California is FOR SALE: Gavin Newsom’s Pay-to-Play Politics – California Globe

California is FOR SALE: Gavin Newsom’s Pay-to-Play Politics – California Globe

Governor Gavin Newsom “used his office to try to block a small tribe from opening a casino in Northern California, after taking nearly $2 million from the Federated Indians of Graton Rancheria, a major California political donor which operates its own gambling compound just 15 miles away from its rival’s proposed site, which broke ground on a $1 billion expansion in 2023,” the Washington Free Beacon reported in July. Known as “behested” payments…