California Gov. Gavin Newsom was vacationing in Montana, the place he has household, on July 4 when his reelection marketing campaign ran a 30-second spot on Fox Information in Florida by which he referred to as out Florida for “banning books, limiting speech, making it more durable to vote, criminalizing ladies and docs.”
Newsom then invited Floridians to “be a part of us in California, the place we nonetheless imagine in freedom.”
Newsom actually feels free to do what he needs to do.
Montana is considered one of 22 states California has banned from state-funded journey due to what its Legal professional Basic Rob Bonta calls “an ongoing wave of discriminatory anti-trans laws sweeping throughout the nation.”
“We’re placing our cash the place are values are,” Bonta defined when he added states to the no-travel record.
Newsom is placing his cash the place his values are, too — one normal for him, one other for the plenty.
It’s the French Laundry yet again — when Newsom was seen eating with lobbyist pals maskless and with out social distancing at the same time as his workplace was urging Californians to scale down Thanksgiving dinners and telling locals, “Going out to eat with members of your family this weekend? Don’t overlook to maintain your masks on in between bites.”
Freedom of faith? Not excessive on Newsom’s record. He banned indoor worship, ostensibly to curb COVID, even because the leisure business and retailers have been open for enterprise. (The U.S. Supreme Courtroom dominated in opposition to the order.)
There is no such thing as a ebook ban. Florida has rejected textbooks effervescent with progressive sensibilities.
“I don’t assume they’re banning books. They’re making selections about which books they assume are finest for his or her college students,” California schooling blogger Joanne Jacobs advised me.
Florida is leery of math textbooks heavy on “emotional-social studying,” she famous, an method she doesn’t assume is “very useful for youths.”
Oddly for a state that’s purported to make it “more durable to vote,” Florida loved a better turnout — 71.7 p.c to California’s 68.5 p.c — throughout the 2020 basic election.
Sure, Florida’s Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a invoice that bans most abortions after 15 weeks. In accordance with the Facilities for Illness Management and Prevention, some 2 p.c of abortions carried out in Florida in 2019 have been carried out after 15 weeks.
A 2014 report by the anti-abortion Charlotte Lozier Institute reported that solely seven of 59 international locations allowed elective abortions after 20 weeks. The Washington Submit truth checker discovered the Lozier report “a factoid” that “surprisingly seems to be true.”
Dealing with a recall in 2021, Newsom needed to divert voter consideration away from rising crime charges, sprawling homeless encampments, and public faculty closures attributable to light-on-crime lunacy and the schooling institution’s dysfunction. He beat the trouble by turning the deal with prime challenger Larry Elder’s help for former President Donald Trump.
Newsom’s reelection in November is inevitable. Whereas the Democrat denies any curiosity in operating for president in 2024, who believes that? Nobody who is aware of the Golden State’s Golden Boy.
President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris are underwater job approval-wise. Newsom in all probability figures he’d be doing the occasion a favor by leaping in.
Newsom’s Florida advert purchase units up a contest with DeSantis, many Republicans’ favourite various to Trump. Good.
Nonetheless, it’s a pipe dream to assume People would favor California, which is shedding individuals, to the Sunshine State, which has been gaining residents.
Sacramento declared financial battle on 22 states. Newsom could wish to make the problem a contest between him and DeSantis, however actually, it’s additionally a battle on Montana.
Debra J. Saunders is a fellow on the Discovery Institute’s Chapman Middle for Citizen Management. Contact her at dsaunders@discovery.org.
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