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Eric Swalwell Gets #Metooed

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Democrat voters don’t mind that Eric Swalwell was played by a Chinese spy in a honeytrap, that he threatened to imprison ICE agents for defending the country, that he refers to God as “God herself,” that he wants to demolish the new White House ballroom out of sheer malice, that he blames Trump even for the wind turning over an airplane in Canada, that he loses his mind over AI-generated pictures of Trump protecting cats, that he farts loudly on camera, or that he is obnoxiously cheesy even by the standards of the state that gave us Gavin Newsom. They would even forgive his poetry. But now he has been #metooed.

From the San Francisco Chronicle:

A woman who worked for nearly two years for Rep. Eric Swalwell, a leading candidate for California governor, said she had sexual encounters with him while he was her boss and alleged he twice sexually assaulted her when she was too intoxicated to consent.

Her allegations are horrific:

Swalwell messaged her on Snapchat, she said, sending images of his genitals…

From there it got worse. Swalwell has issued a denial and threatens to sue.

One problem with being a reptile is that the other reptiles will turn on you fast:

On Friday afternoon, shortly after the Chronicle published an initial version of this story, Swalwell allies including both chairs of his campaign — Democratic Reps. Jimmy Gomez of Los Angeles and Adam Gray of Turlock (Stanislaus County) — began withdrawing their endorsements and calling on him to drop out of the gubernatorial race. Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi, one of Swalwell’s most powerful allies, also called on him to leave the race.

So has Pelosi’s successor as top House Democrat, Hakeem Jeffries.

Swalwell’s former buddy Senator Ruben Gallego (D-AZ) is a lowlife too, having abandoned his nearly 9-months pregnant wife (current Phoenix Mayor Kate Gallego). But even Gallego has revoked his endorsement. Here are the amigos in happier times:

The creepazoid Adam Schiff has also withdrawn his endorsement. So has SEIU California.

The floodgates have been opened:

Several hours after the Chronicle published the woman’s account, CNN published a story that included allegations from three more women of inappropriate behavior by Swalwell.

With California’s jungle primaries, the top two candidates end up on the ballot. This could mean they are both Republicans: Steve Hilton and Chad Bianco. So Democrats don’t want their votes diluted. The guy with the most baggage has been thrown overboard to reduce the number of candidates.

California can still manage to go downhill even from Gavin Newsom by electing Katie Porter.

On tips from abcanc and patthedog. Hat tip: New Neo.

Gavin Newsom’s Wife Suggests Most Criminals Are Innocent

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We already knew that Gavin Newsom’s wife Jennifer Siebel Newsom is a delusional moonbat. Yet revelations of her lunatic wokedness continue to astonish.

The New York Post reports:

In what appears to be a years-old video clip making viral rounds on X this week, Siebel Newsom recalls sharing a moment with young adult inmates at the notorious San Quentin prison in Marin County, Calif.

“I told them about my own loss,” she said, referring to a 1981 incident in which Jennifer, then 6, killed her elder sister in a golf cart accident in Hawaii.

The convicts, she continued, “ultimately were accused of committing these violent crimes, and sentenced for life. And I think it shocked them that this blonde lady … had a similar story, and was perhaps in the wrong place at the wrong time –– but wasn’t punished the way they were, because clearly, it was an accident; but theirs was probably an accident, too.”

She is referring to hardcore criminals:

While the left has rebranded San Quentin a “rehabilitation center” in recent years, the lockup has traditionally housed hardened, violent criminals –– including nearly all of those on death row in California until Gov. Gavin Newsom declared a moratorium on the state’s death penalty in 2019.

As the entitlement fraud that has been allowed to rage out of control in California would suggest, her husband shares her pro-criminal inclinations:

The naive-at-best comments are not a good look for Siebel Newsom and her husband, who’s recently taken fire for enabling “elderly parole” for 50- and 60-something child predators.

From the viewpoint of kooks like the Newsoms, criminals are not the bad guys; we are the bad guys for wanting criminals in jail just because they happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time and accidently broke the law.

On tips from Wiggins and Bluto.

California Wastes Fortune on Dubious Workers’ Comp Claims

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Gavin Newsom’s $125 billion train to nowhere is not the only way the moonbats who rule California have of wasting taxpayer money. The New York Post reports on the looting that takes place via a state workers’ compensation program:

Called the Subsequent Injuries Benefits Trust Fund, the program provides extra benefits to employees covered by state workers’ compensation who sustain an on-the-job injury.

Such injuries evidently include not being able to achieve an erection — a problem that will become increasingly prevalent as California dissolves into liberalism. Payments of $1,700 per week for life are doled out for complaints like headache, allergies, acid reflux, and sexual dysfunction.

It didn’t used to be quite this crazy. But then the liberal courts stepped in.

The California Courts of Appeal decision required a generous interpretation of disability claims — spiking annual employer costs to between $2 billion and $3 billion, the audit noted.

Additionally, a growing backlog could push total liabilities past $20 billion within “a few years.”

Good thing other people’s money is free.

On a tip from R F.

Estimated Cost of Gavin Newsom’s Train to Nowhere Reaches Outrageous New Extreme

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To get an idea of how fast President Gavin Newsom would bankrupt the United States, consider his high-speed rail boondoggle.

