Newsom calls Trump's $1 billion UCLA settlement offer extortion, says California won't bow
California Governor Gavin Newsom said on Saturday that a $1 billion settlement offer by President Donald Trump's administration for UCLA amounted to political extortion to which the state will not bow.
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Release the Epstein files
Newsom is going to keep pretending he's involved and taking credit for anything he possibly can.
He has a negative effect on our fight because he sucks up all the oxygen and media attention from the people doing shit. We could have someone actually willing to fight in his office instead.
Pritzker is a far better person to take that place IMHO, he actually has policy wins under his belt.
As a Minnesotan, I'm partial to Walz. I'm furious about how they set him up to fail in 2024 by putting him on the ticket then promptly shoving him in a corner.
I like Walz a lot too, but I think I'm done wanting a nice leader on the left. Walz is wholesome and we need someone that's going to just call them the party of pedophiles at this point.
Walz was all set to get feisty with the GOP when Harris, et al put a leash on him.
Fellow MN resident here and I was so livid on how they did Walz so fucking dirty! He’s done more for our state than many other state govs put together!
MN is one of the best states to live in and they just used him as bait! We live in such a savage country which the billionaires are now controlling! I would love to see a Walz ticket for pres soon!!
MN LOVE ❤️
Alternatively, maybe we should keep him to ourselves as a shield against whatever bullshit the federal government is getting up to.
Yeah, not like billionaire owned media has a reason to ignore what progressives and the current DNC is doing...
/S
You're not the only one who doesn't understand this, but it is fucking frustrating so many can't figure it out on their own.
If you're waiting on the billionaire class to tell the millionaire class to tell you who is willing to overthow the billionaires...
Just, what the fuck man?
Really?
It will literally never happen.
He's not exactly uninvolved in this case. The governor of California is an ex-officio member of the board of regents, and he did appoint 10 of the current regents.
But that said, we can do better than Newsom. His primary goal is to be elected to higher office no matter what he has to say or do.