Gavin Newsom wants you to know his kids are not political weapons. Your kids, however, are another story. California’s governor, a man constitutionally incapable of speaking in anything other than clichés, appeared Wednesday evening on CBS News to complain his political opponents noticed (once again) he’s a do-as-I-say-not-as-I-do kind of guy when it comes to the state’s COVID-19 rules.
Newsom, you might remember, made national news in November when he was photographed at Thomas Keller’s famous (and famously expensive) French Laundry restaurant in Napa, hobnobbing indoors with medical industry lobbyists, neither wearing a mask nor social distancing—all of which were big no-noes at the time.
X Last week, one of his sons was spotted maskless at a summer basketball camp, which doesn’t sound like much, except it happens to coincide with a renewed state effort (just shy of a mandate) to push masks and distancing in response to a surge in Delta variant cases.
“You want to come after me, come after me,” Newsom told Norah O’Donnell. “They’re attacking me and weaponizing my son . . . we did nothing wrong.”
Clearly, Newsom isn’t above using his children as political shields on national television as he prepares to fend off a recall on September 14—an election he is by no means guaranteed to win, even with some $43 million in combined campaign cash in cerulean blue California.
Nor does Newsom have any particular qualms about using other people’s children as political pawns. Just this week, his anti- recall campaign............
