Complementing Gavin Newsom’s extravagantly expensive Bridge to Nowhere and his still more extravagantly expensive Train to Nowhere, Californians now have a 911 Emergency Line to Nowhere.

Via City Journal:

During his first year in office, the governor confidently projected that he would replace the state’s emergency call system within three years, a goal that officials previously estimated would cost $132 million. But nearly seven years later, the state has spent more than $450 million on a regionalized “Next Generation” digital system that suffered such appalling failures and disruptions during its initial rollout that the Newsom administration scrapped it entirely.

Blackouts went on for as long as 12 hours.

Meantime, the old system is hanging on by a thread—and it’s only a matter of time, some believe, before it goes dark.

Now Newsom is starting over. The Governor’s Office of Emergency Services estimates it will take until 2030 to get the next attempt up and running. However,

Nobody believes that the new system will be completed by 2030. “They said that ten years ago,” one dispatcher told us.

Meanwhile, we hear stories like this:

In Oakland, the old system nearly left a police officer dead. In 2019, an off-duty Oakland cop named Danny Chor approached a woman who was vandalizing cars. During the confrontation, the woman stabbed him in the neck. Chor made multiple calls to 911 but could not connect. A nearby truck operator tried to help, but his call also failed. The bystander then called his employer, who was able to connect to the dispatchers directly. First responders brought Chor to the hospital in the back of a patrol car, fearing that he would not survive if they waited for the ambulance.

Now for the good news. The same presumably well-connected contractors who made a fortune creating the failed Next Gen system will continue to rake in taxpayer money on the next attempt. True, California will eventually run out of other people’s money under Newsom’s inept management, but if the liberal establishment manages to install him as President of the USA, he won’t have that problem, because he can always print more.

More from Christopher Rufo:

“Gavin Newsom promised to deliver a brand new 911 system within 3 years for $132 million. Now it is 7 years later, almost $500 million has been spent, and the system they rolled out was such a disaster, they’ve scrapped it.” pic.twitter.com/KmmdPZxe7q

— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@christopherrufo) April 30, 2026

On a tip from abcanc.

So that the jungle primary would not leave only two Republicans on the ballot, Democrats were forced to throw Eric Swalwell under the bus. Now the liberal vote is less diluted, with the choice narrowed down to screwball moonbat plutocrat Tom Steyer and Katie Porter.

Regarding the latter:

You’re a freak too https://t.co/IykgFlCPHh

— Harmeet K. Dhillon (@HarmeetKDhillon) April 13, 2026

As the New York Post recalls,

Porter made headlines last year for her outburst at TV a reporter before being exposed for berating a staffer and throwing a tantrum during a televised interview.

Like Swalwell, she is said to be abusive toward the opposite sex:

Katie Porter has been accused by her ex-husband, Matthew Hoffman, of physically and verbally abusing him during their marriage, including dumping scalding-hot mashed potatoes on his head in 2006 because she was dissatisfied with how he was preparing dinner, according to divorce records and multiple media reports. Hoffman, who filed for divorce in 2013, also alleged that Porter routinely called him a “f—ing idiot,” shattered a glass coffee pot in anger, and prevented him from having a cell phone because she said he was “too f—ing dumb to operate it.”

A more unappealing human being than Katie Porter would be difficult to imagine. But she would be an appropriate figurehead for California Democrats. Then again, so would the zillionaire climate kook Steyer — who will probably be the next governor and destroy the economy in the name of the weather.

On tips from abcanc and patthedog.