Speaker 1: Davin Newsomb fails the transparency test, and it's becoming a
Speaker 1: lot more obvious this week as Newsom steadfastly refuses to
Speaker 1: release his personal tax returns as promised, and now he's
Speaker 1: hiding a multi million dollar diaper contract that is associated
Speaker 1: with his wife and her business dealings.
Speaker 2: Coming up will tell you what we know, what the.
Speaker 1: Media is asking for, and how Newsom is basically telling
Speaker 1: them pound sand. He hasn't done it. He has failed
Speaker 1: to follow up and meet the commitment that he said
Speaker 1: he would make. One reporter asked about it and newsom
Speaker 1: last name. I'm Carl Tomaio, chairman of Reformed California and
Speaker 1: a California state representative.
Speaker 2: And here at Reform.
Speaker 1: California, we fight for transparency. We want to shine a
Speaker 1: light on government. We believe we have a right to
Speaker 1: know when it comes to public taxpayer money, we have
Speaker 1: a right to know what that.
Speaker 2: Money is being used for.
Speaker 1: And when politicians sit there and say that elected officials
Speaker 1: ought to be transparent and then they turn around and
Speaker 1: they don't live by those same standards, well it's hypocritical
Speaker 1: and we wonder what are they hiding. That all relates
Speaker 1: to the transparency failures of Gavin Newsom that are now
Speaker 1: becoming more and more obvious and evidence, so much so
Speaker 1: that even California liberal media outlets are starting to ask
Speaker 1: questions and cry foul.
Speaker 2: Let's start out.
Speaker 1: First with the multimillion dollar diaper contract. Remember a couple
Speaker 1: months ago, Gavin Newsom held a press conference with his
Speaker 1: wife to tout the fact that he was going to
Speaker 1: be so generous to families.
Speaker 2: In California with kids, that he was going to set
Speaker 2: up a program where they could get free diapers.
Speaker 1: Now, obviously he polls, and you know who could be
Speaker 1: against giving struggling families free diapers. You think about little babies,
Speaker 1: and you know all the extra costs at a you know,
Speaker 1: a low income or middle class family might have to
Speaker 1: go through when they have a baby, and so oh
Speaker 1: those diapers.
Speaker 2: The cost adds up.
Speaker 1: So Kevin Newsom, he's such a great guy, He's going
Speaker 1: to give me free diapers.
Speaker 2: Oh no, he's not giving you free diapers. He's taking
Speaker 2: taxpare money.
Speaker 1: And as we look at the cost of the diaper program.
Speaker 2: Just from the press release he offered.
Speaker 1: A few months ago, when he, you know, did his
Speaker 1: dog and Pony show, we said, wait, a minute, the
Speaker 1: cost doesn't seem to be right. In fact, looks like
Speaker 1: this proposal that you have to spend all this money
Speaker 1: is going to waste a lot of money because you're
Speaker 1: paying for diapers at a much higher rate. And Steve
Speaker 1: Hilton even pointed that out when Newsom announced that he
Speaker 1: was giving out these free.
Speaker 2: Diapers the state.
Speaker 1: Basically, under the math, when you look at how many
Speaker 1: diapers they were going to distribute, times are divided by
Speaker 1: the amount of money that they were spending fifty cents
Speaker 1: per diaper, but a box at Target is sixteen cents each.
Speaker 1: Costco is even cheaper nine cents. So Hilton of course
Speaker 1: slammed Newsom for a twenty million dollar state funded diaper contract.
Speaker 1: It's for one hundred thousand babies to get four hundred
Speaker 1: diapers each twenty million.
Speaker 2: You do the math, it's fifty.
Speaker 1: Cents per diaper, and again the cost in the store
Speaker 1: easily sixteen cents. And if you buy in bulk, I'm
Speaker 1: sure Target and Costco and other outlets, when you buy
Speaker 1: in bulk versus a consumer just getting one bag of
Speaker 1: diapers or box of.
Speaker 2: Diapers, you're going to get a much better rate. But
Speaker 2: Newsom is putting us on the hook for fifty cents.
Speaker 1: Well, people started asking questions, give us the contract, why
Speaker 1: are you spending this much? And by the way, did
Speaker 1: you know the group that got the contract was associated
Speaker 1: with Governor Newsom's wife, a board member on the outfit
Speaker 1: that got the diaper contract. I think it's called Baby
Speaker 1: to Baby.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Baby to Baby.
