Newsom Spends $300M to Gerrymander Maps, but Gives

Gavin Newsom has been doing all the things attainable to get people to concentrate to him. The California governor has copycatted Donald Trump’s social media presence, but the outcomes are ridiculous as his staff’s posts come across as juvenile and 100% inauthentic. His outlandish rhetoric continues to grow more violent as he called U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement “President Trump’s personal home military”—this only hours before a deadly taking pictures at an ICE facility in Dallas.

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CA Sec. of State Owns Up to Big Mistake on Newsom’s Gerrymandering Special Election Ballots

He’s spending practically $300 million to attempt to get the voters to amend the state structure and redraw the Golden State’s already ludicrous election maps even additional. He’s signed a law banning law enforcement from sporting masks—this despite the elevated vitriol and assaults aimed at federal brokers when they fight to implement the law.

But when it comes to governing his state or bettering the lives of its residents, he’s just too busy doing podcasts to trouble. He just told California firefighters to take a hike in so many phrases:

Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom vetoed a bipartisan invoice to raise the salaries of California firefighters 9 months after the most costly inferno in state historical past incinerated Los Angeles.

On Friday, Newsom formally refused to signal a invoice that would have bumped wages for CAL FIRE — the state firefighting service — up nearer to those of sure local fire departments, which pay their firefighters 11 to 29% more.

The base pay for state firefighters is only $54,122 per yr — while Los Angeles metropolis firefighters make at least $85,315.

The veto got here after a long battle for greater pay by state firefighters, which had virtually unanimous help from California lawmakers.

Fifty-four thousand bucks is perhaps respectable in some states, but thanks to limitless taxes and the extremely high price of residing, it will be exhausting to have a respectable life with that wage—particularly when you’re at risk just about every day you show up for work. Meanwhile, the Golden State has the best state income tax, the highest fuel tax; the record goes on.

California GOP Rep. Kevin Kiley, who has battled against Gov. Hair Gel and the extremist Democrat legislature tirelessly, had ideas:

Newsom has vetoed a raise for firefighters, calling it too expensive. Spending $300 million on gerrymandering is a a lot greater precedence. pic.twitter.com/18fhlX0gFr

— Kevin Kiley (@KevinKileyCA) October 7, 2025

The “progressive” governor was involved about “cost pressures”—but isn’t he the same man who oversaw a funds surplus flip into a huge deficit? Yup, that can be him.

But Newsom said the invoice would put “significant cost pressures” on state coffers and argued it will “circumvent the collective bargaining process,” in a letter explaining his reasoning.
 CalFire union members condemned the governor’s choice.

“It’s highly disappointing and frustrating especially when he vetoes the bill the day before we put six members on the memorial wall honoring fallen firefighters in the state of California,” Tim Edwards, president of the Local 2881 union representing CAL FIRE staff, told SFGATE.

The invoice would have set a wage flooring for CAL FIRE staff to within 15% of the average of 20 local departments.

Newsom continues to act like an extremist buffoon, but when it comes to his own people, he doesn’t actually care unless he sees a method to help his presumed upcoming presidential marketing campaign. To call a Newsom presidency “disastrous” can be the understatement of the yr. 

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