The closer Gavin Newsom gets to announcing an expected 2028 presidential run, the more he tries to revise history on his disastrous career as a California politico, which started in 1997 when he became a member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors.
For instance, Newsom has been vowing since almost day one to eradicate homelessness in his home city and state. But 30 years later, after being an SF supervisor, the mayor of SF, California's lieutenant governor, and now the governor, it remains one of the state's most persistent problems - and is, in fact, worse. And what does Gov. Newsom do? Act as if he had nothing to do with it.
"This July, California counties will receive $1 BILLION under Prop 1 to expand affordable housing and provide vital services for those experiencing homelessness and living with behavioral health challenges," Newsom announced in early March. "No more excuses. Let's see these tax dollars put to work."
Newsom's latest foray into fantastical revisionism is to claim that red states like Texas and Florida are the "real high-tax states," not California:
"We have the most progressive tax rates in America. Texas, the most regressive. Texas taxes poor folks more than we tax our richest. The question for you is who is the higher tax state: California or Texas? Who are you for? Are you just for the one percent or are you for the 99?
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Florida is the other regressive tax state. Your middle class pays more taxes in Texas than our middle class in California."
It's a false claim Newsom has made before - probably because he knows that on the campaign trail in 2028, he's going to have to answer for the mass exodus that has taken place in the Golden State on his watch - not just among rich folks but middle-class Americans who are fed up with the high cost of living there - and who make bee lines to states like Texas and Florida.
The Sunshine State's governor, Ron DeSantis, was having none of it and responded accordingly:
Grok also rode to the rescue with some inconvenient facts for Gov. HairGel:
Relatedly - and as DeSantis also pointed out in the November 2023 debate with Newsom, where his "First Partner" refused to let him participate for longer than the allotted time because he got trounced so badly - Newsom's own in-laws prefer Florida to California:
"So I was talking to a fella who had made the move from California to Florida, and he was telling me that Florida is much better governed, safer, better budget, lower taxes, all this stuff. He's really happy with the quality of life, and then he paused and he said, "You know, by the way, I'm Gavin Newsom's father-in-law." So we do count Gavin's in-laws as some of the people that have fled California and come to the state of Florida."
Last but not least, in June 2018, Gavin Newsom declared that if "the next governor" didn't address the homeless crisis in a "meaningful way," then he should be considered a failure:
Newsom was, in fact, elected as the state's next governor later that year, and, by his own standards, he's been an abject failure as governor - not just on homelessness, but on jobs, taxes, the economy, crime, illegal immigration, women's safety, the list goes on and on.
Don't go away mad, Gavin. Just go away.
https://redstate.com/sister-toldjah/2026/03/16/newsoms-revisionist-tour-hits-snag-when-he-makes-a-florida-claim-that-desantis-wont-let-stand-n2200267
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