"Killing California From The Inside" - The DEVASTATING Truth About Newsom's Economy
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🗓️ 24 May 2026
⏱️ 7 minutes
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Steve Hilton tells PBD what he’d do on day one as California governor, from firing up oil and gas permits to fixing water policy, and explains why Newsom’s “4th biggest economy” brag hides sky‑high poverty, unemployment and a UK‑style bureaucratic death spiral.
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| 0:00.0 | Say you become the governor, what are you doing the day you get, you become the governor? |
| 0:03.5 | So it's going to be a very busy first day. |
| 0:05.4 | Because one of the things that I think, well, there's many things I'm doing differently in this, |
| 0:11.4 | but one of them is being really well prepared because I do actually understand how policy works, |
| 0:16.8 | how government works. I've got experience of that. And I'm a business-like person. I wouldn't be practical. |
| 0:22.6 | Specifically on this way, here's a good example. |
| 0:24.6 | And it goes back to what you're saying, what we're discussing about the legislature |
| 0:27.6 | and the supermajority and what can you get done, |
| 0:29.6 | because there's all these Democrats controlling the legislature, |
| 0:32.6 | there's a huge amount you can do just through your control of the executive branch in these regulatory agencies. |
| 0:39.3 | Opening up oil production is a good example. |
| 0:41.3 | So the way that they've shut down oil and gas production in California |
| 0:45.3 | is not actually the legislature, is through an agency called CalGEM, |
| 0:49.3 | the California Department of Geologic and Energy Management. |
| 0:52.3 | And they have refused to issue permits. And I've |
| 0:58.7 | seen that. I've been to the oil fields. You've got these just like that, that you're looking |
| 1:03.0 | out there. I need much bigger. As far as you can see, oil wells, and they just refuse to issue permits for maintenance. You need a |
| 1:13.1 | permit for everything. If you want to do routine maintenance, for expanding an existing well that's |
| 1:18.3 | maybe running out of oil, you do it, I think they call it side tracking, you can expand it and get |
| 1:24.6 | the output up from five barrels a day to 100 or whatever or drilling new wells in |
| 1:29.1 | existing fields this is not drilling an oil well in the middle of yosemite national park this is |
| 1:33.8 | literally like as far as you can see oil wells there's a concrete pad ready for some new wells to be |
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