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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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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Superman star Dean Cain joins Mark Wahlberg and thousands of others in ditching California, citing its ruination by 'terrible' Democratic policies
The mass exodus out of Democrat-controlled California continues unabated, driven in large part by crime, high living costs, corruption, and homelessness.
Even the man of steel can't take it any more.
Former "Louis and Clark" star and gun-rights activist Dean Cain recently joined the hundreds-of-thousands who have ditched the state over the past three years.
"I love California. It's the most beautiful state. Everything's wonderful about it except for the policies," he told Fox News' Brian Kilmeade Wednesday. "The policies are just terrible. The fiscal policies, the soft-on-crime policies, the homelessness policies."
Fox News Digital reported that Cain listed his Malibu home for $6.25 million in April and hightailed it for Las Vegas, where he reckons his family will be be better off.
Cain said, "I've been here for two weeks now, and I can tell you, [it's a] smart move ... my son is ten times happier here in Las Vegas. If I wanted to do anything out of Malibu, it took me 45 minutes to an hour to get anywhere. Here, the longest I'm driving is 20 minutes."
Extra to a slimmed-down commute, Cain will no longer have worry about a state income tax as Nevada doesn't have one.
According to NerdWallet, California, alternatively, has a progressive income tax system with nine tax rates ranging from 1% to 12.3%. The state also imposes an additional 1% "mental health services tax" on income exceeding $1 million.
To Cain's delight, Nevada may also end up supplanting Hollywood as the headquarters of the film industry — at least if Mark Wahlberg gets his way.
TheBlaze previously reported that Wahlberg, who similarly fled California hoping to give his "kids a better life," is lobbying lawmakers in Carson City, Nevada, to pass a bill that would incentivize the television and film industry to establish studios in Las Vegas.
Wahlberg and representatives from Sony Pictures and Howard Hughes Corp. impressed upon Nevadans the benefits of diversifying their economy and reducing reliance on the gaming industry. In his corresponding pitch to filmmakers, Wahlberg referenced Las Vegas' affordable housing, community-minded neighborhoods, and less frenzied living.
Wahlberg put his 12-bedroom, 20-bathroom Los Angeles mansion on the market for $87.5. million in April 2022.
According to the Los Angeles Times, it sold for $55 million in February.
"Obviously, Mark Wahlberg is a huge star and drives a huge number of dollars to the films that he does. Bless him for it. I think he’s done something very smart for his family," said Cain. "Mark did a smart thing, and, hopefully, I believe I’ve done a very, very smart thing."
The two actors are among roughly 343,000 people who have left the state to elsewhere in the country since 2020, reported KTLA.
Los Angeles County alone saw a population shrinkage of over 90,000 between July 2021 and July 2022.
The Public Policy Institute of California indicated that from 2010 through 2021, roughly 7.7 million people fled California to other states, whereas only 5.8 million people moved from elsewhere in the nation to California.
The Los Angeles Times reported that "low and middle-income Californians are most likely to leave. Those who move here tend to have higher incomes and more education, underscoring the state's affordability challenges."
While affordability is a big factor, so is crime and homelessness.
Many of the state's major cities are rife with both violent and property crimes.
San Francisco scores 2 on Neighborhood Scout's crime index, whereby 100 is considered safest. The chances of becoming a victim of a violent crime or a property crime are 1 in 186 and 1 in 20, respectively.
Los Angeles ranks 9 on the index, but the likelihood of becoming a victim of a violent crime is much higher, at 1 in 135.
Sacramento, where the odds of becoming victim of a property crime is 1 in 31 and the odds of becoming a victim of a violent crime is 1 in 148, ranks 6.
California's streets are not just home to crime but to hundreds of thousands of people.
There were over 69,000 homeless in Los Angeles as of September 2022. According to McKinsey, on any given night, there are approximately 38,000 homeless individuals in the Bay Area. A federally mandated headcount in February 2022 found that there were nearly 10,000 homeless on the streets of Sacramento.
"The things that our leaders in California have been doing have driven out anybody who can really afford to get out. People are flocking out of there in droves," said Cain.
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Government agencies are now weaponized against you
Are government agencies being weaponized against the American people?
Dave Rubin sat down with Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) and Rep. Byron Donalds (R-Fla.) to discuss government overreach, and they all certainly think so.
Jordan brings up the government’s crackdown on private businesses like Twitter, saying “When did the government get that business?”
Byron explains that the reason government agencies are being weaponized is because “you have these subgroups that exist where their entire purpose is to play gotcha with the weight of the federal government or to suppress, or to dissuade, or to diminish thought process, idea, etc.”
“Here’s what I would say to the Democrats now,” he says. “If you truly believe in protecting the soul of America, if you truly believe in saving democracy, you can’t allow elements of our government to suppress speech of the American people. It cannot be allowed.”
Rubin says it seems like “Republicans are starting to wake up,” asking Jordan and Donalds, “Are you hopeful for that?”
Jordan replies, “I am,” explaining that it’s not just Republicans who are starting to wake up, but the other side of the aisle as well. “Look, we’ve seen so many agencies turned on the American people,” he says.
But Donalds believes conservatives are the ones trying to save America.
“We are the ones trying to frankly save the soul of America. We’re the ones trying to save everybody’s constitutional rights and liberties. It’s not the left, and when you go into their shows, into their wheelhouse, and you talk about that stuff, it shows.”
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