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Gavin Newsom is running for President. You can expect him to declare for the presidency by December of this year.
He already has a book coming: “Young Man in a Hurry: A Memoir of Discovery.”
At age 58, that might seem like false advertising.
The book purports to be a tell-all — coming clean, as it were, clearing the deck before opposition researchers (Democrat and Republican) can dig up dirt on their own.
But there’s one thing Newsom doesn’t want you to know about: his dismal record as governor.
Yes, California is among the wealthiest states. It’s also among the poorest.
The Public Policy Institute of California noted that “in 2023, 31.1% of Californians were either at or near poverty.” California is also worst in homelessness, and in unemployment.
Worse yet, according to the U.S. News and World Report, California ranks 50th in opportunity among the states. California also ranks 50th in that all-important presidential election category of “affordability.”
All that despite California arguably being the most blessed piece of real estate on earth.
So, what’s an ambitious politician without a good record to do?
Knowing he won’t be able to sell the nation’s voters on his record as governor, Newsom now wants voters to buy a tale of rags-to-riches.
Like many of his spin jobs, however, it’s a tall tale, tailor-made for a White House run, but at a far remove from reality.
As California Post recently noted, Newsom’s “signature aesthetic originates from a desperate attempt to reinvent himself.”
Newsom maintains he invented his debonair persona in response to a difficult high school experience with bullies.
His memoir is an attempt to give his past a makeover — this time, to cover up failures that are all his own.
Unfortunately for Newsom, we live in the digital age — and nothing disappears.
For example, Newsom claims he had a poor upbringing.
But in 1991, Newsom made his first appearance in a photo in San Francisco Chronicle, posing with Bill Getty, from the billionaire oil family. The article was entitled “Children of the Rich.”
Importantly, that picture is from the same time frame – high school – that Newsom claims was so rough for him.
However bad it may have been for Newsom, it certainly wasn’t bad for very long.
After all, it was Newsom’s Getty connection that allowed the future governor to enter the wine business that built his personal fortune.
Newsom was just 25 years old at the time. At such a young age, Newsom became wealthy in an industry that caters to elite tastes.
Feeling sorry for him yet? Don’t.
As the left-of-center Sacramento Bee reported in 2017, “His thirtieth birthday party, given by the Gettys, was Great Gatsby-themed, down to the flappers and Charlestons.” (The title of the article: “This millionaire might be California’s next governor. How Gavin Newsom got connected.”)
There’s more.
According to the Bee, “a Getty trust paid Gavin Newsom for investment advice, and Gordon and Ann Getty provided gifts and loans for his home, according to reports and disclosures. They paid about $233,000 toward his first wedding reception.”
From Getty, to power broker Willie Brown (who appointed Newsom to a vacant supervisor’s seat in San Francisco), to political mentor Governor Jerry Brown, to former Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (distantly related through marriage), Newsom has strolled through life down a gilded brick road.
Don’t take my word for it. Consider this title of an op-ed written in 2018, when Newsom was running for governor, despite his total failure on homelessness as San Francisco’s mayor.
Marcos Breton — again, from the Bee — wrote an article titled: “The privileged candidate: Why do we let Gavin Newsom get away with this?”
Breton warned that “it may take future social scientists to explain why current California voters were so willing to give this guy a pass on all the things we know about him.”
And that was before he was governor. That was before his infamous dinner at the French Laundry in 2020, where he defied his own coronavirus policies. It was before the “behested payments” to his favored projects, including his wife’s charity.
Newsom has always escaped accountability. The question is why.
Breton called it “privilege”:
“The 50-year-old lieutenant governor and former mayor of San Francisco is the living embodiment of privilege, and people seem to be OK with that. He has white male privilege. Class privilege. Wealth privilege. The privilege of good looks. All creates a Teflon exterior, protecting Newsom’s horrendous lapses of judgment and character, excusing his questionable background.”
Given all that, it would be a terrible lapse in judgment for voters to buy Newsom’s claims of a difficult childhood, or to fall for his pleas for empathy.
Instead, ask about what he doesn’t want you to know.
Tom Del Beccaro is an author, speaker, and the former chairman of the California Republican Party.