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While Gavin Newsom believes one of the last of his fights in the State of California should be to put an end to misinformation regarding the Golden State, someone should really inform him that the truth hurts. Just because it is not hard to make his leadership look like a failure, that does not make those claims invalid. He, however, believes otherwise, which is why he has decided to spend nearly $20 million to fight the truth.

According to the California Post:

As California faces a multibillion-dollar budget deficit, Gov. Gavin Newsom plans to spend millions in taxpayer money on an ad campaign to try to rebrand the state as a “great place to live, work, invest and visit.”

Rather than use those funds to do one of the million things that need to be done, Newsom has decided it is best to alter the public opinion, as his leadership failed to positively portray the state.

Maybe if the state hadn't made shoplifting de facto legal, then small businesses and corporations wouldn't be so reluctant to put up shop.

Maybe if the state stopped funneling billions of dollars through the homeless industrial complex and actually helped people with substance abuse and mental disorders, there wouldn't be a zombie apocalypse. Some may even argue that the conditions on many streets are not even seen in the third world.

Maybe if the state stopped raising the gas tax, fuel wouldn't be so expensive, which makes everything else 10 times more costly.

Maybe if the state stopped trying to trans the kids, families would be more excited to live in the Golden State.

Rather than fix any of that, the state has decided to alter public opinions by paying influencers. You truly cannot make up this level of Orwellian control.

Newsom, who is eyeing a 2028 presidential run, is accepting bids for a $19 million media blitz in an attempt to refute misleading narratives about the state, according to the Los Angeles Times.

Up to $14 million of the contract is slated for paid media placements, including influencers, according to FOX 40.

“California and its business climate have been falsely and maliciously maligned for years, and the state has a right to tell the true story — California is a great place to do live, work, invest and visit.” Tara Gallegos, a spokesperson for Newsom, told the Times. “Setting the record straight will benefit every business, worker and resident of this state.”

If “California is a great place to live, work, invest, and visit,” you wouldn't have to pay nearly $20 million to prove that. It would go without saying. Again, the truth hurts, and this should be a wake-up call for state officials that it is time to do their job and stop wasting resources on progressive initiatives, which some may argue have created the very problems they wish to mislead the public on.

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