January 20, 2023
Mr. Newsom:
I am currently back in the Redlands (Florida) helping my aging and memory-challenged mother out (an essay for another day) — but still read my Times daily thanks to the wonders of modern technology. I\’ve also been watching the national news and catching CNN whenever I can and Guvner, I\’ve not heard your name mentioned once with regards to the flooding and/or the rape of California by the natural gas companies.
It took Greta Van Susteren (my Mother only has one TV in her home) to remind me that 9-years-ago we Californians voted to improve our water reclamation infrastructure — yet we have reportedly lost 80% of the fresh water from these recent storms to the Pacific.
I was thinking that that reported $95 billion surplus we amassed might have helped with some upgrades?!
And now that I reference that $95 billion, Gavin I need you to tell me how we moved from a $95 billion surplus to a $25 billion deficit without addressing pressing problems like flooding and energy?! Don\’t tell me you spent mo\’ money on the bullet train?! Please, NO!
I\’m also hoping that you don\’t have designs on the presidency — because like Eric Garcetti and his ambassadorship to India — neither of you is cut out for the respective jobs.
Speaking of \”cutouts\” — You, Sir, are a cardboard cutout! A poster child of wild dreams. You talk about the \”greening\” of California — but I have an ever growing sense that you still court Big Oil and Gas.
I was worried about you from the get go (See elsewhere in the Doctor\’s Inn [probably the year you began campaigning for your current gig]), and, you have definitely disappointed. You are no Jerry Brown! You are fulfilling my prophecy that you wouldn\’t be equal to the task.
Time to shit or get off the pot! I mean, what have you really accomplished Mr. Newsom?
I don\’t see any middle-class relief for Californians — though I\’ve heard a few promises. We are becoming a 2-class State — with many of the middle class starting to slip into the lower class, or, leaving California altogether. I know that for every 50,000 people who leave California because they can no longer afford it — 10,000 well-to-do people come into the State. But this dynamic simply speeds of the conversion of California into the aforementioned 2-class State.
Actions speak louder than words!
I think Native Americans would say that you speak with a forked tongue, or, out of both sides of your mouth.