Gavin Newsom slammed with more accusations of hypocrisy after revealing his daughter isn't vaccinated after he enacted vaccine mandate for children



California Gov. Gavin Newsom is embroiled in another controversy accusing him of hypocrisy surrounding his own COVID-19 orders. The California governor admitted that his daughter is not yet vaccinated against COVID-19 despite enacting a sweeping mandate requiring students to get the coronavirus vaccine.

The Food and Drug Administration expanded the emergency use authorization for the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine to include children ages 12 through 15 on May 10, 2021.

Newsom's firstborn child with second wife Jennifer Siebel turned 12 on Sept. 18.

On Oct. 1, Newsom announced a vaccine mandate for children age 12 and over to attend in-person classes at public or private schools in California. The required vaccination won't go into effect until the FDA fully approves the COVID-19 vaccine, and removes the EUA. The mandate, which is the first of its kind in the United States, likely would go into effect next year — as early as January.

Any student without an exemption who refuses to get the COVID-19 vaccine would be forced to do independent study at home.

"That is what we are announcing here today. A statewide requirement for in-person instruction for all of our children to add to a well established list that currently includes 10 vaccinations... the vaccination for COVID-19," Newsom declared. "The state already requires that students are vaccinated against viruses that cause measles, mumps, and rubella – there's no reason why we wouldn't do the same for COVID-19."

Despite enacting an order requiring all children 12-years-old and up to get the COVID-19 vaccine, Newsom admitted that his 12-year-old daughter has yet to get the shot.

The Democratic governor told the Los Angeles Times last week that his 12-year-old daughter has not yet received the COVID-19 because she has "a series of other shots" to get first.

For children ages 11-12, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends vaccines for Meningococcal disease, HPV, influenza, Tetanus, diphtheria, and whooping cough. However, none of those diseases are causing a pandemic at this time like COVID-19 is, which the CDC also recommends "everyone 12 years and older should get a COVID-19 vaccination to help protect against COVID-19."

After being questioned, Newsom's office told the Washington Examiner that the governor's daughter would receive a COVID-19 vaccination in a few days.

Newsom has been aggressive in urging Californians to get vaccinated. He blamed the unvaccinated for the pandemic continuing.

"This disease, now a choice," Newsom said in early August. "The one thing that could end this pandemic once and for all is available in abundance to everybody that wants it, regardless of your ability to pay, regardless of your immigration status, it's available today, and that's a vaccine."

Newsom said on Aug. 31, "Too many folks in our communities remain unvaccinated, putting themselves and others who can't get the vaccine at risk. Now, we're facing the more contagious Delta variant. It's more important than ever to get vaccinated – it's how we end this pandemic."

Newsom's unvaccinated daughter is the latest accusation of hypocrisy that the governor has faced during the pandemic.

Last October, Newsom sent his children back to their private school while at the same time the state was forbidding hundreds of thousands of other kids from attending school in person.

Last November, Newsom and a group of fellow unmasked diners were seen enjoying a luxurious meal at the extravagant French Laundry restaurant. The meal at the exclusive restaurant allegedly featured a wine bill of $12,000. At the time, Newsom's own COVID-19 guidelines prohibited gatherings that included more than three households, lasted more than two hours, and mandated all gatherings to be held outside.

In July, Newsom received backlash for enrolling two of his four children, ages 10 and 11, at a summer camp where his son was seen maskless indoors. California's guidance requires all children ages 2 to 11 wear masks during "camps for youth, youth sports, and other youth activities, including theater, and music performances, and band." Newsom yanked his children from the camp, but only after the damning photos surfaced.

Schwarzenegger warns Newsom: This recall effort is from 'ordinary people,' not 'extremists' — and looks a lot like the movement that took out Gray Davis



California Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom faces a likely recall election this year, thanks in large part to his pandemic lockdown and hypocritical behavior — most notably his infamous decision to head out to the French Laundry restaurant while telling Californians to stay home and not socialize.

Newsom has responded to the recall movement with derision, ripping it as a "partisan, Republican recall" being pushed by "extremists."

But one man who has seen the Golden State recall process up close — former Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger — is warning him not to fall for the lie that this is merely some GOP "power grab" and not a real campaign by "ordinary people."

What's happening?

Embattled Gov. Newsom has assured supporters that he's going to fight the recall and made it clear where he thinks it's coming from.

