Vivian Wilson, Elon Musk's estranged daughter, responded after Musk and Gavin Newsom got into an online spat over trans rights. It started when America, a PAC founded by Elon Musk, shared a clip from a recent interview of Newsom's with the New York Times, where he said, "I want to see trans kids. I have a trans godson. There's no governor who has signed more pro-trans legislation than I have. No one has been a stronger advocate for the LGBTQ community."
As Gavin Newsom ramps up his almost certain campaign for president, and polls put him in contention for the Democratic Party's nomination in 2028, he has become a favorite target of right-leaning commentators on network television and in YouTube videos and social media. While some criticism is grounded in fact and reasonable differences, there's also a substrata of highly exaggerated, even fictional, output.
YIMBY Law's lawsuit, filed Wednesday in Los Angeles County Superior Court, alleges that Newsom unlawfully restricted homeowners' ability to rebuild by giving local governments the green light to shelve SB 9, the 2021 state law that permits duplex construction and lot-splitting on parcels zoned for single-family homes, Politico reported. Residents in the Pacific Palisades appealed to Newsom over the summer to stop SB 9's implementation, fearing that allowing duplexes and split lots would diminish the neighborhood's character and make evacuation efforts in future fires worse.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom, considered by some to be the frontrunner to be the next Democratic presidential nominee, said during a panel on Wednesday that he wants his party to be a "big tent" that welcomes large numbers of people into the fold. But he's "adamantly against" one of the most popular proposals Democrats have to offer: a wealth tax.
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The governor said he approved it because he needed to wake everybody up to the normalization of deviancy and he said Fox News has been a prime offender, while comparing it the Soviet Union's go-to propaganda outlet. You got Pravda, the primetime lineup at Fox, just going on and on [in defense of Trump], Newsom said. [He] called someone the R word' or piggy, and somehow it's just Trump being Trump.'
Newsom got a lot of heat from his fellow Democrats for his podcast chats with controversial figures on the right, but a new poll shows he seems to be making headway with a demographic where the left lost ground to President Donald Trump and MAGA Republicans: young men. The governor was undeterred by the criticism, saying that Democrats needed to get out of our own damn bubble on a May episode of his podcast.
Not only did FDR make good on helping the average person, he put a sign on it (literally - think of all those Work Projects Administration logos that still grace our manhole covers and sidewalks) to make sure everyone knew that big, bold government wasn't the problem, but the solution - despite what rich men wanted the public to believe.
The White, benevolent liberal is the most racist person I've ever seen in the history of this country, and many of them don't even know it, Hunt said. The condescending tone in which they address us is utterly ridiculous. That cohort, Hunt said, don't view us as equal at all and by us, I mean Black people. They talk down to us, they think we are too stupid to get an ID to vote,
In a sign of California's rising status as a major hub of Democratic politics, Gov. Gavin Newsom said Sunday he's considering a run for president in 2028 - just a day after former U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris made the same pronouncement. Newsom, a Democrat who has won national prominence this year pitching himself a leader of the resistance to President Trump, admitted for the first time publicly that he is seriously weighing a 2028 presidential run.
In his veto message, Newsom said the fee increase made little sense since a car buyer would be paying a dealership for only minutes of data entry. At a time when Californians are already struggling with the high cost of living, Newsom wrote, this bill would raise the document processing fee to three times the current $85 cap far beyond what an inflation adjustment would justify.
Gavin Newsom this week again denied parole for Patricia Krenwinkel, who has spent more than half a century in prison for her role in the 1969 Tate-LaBianca killings orchestrated by Charles Manson and perpetrated by his followers. Nearly five months after California's parole board found the 77-year-old suitable for release, the governor on Monday reversed the decisionand said Krenwinkel currently poses an unreasonable danger to society if released from prison at this time'.
