(Joshua Paladino, Headline USA) The same four rich, white, progressive women who spent $4 million to elect radical Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascón are funding California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s amibition to claim the White House in 2024, New York Post columnist Miranda Devine reported.
Speculation is swirling that Democrats may pull a fast bait-and-switch in 2024, removing Biden from office long enough to convey “first female president” honors to the deeply unpopular Kamala Harris, who would then draft Newsom as her vice president, clearing the way for a campaign run.
Already, Newsom has sauntered into the White House in Biden’s absence—a power flex that many mockingly suggested was his opportunity to “measure the drapes.”
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He also has ratcheted up a rhetorical rivalry with Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, the most likely GOP candidate if former President Donald Trump were somehow sidelined.
And, significantly, Newsom may have locked in a major source of funding from his longtime political patrons, having already earned their goodwill through quid pro quo arrangements while serving as California governor.
Patty Quillin, Quinn Delaney, Kaitlyn Krieger, Elizabeth Simons—who are married to millionaires and billionaires—have donated hundreds of thousands to Newsom, and he has reciprocated their favors with immense state subsidies and tax credits.
Quillin has donated more than $123,000 to Newsom’s reelection campaign, and her husband, Netflix CEO Reed Hastings, gave an additional $94,000. He also spent $3 million to oppose Newsom’s recall.
In exchange, Newsom directed the California Film Commission to give Netflix $60 million in tax credits, twice as many as any other company. That’s a great return on investment.
Government accountability watchdog Open the Books accessed Newsom’s campaign records as well as information from state records to reveal that Newsom routinely trades donations for state largesse.
Adam Andrzejewski, the group’s CEO and founder, said that Newsom “solicited roughly 1,000 state vendors for $10.5 million worth of campaign donations, and those companies or affiliated companies received $6.2 billion worth of worth of state payments last year.”
Being ultra-rich, bored, and guilty, these four women have pushed more than $22 million over the past two years into ballot measures and candidates to institute a far-left criminal justice overhaul.
Four million went to Gascón’s 2020 election campaign as well as a fund to defeat his recall.
Gascón has expanded pre-trial release, reduced the use of cash bail, stopped charging minors as adults for serious crimes and sworn off the death penalty.
These powerful backers could push Newsom into the White House and bring their mission of stopping “mass incarceration” and “ending the criminalization of black youth” to the entire nation.
They would bring with them all the chaos and crime that come with their radical anti-law enforcement ideology.
