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Gavin Newsom, once featured in "Children of the Rich" column, tells NBA podcast how he raised himself and survived on Wonder Bread [FLASHBACK]
Not The Bee ^ | 10 25 2025 | Harris Rigby

Posted on 02/23/2026 9:52:24 AM PST by yesthatjallen

The governor of California, whose dad was the attorney for the billionaire Getty family, went full Hillary-Clinton-and-hot-sauce in his interview with the "All the Smoke" podcast:

Yes, Gavin Newsom is just like your average rags to riches NBA story of a poor kid, shootin' hoops in the backyard, and who never would have made it out of the neighborhood if it wasn't for ballin'.

Is anyone, other than that podcast host, buying this from Newsom? Anyone?

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1 posted on 02/23/2026 9:52:24 AM PST by yesthatjallen
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What do you expect? He’s pelosi’s nephew!


2 posted on 02/23/2026 9:54:02 AM PST by DownInFlames (P)
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To: yesthatjallen

Democrats know two things:

1 - The media will do almost anything to cover for a Dem politician.

2 - Dem voters, and potential Dem voters are so stupid that almost any lie is acceptable.


3 posted on 02/23/2026 9:57:33 AM PST by brownsfan (We are already on the slippery slope.)
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To: yesthatjallen
Newscum realizes that Stephen A Smith is going to run in the Dem party presidential primary.

So now Newscum is a "Poh Whayate boy from da hood !"

BUahahahahahahahahahahaha!



Stephen A. Smith Is Reportedly Closing In On Run For U.S. President In 2028 Election)

4 posted on 02/23/2026 10:03:42 AM PST by Candor7 ( Ask not for whom the Trump Trolls,He trolls for thee!<img src="" width=300</img><a href="">tag</a>))
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To: yesthatjallen
Sure greasy gavin......tell us another whopper. newsom
5 posted on 02/23/2026 10:10:43 AM PST by V_TWIN (America....so great even the people that hate it won't leave)
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To: yesthatjallen

WIKI

Gavin Christopher Newsom was born on October 10, 1967, in San Francisco, California, to Tessa Thomas (née Menzies) and William Alfred Newsom III, a state appeals court judge and attorney for Getty Oil. William Newsom was a close friend of billionaire heir Gordon Getty, who repeatedly supported Gavin’s career. William Newsom would also for a time help manage the Getty Trust. A fourth-generation San Franciscan, Newsom comes from a prominent family. His maternal great-grandfather Thomas Addis was a nephrologist and professor of medicine at Stanford University noted for his research on kidney disease. Newsom is a second cousin twice removed of musician Joanna Newsom, and his aunt Barbara Newsom was married to Ron Pelosi, the brother-in-law of former House speaker Nancy Pelosi. Newsom’s parents divorced in 1971 when he was three years old, leaving his mother, Tessa, to raise him and his younger sister, Hilary Newsom Callan, largely on her own. Tessa worked three jobs—often as a waitress, bookkeeper, and secretary—to support the family, and Newsom has cited her as shaping his work ethic. Newsom has called his childhood challenging, shaped in part by financial instability and his struggle with “pretty severe” dyslexia, a condition he still has.

Newsom’s education began at École Notre Dame des Victoires, a French-American bilingual Catholic school in San Francisco that he attended for kindergarten and first grade. But his severe dyslexia—which affected his ability to read, write, spell, and perform numerical tasks (dyscalculia)—prompted a transfer. He continued at Notre Dame des Victoires from third through fifth grades, where he was enrolled in remedial reading classes to cope with his learning difficulties. Throughout his years in school, Newsom relied heavily on audiobooks, summaries, and verbal instruction. Newsom has written that as an adult, he still prefers audio interpretations of documents and reports. In a 2023 interview, he said his dyslexia “forced me to find workarounds and think differently.”

At Redwood High School in Larkspur, California, Newsom excelled athletically despite his academic struggles, graduating in 1985. He played basketball as a shooting guard and baseball as an outfielder. Tessa opened their home to foster children. Newsom’s sister Hilary recalled lean Christmases when their mother warned them not to expect gifts, underscoring the family’s financial strain. Newsom wrote in a later memoir that the family would receive luxurious gifts from the Gettys, which he and his sister pretended not to like so their mother could return them for store credit. Nevertheless, the children also accompanied the Gettys on expensive trips, such as a hot-air balloon safari and a meeting with King Juan Carlos I of Spain. Newsom’s father’s habit of donating much of his income further tightened the family’s finances, leading Newsom to take jobs such as washing cars and working at a local deli during high school.

