Gavin Newsom faced serious backlash on social media after being accused of self-funding his own bronze statue.
A new book titled Fool’s Gold: The Radicals, Con Artists, and Traitors Who Killed the California Dream and Now Threaten Us All , written by Susan Crabtree and Jedd McFatter , has accused the California governor of using “behested payments” to help fund a bust commemorating his time as the mayor of San Francisco .
The book alleges that two companies owned by Newsom donated approximately $10,000 to a non-profit organization to finance the creation of the bronze bust , which sits on a black granite base.
According to the San Francisco Arts Commission , the statue honoring Newsom’s tenure as mayor from 2004 to 2011 was completed in 2018…