Quite a good likeness, eh?
Posted on 03/11/2025 9:25:20 PM PDT by lowbridge
California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) secretly paid for his own monument inside San Francisco’s City Hall, according to a book released Tuesday.
Fool’s Gold: The Radicals, Con Artists, and Traitors Who Killed the California Dream and Now Threaten Us All, written by Susan Crabtree and Jedd McFatter, alleges that Newsom arranged for a bronze bust of himself to be sculpted inside City Hall to commemorate his term as mayor, using funds he controlled.
Newsom then allegedly feigned ignorance of the identity of the private donors who funded the bust, as well as some uncertainty about its design.
Other mayors have also been honored with busts inside City Hall. The funds for Newsom’s bust were to be donated by private individuals.
“Behested payments” are donations to charitable causes that politicians in California often ask donors to make on their behalf. They are widely considered corrupt, especially when the payments provide some benefit to the politician. (Newsom, for example, has requested payments to a project controlled by his wife, Jennifer Siebel Newsom.)
Co-author Jedd McFatter contends:
An analysis of Newsom’s “behested payments” reveals that between late 2015 and early 2016 three private organizations each donated to a nonprofit called Community Initiatives. As it turns out, two of those payments came from companies owned by Newsom—Balboa Cafe Partners and PlumpJack Management Group. Newsom’s companies specifically earmarked these behested payments for “Mayoral Bust at San Francisco City Hall.”
According to the California Fair Political Practices Commission, Balboa Cafe Partners donated $5,000 in 2016 toward the mayoral bust, and PlumpJack donated the same amount. Newsom is involved in both companies.
The H B and Lucille Horn Foundation also donated $10,000 at Newsom’s behest.
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That is sick.
Nothing wrong with that.
Historic moment of his posing for hours reminds me of the scene in 1776 where Howard Da Silva as Ben Franklin is seen posing for his portrait.
Hope the statue does his hair style justice.
Little school kids on trips will be in awe of seeing it.
,,, some days you’re the statue; some days you’re the pigeon.
Newsom has a talent for self- parody.
What’s that smell?
What a stinking narcist.
Better keep him away from mirrors.
Or maybe better yet, let him have one and render him impotent because of self-adoration.
I suspect the those who know or have worked with Newsom also know when he’s lying or just making stuff up.
David Hogg probably started out in the same way.
Perfunctory lies (aka Baldface) just to prove that he could get away with it.
I call him plastic man
now he also comes in bronze
why is this surprising ?
He is a scumbag after all ..
Hunter Biden worked with a medium that would have been perfect for a bust of Gavin.
He helped steal at least $2 billion for himself, communist company BYD and Blue Flame Medical in 2020.
Google: gavin newsom ordered masks from a bus company
https://tinyurl.com/52n9sy5x
Many links about him stealing the money. BYD is the communist company. They own many politicians. Wherever there is a electric bus contract then BYD is involved and the buses do not work.
This is the same guy who says he does not know what happened to $24 billion to solve the homeless crisis.
One article:
Gov. Gavin Newsom’s $1.4 Billion deal for masks with BYD
https://californiaglobe.com/fl/exclusive-gov-newsoms-byd-mask-deal-profitable-for-insider-dealmakers/
BYD’s contract with the Newsom administration was kept hidden from state legislators and the media since the deal was struck in April, on the heels of the even stranger mask deal with Blue Flame Medical LLC – a company only recently formed by former political consultants seeking to capitalize on the coronavirus pandemic.
In March, California wired $456.9 million to Blue Flame Medical LLC for millions of masks. But once it was revealed that the state of California wired the nearly $500 million dollars for masks to a company that had been in business for three days, the state demanded its money back.
-snip- (sound familiar like stacy abrams NGO?)
“BYD also has no history of making personal protective equipment, and yet days after the FDA approval, it secured a $1 billion deal to supply masks to California.”
Quite a good likeness, eh?
Erecting monuments to themselves is something dictators have done since the age of the pharaohs. I think Newsom’s is more in line with statues like that of Kim Il Sung or Nicolae Ceaucescu.
The Wizard Of Oz _ Don’t Start Posing For It Now
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pf1T2aG2e1k
Gavin Newsom’s Balboa Cafe Partners and PlumpJack Management Group own a portfolio that includes restaurants, bars, wineries, and hotels, including the Balboa Cafe, PlumpJack Inn, PlumpJack Wine & Spirits, and Wildhawk, among others.
Here’s a detailed breakdown of the businesses owned or associated with the Newsom companies:
Restaurants & Bars:
Balboa Cafe
Union Street A S/F institution in the Marina District,
owned by Balboa Cafe Partners LP, part of the PlumpJack Group.
PlumpJack Café: restaurant in the PlumpJack Group, in S/F and in exclusive Squaw Valley.
Forgery: A cocktail bar in SoMa, San Francisco.
Wildhawk: A bar in the Mission District, San Francisco.
White Rabbit: Restaurant in the Marina District, S/F
Wineries and Vineyards:
PlumpJack Estate Winery .
CADE Estate Winery .
Odette Estate Winery .
13th Vineyard (formerly Ladera) .
Oso Vineyard (formerly Mondavi’s Oso Vineyard)[: 12]
Hotels & Accommodations:
PlumpJack Inn: A hotel located in Squaw Valley.
PlumpJack Squaw Valley Inn: (PlumpJack Inn with PlumpJack Cafe in Squaw Valley)
Carneros Inn: (including Boon Fly Cafe, FARM, and The Orchard Residences)
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Retail:
PlumpJack Wines & Spirits: Wine shops and retail stores, including locations in Fillmore and Noe Valley.
PlumpJackSport: Retail clothing location in Squaw Valley
Event Spaces
VERSO: (Adjacent to Forgery Bar)
The monument is smarter than he is.
Narcissists, sociopaths, infants, whatever you call them, the important thing is: They leave obvious and multiple clues about what they are in their speeches, their day-to-day thoughts, their actions, many hidden. How they treat normals is very important to observe.
ONE must NEVER let these people be in any elected position.
All Rats are like this and about one-third of GOP are.
Their sociopathy extends to putting normals in camps, letting them starve, or whacking them. They will say or anything to gain control of others.
Source: any history book and your eyes and ears.
What a pathetic guy
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