Speaker 1: The board member sits on Newsom's wife's five to one
Speaker 1: c three and authorizes her compensation. Boy, this stinks to
Speaker 1: high heaven. And so the media started asking fork of
Speaker 1: but Newsom gave them a.
Speaker 3: Run around diapers as many diapers will be distributed this
Speaker 3: year as Californians.
Speaker 4: That was Governor Gavin Newsom about two months ago at
Speaker 4: a press conference announcing california new free diaper program and
Speaker 4: a multi million dollar contract with a nonprofit Baby to Baby.
Speaker 4: But immediately critics pointed out that his wife, Jennifer Cbel
Speaker 4: Newsom also had a relationship with at least one of
Speaker 4: the co CEOs.
Speaker 5: Sits on Jen's board of directors. Gavin Newsom is claiming
Speaker 5: there was this huge, rigorous process to figure out which
Speaker 5: group to partner with for this free diaper program, But
Speaker 5: was it really a rigorous process if you're best friends
Speaker 5: with the CEO of this company.
Speaker 4: So we did a little fact check, and you should
Speaker 4: definitely go check out the story we did last month.
Speaker 4: But we could only go so far. So far, the
Speaker 4: state will not give us a copy of the contract
Speaker 4: or the competitive bids scoring sheet. Four days after that
Speaker 4: very high profile press conference, we simply asked the Governor's
Speaker 4: office for a copy of that contract that everyone was
Speaker 4: talking about. They told us reach out to California Health
Speaker 4: and Human Services. They told us the contracts were with
Speaker 4: yet another agency. That agency told us our requests had
Speaker 4: been received. That means legally they had a maximum of
Speaker 4: ten days to tell us whether or not we're going
Speaker 4: to get them. Exactly ten days later, now, fourteen days
Speaker 4: after the press conference, the state replies, citing an unusual
Speaker 4: circumstance clause in the California Public Records Act, giving them
Speaker 4: another fourteen days to decide if these are disclosable records.
Speaker 4: California law clearly states any executed contract is a public record,
Speaker 4: and so are competitive bid scoring sheets. Fast forward fourteen
Speaker 4: more days. Spoiler alert, they are disclosable records, but the
Speaker 4: state would need another three to four weeks to get
Speaker 4: us copies. Translation, the state waited twenty four days to
Speaker 4: promptly notify us that it would need another twenty eight
Speaker 4: days to get us a copy of that contract that
Speaker 4: the governor announced nearly two months ago.
Speaker 5: A competitive bidding process.
Speaker 4: Then the day we are finally supposed to get the
Speaker 4: records July third, a state holiday unism administration told us
Speaker 4: they would need.
Speaker 3: Two more weeks.
Speaker 4: It's unacceptable, that's jenny.
Speaker 1: So there you go, giving the media the run around
Speaker 1: when your wife's board member is on the board getting
Speaker 1: all this money, and that board member can set the
Speaker 1: compensation and the math doesn't seem to work out in
Speaker 1: terms of the cost per diaper. Newsom should have had
Speaker 1: the contract available the day that he announced. Should have
Speaker 1: been Oh no, no, no, nothing's wrong. Here. Here's a
Speaker 1: copy of the contract. Here's a copy of the bidding process.
Speaker 1: Here's a copy of the rankings and the ratings of
Speaker 1: all the bids we received. You do realize that this
Speaker 1: is a scandal, right, This is why they're dragging it out.
Speaker 1: It is completely unacceptable not to provide these documents immediately.
Speaker 2: It's not hard. Got a contract. Cough it up, baby.
Speaker 1: The baby should be giving a copy of this damn
Speaker 1: contract up because they shouldn't want the stench of corruption
Speaker 1: to hang around them. But no, they're showing a complete
Speaker 1: lack of judgment. Don't donate to them. This is how
Speaker 1: they operate, not in.
Speaker 2: An open manner. This is disgusting.
Speaker 1: Thank goodness, you do have one media outlet that's raising
Speaker 1: an issue, but not the others.
Speaker 2: You have one media outlet, CBS, the others putting their
Speaker 2: head in the stand. Now, New some.
