California's impeccably coiffed governor, Gavin Newsom, is a real piece of... work. He's burnishing his "progressive" credentials in anticipation of what almost everyone thinks will be a 2028 presidential run, for all the good that may do them. But it sure looks like he's not above a little nest-feathering while he's still governor of the once-Golden State.
His latest possible act of nest-feathering involves diapers. Yes, really.
Gavin Newsom’s controversial “free diapers” program won’t face the scrutiny typical for state contractors — with the governor quietly carving out an exemption from bidding rules, despite growing questions about favoritism and waste.
The $12.5 million ”Golden State Start” was rolled out ahead of Mother’s Day and offers 400 free diapers to all California parents regardless of income.
Newsom is under fire for tapping Los Angeles-based Baby2Baby to run the program because of the nonprofit’s close ties to his gender filmmaker wife.
I'm not sure there's anything more California leftie than having a wife who is a "gender filmmaker," and I'm not completely certain that I know what that is, although I am pretty sure that it falls under "don't ask questions to which you already know you don't want to hear the answer."
The connections here are well past suspicious.
Baby2Bay’s co-CEO, Norah Weinstein sits on the board California Partners Project, which collects “behested payments” from Newsom to boost Siebel Newsom’s profile as a gender justice activist.
In a letter to the California Legislature’s budget committees obtained by The Post, Newsom’s office asks not only asked $12.5 million for the next year, but for an exemption from competitive bidding practices designed to safeguard taxpayer’s money.
State Sen. Roger Niello, who’s vice chair of the Budget and Fiscal Review Committee, told The Post the diaper plan just “doesn’t make sense.”
“The whole thing just kind of stinks,” he said.
Kind of? The whole thing stinks like a dead woodchuck under the porch, in Georgia, in August.
But wait! There's more!
Baby2Baby’s other co-CEO, Kelly Sawyer Patricof, is married to producer, Jamie Patricof, whose father, Alan Patricof, is a longtime Democratic donor.
“It would appear it’s been planned all along to go through this particular nonprofit. One has to suspect that,” said Niello, who first heard of the diaper program after the May 8 press event.
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If Newsom's priority was, inexplicably, to provide diapers at taxpayer expense to all Californians with diaper-age children (it's unclear whether or not California will provide adult diapers for physically incontinent adults), then it would make more sense for the state to just buy the diapers and hand them out; why get a non-profit involved to be a middleman? Why spend that money on some organization to pass out? Unless, of course, you presume that there is graft involved; then, suddenly, all this makes a lot more sense.
And why is this not means-tested? If a family with a net worth of umpty-gazillon dollars has a baby, why are they getting free diapers from the state of California? I thought California was broke?
And Democrats are thinking of putting this guy forward as their 2028 standard-bearer? Seriously?
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