Valuetainment - “Lipstick On A Pig” - Newsom TORCHED Over $19M PR Spin Deal

00:00:00.000 Guess who decides to spend $19 million of taxpayer money in the state of California to hire a PR firm to make them look better?

00:00:08.820 Guess who?

00:00:09.480 No, tell us.

00:00:10.240 A guy named Gavin News.

00:00:11.780 No way.

00:00:12.360 You wouldn't say. 0.71

00:00:13.560 $19 million of taxpayer funds on a New York PR firm to polish California's image.

00:00:21.200 The Governor's Office of Business and Economic Development awarded PR powerhouse Edelman a contract up to $19 million to burnish the Golden State's reputation, KCRA reported.

00:00:35.400 Edelman, which also does work on behalf of mega companies like Dove, Starbucks, eBay, and Heineken,

00:00:40.280 will be tasked to combat negative narratives amplified online in partisan media about California

00:00:48.020 while promoting the state's economy and tourism.

00:00:51.100 The company, considering one of the largest PR firms in the nation, also has offices in L.A. and San Francisco.

00:00:55.920 The contract begins on April 6th and will run through then end of the year,

00:01:00.360 which nearly coincides with the end of governor's term in 2027.

00:01:03.820 The Office of Business and Economic Development, known as GO-Biz,

00:01:07.500 posted their request for proposals last month

00:01:09.760 stipulating the small businesses

00:01:11.160 be considered for their first contract.

00:01:13.980 Vinny, thoughts?

00:01:14.620 So basically, instead of fixing California's reality,

00:01:17.500 they're spending millions to polish California's reputation,

00:01:20.220 which is abysmal, okay?

00:01:22.480 Forget about the speed rail.

00:01:23.960 All I've been seeing is documentary after documentary

00:01:25.940 on the speed rails and the reporting in California,

00:01:28.720 billions, the homelessness, 24 billion,

00:01:31.020 which made it go up, and I'll talk about New York

00:01:32.700 if we get to that, Pat.

00:01:33.980 But it's like positive $19 million.

00:01:37.200 So you mean to tell me that Californians who are struggling,

00:01:40.460 you want to talk about struggling?

00:01:42.160 They don't trust the fire departments,

00:01:43.580 especially in these rich Malibu and the Palisades and all these people.

00:01:48.120 The mayor is over.

00:01:51.060 Where was she?

00:01:51.660 Was she in Cuba doing some event when all the fires were happening?

00:01:54.480 No, no, no.

00:01:54.940 She was all the way over in Africa, you know,

00:01:56.860 where there was a transition of leadership or something was going on,

00:02:00.240 and she went anyway with all the crisis was there.

00:02:03.140 Knowing that it was coming.

00:02:04.120 And I'm telling you right now, Pat, and you said it perfectly at the beginning,

00:02:06.260 there is no amount of money to change the reputation of what's going on in california

00:02:11.520 but it still baffles my mind and i think you said it last week i haven't heard one person say

00:02:17.540 yeah dude i've got a place in california and i feel bad for the people there because they have

00:02:23.700 to pretend everything is okay you know how many conversations i've had with my sister and my mom

00:02:28.520 and we have other reasons that they want to stay you know my brother's there and my nieces my

00:02:31.740 nephews but what are you doing and i get it people have lives but don't even think i told my sister

00:02:36.840 don't even think about buying a property there nothing's changing nothing is changing and for

00:02:42.480 the people there if you're gonna vote and this next governor isn't a republican i am done i will

00:02:47.960 i promise you guys i will stop talking about them if that happens it's once gavin's done and you guys

00:02:53.500 bring in another democrat i'm done if you say hey vinnie what are your thoughts i'm gonna say pat

00:02:57.720 move on i'm done with california well here's the thing at 110 112 a.m this morning the president

00:03:03.780 tweeted something endorsing steve hilton okay oh i like steve hilton yes who is running for governor

00:03:10.260 state of california he was very complimentary i've known him for many years he says he's running for

00:03:14.640 governor truly a fine man one who has watched as this a once great state has gone to hell gavin

00:03:20.440 who's come in the democrats have done an absolute horrendous job anyways he's going through this

00:03:24.560 And if you pull up the Cal sheet with Steve Hilton, Rob,

00:03:27.080 I don't know where he's at with the odds, the odd market,

00:03:30.640 what they're saying.

00:03:31.520 It's not looking bad, okay?

00:03:33.500 It's not looking bad, but this is a small volume.

00:03:36.140 It's not a big volume right now.

00:03:37.300 As of right now, Hilton's at the top.

00:03:39.180 Since last night's CTA, he went above Swalwell.

00:03:43.120 If you look at what happened, because of the tweet,

00:03:45.040 look how much he bumped up.

00:03:46.840 He went from 60 to 65 to all of a sudden after the tweet

00:03:50.180 to what number is it, Rob?

00:03:51.980 81%.

00:03:52.740 81% at the power of a tweet to the market, how they react.

00:03:57.760 And obviously Tom's on that list as well, Tom Steyer,

00:04:00.200 but he's a different story.

00:04:01.180 Tom, your thoughts on this with California.

00:04:02.540 With California, what I dove into,

00:04:05.200 I'm not going to repeat what Vinny said.

00:04:06.760 I agree with every syllable of what you just said.

00:04:09.220 Thank you.

00:04:09.860 And more.

00:04:12.380 Cast with combating negative narratives.

00:04:15.480 So that's your job.

00:04:17.040 We need some help with the negative narratives.

00:04:19.340 It's like a guy sits in his front yard.

