Jillian Michaels Trashes Far-Left California Governance To Explain Move To Florida
Michaels slammed Gavin Newsom along with 'crazy' California's soft-on-crime policies and radical transgender laws.Sports Illustrated model leaving California because of out-of-control crime and homeless crisis, tells Newsom to 'take a seat'
A Sports Illustrated model is moving her family out of California because of the state's out-of-control crime and homeless crisis.
Former Sports Illustrated model Kristen Louelle Gaffney and her husband, former NFL running back Tyler Gaffney, are moving their family to Nashville, Tennessee. The husband and wife were both born and raised in California, but the living conditions have become so unbearable that they felt the need to migrate to Nashville for the sake of their three children.
Gaffney said the current state of California is "embarrassing" and "sad."
"I mean we already have the highest taxes, we should arguably have the most beautiful state, the most clean state," she said on "Jesse Watters Primetime." "But instead we have the number one homeless problem in America."
She added, "We're constantly giving. What more do you want from us?"
Earlier this month, a state audit found that California spent $24 billion to combat homelessness over the past five years but didn't consistently track whether the massive outlay of public money actually did anything to improve the issue.
California Assembly Republican Leader James Gallagher blamed the Newsom administration.
"This is standard Gavin Newsom – make a splashy announcement, waste a bunch of taxpayer money, and completely fail to deliver," Gallagher told Fox News. "Californians are tired of the homeless crisis, and they’re even more tired of Gavin’s excuses. We need results – period, full stop."
Gaffney noted that San Diego no longer feels safe.
“You know, you come to California to — it is the City of Dreams, the State of Dreams, right? You think this is where I can accomplish anything, but it does not feel safe anymore. I don’t feel safe going to the grocery store. I don’t go anywhere outside, especially in metropolitan areas without my husband with me, and I certainly don’t take my kids into city limits," she said.
Even Karen Bass – the progressive Democrat Mayor of Los Angeles – is not immune to the rampant crime. Her house was broken into early Sunday morning. This is the second time in three years the home of Bass has been broken into.
When asked what she would say to California Gov. Gavin Newsom, Gaffney replied, "Take a seat buddy, it's time to let someone else come in clean up the state that you so-called love."
She said Newsom "is fumbling over and over again" in his governance of California.
Gaffney vowed not to bring any Democrat politics with her to the red state of Tennessee.
An analysis of Internal Revenue Service statistics found that California had lost the most income tax revenue in 2021 because of the mass exodus from the state. The research discovered that California had lost approximately $340 million in 2021 IRS tax revenue.
Numerous celebrities have left California in recent years, including Angelina Jolie, Joe Rogan, Sylvester Stallone, Mark Wahlberg, and Scott Baio.
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Sylvester Stallone moving from California to Florida, sends daughters to Navy SEAL boot camp in fear of New York City crime
After living in California for decades, Sylvester Stallone has revealed that he is leaving the Golden State and moving to Florida.
Stallone and his wife, Jennifer Flavin Stallone, made the announcement during the Season 2 premiere of "The Family Stallone" reality TV show that aired on Wednesday.
“After long, hard consideration, your mother and I have decided it's time to move on and leave the state of California permanently, and we’re going to go to Florida,” Sylvester announced.
Stallone declared that it's already a "done deal."
Jennifer, 55, explained to her daughters, “It’s an empty nest. I need to change it up.”
The parents became empty nesters after Sophia and Sistine moved in together in New York City and Scarlet began attending the University of Miami.
"I don't feel like this is home anymore," Jennifer said.
"I raised all three of our daughters in California. Everything’s a memory to me, memories of them not being there anymore," Jennifer added. "So I needed a big change, and Sly went along with it."
The "Rocky" actor noted that he has lived in California since 1973.
"We have a lot of roots in California, so it’s not an easy transition to Florida," said the iconic Hollywood actor. "But Jennifer really had her heart set on it. I gave in."
Later in the episode, Stallone met up with his celebrity friends, Jon Lovitz and Henry Winkler, for what he called "my true farewell."
Stallone, 77, and Jennifer have been married for more than 25 years and have three adult daughters — Sophia, Sistine, and Scarlet. Jennifer, 55, filed for divorce in August 2022, but the celebrity couple have since resolved their marital issues.
Other Hollywood celebrities have recently moved out of California, including prolific podcaster Joe Rogan.
Rogan said he left California to move to Texas to get "a little bit more freedom."
"When you look at the traffic, when you look at the economic despair, when you look at the homelessness problem that's accelerated radically over the last six, seven, 10 years, I think there's too many people here," Rogan said of the Los Angeles area.
"I think it's not tenable; I don't think that it's manageable," he continued. "And every mayor does a s**t job of doing it because I don't think anybody could do a great job of it. I think there's certain things you're gonna have to deal with when you have a population of whatever the f*** L.A. is, it's like 20-million-plus people."
Actor Mark Wahlberg moved from California to Nevada to "give my kids a better life" and because it "made a lot more sense for us."
Actor Scott Baio ditched California for Florida after living there for more than 45 years.
"Between the homeless defecating on the sidewalk, doing drugs on the sidewalk in the middle of the day, illegal aliens all over the place, laws means nothing, crime is out of control, graffiti on everything, and all my tax dollars I don't know what they go for," Baio stated.
Comedian Rob Schneider explained why he moved out of California, "I really feel like I don’t want the Democratic Party trying to run my life. And there’s not one aspect of your life that they don’t want to interfere with."
Also in the episode, Stallone was concerned about his two daughters living in New York City because of the high crime rate. The actor took Sophia, 27, and Sistine, 25, to a self-defense training class taught by an ex-Navy SEAL.
