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Posted on 04/02/2026 7:42:21 PM PDT by bitt
Mark Twain is rightly considered one of America's best and most beloved writers. His first commercial success was a short story about the California Gold Rush titled The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County. Published in 1865, it highlighted people's extraordinary gullibility when a tale is told well enough, and the storyteller can charm his listeners into believing anything.
That's a description of the current governor of California and possible next Democratic Party presidential candidate.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom was a natural when he ran for governor in 2018. It was like he walked off a movie set and into the governor's office. With his good looks, coiffed hair, bronze tan, and liberal platitudes, he easily won and set about the task of dismantling every safeguard put in place by the government to protect the taxpayer's coin.
These "safeguards" were inadequate to begin with. But Newsom saw to it that the old Harry Hopkins liberal playbook of "tax and tax and spend and spend and elect and elect" was followed meticulously.
It has resulted in what City Journal reports is a massive "Empire of Fraud" that resulted in at least $180 billion in fraudulent payments across several state agencies.
Perhaps the most outrageous example (though not the worst in dollars stolen) was the California inmates' fraud scheme, which cost the state at least $1 billion during the COVID-19 madness. Over 35,000 claims were filed with the Employment Development Department (EDD) under prisoner names, including more than 130 people on Death Row.
The state auditor and federal officials estimate that California lost between $30 billion and $32.6 billion in total pandemic-related unemployment fraud across all categories.
Newsom's response to the fraud has been a mixture of "every state had problems" and "besides, I've fixed it and made it all better."
(Excerpt) Read more at pjmedia.com ...
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