Recently, Gavin Newsom has been all over national media, picking fights with prominent Republican governors of other states and pretending he’s not running for president.
Though this has given short shrift to his gubernatorial reelection, it has saved him from being forced to talk about his record running California, which has been four years of hot air and spending other people’s money and not much else.
You don’t have to take my word for it. The Sacramento Bee this past week looked at ten different promises made by Newsom as both a candidate for governor and as an incumbent. The results were not good.
First, he said he’d build 3.5 million new homes by 2025. The Bee highlighted several housing initiatives that Newsom has signed, but concludes by predicting that at this rate, “it would take nearly 30 years to reach 3.5 million.”
Ouch.
Newsom also campaigned on expanding…
