Gavin Newsom is corrupt. Otherwise, why would he give a one billion face mask contract during COVID to a political consulting firm that has never manufactured anything or sold any products? It was a no bid contract. Now we find he is still doing it.
“In March of 2023, CA Governor Gavin Newsom held a press conference to grab national media headlines with his launch of a taxpayer-funded “Hate Crime Hotline” in California to allow residents to report hate crimes to the state for investigation. Now two years later, CA State Assemblymember Carl DeMaio this week exposed the entire program as a “PR stunt at best and a fraud at worst that has cost taxpayers nearly $5 million and has not produced a single criminal referral for a hate crime.”
At a state budget hearing this week, Newsom’s Administration specifically requested legislative authority to ignore state competitive bidding laws to award another $2.4 million in a no-bid arrangement to his preferred vendor L.A. 211.
DeMaio came to the hearing armed with the results of a performance review his office conducted on the hotline that revealed the following outrageous costs:
- 1,020 at a cost of $2,352.94 per contact: The hotline received only 2,118 emails or calls over 12 months – or 5.8 contacts a day. But a majority of them were prank or irrelevant contacts – leaving just 1,020 legitimate contacts. Cost-per-unit in the no bid contract: $2,352.94
- 680 at a cost of $3,529.41 per referral: The hotline provided a suggestion or referral to a constituent in only 680 instances over a full year – and constituents expressed frustration that they simply got referred to another entity with a different email or phone line. Cost-per-unit in the no bid contract: $3,529.41.
- TWO at a cost of $2.5M per dispute: In two years, there have only been two disputes that resulted in a non-criminal “settlement” with the alleged victim – a function that duplicates the role of existing state labor and anti-discrimination agencies.
- ZERO: There have absolutely ZERO hate crimes referred by the Hate Crime Hotline since it was launched two years ago.
DeMaio says the phony “Hate Crime Hotline” is just one of many no-bid contracts and dubious grants his office is investigating under his DOGE CA effort. DeMaio says in the last 12 months the Newsom Administration has given over $73 million to various far-Left groups for so-called Hate-Crime prevention and response programs using no-bid contracts and dubious grants that lack accounting for deliverables or performance outcomes.
“Gavin Newsom is wasting millions of state taxpayer funds on a Hate Crime Hoax at the same time he is cutting funding for investigating and punishing real crimes in our state,” DeMaio says.
In the 2025-2026 budget that demands full funding for his phony Hate Crime Hotline, Newsom is proposing to shut a fourth state prison and has refused to fund implementation of Prop 36 to investigate and prosecute criminals.”
We need an investigation of Newsom and this firm. This is open corruption and the media is covering it up like they covered up the dementia of Joe Biden.
| DeMaio Exposes Newsom Wasting $5M on No-Bid Contract to far-Left Group to Run “Phony” Hate Crime Hotline that Referred ZERO Criminal Cases in Two Years |
Assemblyman Carl DeMaio 5/22/25
| “Our DOGE CA efforts to audit the state budget are detecting a disturbing pattern of Gavin Newsom laundering state taxpayer funds to far-Left groups through no-bid contracts and dubious grants that have little or no results.” -Asm. Carl DeMaio |
| In March of 2023, CA Governor Gavin Newsom held a press conference to grab national media headlines with his launch of a taxpayer-funded “Hate Crime Hotline” in California to allow residents to report hate crimes to the state for investigation. Now two years later, CA State Assemblymember Carl DeMaio this week exposed the entire program as a “PR stunt at best and a fraud at worst that has cost taxpayers nearly $5 million and has not produced a single criminal referral for a hate crime.” At a state budget hearing this week, Newsom’s Administration specifically requested legislative authority to ignore state competitive bidding laws to award another $2.4 million in a no-bid arrangement to his preferred vendor L.A. 211. DeMaio came to the hearing armed with the results of a performance review his office conducted on the hotline that revealed the following outrageous costs: 1,020 at a cost of $2,352.94 per contact: The hotline received only 2,118 emails or calls over 12 months – or 5.8 contacts a day. But a majority of them were prank or irrelevant contacts – leaving just 1,020 legitimate contacts. Cost-per-unit in the no bid contract: $2,352.94 680 at a cost of $3,529.41 per referral: The hotline provided a suggestion or referral to a constituent in only 680 instances over a full year – and constituents expressed frustration that they simply got referred to another entity with a different email or phone line. Cost-per-unit in the no bid contract: $3,529.41. TWO at a cost of $2.5M per dispute: In two years, there have only been two disputes that resulted in a non-criminal “settlement” with the alleged victim – a function that duplicates the role of existing state labor and anti-discrimination agencies. ZERO: There have absolutely ZERO hate crimes referred by the Hate Crime Hotline since it was launched two years ago. DeMaio says the phony “Hate Crime Hotline” is just one of many no-bid contracts and dubious grants his office is investigating under his DOGE CA effort. DeMaio says in the last 12 months the Newsom Administration has given over $73 million to various far-Left groups for so-called Hate-Crime prevention and response programs using no-bid contracts and dubious grants that lack accounting for deliverables or performance outcomes. “Gavin Newsom is wasting millions of state taxpayer funds on a Hate Crime Hoax at the same time he is cutting funding for investigating and punishing real crimes in our state,” DeMaio says. In the 2025-2026 budget that demands full funding for his phony Hate Crime Hotline, Newsom is proposing to shut a fourth state prison and has refused to fund implementation of Prop 36 to investigate and prosecute criminals. |
| >> STATE BUDGET HEARING VIDEO: DEMAIO EXPOSES PHONY HATE CRIME HOTLINE |
| California State Assemblymember Carl DeMaio (R-San Diego) is a member of the California State Assembly representing District 75 which includes the communities of Fallbrook, Bonsall, Valley Center, Ramona, Poway, Scripps Ranch, Santee, Lakeside, Alpine, Julian, Borrego Springs, Pala, Jamul, Pine Valley, Pauma Valley, and Bonita. |
