{"id":203678,"date":"2025-09-06T00:54:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-06T00:54:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/203678\/"},"modified":"2025-09-06T00:54:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-06T00:54:11","slug":"san-jose-mayor-right-to-knock-newsoms-juvenile-bullying-of-business-san-diego-union-tribune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/203678\/","title":{"rendered":"San Jose mayor right to knock Newsom\u2019s juvenile bullying of business \u2013 San Diego Union-Tribune"},"content":{"rendered":"

Gov. Gavin Newsom\u2019s decision to use his official social media accounts to constantly mock and parody<\/a> President Donald Trump seems like a gamble that has paid off \u2014 at least for his 2028 White House ambitions. A national poll by Emerson College released Aug. 29<\/a> showed Newsom\u2019s support among Democrats doubling since June. A groundswell of Democrats praising his combativeness even led to a rare positive Drudge Report banner story on the former San Francisco mayor.<\/p>\n

But has this applause gone to his head \u2014 or, worse yet, has it led to him going from parodying Trump\u2019s bullying style to adopting it?<\/p>\n

Consider the governor\u2019s press office\u2019s juvenile Aug. 20 response<\/a> on X to a Bed Bath & Beyond announcement that the struggling retailer was keeping out of California due to its costly business climate: \u201cAfter their bankruptcy and closure of every store, like most Americans, we thought Bed Bath & Beyond no longer existed,\u201d Newsom\u2019s account snarked. \u201cWe wish them well in their efforts to become relevant again as they try to open a second store.\u201d<\/p>\n

How does this help a state that has seen one high-profile company after another leave in recent years? As the Los Angeles Times reported<\/a> Aug. 4, the decision by In-N-Out, California\u2019s iconic burger chain, to relocate many key operations to Tennessee<\/a> follows the exits of financial services powerhouse Charles Schwab, oil giant Chevron, and tech pioneers Tesla and SpaceX.<\/p>\n

The foolishness of the governor\u2019s gibe was underscored by the progressive, staunchly anti-Trump Democratic mayor of San Jose. In a column<\/a> for The San Francisco Standard, Matt Mahan wrote, \u201cNewsom\u2019s supporters say he is \u2018breaking the internet\u2019 and \u2018owning\u2019 Trump. But the governor, and every elected official and leader, also need to own up to the truth. And the truth is that California has the highest unemployment rate in the nation, at 5.5%, and nearly half the nation\u2019s unsheltered homeless people. We have the highest energy and housing costs in the continental United States, and, largely because of these high costs, the highest effective poverty rate in the nation.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mahan should have gone even farther and noted how Gov. Jerry Brown urged Silicon Valley CEOs<\/a> to contact him directly if they ran into state-generated headaches. Or how Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger was famous for reading stories about a business in distress and immediately giving the owner a call<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Why \u201cshould have\u201d? Because in response to our questions, the governor\u2019s press office also mockingly dismissed Mahan. \u201cWe\u2019d ask Mayor Matt to spend his time less focused on the governor\u2019s social media and his efforts to defend democracy, and instead focus on San Jose,\u201d a spokesperson wrote in an email.<\/p>\n

Wow, \u201cMayor Matt,\u201d you just don\u2019t get it, do you? Questioning California\u2019s business climate is akin to attacking democracy.<\/p>\n

Call this what it is: pretzel logic in service of puerility.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gov. Gavin Newsom\u2019s decision to use his official social media accounts to constantly mock and parody President Donald…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":203679,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5134],"tags":[5229,1582,276,6083,1269,3549,7264,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-203678","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-diego","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-california","11":"tag-editorials","12":"tag-opinion","13":"tag-san-diego","14":"tag-sandiego","15":"tag-united-states","16":"tag-united-states-of-america","17":"tag-unitedstates","18":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","19":"tag-us","20":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115154630660652423","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=203678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203678\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/203679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}