Newsom enrolled at Santa Clara University on a partial baseball scholarship, graduating in 1989 with a Bachelor of Science in political science. His application to the university was supported by letters of recommendation from former California governor Jerry Brown and a member of the school’s Board of Regents. He tried out for the baseball team during his first two years but underwent elbow surgery in late 1985—later revealed as a procedure to repair a torn ulnar collateral ligament—ending his varsity aspirations. He has credited the university’s Jesuit education for influencing his worldview. During his junior year, Newsom spent a semester studying abroad in Rome, Italy, an experience he called “eye-opening” in a 2019 speech.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gavin_Newsom?ysclid=mlzhu1p2yf926862177


6 posted on 02/23/2026 10:17:46 AM PST by Brian Griffin
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Please everyone, don’t be so tough on Gavin. He once told me that when he was a kid, he had to walk up a steep hill from his house to get to his school.

And then uphill again to get back to his house.


7 posted on 02/23/2026 10:19:06 AM PST by Leaning Right (It's morning in America. Again.)
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$3.6 million

https://www.sonomanews.com/2019/05/27/gavin-newsoms-childhood-home-in-san-francisco-listed-for-36-million/


8 posted on 02/23/2026 10:21:08 AM PST by Brian Griffin
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A dyslexic, corrupt, lyng, adulterous bastard whose only goal is power, never forget that.
9 posted on 02/23/2026 10:23:42 AM PST by Fungi
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Expect a lot of ‘donkey droppings’ in the coming 32 months.


10 posted on 02/23/2026 10:24:17 AM PST by Brian Griffin
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To: yesthatjallen

Did he copy the Eddie Murphy routine from “Raw”

Language
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AAx553k7W5s


11 posted on 02/23/2026 10:25:45 AM PST by dfwgator ("I am Charlie Kirk!")
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He’s a total fraud and a MASS MURDERER..honestly want to destroy Gavin NewSCUM its so freakin EASY, just bring up the fires..it would take me 10 minutes to destroy the serial murdering piece of crap, the problem is people are not asking him the right questions


12 posted on 02/23/2026 10:27:44 AM PST by Sarah Barracuda
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To: yesthatjallen

every one who grew up with house servants

please raise your hand

just gavin?

no one else?


13 posted on 02/23/2026 10:27:50 AM PST by joshua c
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To: yesthatjallen

https://www.inquisitr.com/children-of-the-rich-young-gavin-newsom-picture-goes-viral-after-poverty-claim


14 posted on 02/23/2026 10:31:19 AM PST by Brian Griffin
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To: yesthatjallen

Isn’t he friends of the Getty’s?


15 posted on 02/23/2026 10:32:42 AM PST by Karliner (Heb 4:12 Rom 8:28 Rev 3, "...This is the end of the beginning." Churchill)
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To: yesthatjallen

Did he pull out a bottle of hot sauce?


16 posted on 02/23/2026 10:44:45 AM PST by FrankRizzo890
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To: yesthatjallen

Wonder bread with bologna and Dukes mayo? My favorite as a kid!


17 posted on 02/23/2026 10:46:39 AM PST by albie
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To: yesthatjallen

His mom couldn’t get ALIMONY??? Come on.


18 posted on 02/23/2026 11:25:43 AM PST by Ann Archy (Abortion.....the HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: yesthatjallen

He was poor mouthing himself to the “Blacks” who he obviously thinks aren’t smart and bringing up his horrible reading “disability” he bravely overcomes to mention during the upcoming campaign at every stop in every speech.

It’s the Biden “stutter” all over again.


19 posted on 02/23/2026 11:38:18 AM PST by Az Joe (The Confederate State of Minnesota. Down with the rebels!)
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And and he has to walk to school and home in 3 feet of snow up hill both ways in bare feet.................................


20 posted on 02/23/2026 11:53:58 AM PST by Vaduz (NEVER TRUST A DEMOCRAT)
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