It’s Seriously Time to Start Prosecuting Democratic Mayors And Governors

We are way past the time when the governors and mayors of blue states and cities should be held responsible for their actions, inactions, and very often both. Sadly, the justice system is littered with liberal lawyers, judges, and other officials who have stood in the way of such prosecutions, not to mention the MSM who either ignore, distort, or lie about the truth when a Democrat is involved.

Case in point, over the last 18 months, Gavin Newsom, the slick weasel who happens to be the governor of California, has wasted another $19 million of the taxpayers' money filing not one, but 82 lawsuits against President Trump. All the while still pursuing a spectacularly expensive boondoggle that he knew and admitted would never come to fruition.

Many people fail to make the connection between spending decisions and their consequences. For instance, when someone like Newsom wastes money in one area, something else inevitably suffers. In this case, it was a crime law known as Proposition 36 that California residents voted for. All 58 counties approved it, yet Newsom chose to ignore the will of the people. Instead, he opted to focus on his exaggerated grievances regarding Trump.

But no Democratic scandal is complete without an attempt to spin their incompetence. In this case, Newsom’s right-hand man and Attorney General Rob Bonta wants the people to believe that they are heroes. It’s laughable, but Bonta wants the people to believe that the $19.2 million he and Slick pissed away saved the state $207 billion in federal funding.

The $207 billion mentioned isn't money that Bonta sourced from anywhere specific; rather, it represents the standard federal allocation for Medicaid matching funds, transportation grants, and social safety net spending. These funds are distributed to California based on a formula, independent of any actions taken by the state attorney general in court.

Bottom line, the state was going to receive that money no matter what, and the $19 million in useless lawsuits had nothing to do with it.

When Newsom wasn’t thinking up new lawsuits, he was filing them on an old fiasco, the state’s high-speed rail system, that by Newsom’s own admission will never be built.

California filed a lawsuit to keep $4 billion in high-speed rail funding but later dropped the case after CBS News reported that the state's own rail authority had not purchased a single train—despite promising a federal judge that it would finalize the train contract by December 2025.

That deadline came and went; the board meeting was canceled, and when the 2026 business plan was released, the line for train procurement read “TPD.”

What was taking place was clear: this was another ugly episode of incompetence on a project that has become the model for ineptitude and fraud.

By the way, for the second consecutive year, Newsom's budget allocated no new funds for the implementation of Proposition 36.

In January, the California District Attorneys Association, the California State Sheriffs' Association, and the Chief Probation Officers of California released a joint statement:

"Without adequate resources, law enforcement, prosecutors, and probation officers are left with our hands tied – unable to fully carry out the law and deliver the results Californians demanded at the ballot box."

Consequently, individual counties are now bearing the costs themselves, including treatment beds, court capacity, and incarceration expenses, while Sacramento provides no assistance.

Sacramento County is currently facing a $101 million deficit of its own.

In May and June of 2026, Governor Gavin Newsom appointed his close political friends/advisors, Stephen Kawa and Jason Elliott, to the California High-Speed Rail Authority Board of Directors, filling the positions of outgoing leaders Tom Richards and Nancy Miller. Stephen Kawa was then named chair of the board. Additionally, Newsom appointed Anthony Serna as the Deputy Secretary for Rail and Transit at the California State Transportation Agency.

Kawa has been appointed chair of the High-Speed Rail board. He previously served as Newsom's chief of staff when Newsom was the mayor of San Francisco. Elliott has been appointed as a new board director for the High-Speed Rail Authority and is recognized as one of the governor's longest-serving and closest advisors. Serna worked in transportation policy for the state, serving as the Senior Advisor and Policy Lead for Rail and Transit Policy at the California State Transportation Agency starting in 2022 before Newsom appointed him Deputy Secretary for Rail and Transit in June.

Newsom wastes money suing President Trump, then he and Bonta try to take a bow for accomplishing nothing and ignoring the needs of the residents of the state.

Meanwhile, he appoints three of his friends to new positions on a high-speed rail project that will never be built.

It must be nice to have a friend like Newsom; too bad none of the people who keep voting this fool into office are his friends.

Stop voting for people like this; he lies, Bonta swears to it, and the voters in the state pay the price.