Gavin Newsom States He Will Veto California Bill Banning Youth Tackle Football

California Governor Gavin Newsom has come out against a bill currently making its way through the California State Legislature that would ban organized tackle football in the state for players 12 and under.

The legislation, California Assembly Bill 734, is authored by Assemblyman Kevin McCarty and was introduced in February 2023. It would modify existing state law that, starting in the calendar year 2026, outlaws participation of youth six or younger in league-organized tackle football. AB734 would move this date to 2025, further prohibiting participation in a youth tackle league for youth 10 and younger in 2027 and 12 or younger in 2029.

Gavin Newsom is many things, but stupid is not one of them. He knows that if his poorly-hidden plans to run for president this year after Joe Biden’s removal from the proceedings are to bear fruit, he cannot win appealing strictly to progressives.

How much credit any politician deserves for doing the right thing for the wrong reason is a ready source of hot debate.

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Karine Jean-Pierre Gets Fact-Checked Into Next Week During Falsehood-Filled Briefing

It was a rough day at the White House for Karine Jean-Pierre. The president's press secretary repeated several falsehoods that ended up blowing up in her face, including during a confrontation with a reporter who was prepared to counter with facts.

No one has less respect for voters than the current president of the United States. We are talking about a guy who gave a speech flanked by Marines lambasting half the country as extremist threats to "democracy." Jean-Pierre suggesting otherwise is spit-your-coffee-out hilarious. I mean, come on.

That wasn't the only tall tale the press secretary shared, though. She was confronted by a reporter over the administration's false framing that Texas had caused three migrants to drown because they blocked access to a part of Eagle Pass. In reality, the migrants died on the Mexican side of the border before illegally entering the United States and had already been deceased for an hour by the time the Border Patrol arrived.

Try to count the number of times Jean-Pierre blinks once she begins her answer. That's how you know she's cornered. The repetition of the fact that people died is also telling. She has no answer for why she and the White House lied, so she's simply trying to appeal to emotion.

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