Governor Gavin Newsom had accused the Trump administration of being “an American oligarchy.”
But as oligarchies are concerned, California’s democrat communist/globalist crime syndicate much more closely resembles an oligarchy.
This from frontpagemag.com.
Gov. Newsom, for example, is the son of Judge William Alfred Newsom III a friend and lawyer of the Getty clan, whose father Newsom II had been a crooked political machine man who financed and ran future Gov. Pat Brown’s campaign. Gov. Pat Brown held down two terms in office. His son, Gov. Jerry Brown also held two terms and his daughter, Kathleen Brown became the State Treasurer.
Newsom II’s daughter, Barbara Newsom-Pelosi, married Ron Pelosi, the brother of former Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s husband, a member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors for twelve years. Newsom III, Gavin’s dad, and Ron Pelosi both ran for state senate. And Rep. Nancy Pelosi is the daughter of Thomas D’Alesandro Jr, a congressman and the 41st mayor of Baltimore and the sister of Thomas D’Alesandro III, the 44th mayor of Baltimore.
The Newsom-Pelosi families made a good deal of their money from a crooked arrangement with Gov. Pat Brown’s administration in which Newsom II and John Pelosi, Nancy’s father-in-law, partnered together on a former 1960 Winter Olympics site that was summed up as the real California style of “paying for everything and getting nothing.” Pat’s son Jerry then appointed Gavin’s father to a judgeship and Gavin later replaced Brown as governor of California.
Democracy might be the formal identity of the state’s political system and the party that dominates it, but it’s as inappropriate a term when applied to California politics as it is when applied to North Korea.
To repeat:
California isn’t a democracy:
it’s much more aptly an oligarchy.
And the convoluted relationship of the Newsom and Pelosi families is all too typical in California and is filled with enough drama to make up a dozen seasons of a 1970s afternoon soap opera.
There are other examples of politics as a family business in California (click HERE for nauseatingly more on this from the original article). By some estimates, 10% of California’s legislators are family members of other legislators so it seems as if quite a few sons, daughters and spouses, not to mention sisters and brothers, nephews and nieces, along with sons-in-law keep walking through that open door.
The California Left does not have a democracy, from the top on down, they have an oligarchy run by clans with longstanding relationships where family members rise to political power. Or as the Los Angeles Times summed up the transition from Gov. Jerry Brown to Gov. Gavin Newsom:
Brown and Newsom are members of a political fraternity that dominated their shared hometown of San Francisco for much of the 20th century.
And as the Pelosi and Newsom clans remind us, California’s oligarchy does not stay in California.
For example, recall the pre-9/11 scandal which engulfed Congressman Gary Condit over the disappearance of an intern with whom he had been having an affair. While Rep. Gary Condit’s career ended, his son Chad ran unsuccessfully for office, a number of his grandsons have gone into politics, and his son-in-law Rep. Adam Gray is now in Congress. Sometimes having a different last name helps.
No amount of scandals or sleaze stops California’s political clans. They may skip a generation, but they always rebound because their power comes from powerful families, not the people.
What does California’s future hold? Almost certainly more incestuous political oligarchy.
And the ultimate pureblooded dynastic heir of California oligarchy may be California Speaker Pro Tempore Josh Lowenthal. Josh’s father, Alan Lowenthal was the former assembly member, state senator and Congressman Alan Lowenthal, while his mother was Assemblywoman Bonnie Lowenthal. With that kind of pedigree, whoever his children are, they will inherit California.
Unless a Newsom or a Pelosi gets in there first.
