California Gov. Gavin Newsom (d) secretly paid his own memorial within San Francisco city hall, according to a book released Tuesday.
The Fool's Gold: Extremists, con artists and traitors who killed California's dreams and now threatened us all.Written by Susan Crabtree and Jed McFatta, Newsom claims he arranged a bronze bust of himself to be sculpted inside City Hall to commemorate his term as mayor using the funds he controlled.
Newsom is said to have subsequently pretended to be ignorant about the identity of the private donor who funded Bust.
other mayor The bust inside the city hall has also been awarded. Funds for Newsom's Bust were to be donated by individuals.
“Payment Payment” is a donation to a charity that California politicians often ask donors to make on their behalf. They are widely considered corruptionespecially when payments bring some benefit to the politician. (Newsom, for example, requires payment for a project managed by his wife, Jennifer Siebel Newsom.)
Co-author Jedd McFatter argues:
Newsom's “promoted payments” analysis revealed that between the second half of 2015 and early 2016, three private organizations each had donated to a nonprofit called the Community Initiative. After all, two of these payments came from Newsom-owned companies, Balboa Cafe Partners and Plumpjack Management Group. Newsom's businesses specifically designated these requested payments for “mayor's bust at San Francisco City Hall.”
According to the California Commission on Fair Political Practices, Balboa Cafe Partners donated $5,000 to the mayor's bust in 2016, while Plumpjack gave the same amount. Newsom is involved in both companies.
HB and the Lucille Horn Foundation donated $10,000 at Newsom's Revents.
Total bust cost, According to San Francisco Chronicleit was $97,000.
Unveiling ceremony, Chronicle What has been pointed out was a modest event with “no fanfare, no reporting, only a few friends attended.”
Newsom was run for the Lieutenant Governor at the time of Bust's announcement.
sfgate.com had It has been reported That Newsom said he didn't know what the bust would be or who would pay for it:
The winners declare themselves a bit reluctant. “I don't want to call it embarrassing, but that's odd,” the lieutenant governor said. “I'm just awkward about it. …But now the words are out.”
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Bust is the brainchild of Newsom's supporters and will be paid with private funds they nurture, Newsom said. It's “I've been working on a few years, but nobody's been working on it. …It was an idea that's floating around.” He says he doesn't even know who those supporters and fundraisers are.
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[Sculptor Bruce] Wolf sounds sure that Clay will become bronze and the bust will come true. But “if no one's interested,” says Newsom, “We can bring it back to the big ball.”
Governor Newsom's office did not respond to questions in comments about the bust in this article.
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