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As Gavin Newsom Flosses for His Presidential Run, First Partner Jennifer Newsom Continues the Family Grift

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California Governor Gavin Newsom has been attempting to make political hay off the tragic shootings that occurred in Southern California at a dance hall in Monterey Park during Lunar New Year celebrations, and in Northern California in the coastal town of Half Moon Bay at a mushroom harvesting facility. Newsom did a photo op with the hero who disarmed the Monterey Park perpetrator, and did a walkabout with CBS’ Norah O’Donnell, spouting about the epidemic of gun violence while flanked by his armed security detail. His latest rant is demanding a response from House Speaker Kevin McCarthy and spouting about how Republicans and Fox News are evil and the reason why real gun reform has not happened.

Meanwhile, on Monday, it was another day in paradise in Oakland. One person was killed and seven were injured in yet another gun violence incident. What was the commentary from the Governor on this one?

Bupkis. You would think Newsom could read the room and recognize that this “epidemic” in a state that has some of the strictest gun laws—yet some of the highest crime and gun violence in the nation—says more about his governance, not to mention the state of men’s hearts and minds, than it does about the supposed scourge of the Second Amendment.

While Newsom is making his public show to build his presidential presence, it would be best for all to also pay attention to what he is doing behind closed doors. This is where the massive corruption is done.

First Partner Jennifer Siebel Newsom has a non-profit called The Representation Project, which rakes in quite a bit of money on the premise that it is empowering women and girls. She also has another organization called The California Partners Project, also focused on building women leaders. Newsom has used behested payments (like the gun control laws, another California scourge) to fund the coffers of this non-profit.

The governor has taken advantage of California’s “behested payments” law to ask for “charitable” contributions to benefit the“California Partners Project” founded by his wife. In the last three years, the project has collected $1,671,680 at Gov. Newsom’s “behest.”

California strictly regulates gifts and campaign contributions, but “behested payments” are in a different category. Elected officials are free to request donations in any amount from any individual or entity for any “legislative, governmental or charitable purpose.” There are no limits on how much may be requested or given. State law requires public reporting if the payments total $5,000 or more in a calendar year from a single source.

Now the Open the Books organization has done an investigation into The Representation Project surrounding its funneling of so-called educational videos into the middle school curriculum of California school districts. Since the California Teachers’ Unions are Governor Newsom’s biggest contributors, one might see this as a conflict of interest. Young conservative activist Max Bonilla took to TikTok and called it what it is: “money laundering.” On top of the rabid financial corruption, the “charity” was also not complying with state laws concerning the submission of filings.

Open The Books Graphic (Credit: OpentheBooks.com, used with permission)

Open the Books wrote about this on their Substack:

Last week, our investigation broke the story that The Representation Project was not in compliance with the California Charitable Solicitation Act. Now, it’s clear that the charity spent last year engaged in big-money fundraising events with corporate executives and philanthropists – while its charitable filings were delinquent with the state.

Then, the Newsom nonprofit scrambled to submit their proper registration. Working with the California Attorney General, a process that normally takes days or weeks was completed in hours.

That would be AG Rob Bonta, whose office “accidentally” released the records of concealed carry holders in the state, and who is still “investigating.”

But the governor’s wife needs paperwork done? On it! Your taxpayer dollars at work.

Speaking of taxpayer dollars, these gender justice movies produced by Siebel Newsom come with quite a price tag.

Siebel Newsom, through her non-profit The Representation Project, has released four films advocating gender justice. The films are leased for screenings to individuals, corporations, and schools, and come with their own lesson plans. Schools spend between $49-$599 to screen these movies to children.

Jennifer Siebel Newsom is credited as a writer and director on each of these films. Two of the movies feature Gavin Newsom himself, and many of the lesson plan activities are oriented toward engaging children in social and political activism.

Because of Gavin Newsom’s role in these films and because licenses are sold to schools which the governor is responsible for funding with tax dollars, auditors at OpenTheBooks.com felt the organization deserved further scrutiny.

Who’s Watching? 2.6 million students in 5,000 schools

According to The Representation Project’s Impact Report (2011-2021), the organization’s film curricula are being used in over 5,000 schools in all fifty states. The Representation Project claims over 11,200 copies of the curricula have been distributed, reaching more than 2.6 million students.

Now you know why California education ranks at the bottom of the barrel. Lining the Newsom family coffers, gender justice, and Satanic clubs are the order of importance. Actual reading, writing, and arithmetic? Not so much.

