[Breitbart] They are just diapers. But they have landed California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) into messy accusations of corruption for dumping $20 million in taxpayer money into a nonprofit led by an executive who sits on the board of his wife’s organization.
The initiative called “Golden State Start,” which will provide free diapers to newborns in hospitals throughout the state, debuted ahead of Mother’s Day. It has been promoted as a partnership between the state and the Los Angeles-based Baby2Baby nonprofit.
However, the deal has resulted in scrutiny over how the organization was chosen and its “proximity to Newsom’s political and personal network,” the California Post reported late Saturday.
“If you take the number of diapers they’re planning to send out and the amount of money that he’s spending on it, it’s 50 cents for each one, which is like 100 times more expensive if you just bought them in Costco,” Republican gubernatorial candidate Steve Hilton told the Post.
He asked, “But where’s the money coming from? Us.”
Newsom’s wife, Jennifer Siebel Newsom, co-founded the California Partners Project, which helped facilitate the partnership. It aims to increase women in leadership. Norah Weinstein, the co-CEO, sits on Seibel Newsom’s board of directors.
Co-CEO Kelly Sawyer Patricof also runs the organization.
That diaper deal is glaring evidence of the sweetheart relationships between state-funded programs and affiliated nonprofit networks, according to critics interviewed by the Post.
“Instead of taking our money, putting into some scheme that benefits their friends and cronies,” Hilton said, “why don’t they let us just keep more of our money in the first place so we can decide how to spend our money?”
The cozy relationships are not limited to the diapers.
“Patricof’s family ties have also drawn attention from critics, including her marriage to film producer Jamie Patricof, whose father, Alan Patricof, is a longtime Democratic donor with deep ties to the Clinton-era political network,” according to the Post.
Some $7.4 million has already been approved for the diaper program, with $12.5 million proposed for the 2026-2027 state budget.
Other critics, unnamed by the Post, argued that comparable bulk retail prices are significantly lower than what the state will be paying.
The Post reached out to Newsom’s office and Baby2Baby for comment but has not heard back.
Newsom, whom many observers predict will run for president in 2028, appears undeterred.
He is promoting the “Golden State Start” as a unique child welfare initiative, calling it “a first-in-the-nation program to provide free diapers to all new babies born in California,” the Post reported.
#1
They are using NGOs when there is already government infrastructure for their proposed program. There are already charities that do this work more efficiently than the government. The scam is multilevel. Get the government involved where it is not needed. Have the government hand large sums of money to an NGO rather than have the government distribute directly to the person in need.
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#2
Everything Newsom does is a scam.
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[PJ Media via Insty] Monica Crowley, the U.S. government's chief of protocol, dropped a significant claim on Wednesday: hard evidence that Donald Trump won the 2020 presidential election is coming, and it's coming soon. "He did win in a landslide, and we will soon be able to give evidence about that," Crowley said.
Now, she didn't lay out a timeline or spell out exactly what the evidence would look like, but the message was clear.
According to the Washington Times, she offered no further details on the nature of what's being prepared. That ambiguity will inevitably give critics ammunition, of course. But here's the thing, Crowley’s remarks didn’t just come out of nowhere. Her claims track almost perfectly with what FBI Director Kash Patel told Maria Bartiromo last month.
As PJ Media previously reported, Patel appeared on Fox News' Sunday Morning Futures with Maria Bartiromo and announced that arrests are coming over the coordinated effort to rig the 2020 election.
"We are going to be making arrests, and it's coming, and I promise you, it's coming soon," Patel said.
Two senior officials. Same message. Same urgency. That's not a coincidence.
Their argument — and they're not alone in making it — is that a coordinated effort to undermine the 2020 election results led to Joe Biden being declared the winner.
You’ve heard all the liberal arguments that no fraud was actually found, and courts confirmed the election was entirely above board, but that’s simply not true. Every legal challenge filed after the 2020 contest was rejected, not for lack of evidence, but for lack of standing.
So, there’s a lot we still don’t know about the 2020 election — a lot that Democrats would rather not see the light of day. Yes, it would be nice to see the perps do the walk, but what about the damage done? How about, all actions by the US gov't during the Biden Interregnum are subject to reversal by the legitimate winner.
#5
Just indict and prosecute in jurisdictions that are not compromised.
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#6
IIRC once Congress certified Biden was the winner, there was no going back or reversing things. Generally speaking anything the Biden legally did while in office will have to be reserved by following the law. The long term implications for the Democratic party should be both interesting and negative
BLUF:
[PJ] What was Bongino talking about? Rumors on social media suggest it involves the Russian collusion hoax, surveillance, and unmasking, with details that might soon surface. His message to Obama is a clear warning: don’t push this.
I think Obama wants to play the role of the elder statesman riding back into town to defend democratic norms. What he’s getting instead is a reminder that he left skeletons behind when he left office, and based on what Bongino said, those skeletons won’t be secret forever.
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#6
"Bongino stopped short of specifying what information"
Bet Dan writes another book.
A man that knows so much but never testifies.
What a waste.
About Obama, he is like a bond villain, probably too much credit there, but Obama does not go away until he is defeated. And I dont think Trump will go there, we'll see.
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[PJ Media via Insty] Monica Crowley, the U.S. government's chief of protocol, dropped a significant claim on Wednesday: hard evidence that Donald Trump won the 
