It was a horrific story that went down on November 30 — an unknown shooter sprayed bullets around a child’s birthday party in the city of Stockton, California, killing four people, including three kids, and leaving over a dozen others injured. The assailant has still not been identified or captured, and a manhunt is underway.
Why it hasn’t become a bigger national news story is beyond me, but perhaps the mainstream news industry and the anti-gun crowd are mostly quiet because they can’t find a way to tie MAGA or white supremacists into it.
If you were a governor in a state where this happened, however, your first move might be to get your arse straight to the city, which is around 90 miles East of San Francisco, to console the families, make sure the investigation and the manhunt were prioritized, and do what the leader of a state is supposed to.
Not if you're Golden State Gov. Gavin Newsom, however — he decided it was more important to go hobnob with billionaires at the New York Times DealBook Summit in the Big Apple Wednesday. His office did find time to issue a statement, though. What leadership.
He doesn’t care about California, and he has never cared about California:
Dear Stockton,
— 209 Times (@209TimesCA) December 4, 2025
We’re gonna let you finish your evening, but we just want to show you this is where your Governor Gavin Newsom was hanging out today in New York to hear himself talk, but can’t visit your city in a time of crisis. Yes we know Trump is a trash raccoon, but he’s… pic.twitter.com/9o9KmPFJZT
Yes we know Trump is a trash raccoon, but he’s not the governor of California who’s office is 30 minutes away and pretends to care about brown and black communities until it’s time to care for brown and black victims.
Enjoy the rest of your evening though. Like Gavy is in the Big Apple while he sits criss cross applesauce hella weird like. Carry on. #stockton #ftp
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The gubernatorial candidates to replace him — even some Democrat ones — criticized Gov. Hair Gel’s unbelievably poor optics and clear lack of compassion. Asked by KCRA Political Director Ashley Zavala if they would have acted differently, several said in so many words, "of course."
“The governor, I believe, should have been there.”
— Ashley Zavala (@ZavalaA) December 4, 2025
A handful of candidates running for CA Governor weighed in on Stockton mass shooting that killed four people and injured 13 others at a child’s birthday party.
All said they would respond differently than Gov. Newsom has.. pic.twitter.com/au65gFc1sB
Democrat candidate Ian Calderon was blunt. “I believe the governor, he should have gone down to Stockton.” He continued:
Nobody cares about us. You fly over us. You only come here when you’re campaigning. They can’t continue to feel like that. And they need to know that they can have a relationship with the governor and the state that when something significantly tragic like this happens.
Meanwhile, former Los Angeles Democrat Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa didn’t sound a sympathetic tone either, saying, “I’ll tell you what I did when I was mayor. I always showed up.” Former state controller Betty Yee, also a Democrat, said she absolutely would have gone to the city if she had been governor.
Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco, a Republican, was next to blast the seemingly always absent governor, asking, “Why isn’t the leader of the state there saying that this absolutely must stop and that the perpetrators will be held accountable?”
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Newsom has been and continues to be a disgrace for the state of California, and I have every intention of reminding people of that fact at every opportunity until, I hope and pray, his all but certain presidential run is crushed.
If he brings his brand of politics to the nation as a whole, we’re all in deep trouble.
