California Governor Gavin Newsom just proved he’s everything wrong with today’s Democratic Party. The wannabe presidential candidate has quietly slipped a jaw-dropping $20 million “Governors’ Legacies Fund” into his budget proposal, according to the New York Post. Translation: he wants hardworking Californians to pay millions to build monuments honoring him and other failed Democratic governors while the Golden State burns.
This is peak liberal arrogance. California is drowning in multibillion-dollar deficits, rampant homelessness, crushing taxes, and energy shortages that make Third World countries look competent. Meanwhile, Newsom thinks the state’s top priority should be building shrines to the very politicians who created this mess. The fund would honor five living former governors, including recalled disaster Gray Davis and Newsom himself.
Here’s what makes this scheme even more disgusting: the “living” requirement conveniently excludes President Ronald Reagan, California’s greatest governor and the man who restored American greatness. Reagan won 49 states in 1984, ended the Cold War, and showed the world what real leadership looks like. But Newsom would rather spend taxpayer money celebrating the Democratic failures who turned California into an unaffordable wasteland.
Even Newsom’s fellow Democrats are calling this vanity project absurd, and they’re right. While families flee California in record numbers and businesses escape to red states, this presidential hopeful wants to waste $20 million on his own legacy. California taxpayers deserve leaders who fix problems, not narcissists who build monuments to their own incompetence while plotting their next political move.
Source: nypost.com