"I am not going to take this recall attempt lying down," he declared in a March political campaign email. "And let's call it what it is: it's a partisan, Republican recall — backed by the [Republican National Committee], anti-mask and anti-vax extremists, and pro-Trump forces who want to overturn the last election and have opposed much of what we have done to fight the pandemic."

But the Governator has a warning for Newsom: This actually looks a lot like the groundswell recall movement he saw 18 years ago.

Schwarzenegger, the Hollywood megastar who was elected governor of California following the successful recall of Democratic Gov. Gray Davis in 2003 after a statewide energy crisis, told Politico in an interview posted Wednesday that he sees a lot of similarities between the recall that ushered him into office and today's recall efforts.

"It's pretty much the same atmosphere today as it was then. There was dissatisfaction, to the highest level [in political leadership]," he told the outlet, adding, "It's the same vibe."

The action star pointed out Newsom's COVID hypocrisy as the last straw while "people are making sacrifices every day" as they "go through this [pandemic] challenge."

"And it's the same with the momentum. Something that sets it off to a higher level, kind of the straw that breaks the camel's back ... like an explosion," he said. "In Newsom's case, it was the French Laundry thing. With us, it was the power outages in 2003."

As for claims that this is a "Republican recall," Schwarzenegger doesn't buy it: These are "ordinary people" getting this done.

"The Republican Party is, like I have said, dying at the box office," he told Politico. "This is the crazy thing here, when they say it's a 'power grab' of the Republicans. Let me tell you, the [California] Republicans couldn't even get anyone elected. It's ludicrous — the Republican Party doesn't exist. These are the signatures of the ordinary folks that have signed on."

"The Democrats are going to come in and they say, 'It's a power grab,' which of course I heard a million times in 2003," he continued. "It had nothing to do then — and it has nothing to do today — with either party. People are dissatisfied. [The recall is] the people's way of kind of letting off some steam."

Will the recall happen?

Organizers of the recall turned in 2.1 million petition signatures earlier this month, the San Francisco Chronicle reported. Election officials are checking to see if organizers garnered the 1.5 million valid ones necessary to get the recall on the ballot.

Both proponents and opponents of the recall effort assume the recall will be certified, with an election likely to happen in October at the earliest.

Recent poll numbers from the nonpartisan Public Policy Institute of California show good numbers for Newsom so far, the Chronicle said Tuesday. Some 56% of likely voters oppose removing Newsom, while just 40% back the recall — including just 42% of independents.

Jake Tapper hammers away at Gov. Newsom over his COVID hypocrisy: 'What on Earth were you thinking?!'



CNN host Jake Tapper hammered away at Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) during a contentious interview on his show Tuesday where he confronted him with his own hypocritical lockdown failures.

Newsom is facing a recall effort that got a jumpstart by the massive backlash to Newsom attending a swanky dinner party without observing social distancing guidelines.

"It's been observed that the recall petition had only around 50,000 signatures until you infamously attended that dinner with multiple other households at that fancy restaurant French Laundry or whatever it's called, a birthday party for a lobbyist no less, all while you were telling Californians that they should be staying at home," said Tapper.

"So about 55,000 signatures before you had that dinner, then a month later, that 50,000 signatures had become something like 500,000," he added.

"Now I know governor, you have apologized for that dinner, you have called it a mistake to go," Tapper continued. "But I was wondering at the time, and I don't think you've answered: What on Earth were you thinking?!"

"Well, it was a friend of over a quarter of a century, he was having his 50th birthday, restaurants were open in the state, I wasn't suggesting people should not eat. Where I was wrong, and I've owned this, and I've held myself to a higher level of accountability even my worst critics, is that there were too many people at the table and that was a mistake," Newsom explained.

"At the end of the day though, this recall petition was aided not just by that, was aided by a judge who also ultimately doubled the amount of time that they could get this recall supported and ultimately on the ballot," he added.

Newsom didn't explain, nor did Tapper add, that the judge had ruled to extend the recall deadline because coronavirus lockdown orders by the governor had hampered the recall effort by organizers.

He also complained that the recall effort received $3 million of support, some of which came from other parts of the country aside from California.

"So at the end of the day, it's complicated as to why this is on, but that's not determinative," Newsom concluded.

