Groundhog’s Year
In some ways, it feels like 2021 flew by. Perhaps that’s because it was essentially a repeat of 2020. But unlike Bill Murray’s character, who improved as he lived Groundhog’s Day over and over, Gavin Newsom has learned absolutely nothing.
Case in point: yesterday he reimposed a statewide mask mandate, despite data showing that counties with mandates have fared no better than counties without them.
That’s what I said to Steve Hilton this Sunday on Fox News. California has had the most coercive COVID response in every way – business shutdowns, school shutdowns, church shutdowns; mask mandates, vaccine mandates, vaccine passports – and gotten nothing in return.
Newsom’s new edict, of course, was an exercise of “emergency powers.” Recently, he was asked when the emergency will end. His response: “We’ll know it when we experience it.” Our Governor just vacationed in Cabo and went on a book tour. I think we’ve experienced it.
Elsewhere, sanity is returning. The Democrat Governor of Colorado says “the emergency is over” and “public health officials don’t get to tell people what to wear.” Pennsylvania’s Supreme Court just struck down the state’s school mask mandate.
All the while, standard corruption abounds. We’ve just learned California is illegally paying six figures to a “Superintendent of Equity” who lives and works as a life coach in Philadelphia. It turns out he was in the wedding of our state schools chief who hired him.
I’ve reported this to the Governmental Operations Agency and they are reviewing my letter. It’s a reminder that even before the insanity of Newsom’s one-man rule, the California Capitol was already a place of madness.
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