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Gavin Newsom’s diaper deal stinks

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Gavin Newsom’s diaper deal benefited a nonprofit run by his wife’s friend — and there was no true “competitive” process, as he claimed.

The whole diaper deal stinks.

The California Post reported this weekend that the governor’s office had finally released the terms of the deal in a classic late Friday night “document dump.”

The state is to pay $6.2 million to the Baby2Baby nonprofit, whose co-CEO, Norah Weinstein, also sits on the board of the California Partners Project, a nonprofit founded by “First Partner” Jennifer Siebel Newsom.

The money is supposed to pay for 400 diapers for each baby born in the state — at least, those born in participating hospitals. That reportedly will cover 25% of the babies born in California.

But the cost of the program has raised eyebrows, with critics saying that it would be cheaper to buy the diapers directly at a store, rather than going through a nonprofit with overhead costs and other expenses.

The public deserves to know what happened, especially given ongoing........

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