Posted on 09/06/2024 8:35:24 PM PDT by thecodont
Former President Donald Trump will attend a fundraiser in the Bay Area next week during his second trip to the region in roughly three months.
Presidential candidates coming to the wealthy nine-county area isn’t abnormal. What is abnormal, though, is that the billionaire hosting the event at his Woodside home on Sept. 13 is related to Jennifer Siebel Newsom, the wife of California Gov. Gavin Newsom.
The tickets for next week’s fundraiser, hosted by Tom and Stacey Siebel, are going for as much as $500,000 per couple, according to the Los Angeles Times. Tom, a software developer, is a second cousin once removed of the governor’s wife, meaning the two are separated by one generation.
So yes, it’s a distant, in-law relation for Newsom. Still, the fact that Newsom is related at all to a couple who wants to see Trump back in the White House might raise some eyebrows. But this isn’t the first time that the family of Jennifer Siebel Newsom has made news for their political leanings.
Her parents moved to Florida in 2020, and her father, Ken Siebel, registered as a Republican in that state. A trust connected to the Seibel family also made a $5,000 donation in 2022 to a political action committee supporting Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, one of Newsom’s most bitter political rivals.
DeSantis brought up Newsom’s in-laws in a televised debate between himself and Newsom in December, saying they fled California because of taxes and crime. However, after the debate, Ken Siebel told the Daily Mail that he and his wife moved from Montana to Florida, and that they hadn’t lived in California in years. Siebel also told the outlet that DeSantis is a “lying slimeball.”
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Words have meanings and connotations associated with meanings and their usage. Abnormal is incorrect. Unusual is more appropriate. Journalists are modern day idiots.
If I'm not mistaken, Channel 3 News, Sacramento, recently reported that Gov Newsom is not married to the mother of his children and of whom he currently shares a home with.
You’re right. It’s becoming more and more rare to see a news piece explicitly labeled as “opinion.”
Tom Siebel is probably supporting Trump for strictly business reasons.
From what I’ve seen of him, he’s not the kind of person I would hang out with.
(I have some personal experience with him that dates back to the early 90s when he was with Oracle.)
Possible he also wants Kamala cleared off the field for 2028, as well?
Uh yeah... No. For that kind of money they'd have to dig up the Beatles to play.
Who knows? It’s certainly a possibility.
Is that Eegor or IIgor?
He meant Abby Normal
Dang, beat me do it.
I have trouble posting images from the phone. I type the HTML code correctly but they never show up in the preview. Not sure if it’s a safari thing or an iPhone thing or maybe Apple hates FR. I’ll try it on another browser.
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Tom Siebel is a great guy. Has hosted Republican fundraisers at his home for years. I attended one. He’s got guts to put these on. He was almost killed by a raging elephant in Africa so Silicon Valley ‘Rats don’t faze him.
Good new to my aging California ears. There is a chance the Golden State will gleam again once we chuck out the supermajority Prog-Communists.
I see his image.
Been posting here almost 25 years.
I know how to post an image in html
It just won’t work on the iPhone for some reason.
On the computer no problem. It’s ’weird’
Thanks. I was having horrid connectivity issues, last night.
Indeed it would. The odds of that change, though, seem remote at best. The resources here are astonishing— great seaports, agricultural lands, water, timber, minerals, oil, natural beauty at every turn, civilized weather, etc. I grew up here in the 60’s, when things were really booming and Reagan was our governor. State University tuition was free to students. Our middle class was the envy of the world, with opportunity for anyone to stake a solid claim to the American Dream. We’re so far from any of that now... Hard to believe it actually existed at one time, and that we somehow managed to destroy it.
Our great Golden State would be a prize in any war, and we are at war, though it doesn't appear to be conventional on the surface.
Not funny
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