California’s corruption crisis is bad that we did a whole pamphlet on it and we barely scratched the surface.
Over the last decade, 576 California officials have been convicted on federal corruption charges. That’s federal because the local authorities are so corrupt that federal investigations are the only form of accountability that even exist.
California state authorities are so corrupt that they publicly cover up corruption and say it’s in the “public interest.”.
The Rules Committees for the Senate refused to release records of federal law enforcement subpoenas and search warrants, claiming that “the public interest served by not making the record public clearly outweighs the public interest served by disclosure of the record.”
Both the California Senate and the Assembly claim that disclosing how much the California Democrat majority legislatures spent on legal bills would “violate attorney client privilege” and that the legislatures won’t be releasing any records that the law doesn’t require them to release.
Gov. Gavin Newsom just got caught doing the same thing to cover up the corruption investigation of his chief of staff.
Gov. Gavin Newsom put his former chief on leave when he learned a year ago that she was under criminal investigation, according to his office.
Dana Williamson, who was indicted on public corruption charges Wednesday, was interviewed by the FBI in November 2024, while still working as Newsom’s top aide. She left the governor’s office
a month later.
In a send-off statement, Newsom lauded “her insight, tenacity, and big heart.”
Newsom had known for a month that Williamson had been questioned by the FBI, according to his office, and immediately put her on leave. Her last day in the office was in November, but she officially left the administration the following month.
Newsom knew, covered it up and misled the public. And this is typical. Also typical is that it was an FBI investigation because California officials can’t investigate or police themselves.
How could they? Dana Williamson is accused of embezzling from the campaign account of former Attorney General Xavier Becerra who now wants to run for governor. Becerra’s former chief of staff was allegedly also involved.
But let’s get back to Newsom here.
Newsom learns his chief-of-staff is under FBI investigation. He puts her on leave and praises her. He doesn’t have to do that last part, but if he doesn’t do it, reporters will sense a whiff of scandal and come after him, and he’s too busy angling for a presidential nomination. So he postpones the reckoning hoping that the FBI won’t indict his chief-of-staff and even if it does, he’ll have enough time to become the frontrunner, whereas if he had distanced himself publicly from Williamson earlier, the story would have leaked and would have sidelined him from consideration.
Who does that? It’s Kamala logic. It’s the behavior of a selfish narcissist of poor character and worse impulse control.
And that’s Gavin.
