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Gavin Newsom’s insane $20M plan to honor … Gavin Newsom

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Gavin Newsom –– driven by narcissism or delusion or both –– would spend millions of tax dollars to honor a handful of former living governors. 

The soon-to-be-former gov (wink) has slipped a $20 million provision into his budget plan to create a “Governors’ Legacies Fund,” whatever that is.

Evidently the millions would go unspecified projects honoring the four (five, if you count Newsom) former living governors of California.

This, as the state faces chronic multibillion-dollar budget deficits; as Newsom shamelessly runs for president in 2028; and as Californians endure a long list of crises that Newsom and his recent predecessors created, let fester, and/or exacerbated. 

These include (take a deep breath): 

Chronic high rates of homelessness; a staggering lack of affordability; stubborn housing, water, energy and road-capacity shortages; abysmal public education outcomes; overtaxation — including........

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