Anti-Gun Newsom
Spends Taxpayer Millions on Armed Guards
by AWR Hawkins 22 Nov 2015
California Lt.
Governor Gavin Newsom (D) wants to lead a
fight against gun ownership–yet has spent millions of taxpayer dollars to
surround himself with armed security.
Breibart News previously
reported Newsom’s belief that the Paris attacks would have been
worse if citizens had been armed for self-defense. He told HBO’s Bill Maher
that the whole idea of a good guy with a gun stopping a bad guy is “mythology.”
Newsom’s exact words on Maher’s show, Real Time,
were: “I just simply, this sort of mythology, the guy with the gun that’s
going to come save the day, I mean, so right out of the movies, sort of this
gun-slinging fantasy. The reality is, it’s most likely to create more harm,
more damage, more lost lives in those circumstances.”
Rewind a few years to Newsom’s tenure as Mayor of San
Francisco. He was mayor from 2004 to 2011, and toward the end of that time–on
July 7, 2009–reports emerged that Newsom had spent “millions” surrounding
himself with armed security. Moreover, those “millions” came out of city
funds–otherwise know as taxpayer monies–which paid for the police detail from
which protective services were rendered.
NBC Bay Area reported Newsom’s security
spending as follows:
How much does it cost to protect the mayor of a major
metropolitan city? In Los Angeles, about $450,000 a year. In Houston, about
$339,00 a year. In San Francisco, anywhere between $1 and $72 million.
[On July 7, 2009] SF Appeal revealed…the budget for Newsom’s
personal police bodyguards comes out of the San Francisco Police Department’s
Investigations Detail, which boasts a $72.9 million budget.
So, depending on how you look at it, Newsom’s protective
detail cost at least seven figures–money few average citizens would have
for personal self-defense.
Then Newsom was elected to the position of Lt. Governor in
2010, and assumed that office in 2011. And the very next year, in July 2012,
the Los Angles Times reported that the cost for providing security for
Lt Governor Newsom was up nearly $30,000 above what it had been for his
predecessor. According to the Times:
The state spent $93,379 through May in the
just-completed fiscal year on CHP protection for Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom, who
took office at the start of 2011. The amount is up from the $65,954 spent in
the previous fiscal year, the first half protecting Lt. Gov. Abel Maldonado,
and the second half protecting Newsom.
The Times inquired whether the elevated price for
armed security was the result of Newsom taking “a CHP officer…to the
taping of his weekly hour-long talk show, ‘The Gavin Newsome Show,'” but
Newsom’s spokesman said they do not discuss details related to security.
Here is the bottom line: Newsom does not think allowing
average Americans to be armed for self-defense does any good. In fact, he
thinks “it’s most likely to create more harm, more damage, more lost lives in
those circumstances.” But he had no problem spending millions to surround
himself with armed security as mayor and to increase expenditures for armed
security by $30,000 once he became Lt. Governor.
Maybe it is time for Newsom to live up the standards he
wants to force onto average Americans and forgo the confidence derived by
having guns around for self-defense. Talk is cheap–perhaps Newsom can lead by
example, disarming his security detail and going through a few days thinking
about how citizens feel when state and local governments disarm them via myriad
gun control scenarios.
Gavin
Newsom
Gavin
Newsom is the California state
government lieutenant governor, William
A. Newsom’s son, and was invited to George
Soros’s 2013 wedding reception.
Note: Pat Brown was the California state government governor, a
friend of William Newsom, and Jerry Brown & Kathleen L. Brown’s father.
William A. Newsom
is Gavin Newsom’s father, a friend
of Jerry Brown, was a friend of Pat Brown, and a St. Ignatius prep school (San Francisco) graduate.
William Newsom
Life and career
Newsom was born in San
Francisco, California, the son of Christine (Brennan) and William A. Newsom
II. A lifelong San Franciscan, Newsom has longstanding political and financial
ties. His father was a close friend of Pat Brown, who rose from San Francisco
district attorney to governor of California.[2] He remains friends with Pat
Brown’s son, California Attorney General, former Oakland Mayor and current California
Governor Jerry Brown.
