that California politicians in particular do nothing for their constituents unless there is some benefit to them selves.