Tapper also forced Newsom to respond to criticism of his strict coronavirus lockdown orders that has led to massive economic losses for many Californians.

Here's the video of the contentious interview:

Governor Newsom responds to recall effort against himwww.youtube.com

Far-left host of 'The Young Turks' says California is a 'wasteland' under Gov. Newsom, joins recall effort



A far-left co-host of the progressive political YouTube channel "The Young Turks" railed against California Gov. Gavin Newsom and joined the effort to recall him.

Ana Kasparian is an outspoken progressive commentator but even she had to admit that California had become an "absolute wasteland" under Newsom's leadership.

"I'm a native Angeleno, I was born and raised in California, I love my state, I love the people in this state," Kasparian said.

"But it is an absolute wasteland right now," she added. "Every freeway bridge is full of people living in tents. There's excrement on our sidewalks. It's unsafe. Crime has gone up. And when it comes to coronavirus, I mean, the fish rots from the head down."

Kasparian was speaking with Elex Michaelson on his show, "The Issue Is," in February when she made the comments. She went on to highlight Newsom's hypocrisy when he was caught dining at an exclusive restaurant while telling Californians to lockdown.

"While Americans are encouraged to shelter in place, encouraged to practice social distancing, no eating indoors at restaurants, he was seen at The French Laundry meeting up with his lobbyist buddies. That is unacceptable," Kasparian said.

"I have not seen competent leadership from Gavin Newsom, and I will state on this show every single member of my family signed our names, provided our signatures to recall him," she concluded.

Michaelson and his other guest, Gianno Caldwell from Fox News, were visibly stunned by Kasparian's admission.

Kasparian also said that Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti, another Democrat, should be made to face the political consequences of mismanagement in the county of Los Angeles.

She reiterated her point on Twitter after the show aired.

"It's true. Newsom is awful. Bailed out private utilities that caused massive fires. Doled out fracking permits. But thanks for the porta pottys under freeway bridges. So much more humane than homes!" wrote Kasparian.

The organization behind the recall effort said on Sunday that they had gathered almost 2 million signatures, more than enough than the 1.5 million threshold needed to spur a recall election. They will continue to gather signatures in case some portion of those collected are invalidated. The deadline for the signatures is March 17.

Here are Kasparian's comments:

The Young Turks Host Ana Kasparian Backs the Recall of CA Gov. Gavin Newsomwww.youtube.com

Aaron Rodgers takes a swipe at Gov. Newsom over coronavirus lockdown



Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers appeared to take a swipe at California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) over the pandemic lockdown on Thursday.

Rodgers was being interviewed via Instagram video on the Zenith Watches account when he mentioned what he was doing to help businesses damaged by the lockdown.

"I'm recently engaged, so I've been enjoying that part of my life. Obviously, that's the best thing that's happened to me in the last year. There's been a lot of good," said Rodgers.

"Been doing some work actually in my hometown in Northern California as well to try and help some people through a small business fund that we started. You know, we're just trying to do our part and as we ease back into the training stuff in my professional life, I just want to make sure where I'm from and the area I've called home in the past are doing OK," he continued.

"And California has really been hit hard by COVID and by the rules that the governor has put in place as well," Rodgers said.

"It's been nice to be able to help some people out and I think we're all just waiting for a little bit of hope on the horizon," he added.

Newsom has been at the forefront of efforts by state officials to use lockdowns to stop the spread of the coronavirus. He was the first governor to announce a full lockdown in March of 2020, an order which was quickly replicated by other states.

Rodgers had previously assailed politicians, including Newsom, for being hypocritical about the lockdown guidelines.

"I mean, they put these rules in place… they're not even following their own rules," he said in January. "How many people have gotten caught? Don't travel, don't leave the state. Oh, here's so-and-so on a vacation. Oh, here's so-and-so at a salon. Don't eat out at a restaurant unless you're wearing a mask and separate. Oh, here's a picture of the governor of California violating those rules. Oh, public schools are closed but I can send my kids to a private school in person. It's like, I mean, for us to count on the government to help us out is becoming a joke at this point."

More about Rodgers' efforts to help save businesses hurt by the pandemic lockdown can be found on his Twitter account.

Here's when Rodgers criticized Newsom:

NFL Star Aaron Rodgers Calls Out Gavin Newsom's COVID Hypocrisywww.youtube.com