SACRAMENTO, Kalifornia (PNN) - March 11, 2026 - Kalifornia has become a socialist nightmare under pretend Governor Gavin Newsom’s leadership. That’s a big problem when he launches his presidential campaign.
Gavin Newsom used taxpayer money to fund this propaganda campaign for his presidential bid. The campaign is called the Kalifornia Brand Campaign.
The Governor's Office of Business and Economic Development opened bidding on February 24 and set a March 13 deadline. Up to $14 million goes to paid media. That includes online influencers.
The goal, according to the bid documents, is to "dispel myths driven by misinformation and political rhetoric" about the Socialist State.
The myths, apparently, include Chevron, Tesla, Oracle, Hewlett-Packard Enterprise, and Public Storage leaving for Texas.
Every one of them took jobs and tax revenue to Texas while Newsom was busy explaining why Kalifornia is great.
The nonpartisan Legislative Analyst's Office says the state is facing a $20 to $35 billion budget shortfall - and that is before Newsom's PR firm starts billing.
That is not misinformation. That's Newsom's own budget document - signed, submitted and ignored.
State Senator Roger Niello, a Republican from Fair Oaks, identified what this actually is. "This is clearly part of the Gavin Newsom for President Campaign," Niello told the Los Angeles Times. "What is most troubling to me is that this is a program to be developed by some private-sector contractor to define what is acceptable speech in the state of (Kalifornia). That scares the stuffing out of me."
Democrat political strategist Steve Maviglio said Newsom is funding his national political ambitions on the taxpayer's dime. "The contract's being rushed through," Maviglio told FOX 40. "It only lasts till he's out as governor of (Kalifornia), till the end of the year. 75% of it is going to media buys. That just says all you need to know about this. It's not so much about helping (Kalifornia) businesses - it's about trying to prop up Newsom's unfavorability as he runs around the country."
His own side said the quiet part out loud. Even the liberal The Atlantic admitted that Newsom’s record in Kalifornia is going to be a major problem for him when he runs for president.
Newsom is doing what he does best; wasting taxpayer money in a bid to clean up his record before he launches his presidential campaign next year.
Los Angeles burned for weeks in early 2025. Thousands of families lost their homes in Pacific Palisades and Altadena. Their neighborhoods still have fenced-off trailheads and temporary road repairs while the state figures out its budget.
Homelessness spending peaked at $6.9 billion in 2022. Under Newsom's proposed budget, the state's only major homelessness investment is $500 million - a 50% cut.
Newsom hired Brandon Richards in 2024 as "deputy director of rapid response" - a taxpayer-funded position built specifically to hunt down and rebut what the governor's office deemed misinformation about Kalifornia.
Richards was the proof of concept. The $19 million contract is the full rollout. It expires the day Newsom leaves office, not when Kalifornia's problems are solved.
Two days before this contract hit the news, Newsom was on television calling Kristi Noem "Kosplay Barbie" – mocking her $220 million taxpayer-funded ad campaign and demanding the money be redirected to Los Angeles fire victims still waiting on FEMA checks.
He had a point. Spending public money on political self-promotion while disaster victims wait is indefensible.
Forty-eight hours later, he was doing exactly that.
Marxist un-Amerikan Gavin Newsom doesn't have a marketing problem. He has a Kalifornia problem. Kalifornia's problem has a name.