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Despite claims, gun control doesn’t stop mass shootings

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Two mass shootings in California in a matter of days.

We’ve seen this kind of stacking of mass shootings before, and it’ll never be welcome. Part of what happens in the aftermath, even before we know anything about what happened, is the inevitable calls for gun control.

You see, we’re told that these horrific events can be prevented with gun control laws. Assault weapon bans are a perennial favorite.

Yet it’s important to realize one very important thing. There’s really no evidence that gun control prevents mass shootings.

he research, part of Santa Monica-based RAND’s Gun Policy in America project, has the nonpartisan goal of establishing basic facts about gun violence, legitimate gun use and gun laws. The idea is that those facts, in turn, can be used by people on all sides of the gun debate to craft rules that stem gun-related deaths. In 2021, the last year for which full data is available, nearly 49,000 Americans died from gun violence or gun-related suicide.

In their research, Morral and other RAND scientists track thousands of studies looking at how different types of gun laws affect everything from gun violence, such as homicides and suicides, to the price of guns and the legal use of guns, such as self-defense, hunting and sport shooting. Though such research is relatively new — in part because from 1992 to 2018 federal funding was not allowed to be used to collect gun violence data — RAND’s study of the studies has found some patterns.

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But RAND didn’t find a lot of strong research into how laws prevent mass shootings. Though Morral said there is “limited” evidence that banning the sale of assault weapons and high-capacity ammunition magazines curtails mass shootings, he was quick to point out that “limited” is “our weakest evidence rating short of ‘inconclusive.’”

Understand that RAND may be non-partisan, but they’re hardly unbiased. For them to acknowledge that there is, at best, only a small bit of evidence suggesting any kind of impact is huge. Their own internal biases would lead them to see evidence most would discount, yet even they are having trouble finding much of anything.

Then there’s the fact that both of these horrific mass shootings happened in California, the most gun-controlled state in the nation. It’s a state that has gun control laws that passed easily there that wouldn’t fly at the federal level and we all know it.

Yet we had two mass shootings that left a total of 18 people dead in a matter of days in this gun control Utopia.

In and of itself, that alone is evidence that gun control doesn’t prevent mass shootings. If such laws did, there’s little chance of seeing two such horrific shootings in such a short period of time in the state.

But we did.

We’ve seen it and we’ll likely see similar shootings there in the future. When that unfortunate eventuality happens, it won’t be because we have too few gun control laws or because the Second Amendment has turned into some kind of “suicide pact.”

It’ll be for the same reason it always has happened. Gun laws won’t stop it and there’s really no evidence suggesting they would.

Newsom: Second Amendment turning into “suicide pact”

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California Gov. Gavin Newsom is lashing out at gun owners, the firearms industry, and even the Founding Fathers as he tries to spin another failure of the state’s gun control laws into an attack on the Second Amendment.

Speaking to CBS News on Monday evening, Newsom claimed that while he has no “ideological opposition” to “responsible” gun owners, at least in theory, the shootings in Monterey Park demand a further crackdown on the right to keep and bear arms.

“Nothing about this is surprising. Everything about this is infuriating,” he told “CBS Evening News” anchor and managing editor Norah O’Donnell on Monday. “The Second Amendment is becoming a suicide pact.”

Newsom clarified that he has “no ideological opposition” against people who “responsibly” own guns and get background checks and training on how to use them.

But he told O’Donnell that current regulations are falling short.

Maybe because the gun control laws Newsom favors are aimed at legal gun owners instead of violent criminals?

Newsom mentioned the role of mental health in mass shootings, but he singled out gun access as a factor exacerbating the problem.

“I’m really proud of the work we’ve done in this space, but we’ve had decades of neglect,” he said. “But respectfully, I will submit that regardless of the challenges it relates to behavioral health, there’s not a country in the world that doesn’t experience behavioral health issues.”

And there’s not a state in the U.S. that regulates and restricts gun ownership to the extent that California does, and yet according to the FBI it was California that had the most most active shooter incidents in 2021. Part of that may simply be an artifact of California’s large population, but it’s also evidence that restricting a constitutional right to self-defense in the name of public safety doesn’t stop committed killers nearly as effectively as it prevents peaceable gun owners from exercising their 2A rights.

