Liberals. Do not run this clown in 2028 if you want to win.
Inb4 - All I’m saying is that someone who openly does shit like this during a time of record hardship and homelessness is gonna have an uphill battle. Inb42 - Yes I know the shitheads on the otjer side are worse. Nobody cares. Republicans don’t care. In their addled minds they’re all temporarily embarrassed millionaires and every homeless person personally made the choice to be there cuz God or some other insane bullshit. I’m saying that people on your side do care about this. Not the Brunch Liberals. But your actual base. That you need to win.
He’s running on “offer a bed first, then you get penalized if you don’t accept the offer.” A lot of people in CA like the idea of offering help, then penalizing if you refuse to accept it.
Problem is, people don’t understand why the big cities have so many unfilled beds. Many shelters are dangerous and or cause you to lose your belongings.
Anybody who thinks that’s a good idea should be dumped in a city with no money or place to stay and then told to sleep in the shelter.
Honestly, having politicians spend a week in the county’s worst rated shelter would probably be a great thing for voters to demand.
The key though would be they can’t at all tell people who they are and the people running the shelters can not be told in advanced who that individual is and when they will be dropped off.
Here is the model ordinance he’s asking cities to consider adopting.
https://www.gov.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Encampment-Ordinance-formatted.pdf
The big thing that gets left out of these discussions is shelters. Newsom’s stance is that encampments should only be illegal if indoor shelter is unavailable.
At face value, that doesn’t sound entirely unreasonable, but if you dig deeper, you’ll learn that a lot of indoor shelters endanger the wellbeing and belongings of unhoused people.
IMHO, for any of this to work, shelters need to be evaluated for their ability to provide a safe and caring environment, and if those shelters don’t hold up, a county shouldn’t be able to count those places as beds.
TL;DR: Newsom is arguing that people will be offered a bed first, but a lot of those beds are more dangerous than the street. And people need to start calling that out.
Why don’t the homeless just simply befriend the children of oil tycoons and have them gift them a vineyard? Then they too could one day fail upwards to become the governor of California.
If Gavin wasn’t the friend of a billionaire he would be an illiterate moron who couldn’t hold down a job.
Gavin Newsom’s keeping it all in the family
https://calmatters.org/commentary/2019/01/gavin-newsoms-keeping-it-all-in-the-family/