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I previously wrote about Gov. Newsom’s corrupt proposal to boost California’s already massive $350 million Hollywood film tax credit to $750 million as a giveaway to his donors.
When Gov. Gavin Newsom faced a recall after a corrupt pandemic lockdown system that kept churches and small businesses closed, but allowed movie and TV productions to do whatever they wanted, Hollywood donors showed up to throw millions at Newsom. Netflix CEO Reed Hastings kicked in $3 million, Universal, Paramount and top celebrities also stepped up.
A ‘virtual’ event chaired by Dreamworks co-founder Jeffrey Katzenberg, raised over $1 million to keep Newsom in office. FOX, Sony and other executives wrote checks for thousands of dollars.
Now, as Gov. Newsom plots a presidential run. he’s offering.Hollywood donors a taste of what a Newsom administration would look like.
Gavin Newsom responded Donald Trump’s demand for steep tariffs on movies filmed outside the U.S. with a plea for the President to “partner” with him instead on a proposed $7.5 billion federal tax credit for Hollywood.
The proposed tax incentive would be separate from the California state tax credits Newsom is trying to enact,
“America continues to be a film powerhouse, and California is all in to bring more production here. Building on our successful state program, we’re eager to partner with the Trump administration to further strengthen domestic production and Make America Film Again,” Newsom said in a statement Monday night.
Hollywood provides relatively few benefits or jobs to justify the massive amounts of money being thrown at it. What it does provide are sizable donations to politicians.
Newsom doesn’t seriously expect Trump to bite on the insane $7.5 billion in tax credits. What he’s doing is showing his donor base what a Newsom administration would mean for them,
Even the vastly inflated Hollywood estimates of jobs created and money spent is in the thousands (unless you also count their absurd numbers of ‘background performers’ or extras) compared to 130,000 truck drivers, whom California Democrats have been chasing out of the state, and over 4 million small businesses of which a third were shuttered by pandemic restrictions.
Gov. Newsom and California Democrats didn’t even blink at killing 7,500 small businesses during the pandemic, which employed far more people than the Hollywood productions do. If they really cared about jobs, they’d be providing massive tax breaks for some of those small businesses instead of writing $20 million checks to Disney and Netflix to “create jobs”.
And then there’s the drag queen subsidy.
The campaign video posted on Newsom’s social media and on the World of Wonder company which produces Ru Paul’s Drag Race raised legal and campaign issues that were never addressed. Those issues have only become more serious after World of Wonder received a $1.7 million film tax credit for a production listed only as ‘Untitled Drag Queen Movie’.
Around the same time that Newsom was getting his endorsement from World of Wonder, the production company debuted ‘Drag Tots’, an animated series targeting children, in which Ru Paul as ‘Corny the Unicorn’ promotes being a drag queen to kids.
‘Drag Tots’ is one of several ‘children’s’ shows produced by World of Wonder.
This is the ugly legacy of Gov. Newsom’s pandering to Hollywood.
Governor Nuisance can always expect Hollywood to always finance the Demo-Rats since Hollywood’s full of Useful Idiots
So good you have your eye on corruption by our public officials. Kudos to you, Daniel! Waiting for your expose on $TRUMP meme coins and government contracts to Elon Musk’s companies. any day now, right?
The taste of what a president Newsom would look like to me is continued emergency shortfalls, medicaid shortfalls, one of the highest unemployment rates in the nation, high cost of living, unaffordable transportation, unaffordable housing, tax giveaways to the wealthy supporters, higher taxes for everyone else, unaccountable government, giveaways to illegal aliens, etc.
We’ve got too much of that already. I’ll take a pass.
How to start the day with a nightmare – Gruesome NewScum as POTUS — Never – but never put our guard down for demoncraps to lie, cheat, rig, steal and murder –
They assassinated President Lincoln to President JFK –
They were behind the Saturday, 7-13-2024 assassination attempt on President Trump – we all dodged bullets that day –
Now that even the most die hard demoncrap party line voters see the difference between President Trump 47 and the rest, we would be in a Hieronymus Bosch purgatory if President Trump and his POTUS 47 Cabinet were not in their rooting out the fraud, corruption and waste of our tax dollars.
Sounds to me like democrat voters had better set out their eating utensils and hot sauce and prepare to be served another heaping pile of liberal elitist bullsh*t with a side of “kiss my ass”. Only democrat voters (and RINOs) have the stomach for that crap (it’s an acquired taste!) My I suggest democrat Kool-Aid or Coke, no Pepsi, to wash it all down with?
Daniel , kicking ass again .,
“Gov. Newsom and California Democrats didn’t even blink at killing 7,500 small businesses during the pandemic,”
UTube has videos showing various Cal. towns from LA to SF – the number of empty stores and businesses gone bankrupt is shocking – restaurants over 100 years old now gone – many streets look like they are part of a ghost town.
Newsom is a sociopath.
Governor Gavin Newsom, otherwise known as the high-priced whore of California; bought and paid for by Hollywood.