The anti-Second Amendment attacks are only going to heat up after another shooting, this time in central California, left seven people dead and a 67-year old suspect in custody on Monday afternoon.

The shootings were reported at Mountain Mushroom Farm on San Mateo Road near Highway 1 and Concord Farms off Cabrillo Hwy S. First responders first received a call about an active shooter at around 2:20 p.m.

Authorities responded to the 12700 block of San Mateo Road at the Mountain Mushroom Farm, close to Rice Trucking-Soil Farm off of Hwy. 1. Deputies found four victims deceased with gunshot wounds. A fifth victim, also suffering from gunshot wounds, was transported to Stanford Medical Center with life threatening injuries.

Then shortly after at the Concord Farms on the 2100 block of Cabrillo Highway South – less than 3 miles away from the Mountain Mushroom Farm – three additional victims were located, also deceased with gunshot wounds.

According to ABC-7, both the suspect and the victims were workers at the mushroom farm where the first shootings took place. Authorities haven’t said whether the suspect lawfully obtained the firearm used in the attack, but that really doesn’t matter to Newsom and his anti-gun allies in the legislature. Any crime in which a firearm is used, legally obtained or not, is fodder for their attack on a fundamental civil right.

Violent crime, even with the spike that took place in 2020, is still far below what the U.S. experienced throughout much of the 1970s, 80s, and 90s; a time when the number of gun owners, firearms, and concealed carry holders were much smaller than they are today. If the Second Amendment or law-abiding gun owners are to blame, as Newsom argues, the opposite would be true and crime would have climbed exponentially over the past thirty years as the right-to-carry revolution took hold and more Americans embraced their Second Amendment rights. As I mentioned, it wasn’t until 2020 and the double whammy of COVID disruptions and widespread unrest and violence in the wake of George Floyd’s death that our crime rate started soaring.

I’m sure that Newsom believes his own rhetoric about the Second Amendment turning into a suicide pact, but that doesn’t give him or lawmakers the authority to kill off a fundamental civil right, no matter how much they cloak their anti-2A ambitions in a shroud of moral righteousness. California’s gun control laws aren’t protecting the public safety. Instead, they’re making it harder for good people to protect themselves.

Adam Schiff Steps on Another Rake Claiming ‘AAPI Bigotry’ in the Monterey Park Shooting

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Over the past six years, Adam Schiff has been the poster boy for abuse of power and lying without consequence. Schiff knew that the Steele dossier was nothing more than oppo-research funded by the DNC and Clinton’s campaign hacks. Nonetheless, he consistently claimed it was evidence of Trump’s wrongdoing. Schiff claimed he had the goods on Trump and would reveal his hard evidence “soon.” He had to hold back because national security was at risk. But “soon” never came because Schiff never had the evidence. In fact, he had proof of the opposite. In short, he lied. Schiff was told early in the investigation, and by multiple intelligence sources, including the FBI, NSA, and the DOJ that there was no link of collusion between Russia and Trump’s campaign, but Schiff continued to claim there was. He had the goods we were told. He didn’t present his “bombshells” as possibilities – they were hard “facts.” Except they weren’t. They never were. Schiff made it up.

When Schiff was chairing the House Intelligence Committee in 2019, he made up what Trump said in his call to Zelensky. Schiff only called it “in part, parody” when his nonsense was called out by another committee member. Media dutifully called it “parody.” Schiff loves to fire up his base with feckless lies. Lying and inventing falsehoods to fit a narrative and energize his base of haters is what he does. It’s what he is good at.

When the Monterey Park shooting victims were still lying on the ground, and survivors were still in surgery, Adam Schiff was pulling a shifty, again. He was making up facts. Schiff was lying, again.

Schiff tweeted:

Schiff was fileted on Twitter, but having facts thrown in his face — or stepping on rakes — never mattered to Schiff. Of course, Schiff had no evidence of racial bigotry. How could he? The victims were Asian, and so was the (alleged) shooter, but facts have never mattered to Adam Schiff. He’s a shameless hack. A panderer. A liar of the first order.

Is it any wonder Speaker McCarthy intends to reject Adam Schiff’s nomination to the House Intelligence Committee? Why allow a known liar to sit on any committee let alone one of the most impactful?

If voters won’t take him out of Congress, the least that can be done is disempower him.