The Stallone sisters moved to New York City last year, which has caused the "Rambo" actor to stay awake all night worrying about the safety of his daughters.
"My daughters have moved to New York, which is kind of traumatic because I spent many, many years in New York," said Stallone — who lived on the streets in the early 1970s. "Everyday robbery, physical attacking. Cars were coming over curbs. People throwing acid on you. You had to keep your head on a swivel, and I never gotten over that."
You can watch the entire episode of "The Family Stallone" below.
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Hosts brutally debunk Gavin Newsom's California 'statistics'
Gavin Newsom recently went on Sean Hannity's show to tout California’s economic growth, but Dave Rubin isn’t buying it.
Newsom claimed that in 2021, California had 7.8% of GDP growth.
“One of the fastest-growing economies anywhere on planet Earth,” Newsom said, adding that California “continues to be the temple of the American economy.”
Newsom also championed that 25.6% of all American jobs came from California in April, and the last two fiscal years California enjoyed $177.7 billion in operating surpluses.
“We’re on our way to be the fourth largest economy — eat your heart out Germany — in the world,” Newsom said smugly.
“Okay, so almost everything he said there was either a lie or a confusion in terms of some of the numbers,” Rubin responds.
Rubin makes the point that despite the 1.5 million people who fled, California is still a massive state — which drastically inflates the numbers.
Amy Jo Clark and Miriam Weaver of Chicks on the Right join Rubin to add their two cents.
“It’s like he just doesn’t see what’s happening right in front of his very eyes in places like San Francisco, which is just absolutely falling apart. And he doesn’t recognize, or he refuses to admit, all the people that have fled California, they’re hightailing it out of there with good reason,” Weaver says.
“He talks in circles, that’s what he’s doing,” Clark adds.
“It’s like I can smell him through the screen,” she continues. “I mean he smells like a used car salesman with way too much cologne on.”
While Newsom is clearly proud of his state, Rubin brings up a crime statistic from the Public Policy Institute of California.
“California’s violent crime rate,” he reads, “increased by 6.0%, from 440 per 100,000 residents in 2020 to 466 in 2021. While robberies fell somewhat (by 1.9%), aggravated assaults jumped by 8.9%, and homicides and rape increased by 7.7% and 7.9% respectively.”
In addition, Rubin adds that the number of people without a stable place to call home in California has increased by 22,500 over the past three years, and homelessness has grown by 15%.
And according to Governing.com, California’s economy ranked 10th-worst in GDP growth for all of 2022.
“So, that is really the proof in the pudding stuff,” Rubin adds.
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Allen West warns of DEVASTATING 'locust effect' as blue-state exodus impacts red states
On “The Rubin Report," retired Lt. Col. Allen West, candidate for Texas governor, joined BlazeTV host Dave Rubin to discuss the dangerous effects of so many people moving to red states amid a mass exodus of blue states.
In this clip, Allen talked about how people have quickly tired of authoritarian demands for proof of vaccination and how issues like vaccine mandates and critical race theory in education are causing a massive backlash as evidenced by Virginia Gov.-elect Glenn Youngkin’s victory over Terry McAuliffe. He cautioned that red states, like Texas and Florida, may soon become victims of the “locust effect” due to the exodus out of blue states like California and New York.
Allen also ended with a warning about becoming welfare-dependent and how you can be turned into a slave by either being forced to work for no pay, or by being paid for no work.
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Poll finds 40% of San Francisco residents plan to ditch the city due to rampant crime, homelessness
San Francisco could soon become a ghost town if residents stick true to their word.
A new poll released by the city's Chamber of Commerce found that a whopping 40% of residents are planning to leave the city over the next few years due to a rapidly deteriorating quality of life.
Among the greatest concerns for residents are rampant crime and homelessness, the poll found. Residents don't feel safe in the city and don't trust local officials to make any positive changes.
"For the second year in a row, 70% of residents feel that the quality of life in San Francisco has declined," the chamber wrote in a news release about the survey. "Considered in light of the pandemic, these views are somewhat unsurprising. However, what stands out in the polling results is the strikingly high and consistent number of respondents who now view homeless and crime as the leading problems facing the City.
"Roughly 88% see homelessness as having worsened in recent years, and an overwhelming 80% see addressing this homelessness crisis as a high priority," the chamber noted.
In a direct rebuke to the progressive city's defund the police efforts, 76% of respondents also said that increasing the number of police officers in high-crime neighborhoods should be a top priority.
One former resident who just finished moving away from San Francisco to Palm Springs, Florida, over the weekend spoke precisely to those issues in conversation with KPIX-TV.
"There's nothing worse than seeing such a beautiful place in such disarray, and I really thought I was going to be sad when the movers loaded up the last container on Saturday, and I have never been more relieved," Lindsay Stevens said.
"I honestly think in the last three years, we've seen a massive decline in the quality of life, and that was only enhanced over COVID," she added. "The homelessness has been a severe problem, people are not feeling safe walking their dog ... the number of break-ins seems to be constantly on the rise."
Another resident, 24-year-old Minku Lee, told the news outlet, "I think safety is a huge concern, even two years ago when I initially moved back to the city, I never viewed certain neighborhoods as necessarily unsafe."
He recalled how just in the last week he had been victimized by a homeless man while heading to happy hour on 3rd Street near Oracle Park with a group of friends.
"He said a slur, too, forcibly pushed me over, slash tripped me, really startled by the incident," Lee reported.
The pending mass exodus from San Francisco has actually been underway for a couple of years. In April, TheBlaze reported that of all the major U.S. cities, San Francisco topped the charts for losing the most residents in 2019 and 2020 — a great many of them moving to Florida or Texas.
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