Posted on 06/06/2020 3:50:28 AM PDT by blueplum
Two months after Gov. Gavin Newsom announced a nearly $1-billion deal with Chinese automaker BYD to purchase respirators, California has yet to receive any of the much-needed N95 masks. And on Friday, state officials announced that they would give the company a second extension to deliver on its promise...
...While state lawmakers said they understood the state's desire to buy the critical supplies, the governor received bipartisan blowback for how his administration handled the deal.
Lawmakers said they learned about the $1-billion contract at the same time as the public, when Newsom went on MSNBC's The Rachel Maddow Show...The governor’s office at first refused to disclose the document to lawmakers and journalists — even though government contracts are public...
(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...
Or cash
You’d think they would order them from that American guy who claimed Trump turned his down... he might be able to get the ball rolling anyway.
When/if the masks are delivered, they will sit in a warehouse, probably never used.
Where’s that picture of the Chinese guy stomping all over masks supposedly to be sent to the US?
We should be suspect of everything out of China. Cut all ties with them. Bring back Made in the USA.
Until the next emergency. And there will be one. This one worked to bring many countries to their knees.
Cash in Advance with a payback to Antifa?
The governor’s office at first refused to disclose the document to lawmakers and journalists.
Wonder if freezer money inspection to ensue. NOT
The money went to insiders.
The company that it went to had existed for just three days.
FTA: Wired $456.9 million on March 26 to Blue Flame Medical LLC — then scrambled to get the money back hours later. The company was incorporated on March 23 by two Republican operatives, Mike Gula and John Thomas, with no track record in the medical supplies field.
https://timesofsandiego.com/politics/2020/05/09/california-lawmakers-to-probe-newsom-adminstrations-billion-dollar-mask-deals/
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