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Gov. Gavin Newsom’s management of California’s government has certainly been less than stellar.
During his seven-plus years as governor, he and a Legislature controlled by fellow Democrats have expanded programs, created new ones, guessed wrong on revenues to support them and overspent the real revenues, thus creating a chronic, multibillion-dollar budget deficit that could last indefinitely.
When Newsom embarks on an almost certain campaign for the presidency after leaving office next year, his managerial shortcomings will likely be cited by Democratic rivals and, were he to win his party’s nomination, by whomever Republicans choose as his opponent.
But does his record warrant the epithet of “Gavin Newsom’s empire of…
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