The Newsom Swamp Rises with Senate Appointment

California’s scandal-plagued Secretary of State, Alex Padilla, has waded into our lawsuit with an Amicus Brief for Newsom. I’m sure this has nothing to do with the fact he was begging for an appointment as U.S. Senator.

With respect to the latter, Newsom just announced the appointment of a “Chief Ethics Advisor” to monitor his own corrupt relationship with lobbyists. This followed a revelation that the lobbyist Newsom feted at the French Laundry used his influence to get Hollywood an exemption from his lockdowns. Yet the SF Chronicle has already uncovered that the new “ethics” policy won’t apply to that lobbyist.

Meanwhile, the state’s biggest Special Interest, the California Teachers Association, has launched a statewide disinformation campaign with the goal of closing all schools. Even Dr. Fauci says schools should be open at this point – but then again, he hasn’t given Gavin Newsom millions of dollars.

This singular grubbiness of the Newsom Swamp is why we’re seeing a citizens’ revolt, with the Recall becoming a stronger possibility each day. Quite a few politicians, like myself, are supporting the Recall. But this began as a citizen-led movement and it will succeed as a citizen-led movement.

There’s an old expression, “politics is the long and slow boring of hard boards.” Usually change is slow, incremental, a grind. But every so often, the status quo is so intolerable that there’s a sharp break. Politics becomes too important to be left to politicians, and the public at large – We the People – demand transcendent action.

This Recall can be such a transformational moment. And the future of our magnificent but beleaguered state hangs in the balance.

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