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This is one of those videos that is not going to go away. It is going to pop up if he actually launches a presidential bid instead of running a stealth shadow campaign. And, the worst thing, is it comes out of Gov. Newsom’s own mouth.
He decided to actually say this.
Can you imagine being a @Target clerk and having Gavin Newsom tattle to the manager because you made him face the reality that he’s responsible for the shoplifting problem in California?
I mean how weak is @GavinNewsom that he has to take his failures out on a store clerk?… pic.twitter.com/7cycrnwGtK
— Robby Starbuck (@robbystarbuck) February 1, 2024
Newsom told the story moments before a Wednesday press conference involving the mayors of California’s big cities.
He said he had the encounter with the Target employee after seeing a shoplifter.
“He picks it up and keeps walking out as we’re checking out,” Newsom said of the shoplifter he said he witnessed, he then went on to what the employee said, “The woman says, ‘Oh, he’s just walking out,’ ‘He didn’t pay for that’ I said, ‘Well, why don’t you stop him?’ She goes, ‘Oh, the governor,'”
Newsom said that worker did not recognize him at first.
“The governor lowered the threshold,” Newsom said the worker told him, “‘There’s – there’s no accountability,’ I said that’s just not true.”
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“She looks at me twice and then she freaks out,” Newsom said of the moment the worker finally recognized him, “She calls everyone over, ‘Who wants to take photos?’ I’m like, ‘No, I’m not taking a photo. We’re having a conversation. Where’s your manager? How are you blaming the governor?’ And it was, you know, $380 later, and I was like, ‘Why am I spending $380, everyone (else) can walk the hell right out.'”
Why can they walk right out?
Gov. Newsom seems to want to argue that it’s because Target employees aren’t stopping shoplifters. Blaming a low-level employee and then calling her manager for blaming him for it is something truly special.
Newsom tells this story to falsely claim that California has tough shoplifting laws and that it’s not his fault.
Prop 47 essentially decriminalized shoplifting below $950. Newsom laughably calls this the “tenth toughest in the nation”. While California voters get some of the blame for voting for the Safe Schools and Streets Act without checking what’s in it, Gov. Newsom defended Prop 47 and blamed everyone else, local prosecutors, stores and now a Target employee for the shoplifting epidemic.
Worst of all, Gov. Newsom blamed this nameless Target employee and got her in trouble, and used her story to suggest that employees are the problem, when the state specifically tried to crack down on employees stopping shoplifters.
The California state Senate has passed a controversial bill that would establish new workplace violence prevention standards — but not everyone is on board.
Senate Bill 553, which was introduced by State Sen. Dave Cortese, would prohibit employers from “maintaining policies that require employees to confront active shooters or suspected shoplifters.”
Gov. Newsom is blaming retail employees for not stopping shoplifting even as his own party is trying to stop retail employees from intercepting shoplifters.
Guess who signed SB 553 into law? Gov. Gavin Newsom.
This just shows how completely disconnected Newsom is from the consequences of his own actions, or does he actually not know what laws he has signed? This puts him on par with Joe Biden, does it not?
Does he and his fellow Dems realize that shoplifter could steal $900 from Target, go to Walmart and do the same, then CVS, and on and on all day long?
Grease head Newscum has never earned a single thing he has and yet he’s more of an elitist than little Lord Fauntleroy. I truly hate that weakling.
I believe whole heartedly before the mess is completed those who caused it will have it come back to bite them.
ems realize that shoplifter could steal $900 from Target, go to Walmart and do the same, then CVS, and on and on all day long?aa
Democrats will continue to vote for him and other Democrats because President Trump so completely broke them.
One of my regrets is that President Trump never tweeted “Breathing is good. I recommend that every American breathe every day.”
Can you imagine the results? It would be GLORIOUS!!!
Governor Nuke Bomb is a total imbecilic who wants all of America to look like California and the Quail and the Condor are considering of leaving and taking California off their names he Poppy to
Hey Newsom, where’s your manager?
His manager is in China, but I think you already knew that.
This is not going to stop him ; Biden is likely to drop out at the convention and Newsom will likely be the nominee
It’s what we over here call a “razzle-dazzle” play. It’s American “gridiron” football. I’m thinking you might not understand.
Apparently Newsom doesn’t understand today’s retail atmosphere. Many retail company policies here in my liberal state (I assume California also utilizes these policies) dictate that employees must not pursue shoplifters and risk losing their jobs if they act as enforcers of theft laws. In fact, employees have lost their jobs in my state as a result of chasing theives.
I assume these policies are in place for two reasons. The first would be employee safety – some stores even employ security guards for such tasks. If an employee were injured or killed in pursuit of a shoplifter, the employer would be liable for damages. I further assume that insurers of retail companies have inserted these conditions in their policies.
Newsom is “Seriously Out of Touch” with real life. What a jerk!
Gov. Gruesome was hurt that he was not recognized at first. Yet, that delayed recognition showed more awareness of Gruesome than he did himself. He so totally lacks self-awareness that he thought he was the one criticizing the Target worker rather than demonstrating out his own policy and ego deficiencies.
The revolting obsequiousness of all those other people on the screens, agreeing with him, knowing he’s such a liar. Horrible