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Cheng: Focus on mental health, not guns after Monterey Park

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Competitive shooter, California gun owner, and Asian Pacific American Gun Owners Association founding board member Chris Cheng grew up in southern California not far from the city of Monterey Park, where a 72-year old man opened fire in a crowded ballroom on Saturday night filled with revelers ringing in the Lunar New Year. As he tells Bearing Arms’ Cam & Co on today’s show, he was sickened to see the news of the shooting on Sunday morning.

“Just to imagine the amount of fear and confusion, and now I’m sure distress and anger that’s coming in the aftermath of this shooting is heartbreaking,” Cheng said, noting that the Lunar New Year has huge cultural significance for many Asian cultures, and what should have been time for the community to celebrate is now a period of mourning and grief.

And gun control… at least if you’re an elected Democrat in the state. As Cheng rightfully points out, California is already home to some of the most restrictive gun laws in the country; none of which prevented the septuagenarian suspect from acquiring his guns or carrying out his attack. Cheng knows that the state legislature is going to use the Monterey Park murders as justification for their newest assault on the right to armed self-defense, but he says from what we’ve already learned from this tragedy they’re aiming in the wrong direction.

“This sounds like he was embedded in the community, people knew who he was. I’ve been reading some comments from witnesses who say that he was acting a little strange over the past few weeks and months, and I wonder if there were warning signs,” Cheng wondered, though he did acknowledge that its probably easier to point out these troubling indicators after the fact than it is in the moment.

We’ll undoubtably learn more about the killer’s history as the investigation continues, but the mayor of Monterey Park suggested in an interview with NBC News on Monday that the murderer may have been targeting his ex-wife.

“My understanding is that he may have come because his ex-wife was reveling, celebrating the Lunar New Year, and it sounded like there was a history of domestic violence, which is unfortunate,” Monterey Park Mayor Henry Lo told NBC News’ Kate Snow.

Tran filed for divorce in 2005 in Los Angeles County, records show. NBC News has reached out to the person believed to be the shooter’s ex-wife for comment.

Police on Monday were searching the suspect’s home in Hemet, a small city about 85 miles east of Los Angeles, and have not divulged a motive.

Alan Reyes, public information officer for the Hemet Police Department, said their records show that Tran contacted them a decade ago and alleged his family was trying to poison him. The allegation was never investigated because Tran never presented any proof to back up his claims, Reyes said.

Reporting that your family is trying to poison you may not be be enough of a red flag that it would lead to an involuntary mental health hold by itself, but I can’t help but wonder what an actual investigation might have turned up at the time. I doubt police would have found any evidence backing up the suspect’s story, but they might have talked to him enough that they became concerned about his own mental stability and had him examined by professionals.

California lawmakers are far more likely to use the Monterey Park shooting as an excuse to drastically expand the use of “red flag” laws instead of trying to fix the state’s broken mental health system, but Cheng says some of the most valuable action that can be taken doesn’t involve putting new laws on the books at all. Instead, he says that we need to be looking out for each other as friends, family, neighbors, and even fellow gun owners.

“It’s asking, hey, if I’m a part of this community and I see someone in trouble, what can I do? It’s not what can the government do, or even what can mental health professionals do. It’s about what can I do right now with this person who needs help. And when it comes to firearms in particular… if you know someone really well you’re likely to know they have firearms. And so if someone is mental distress and having a challenging period in their lives, one option is to offer to temporarily take custodianship of that person’s guns. Just ask ‘hey, as a friend, as a favor, if you’re open to it I’m willing to temporarily hold your firearms while you’re going through this tough part in your life.”

It’s an idea that’s being put into place around the country through the efforts of groups like Hold My Guns, and I personally believe this programs are of far greater value than “red flag” laws, which (in my opinion) primarily exist to give politicians something to point to as an accomplishment instead of taking on the much more challenging task of repairing a crumbling mental health system.

Cheng knows that California lawmakers aren’t about to reverse their current course towards Disarmamentland, but he’s also preparing for an influx of Asian Americans who are ready to become trained and proficient at protecting themselves with a firearm in the wake of the Monterey Park shootings. Gun ownership in that demographic has grown by almost 50% since 2020, according to Cheng, and he expects that to continue in the future, especially as states like California are slowly forced to comply with the Second Amendment and its protection of the right to keep and bear arms.

There’s much more to my conversation with Chris Cheng, so check out the entire discussion in the video window above… and stay tuned for the legislative avalanche of 2A infringements to start moving in Sacramento this week.