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JACOB MCLEOD:
“…In 2020, California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s office reported that individuals or organizations made $226 million in private donations to organizations at Newsom’s request. These “behested payments” were a record-setting haul eclipsing all prior donations on record by nearly $100 million. While most donations supported COVID-19 relief efforts, a closer look suggests Newsom’s fundraising was supercharged not just by the pandemic, but also by the broad emergency powers the Democratic governor has assumed because of it.
Behested payments are a unique feature of California politics. State law defines a behested payment as a donation to a government program or charity made “at the request, suggestion, or solicitation of, or made in cooperation, consultation, coordination or concert” with a public official. While payments of $5,000 or more are disclosed to the public, they remain an overlooked portion of politicians’ finances, even though contributions often come from businesses with interests in the state government.
Last year, Newsom raised a combined $45 million from insurance giants Blue Shield of California and Kaiser Permanente for Project Homekey, his housing initiative. Newsom had selected Blue Shield CEO Paul Markovich to co-chair California’s task force on COVID-19 testing. In January, the governor again tapped Blue Shield, with assistance from Kaiser Permanente, to manage vaccine distribution across the state. That decision has raised eyebrows as the governor’s office has remained silent about the particulars of the deal, including why his administration selected Blue Shield and how much the company would be paid…”
Martin Luther King Jr. rolls over and shakes his head.
Liberals. What next?
Many people blindly watch this stuff without realizing the propaganda content of television. Weeks, months, years of repetition embed liberal pieties in unsuspecting and unquestioning brains.
Biden says blacks are too stupid to know how to use the internet. pic.twitter.com/xAqpZOvFei
— Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) February 17, 2021
Related:
https://twitter.com/ShemekaMichelle/status/1362226878564687879
Hat tip to Kane
Democrat governance. This is what they spend their time on. You know Chicago will be better when they take down statues of the fathers of our country.
Bone-headed fools.
Democrats are scared of their own shadow and the media will play along.
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Stuff your cultural norm up your ass. Collecting groups of people by force, loading them onto train cars, transporting them to camps, forcing them to undergo reeducation, forcing them to work, That all sounds like Nazi Germany to me. This is one of the rare cases where the Nazi comparison really works. The Chinese Government is a bad actor and should be treated as such.
Culturally different norms 👇🏼 pic.twitter.com/fJdnLkQ7YT
— Maggie (@MaggieLum) February 17, 2021