The Daily Mail reports:

It was also supposed to cost just $33billion but Anthony Williams, a member of the state’s high speed rail board, said in a 60 Minutes interview that it will quadruple by the time it’s finished.

‘Today, we estimate with the right optimization just over $125billion. I think $126billion is the current estimate for that,’ Williams said.

‘That’s more funding than Amtrak has received in its history and still leaves a shortfall of roughly $90 billion.’

Other estimates are still higher:

In a press release, the DOT noted ‘the $135 billion projected total cost of the project could buy every San Francisco and LA resident nearly 200 roundtrip flights between the cities.’

Imagine how high the cost would climb if Newsom could print his own money.

On a tip from RoCar.

Gavin Newsom Allows Many $Billions in Welfare Fraud

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If Gavin Newsom really wanted to cut down on waste in California, instead of flushing $20 million down a consulting firm, he would stop allowing massive welfare fraud.

From City Journal:

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.

The fraud has been out of control since barely a year after Newsom took office, when California’s tyrannical overreaction to Covid shut down the economy, throwing millions out of work while Newsom dined with his fellow rich moonbats at the French Laundry.

In response to the crisis, Newsom sought to dump pallets of cash across the state—as quickly as possible.

It was dumped largely into the pockets of fraudsters.

Not only did the state have some of the most generous welfare programs in the country; its bureaucrats had also failed to implement some basic fraud controls during Newsom’s tenure.

Scammers have been robbing California taxpayers from as far away as Romania. Others do it from Tennessee:

Around September 2020, Fontrell Antonio Baines, a rapper from Memphis known as Nuke Bizzle, released a music video on YouTube entitled “EDD.” In the song, Baines bragged about ripping off California’s UI [unemployment insurance] program. “Go to the bank with a stack of these,” Baines rapped, holding up EDD envelopes. Another rapper can be heard saying: “You gotta sell cocaine, I just file a claim.” All told, Baines obtained more than $700,000 in stolen funds using preloaded EDD debit cards.

Democrats know how to take care of their base.

California’s prison population apparently got in on the action, too: the EDD allegedly paid out hundreds of millions of dollars in fraudulent claims in prisoners’ names, including those of at least 133 inmates on death row.

Covid was a looting spree:

State officials eventually admitted to having paid out approximately $20 billion in fraudulent claims during the pandemic, and to making an estimated $55 billion in improper payments.

Actual numbers are of course higher. According to fraud expert Haywood Talcove, CEO of LexisNexis Risk Solutions for Government,

“In California, at one point, you had more people applying for unemployment insurance benefits than you had people over the age of 18.”

The looting did not stop after Covid hysteria ran out of gas. Just considering the California implementation of Medicaid,

California’s attorney general has conceded that “Medi-Cal fraud could reach billions of dollars annually.”

That is to say, many billions.

Based on state experts’ best guesses of annual Medi-Cal expenditures and applying a conservative, 15 percent fraud rate to each fiscal year since 2019, Medi-Cal has lost some $146 billion in taxpayer funds to fraud on Gavin Newsom’s watch.

The fraud is too massive to ignore indefinitely. Democrats have been forced to respond — by making fraud even easier:

State Senator Lola Smallwood-Cuevas sponsored a bill that would raise the threshold for felony welfare fraud from $950 to $25,000. The measure would also make it more difficult to charge perjury based on misstatements to county welfare departments. Republican State Assemblyman Carl DeMaio has said that if the bill becomes law, it will effectively “legalize welfare fraud” in California.

Thanks to Trump being in office, the Feds are stepping in.

Bill Essayli, first assistant U.S. attorney for the Central District of California, announced the creation of a federal task force to combat fraud and corruption in the state’s homelessness programs. The task force has already brought charges in several multimillion-dollar homelessness-fraud cases—and Essayli has vowed that more are coming. “California has spent $24 billion in the last five years on homelessness, and no one can account for where that money has really gone,” Essayli said in January. Gavin Newsom, he added, is the “king of fraud.”

With fraud on this scale, it is no wonder California is crumbling and cannot pay its bills. But at least Democrats are innovative when it comes to finding new ways to confiscate other people’s money so they can waste it. For example, a San Francisco homeowner was fined $50,000 for trimming trees that required it:

On tips from abcanc and Wiggins.

Gavin Newsom Wastes Money to Save Money

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DOGE was such a great idea that even California’s moonbat governor Gavin Newsom is trying to imitate it. As usual, Newsom is failing.

The New York Post reports:

Newsom — who signed an executive order to cut spending in the state, à la Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency is hitting roadblocks with the plan amid a multibillion-dollar state budget deficit.

The erstwhile Golden State handed Boston Consulting Group as much as $20 million to help it trim $2 billion in spending — a seemingly easy task amid the blizzard of waste that characterizes California under Democrat rule.

But the group — which hired former Newsom cabinet Secretary and Department of Finance Director Ana J. Matosantos — is now expected to only find $810 million in savings, according to legislative analysts.

That number may even go down later in May, analysts added, as indicated by the Newsom administration.

Regarding cuts that actually get made, expect the savings to go down to zero — or rather, to negative $20 million, after the firm has been paid.

On a tip from patthedog.

Open Thread

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Delusional moonbat Jennifer Siebel Newsom would be First Lady under President Gavin Newsom. On tips from Wiggins and Anonymous.