Speaker 1: Years ago said that Trump ought to release his tax returns,
Speaker 1: even signed a bill saying that if you want to
Speaker 1: run for president in California, you.
Speaker 2: Have to release your tax returns. Unconstitutional, but there you go.
Speaker 2: And even he said I am going to be transparent.
Speaker 1: I'm going to release my tax returns every year that
Speaker 1: I'm in office, he.
Speaker 2: Hasn't done it.
Speaker 1: He has failed to follow up and meet the commitment
Speaker 1: that he said he would make. One reporter asked about
Speaker 1: it and New some last YEARND.
Speaker 2: Have you had twenty years on my taxes?
Speaker 1: Yes?
Speaker 2: I know you love taxes. Donald Trump? When's he releasing him?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 3: Okay, okay, Well what about Trump?
Speaker 2: Dude?
Speaker 1: You said that you were going to do this. You
Speaker 1: can Trump Trump Trump all you want. This isn't about Trump.
Speaker 1: This is about you. You said you were better than
Speaker 1: Donald Trump. You said you were more transparent. You gave
Speaker 1: the commitment when you ran for office that you would
Speaker 1: put your tax returns out each and every year.
Speaker 2: And you lied. You have failed. He's asked about it.
Speaker 1: Trump Trump, tumpty Trump, because that's how the media usually
Speaker 1: lets these guys get away with it. I have to
Speaker 1: give credit to the reporter that asked this question. At
Speaker 1: least they're following up pointing out the obvious, you hypocrite,
Speaker 1: what you hid in. Gavin Chuse, he's under federal investigation,
Speaker 1: and many have said the investigation relates to.
Speaker 2: Tax problems, personal tax problems. Wonder why doesn't want his
Speaker 2: taxes to be out there as a matter of public disclosure.
Speaker 1: Maybe people who know things can look at it and say, well,
Speaker 1: I know I paid him more than that. Why isn't
Speaker 1: he reporting all this stuff that he got from us? Oh?
Speaker 5: I am, because that's why I've released all my taxes
Speaker 5: for decades, and you will have.
Speaker 1: No, you have not released your taxes for decades. You
Speaker 1: haven't released your taxes for the last five years.
Speaker 3: And you will have all those new tax returns because
Speaker 3: I have no reason why you haven't gotten them already.
Speaker 2: So I have no problem.
Speaker 3: I have no reason why you haven't gotten them already. Dude,
Speaker 3: you haven't put out five years with the tax returns.
Speaker 3: You are why we haven't gotten them. I have no
Speaker 3: reason to know why you haven't gotten my tax returns. Okay,
Speaker 3: they're yours, Scan them and put them on the internet.
Speaker 1: He's been repeatedly asked by independent watchdogs, whereas where are
Speaker 1: his taxes? Jen Van LeVar over at Red State's been
Speaker 1: doing a great job on this, but he refuses to
Speaker 1: post them.
Speaker 2: Look, he's going to run for president, and these.
Speaker 1: Hypocritical secret keeping moves of his they're going to catch
Speaker 1: up to him.
Speaker 2: And we want to make sure that we're there to
Speaker 2: shine a light. So at Reform.
Speaker 1: California, we have a campaign underway. It's called Expose Gavin Newsom,
Speaker 1: and we're getting ready to shine a light on Newsom.
Speaker 1: We've been building a dirt file. Check out that campaign
Speaker 1: at Reform California dot org. When you're there, please chip
Speaker 1: in a contribution. We need resources to continue to hire
Speaker 1: investigators to get.
Speaker 2: The researcher research.
Speaker 1: Out to members of the media because a lot of
Speaker 1: media outlets in California refuse to do their jobs. Some
Speaker 1: are doing a good job, and I have to cite
Speaker 1: the ones that just ask questions on these two related issues,
Speaker 1: but a whole lot more needs to be examined, and
Speaker 1: that's where Reform California needs your help to help to
Speaker 1: help us get.
Speaker 2: The resources to do the research and then to promote
Speaker 2: what our findings are.
Speaker 1: We've got a lot to do to hold this SOB accountable,
Speaker 1: this hypocrite accountable, and it starts with forcing transparency. Until
Speaker 1: next time, I'm carlon Io, chairman of Reform California and
Speaker 1: a California state representative. Thanks for watching and I hope
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