Jerry
Brown was the Oakland (CA) mayor,
is a friend of William A. Newsom,
the California state government
governor, Pat Brown’s son, and Kathleen L. Brown’s brother.
Kathleen L. Brown
was the California state government
treasurer, is Pat Brown’s daughter, Jerry Brown’s sister, and a member of
the Commercial Club of Chicago.
Penny S. Pritzker
is a member of the Commercial Club of
Chicago, the secretary at the U.S.
Department of Commerce for the Barack Obama administration, was the national finance chair, fundraiser
for the 2008 Barack Obama presidential
campaign, a co-chair for the 2009
Barack Obama inaugural committee, a fundraiser, national co-chair for the 2012 Barack Obama presidential campaign,
a contributor for the 2013 Barack Obama
inaugural committee, the host for the Barack
Obama fund-raising dinner, 7/2/2008, and a member of the President's Council on Jobs and Competitiveness.
Paul
S. Otellini was a member of the President's
Council on Jobs and Competitiveness, and a St. Ignatius prep school (San Francisco) graduate.
Laura D'Andrea
Tyson was a member of the President's
Council on Jobs and Competitiveness, and a trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank).
Sheryl K.
Sandberg was a member of the President's
Council on Jobs and Competitiveness, and a trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank).
Cyrus F.
Freidheim Jr. is an honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank), and a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago.
Foundation
to Promote Open Society was a funder for the Brookings Institution
(think tank), the Robin Hood Foundation, the Harlem Children's Zone, and the Sundance Institute.
George Soros
was the chairman for the Foundation to Promote Open Society,
married in 2013 & Gavin Newsom was
invited, and a benefactor for the Harlem
Children's Zone.
Jeff
Zucker is a director at the Robin
Hood Foundation, and was the president & CEO of NBCUniversal.
Emma
Bloomberg was the chief of staff for the Robin Hood Foundation, and is Michael
R. Bloomberg’s daughter.
Michael R.
Bloomberg was a donor for the Robin
Hood Foundation, a benefactor for the Harlem
Children's Zone, a contributor for the Americans
for Responsible Solutions, is Emma
Bloomberg’s father, a co-chair for Mayors
Against Illegal Guns, and the founder of Everytown for Gun Safety.
Americans
for Responsible Solutions is a “Gun
Safety, Gun Control” PAC for guns.
Mayors
Against Illegal Guns is a “Gun
Safety, Gun Control” group for guns.
Everytown
for Gun Safety is a “Gun Safety, Gun
Control” group for guns.
Brady
Center to Prevent Gun Violence is a “Gun
Safety, Gun Control” group for guns.
Maria Cuomo Cole
is a trustee at the Brady Center to
Prevent Gun Violence, and married to Kenneth
D. Cole.
Kenneth
D. Cole is married to Maria Cuomo
Cole, and a trustee at the Sundance
Institute.
Robert
Redford is the founder & president for the Sundance Institute, and
a partner with the Sundance Channel.
Sundance Channel
is a partner with NBCUniversal.
NBCUniversal
is a subsidiary of NBC.
Jeff
Zucker was the president & CEO of NBCUniversal,
and is a director at the Robin Hood Foundation.
Emma
Bloomberg was the chief of staff for the Robin Hood Foundation, and is Michael
R. Bloomberg’s daughter.
Michael R.
Bloomberg was a donor for the Robin
Hood Foundation, a benefactor for the Harlem
Children's Zone, a contributor for the Americans
for Responsible Solutions, is Emma
Bloomberg’s father, a co-chair for Mayors
Against Illegal Guns, and the founder of Everytown for Gun Safety.
Americans
for Responsible Solutions is a “Gun
Safety, Gun Control” PAC for guns.
Mayors
Against Illegal Guns is a “Gun
Safety, Gun Control” group for guns.
Everytown
for Gun Safety is a “Gun Safety, Gun
Control” group for guns.
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