Gavin Newsom’s got 99 problems — and Larry Elder is the biggest one

Weary Californians are ready to send California Gov. Gavin Newsom to the Andrew M. Cuomo Memorial Home for Incurable Politicians. 

The Democrat faces a recall election in September after 1.3 million Californians — including hundreds of thousands of registered Democrats — signed a recall petition damning his performance on everything from illegal immigrants to water-use policies to taxes. 

Right now, Newsom has three distinct sets of problems. His first set of problems can be filed under “Gavin Newsom Is Not Very Good at Politics.” 

Newsom made himself into a figure of contempt when, in the midst of the COVID-19 lockdown he ordered and ruthlessly policed, he and his lobbyist cronies — medical lobbyists at that! — discarded the masks he had mandated for the peasantry and sat down for a splendid meal at the French Laundry, arguably America’s most froufrou restaurant, running up a $12,000 tab for wine alone.