Bienvenidos. That's California for welcome to the May 15th edition of National Review's Radio Free California podcast.

I'm Will Swain, president of the California Policy Center.

You can find my colleagues and me at California PolicyCenter.org. David Bonson's traveling today

and in his place is our friend Will O'Neill. That's right, two wills in one place, one of whom

served as mayor of Newport Beach twice and is now the chairman of the Republican Party of Orange

County. Hello, Will. Hello, Will. And I have to tell you, I have listened to every episode, but I listened at two and a half speed, so you're speaking a little slowly for me right now.

I will change that up.

There is so much to get to. I'm really glad you're here because no disrespect to David, or even to me, I guess.

But there are a few people who I think are better positioned

to talk about the big issue of the week. I tentatively called this episode. We'll see how it plays out.

Gavin Newsom's 19th Nervous Breakdown. For people of a certain age, that's a Rolling Stone song.

For those who don't know, they can go look up the lyrics. But he really seemed to come unglued this week.

And he's clearly on the one hand still, I think, positioning himself as a moderate nationally.

That's his attempt anyway.

That's what he's trying to do here.

On Monday, he had a budget revise on Wednesday, you and I are recording Thursday morning.

On Monday, he blasted local government

officials for refusing to move the needle on homelessness. This from a guy who as mayor of San

Francisco, of course, oversaw the metastasization of homelessness there, which continues pretty much

to this day. And then his governor spent $24 billion, which no one can account for

while homelessness went up. He was around when we got Prop 47, and that, of course, made street

crime a lot easier to carry out without any fear of punishment. That allows people to live on

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