Broadband for All and a Train to Nowhere

[Secular Sanity]

While Newsom doesn't get a direct check, the powerful industries that benefit from these federal-funded projects are among the largest donors to his political campaigns and his wife's nonprofit.

A major broadband drilling project in Southern Humboldt was shut down after a contractor (Direct Drilling) illegally dumped thousands of gallons of raw drilling mud (bentonite slurry) into unpermitted pits on private land. The slurry leaked, polluting Redwood Creek and the South Fork Eel River, threatening protected salmon habitats.

The project is part of Governor Newsom's $3.25 billion "Broadband for All" initiative. Because the project faces a strict federal funding deadline of December 2026, the state fast-tracked it by exempting it from traditional CEQA environmental reviews, creating immense pressure on contractors to move fast.

State regulators approved the drilling without ensuring a waste management plan was in place. Because Humboldt County has no local facilities that accept liquid slurry, contractors were supposed to truck it 220 miles south or solidify it on-site. Instead, they cut corners and dumped it locally.

Humboldt County has issued a stop-work order. Drilling cannot resume until the contractors present a legal, approved plan for waste disposal, putting the project's strict 2026 deadline in serious jeopardy.

https://kymkemp.com/2026/06/10/drilling-...k-resumes/

https://www.gov.ca.gov/2026/04/02/govern...-internet/

https://youtube.com/shorts/FLVrwINBYQM?s...bEeG_CSksr

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While Newsom doesn't get a direct check, the powerful industries that benefit from these federal-funded projects are among the largest donors to his political campaigns and his wife's nonprofit.

A major broadband drilling project in Southern Humboldt was shut down after a contractor (Direct Drilling) illegally dumped thousands of gallons of raw drilling mud (bentonite slurry) into unpermitted pits on private land. The slurry leaked, polluting Redwood Creek and the South Fork Eel River, threatening protected salmon habitats.

The project is part of Governor Newsom's $3.25 billion "Broadband for All" initiative. Because the project faces a strict federal funding deadline of December 2026, the state fast-tracked it by exempting it from traditional CEQA environmental reviews, creating immense pressure on contractors to move fast.

State regulators approved the drilling without ensuring a waste management plan was in place. Because Humboldt County has no local facilities that accept liquid slurry, contractors were supposed to truck it 220 miles south or solidify it on-site. Instead, they cut corners and dumped it locally.

Humboldt County has issued a stop-work order. Drilling cannot resume until the contractors present a legal, approved plan for waste disposal, putting the project's strict 2026 deadline in serious jeopardy.

https://kymkemp.com/2026/06/10/drilling-...k-resumes/

https://www.gov.ca.gov/2026/04/02/govern...-internet/

https://youtube.com/shorts/FLVrwINBYQM?s...bEeG_CSksr

Yep, formal-wear sermonizers are saints on the political mount as long as we don't follow the opportunistic self-interests and money trails behind their moral elite posturing.

But it's also a Golden State fetish: Taxpayers wearing the traditional bondage-collar gear. With the local lord protector holding the animal leashes and thumping fist vigorously on the social justice pulpit at the latest outrage that must be remedied. A tad reminiscent of those WWII barrage balloons hovering over London that blithely accepted their fate (doom).

[Syne]

Yeah, Democrats' standards, like protecting the environment, don't mean much when they need to fund campaigns. They have no real principles.

[Secular Sanity]

He also did a backdoor deal with Kaiser. They had to take a certain amount of Medicaid patients, and he let them choose the cream of the crop. Kaiser has made numerous donations. It’s not illegal, but he’s running for president, and the DOJ is investigating him. It’s been a shit show in California, tearing down dams…the Klamath, and now they are trying to take out Scott and Cape horn to save the salmon.

Investigations found that companies such as PG&E, AT&T, Comcast, and Kaiser Permanente donated to his wife’s nonprofit while also lobbying or doing business with the California government. She was paying herself at least $150,000 per year and some went into her production company.

Here’s his response to the investigation.

https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/9qDFy2j9TJU

[C C]

Yet more insistence, repetition, and emphasis on it not being merely stage performance.

2WAY
https://youtu.be/927o2TLBfEM

VIDEO EXCERPT: I can tell you from Californians who are Democrats, who do not want JD Vance or Marco Rubio to be president. That this is a real investigation. There may be political elements to it, but [it's bubbity bubbity legit]...

“Gavin Newsom won’t be a presidential candidate”: “This is a real investigation” on family finances

https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/927o2TLBfEM

[Secular Sanity]

He’s anti-Trump, so he might have a chance. He’s slick, that’s for sure.

Who knows if they’ll find anything but his former Chief of Staff, Dana Williamson, pleaded guilty in federal court to conspiracy committing bank fraud and wire fraud.

https://www.justice.gov/usao-edca/pr/cal...conspiracy

And the behested payments should have been reported. Many donors were major corporations and institutions—such as Apple, Amazon, BlackRock, and others listed in the stipulation. The public should have been informed on time, and the lengthy delays undermine transparency regardless of intent.

https://www.fppc.ca.gov/siteassets/docum...lation.pdf