By Kevin Kiley – August 20, 2024
Today is a humiliating day for Gavin Newsom. He thought it would be him accepting the nomination, but he isn’t even allowed on the Convention stage. California’s Lieutenant Governor gets to speak from the stage while Newsom is relegated to a few words from down on the Floor.
This humiliation, of course, is very well-earned. We’ve paid an incalculable price for the constant posturing and self-promoting of his shadow presidential campaign. During COVID, 40 million Californians were at the mercy of whatever he thought would get him in the headlines.
Yet if Kamala were being honest, she’d give Newsom a primetime speaking slot. No one can better convey her goal of turning America into San Francisco. Just two days ago, Newsom insanely declared California a “national model” when it comes to (of all things) retail theft.
During the Convention this week, I’m doing interviews (see Newsmax, Fox, OAN) to help Americans look past the propaganda and see the truth: that San Francisco is a case study of what happens when the radical politics of Harris and Newsom reach their logical endpoint.
And Kamala has explicitly called for spreading these policies nationwide, saying California is a “role model” for America. The irony is her candidacy comes just as Californians have decided enough is enough; her own state is rejecting the “model” she hopes to nationalize.
One new poll shows Kamala protégé George Gascón will be crushed in his reelection bid for Los Angeles DA. Another shows our anti-Prop. 47 initiative (Prop. 36) passing overwhelmingly, with even Democrat voters supporting it by an 18-point margin.
And the University of California just banned campus encampments. If only they’d done this months ago when I called for it in a letter to the UC President. Still, it’s another step on the path to sanity for California and the reckoning for American higher education.
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Kevin Kiley is a California Congressman