00:04:22.040 slaughtering pigs

00:04:24.820 as children are walking to school

00:04:26.480 and then holding a barbecue

00:04:27.660 and he wants to combat

00:04:30.400 the negative narratives

00:04:31.420 that slaughtering a pig 0.88

00:04:33.360 is such an ugly job 0.99

00:04:34.580 well then stop it

00:04:35.900 you want to combat negative narratives

00:04:39.560 how about turn the state

00:04:41.260 how about do things for the people

00:04:42.720 how about build the rail

00:04:43.920 or say you know what

00:04:44.960 you're not going to hear about the rail anymore

00:04:46.780 it's not going to happen

00:04:47.620 that's what's going on here

00:04:49.480 they think it's a narrative game

00:04:51.140 They think if you just change the narrative, you just spin the narrative.

00:04:54.960 And if you look at it, Gavin Newsom is a narrative machine.

00:04:59.660 He can't run on leadership without a narrative.

00:05:03.460 He can't run on numbers.

00:05:04.740 He can't run on success without a narrative.

00:05:07.100 And you look at the two things they said, economy and tourism.

00:05:10.340 So you're going to see we're now the fourth largest, fifth largest economy in the world.

00:05:14.480 And look at all the tourists are still coming to Disneyland.

00:05:16.800 And look at all the number of people who come to visit California.

00:05:19.560 Well, it's also a dirty little secret that sometimes, Pat, they count in the tourist things.

00:05:24.000 Like if you and I went back to California and went to a wedding or a funeral, Pat, which, you know, we do from time to time, do you know that they would count us in tourist stats?

00:05:34.060 Really?

00:05:34.840 California.

00:05:35.160 Yeah.

00:05:35.860 You can look at the corruption of numbers and the way you count these things.

00:05:39.800 So you don't have any numbers to talk about.

00:05:42.560 You don't have things.

00:05:43.320 So they're going to talk about tourism.

00:05:44.720 They're going to talk about fourth largest economy and combat negative narratives.

00:05:48.160 it's not a negative narrative nobody's rebuilding their homes and all the things you talked about

00:05:52.480 it's not a negative narrative they're closing hospices that don't exist that were stealing

00:05:56.260 money that was meant for for truly people that needed it to get back on the horse so they could

00:06:01.920 ride off into into a career and into some sort of you know contributing member of society this is

00:06:09.300 just astonishing to me we you need you don't need a pr firm to combat narratives you need leadership

00:06:16.020 to make change thank you and tom 19 million dollars pat that's not like a just a drop in a

00:06:21.460 bucket 19 million dollars from taxpayer money the people that are suffering the most are paying for

00:06:28.280 him to lie like make me look good make me like you have blood all over you you've killed every

00:06:33.340 you're like yeah yeah no no i i didn't kill i make me look like i i like blood fell on me from

00:06:37.920 the roof no no you killed this person like it just drives me crazy and i hope this gets to people

00:06:43.540 that are voting they're only doing this for one reason because this guy's running for president

00:06:46.780 they're not doing it for the governor election they're doing it for presidential campaign and

00:06:51.480 gavin is using the california's taxpayer money to fund this 2028 presidential election that's

00:06:57.320 what he's doing with this because the better california looks the higher likelihood he wins

00:07:00.960 presidency in 2028 adam thoughts look you know i don't got a lot of love for california but i'm

00:07:05.940 gonna give gavin newsom credit right now he's an incredible politician i'm just gonna say what it

00:07:11.080 he says all the right things he looks the part he's a great communicator he looks presidential 0.98

00:07:17.240 you know but then reality hits and you realize that it's just complete lipstick on a pig 0.90

00:07:22.160 because as much as he's a great politician he's one of the worst executors you can possibly find

00:07:28.320 he's an incredible governor horrible ceo no accountability you know they have the super

00:07:34.620 majority in california so nothing whatever he wants gets done it's all looks and no results

00:07:39.340 and i respect that why get stuff done if you look at you're getting stuff done respect to you

00:07:44.200 gavin with the good hair it reminds me of this you remember when i think she came to visit 0.89

00:07:48.800 san francisco which is like a literal shithole sorry for cursing poop maps everywhere and what

00:07:56.220 did gavin newsom do the governor of california for that one week san francisco looked immaculate 0.94

00:08:01.200 you remember when they cleaned up the whole city oh of course they put out the homeless people

00:08:04.900 They got rid of the homeless people.

00:08:06.460 Xi Jinping shows up.

00:08:08.580 Chinese flags of war.

00:08:09.640 Bing, bing, bing.

00:08:10.560 Ching, ching, ching.

00:08:11.760 And then, there you go.

00:08:14.660 Then she leaves.

00:08:16.100 Back to corruption. 0.94

00:08:17.400 Back to homelessness.

00:08:18.560 Back to crime. 0.98

00:08:19.560 Back to rampant ridiculousness. 0.91

00:08:21.480 Back to the cost of living. 0.99

00:08:22.640 But it was all lipstick on a pig. 0.89

00:08:24.500 That's Gavin Newsom. 0.90

00:08:25.500 You have no idea, Gavin Newsom, how much I respect that.

00:08:28.540 Why act good when you can just pretend like you're acting good?

00:08:31.580 It's incredible.

00:08:32.120 He's one of the most gifted politicians I've ever seen.

00:08:34.580 he's pretending that he's doing a great job respect to you Gavin Newsom yeah I think he's

00:08:40.000 actually executed very well I think he's executed um put to death opportunities for middle-class

00:08:45.980 Californians I think he's executed put to death a sensible budget so if you want to talk about 0.78

00:08:51.120 true execution I think he's doing a pretty good job yeah it's one of those things where it's a

00:08:55.880 great state to visit you get in you get out and ain't nobody trying to live in California

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Valuetainment - April 11, 2026

“Lipstick On A Pig” - Newsom TORCHED Over $19M PR Spin Deal

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