. @GavinNewsom lashes out at @realDonaldTrump @GOP for not helping solve California’s homeless crisis ... in spin room after #DemDebate last night
Posted on 12/20/2019 6:34:05 PM PST by jazusamo
The sixth Democratic presidential debate took place Thursday night in Los Angeles, one of several California cities with out-of-control homeless problems. California Governor Gavin Newsom, who has called the state's growing homeless crisis a "national emergency," watched from the audience at Loyola Marymount University. After the debate, a reporter asked the governor why is was President Trump's responsibility to take care of the housing crisis that California has itself created.
"Well, he's president of the United States," Newsom said, "and I imagine he cares about people of the United States, and he cares about the largest state in the United States of America. And I imagine if you're president of the United States, any leader, like myself, feels a deep sense of responsibility to address some of the most vexing issues in the country. In that respect, you would imagine some accountability and some responsibility to be supportive and to reach out."
Trump has pointedly criticized California's for failing to handle the state's growing homeless population.
“We can’t let Los Angeles, San Francisco and numerous other cities destroy themselves by allowing what’s happening," Trump said in September.
“They have to clean it up," Trump warned. "We can’t have our cities going to hell.”
The reporter told the governor on Thursday that it sounded like the governor was deflecting responsibility for the state's problems and pointed out that prices of California's housing and the ability of those living in the state to afford housing simply weren't matching up.
"I would encourage you to take a look at what we've been doing which you may not be familiar with," Newsom lectured the reporter, "and I imagine if you did take a look at what we just did in the last year you would see a very different picture would be painted in your mind and that question would be sort of incongruent with the reality."
The reporter assured the governor that she knows all about Newsom's efforts to address homelessness in the state, efforts which have seemingly done nothing so far to remedy the problem.
"Good," responded Newsom. "So you get a sense then of the billion dollars we invested. The fact that we put a plan together, have an interagency council to address the issue for the first time in our state's history, that we've strategized the plan at a regional basis, that we were in Kern County today laying out our hundred day strategies -- mayors, city administrators all across the state -- and that we've asked the Trump administration for the one thing that he can do specifically and that's address the fair-market rent issue and help us support with vouchers additional resources so we can get people housing. It's not about abdicating responsibility. It's not about pointing fingers. It's saying to the president of the United States, 'if you want to help, you can help.'"
The governor's plan is to throw money at the problem without fixing the underlying housing shortage that has plagued the state for decades.
The reporter also asked the governor about his plan to help homeless people with mental health and drug abuse problems.
"People with behavioral health problems," Newsom responded, "that's an interesting issue because the Republican Party for decades has been cutting behavioral health funding, cutting brain health funding, consistently not supporting the efforts of the local, national, and state levels to do justice on that issue, so you're absolutely right the president can do a hell of a lot more."
Like every other problem facing California, the governor takes zero responsibility and calls on others to take action. Democrats have been at the helm in California as the homeless problem has spiraled completely out of control. But somehow it's the Republican Party and Trump's fault. I guess it's just too hard for the Democrats to blame this one on climate change .
. @GavinNewsom lashes out at @realDonaldTrump @GOP for not helping solve California’s homeless crisis ... in spin room after #DemDebate last night
PUKE
People were parking on the streets of Palo Alto long before Trump announced he was running for POTUS.
That a-hole bureaucrat thinks interagency conferences are going to solve the problem of needles and human crap in the streets.
Collectivists never acknowledge their part in failure. Maybe it’s one of their core values.
Nephew of the liar pelousy. Extremely imaginative liar too
This guy is the biggest ASSHAT, our ENTIRE state government is under Dem control how in the HELL can he even consider blaming Trump and republicans these people live in a different universe, they KNOW there are people out there that are SO STUPID they believed Trump was no longer POTUS and they continuously feed them lies!!!
Hey lefty schmuck take care of your own state Governor.
After the debate, a reporter asked the governor why is was President Trump’s responsibility to take care of the housing crisis that California has itself created.
“Well, he’s president of the United States,” Newsom said.
Newsome is an ass.
And Gavin is the Governor, so he needs to forget Trump and get his head out of his azz... if that is possible for a proglib.
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Liberals are just sick, sick people.
We have to take back the House in 2020.
Liberals began ruining California long before Trump was elected. Gavin doesn’t want to face the music of his failures. Typical Liberal - it’s someone else’s fault.
The sad thing is many here in California will parrot what he is saying. The Democrats own everything in California except blame.
Whenever one of these Democrat politicians tries to pass off responsibility for some social problem to the Federal Government I keep going back to the Constitution to check which article vests responsibility with the Feds. My copy must be out of date because it doesn’t say anything about the Federal government solving state and local problems.
Indeed, I am so sick and tired of the RATS blaming thee best POTUS evah and the Republican Party for their own disastrous incompetence.
Look in the mirror and own up to your own culpability, for Goodness sake.
After all, which party has total control in CA??!!
I hope the recall campaign against Newsom succeeds, despite steep odds.
The once-”Golden State” is literally being flushed down the toilet.
Pelosi ought to be impeached herself just for having one of her constituents go to the bathroom in a grocery store aisle!!
Amen, bigtime!
from the guy who literally turned SF into a shithole.
I didn’t know he was related to Pelousy. ‘Splains a lot.
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Newsom said the state has a $7,000,000,000 surplus.
You could take care of a lot of homeless people with that kind of money.
You know, unless he was lying to try to make himself look good.
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