California Gov. Gavin Newsom disappears for more than a week

California Gov. Gavin Newsom disappears for more than a week
Jon Brown
Mon, November 8, 2021, 7:45 PM

Gov. Gavin Newsom, D-Calif., has not been seen in public since abruptly canceling his trip to the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow on Oct. 29 over "family obligations."

Newsom press secretary Daniel Lopez said the governor worked at the state Capitol last week and would begin making normal appearances again sometime this week, according to a statement provided to SFGATE.

Lopez further explained that the governor's cancelation was not a result of the COVID-19 booster shot he received during his last public appearance.

"Last week Governor Newsom worked in the Capitol with staff on urgent issues including COVID-19 vaccines for kids, boosters, ports, the forthcoming state budget and California’s continued economic recovery," Lopez said. "He will have public events this week related to the economy and vaccines."

Jennifer Siebel Newsom, the governor's wife, addressed his absence in a weekend tweet that was later deleted.

"It’s funny how certain folks can’t handle truth," she wrote. "When someone cancels something, maybe they’re just in the office working; maybe in their free time they’re at home with their family, at their kids’ sports matches, or dining out with their wife. Please stop hating and get a life."

California state senators John Laird and Bob Hertzberg reportedly bristled when asked about the governor's absence at the Glasgow conference.

"Look, they said it was a family issue," Hertzberg said, according to a reporter from Cal Matters. "There is no one in California who wanted to be at this conference more than Gavin Newsom. But we're all human beings, man. I don't think it's appropriate to dig further into it."

Laid said the controversy was "overblown."

When the governor of a state with a larger economy than many countries suddenly cancels a trip to an event like the climate conference and the only explanation is "family issues" the only thing we can know for sure is that it wasn't just "family issues" and hiding the real issue just causes wild speculation and mistrust.

Then again being a democrat he's used to causing mistrust, I reckon.

lulz

Calif. Gov. Gavin Newsom says he's kept a low profile lately so he could spend time with his family, and that he cancelled a trip to an international climate conference in Scotland so he could take his kids trick-or-treating on Halloween. (Nov. 10)

Hmm.
You're the governor of a state (larger economy than many nations, remember) dealing with a raging pandemic, a climate crisis, supply chain headaches, and other issues. Not some random Joe Blow off the street... a fucking state governor.

You don't get to drop off the radar and suddenly cancel attendance at "the most important climate conference of our time" with the flimsy-assed excuse of 'family matters' or 'Halloween' or what the fuck ever. You just don't. You've got obligations, duties, and responsibilities. Nobody forced you to become a governor... you signed up for that shit and you knew going in that it would make you a Public Figure who can't just wander off and ghost people for a week or two.

So pull your tongue out of his ass crack, Temple.

That's so undignified.

Gov. Gavin Newsom reveals why he canceled Scotland trip:
His kids staged an ‘intervention’

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — After more than a week of silence, California Gov. Gavin Newsom finally revealed the reason he canceled his trip to Scotland for the United Nations climate conference: spending Halloween with his kids.

Newsom and his wife, first partner Jennifer Siebel Newsom, had planned to attend the conference from Nov. 1-3 in Glasgow, which would have forced them to miss Halloween.

That upset the four Newsom children — ages 5, 8, 10 and 12 —
so they staged what Newsom called an “intervention” at dinner.

“Mom and Dad missing Halloween, for them that was worse than missing Christmas,” Newsom told his former economic adviser Lenny Mendonca at a “fireside chat” during the California Forward economic conference in Monterey on Tuesday.

Newsom said he explained to his kids why he and Siebel Newsom needed to go. But the next morning he woke with a knot in his stomach and decided he had to cancel.

Until Newsom told his dinner intervention story Tuesday, his office had refused to provide any details to reporters and residents who had been asking what “family obligations” had forced him to cancel his trip.

While his office deflected requests for details, rumors proliferated online about why Newsom canceled and retreated from the public eye, not holding any public events for more than a week.

Some pointed to his absence just after he received a COVID-19 booster as a sign he had a bad reaction. His office didn’t shoot that rumor down until Monday afternoon, when his spokesman released a statement saying the governor had not had a reaction to the vaccine and that wasn’t the reason for the canceled trip.

On Sunday, his wife dropped a hint on Twitter, saying someone who cancels something might be doing something commonplace, like going out to dinner or attending a child’s soccer game. She quickly deleted that tweet, however, and Newsom’s office continued to deflect questions from reporters about why specifically Newsom had canceled.

In his explanation Tuesday, Newsom rattled off the list of crises and obligations he’s dealt with as governor — wildfires, drought, civil unrest, the coronavirus, the recall, bill signings.

The last two years have been tough for him, but also for all families, he told Mendonca, who stepped down from his post as Newsom’s top economic adviser in 2020 to focus on his mental health.
Mothers, in particular, have shouldered a heavy burden during
the pandemic, and fathers need to
do a better job balancing the household workload, Newsom said.

“It’s been a hell of a couple years for all of us, for each and every one of you, particularly parents,” he said. “I’ve been on this treadmill. We’ve gone from crisis to crisis.”

Instead of going to Glasgow, where he was expected to tout California’s climate accomplishments, Newsom said he went trick-or-treating and watched his kids’ soccer tournament.
He brought his children to work with him at the Capitol, where they took pictures with the so-called Bacteria Bear statue outside his office and stopped by Senate President Pro Tem Toni Atkins’ office for coloring books.

The coloring books were particularly popular, Newsom said. “I was the father of the year for that.”

That laughable narrative only works if you willingly ignore the fact that it means Newsom and his team thought it would be a good strategy to first give the stupid response that he was dealing with "family issues" and refuse to elaborate, then when people didn't just let it go at that tell the ridiculously stupid anecdote of the little scamps holding "an intervention" so mommy and daddy would 'do a Halloween' with them.

Like what the entire fuck?

Why not just say that to begin with unless it's all bullshit and the narrative is morphing over time to avoid telling the truth?

Stop being a fucking useful idiot. Damn.