{"id":655262,"date":"2021-08-17T15:22:23","date_gmt":"2021-08-17T19:22:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=655262"},"modified":"2021-08-17T15:22:28","modified_gmt":"2021-08-17T19:22:28","slug":"knowles-gavin-newsoms-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/knowles-gavin-newsoms-success\/","title":{"rendered":"KNOWLES: Gavin Newsom\u2019s Success"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">8<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fknowles-gavin-newsoms-success%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=655262&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/GettyImages-1322907427.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Gavin Newsom has had enough. \u201cEverybody outside this state is bitching about this state,\u201d the beleaguered governor recently bitched to the Sacramento Bee. According to Newsom, his critics are bitching \u201cbecause of our success.\u201d Let us examine some of those successes.<\/p>\n<p>When Newsom assumed office on January 7, 2019, he promised to close prisons and limit police use of force. Since that time, most California counties have seen a record rise in homicide. In many counties, killings have spiked by 25% or more, and the state as a whole saw a 30.3% <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ppic.org\/blog\/homicides-climb-for-most-california-counties-in-2020\/\">increase<\/a> \u2014 the largest annual surge since California began to keep reliable statistics in 1960.<\/p>\n<p>The increase in crime has coincided with growing numbers of vagrants living on California\u2019s streets. Although homelessness had declined in the state over the decades preceding Newsom\u2019s election \u2014 particularly during Arnold Schwarzenegger\u2019s tenure in Sacramento \u2014vagrancy has <a href=\"https:\/\/files.hudexchange.info\/reports\/published\/CoC_PopSub_State_CA_2020.pdf\">increased<\/a> by 25% since Newsom entered office. In fairness to the vagrants, Newsom\u2019s lockdown policies have encouraged idleness and kept nearly eight percent of Californians out of work \u2014 the fourth-highest unemployment rate in the nation. Widespread unemployment, in turn, opened the door to nation-leading unemployment fraud \u2014 to the tune of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/nation\/2020\/12\/07\/california-unemployment-fraud-may-total-2-billion\/6482525002\/\">$2 billion<\/a> in payouts during the lockdowns, including <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2020\/nov\/25\/california-unemployment-benefits-prisoners\">benefits<\/a> for 20,000 prisoners.<\/p>\n<p>While Newsom has enforced strict lockdown measures on his constituents, he has himself repeatedly broken his own rules. Last November, a reporter caught him dining maskless with a crowd of lobbyists at a three-Michelin-star-rated restaurant; just last month journalists caught him sending his kids to a summer camp that did not force children to wear masks, in violation of a state order.<\/p>\n<p>As these political and public relations fires rage in the governor\u2019s office, so too does Dixie, the second-largest fire in California\u2019s history which has so far burned more than half a million acres. The Dixie Fire and others in recent years might have charred less of the state had Newsom not lied about his wildfire prevention work, as a Capital Public Radio report revealed in June. Although Newsom claims to have treated 140 square miles of land against fire, investigators found that state fire officials had actually treated less than 18. Perhaps those officials had little choice after the governor slashed the fire prevention budget by $150 million last year.<\/p>\n<p><span>In just two short years, Gavin Newsom has left his state in cinders. Now he says he\u2019s had enough. Recent polling on his recall fight suggests his constituents may have had enough as well.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><i>The views expressed in this opinion piece are the author\u2019s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><i>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a&nbsp;<\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><span class=\"s1\"><i>member<\/i><\/span><\/a><i>.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gavin Newsom has had enough. \u201cEverybody outside this state is bitching about this state,\u201d the beleaguered governor recently bitched to the Sacramento Bee. According to Newsom, his critics are bitching &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1888373,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-655262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=655262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655262\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1888373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=655262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=655262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=655262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}