Governor Newsom appears to have a really nice pay-to-play scheme set up.
We have seen this before with other politicians.
In Newsom’s case, we are talking about millions in campaign donations for billions in state contracts.
Follow the Money
This is probably one of the oldest corruption games in existence.
Powerful business owners find a promising politician.
They start feeding that person money for the payoff down the road.
When that person reaches a true position of influence, they cash in.
In this case, roughly 1,000 donors of Newsom’s ended up with roughly $6 billion in state contracts.
We can narrow that down even more to the top 30 vendors for the state.
Those companies donated about $1.5 million to Newsom’s campaign.
Those businesses collectively have about $5 billion in state money.
All of this was discovered by OpenTheBooks.
Founder Adam Andrzejewski stated, “Major California corporations entrenched with public-private marketplace monopolies are recycling a portion of their profits back into political donations to Newsom.
“Although legal at arm’s length, the pattern is troubling, and many people across the spectrum will find it highly unethical.”
Newsom’s office says there is nothing shady going on, stating, “The state makes all contracting decisions based on the best interests of the state and its residents.”
Yeah, so it is just a coincidence Newsom’s donors are raking in billions in contracts from the state.
You can see the full report on Fox News.
