Wow this article found a way to claim Newsome and Trump both made “misleading” statements.

 

https://www.politifact.com/article/2023/dec/01/fact-checking-newsom-desantis-debate-migration-boo/

Wow this article found a way to claim Newsome and Trump both made “misleading” statements. They spend a lot of time calling DeSantis’s words “half lies” and spend very little time on Newsome but if you read in-between the lines, this article uses less harsh language to call out Newsome on a lot of lies.

A “small group of parents” are worried about the age appropriateness of sexual related material? That is a hard sell! I have a lot of trouble believing it’s a minority, “fringe”, group of parents worried about content their kids are exposed too.

I’ll never comprehend how charging everyone LESS taxes, places more of a burden on the middle and lower class citizens. Of course Politifact’s “source” for this claim is from a radical left, progressive “Institute”. How does having a 0% statewide income rate mean a 12.7% income tax on lower class citizens?

In regards to crime we have an entire section where PolitiFact completely disregards California and spends paragraphs criticizing the way Florida reports their crime. In the violent crime portion Politifact goes out of their way to quote another radical left leaning “source” that claims Florida has a higher gun related murders then California. They mention nothing of smash and grabs, rape, the knock out game or DeSantis’s Claim about products behind glass in stores.

Of course California can’t put any limitations on abortion because they don’t value human life, which is apparent in the way they handle crime and homelessness. A very very misleading talking point from the left is that women would be “criminalized” for not following abortion laws. This is 100% inaccurate; all proposed pro-life bills would hold doctors accountable for the procedure. The Florida law also makes several exceptions INCLUDING the mother’s life.

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California’s population declined for the first time ever in 2020, according to the Public Policy Institute of California. It’s been declining since then. (Newsom became governor in 2019). After the 2020 Census, California lost a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives for the first time in its history.

In January 2022, U-Haul said that it ran out of one-way trucks and trailers in California at the start of 2021. This was a result of the large demand of people moving out of California in 2020, leaving fewer trucks, a U-Haul spokesperson told The Sacramento Bee.

A 2023 poll by the Public Policy Institute of California found that 45% of Californians who considered moving to another state cited housing costs as a factor.

Newsom borrowed a page from former President Donald Trump’s playbook by misleadingly portraying DeSantis as a lockdown leader. Newsom’s comments focused on DeSantis’ actions in the pandemic’s first few weeks, when nearly all governors operated in lockstep. Newsom omits that DeSantis reopen earlier than most governors in the spring of 2020.

Many local governments closed beaches for a limited time, but DeSantis did not close them statewide.

Newsom was on firmer ground in his claim about closing bars. DeSantis ordered all bars and nightclubs closed for 30 days. Restaurants did not close. His March 17 order said restaurants were limited to 50% customer capacity and had to separate seating by 6 feet.

This stems from one group’s count and does not represent 1,406 books banned statewide.

A September Florida Department of Education report shows 20 of Florida’s 67 school districts and the statewide public Florida Virtual School removed 298 books in the 2022-23 school year. Some of those books were banned in multiple districts. Overall, school district officials received 1,218 objections about books.

Newsom also said, "What’s wrong with Amanda Gorman’s poetry?" suggesting it was banned. A parent at a South Florida school challenged Gorman’s poem "The Hill We Climb," which Gorman performed at Biden’s January 2021 inauguration. After a review, the K-through-eighth grade school moved the book to the library’s middle school section. It was not banned at the school, much less by the district or the state. Many of the objections were for books containing sexual or LGBTQ+ content and came from a small group of parents, some affiliated with conservative groups, such as Moms for Liberty, a Tampa Bay Times analysis found.

Among the 50 states, Florida has the nation’s 11th-lowest overall tax burden, while California has the fifth-highest, according to annual rankings by the Tax Foundation, a think tank that advocates for lower taxes.

Comparing the tax burden for the lowest 20% of households in income, California also has lower taxes. In California, households in the bottom 20% paid 10.5% of their income in taxes, compared with Florida’s 12.7%.

Meanwhile, wealthy taxpayers came out ahead in Florida, where the tax burden for the top 1% was 2.3% of income. That’s far lower than the 12.4% rate for California millionaires.

DeSantis signed legislation in 2022 that outlawed abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy. It does not make exceptions for cases of incest, rape or human trafficking but includes an exception for the mother’s life.

The law penalizes physicians, but whether it also criminalizes women is less clear, so we have rated a similar claim Half True. The law says that anyone who "actively participates in" an abortion commits a third-degree felony, which opens the door to prosecutors charging women, but we don’t yet know whether they will or how courts would respond to such charges. DeSantis has also said that he doesn’t want women prosecuted, only doctors.

This is accurate. Florida ranked third among states for fourth grade reading, after Massachusetts and Wyoming. California ranked 32nd.

DeSantis criticized California for having "one of the lowest literacy rates in the country." He is correct — but he ignored that Florida’s literacy rate is nearly as low.

Hannity said California’s levels of violent crime are "way higher than the national average." He showed a graphic with 2022 violent crime rates, based on FBI data. California had the highest rate, with 499.5 violent crimes per 100,000 people. The national average was 380.7 per 100,000, and Florida’s was 258.9 per 100,000. We checked the numbers in the graphic and found they were accurate.

Newsom is right, based on the voting patterns in the 2020 presidential election and 2020 state-by-state homicide rankings, according to an analysis of federal data by Third Way, a center-left policy group.

The map plotted public reports of human feces found in San Francisco from 2011 to 2019. (More than 118,000 people reported their findings to San Francisco’s nonemergency line.)

Newsom was San Francisco mayor from 2004 to 2011 and was California’s lieutenant governor from 2011 to 2019.

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