Newsom Spends $300M to Gerrymander Maps, but Gives the Stiff Arm to CA Firefighters

Gavin Newsom has been doing everything possible to get people to pay attention to him. The California governor has copycatted Donald Trump’s social media presence, but the results are ridiculous as his team’s posts come across as juvenile and 100 percent inauthentic. His outlandish rhetoric continues to grow more violent as he called U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement "President Trump’s private domestic army”—this only hours before a fatal shooting at an ICE facility in Dallas.

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He’s spending nearly $300 million to attempt to get the voters to amend the state constitution and redraw the Golden State’s already ludicrous election maps even further. He’s signed a law banning law enforcement from wearing masks—this despite the increased vitriol and attacks aimed at federal agents when they try to enforce the law.

But when it comes to governing his state or improving the lives of its residents, he’s just too busy doing podcasts to bother. He just told California firefighters to take a hike in so many words:

Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom vetoed a bipartisan bill to raise the salaries of California firefighters nine months after the most expensive inferno in state history incinerated Los Angeles.
On Friday, Newsom formally refused to sign a bill that would have bumped wages for CAL FIRE — the state firefighting service — up closer to those of certain local fire departments, which pay their firefighters 11 to 29% more.
The base pay for state firefighters is only $54,122 per year — while Los Angeles city firefighters make at least $85,315.
The veto came after a long battle for higher pay by state firefighters, which had almost unanimous support from California lawmakers.

Fifty-four thousand bucks might be decent in some states, but thanks to endless taxes and the incredibly high cost of living, it would be hard to have a decent life with that salary—especially when you are at risk pretty much every day you show up for work. Meanwhile, the Golden State has the highest state income tax, the highest gas tax; the list goes on.

California GOP Rep. Kevin Kiley, who has battled against Gov. Hair Gel and the extremist Democrat legislature tirelessly, had thoughts:

Newsom has vetoed a raise for firefighters, calling it too costly. Spending $300 million on gerrymandering is a much higher priority. pic.twitter.com/18fhlX0gFr
— Kevin Kiley (@KevinKileyCA) October 7, 2025

The “progressive” governor was concerned about “cost pressures”—but isn’t he the same guy who oversaw a budget surplus turn into a massive deficit? Yup, that would be him.

But Newsom said the bill would put “significant cost pressures” on state coffers and argued it would “circumvent the collective bargaining process,” in a letter explaining his reasoning.
CalFire union members condemned the governor’s decision.
“It’s highly disappointing and frustrating especially when he vetoes the bill the day before we put six members on the memorial wall honoring fallen firefighters in the state of California,” Tim Edwards, president of the Local 2881 union representing CAL FIRE workers, told SFGATE.
The bill would have set a wage floor for CAL FIRE employees to within 15% of the average of 20 local departments.

Newsom continues to act like an extremist buffoon, but when it comes to his own people, he doesn’t really care unless he sees a way to help his presumed upcoming presidential campaign. To call a Newsom presidency “disastrous” would be the understatement of the year.

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