Gavin Newsom slammed for secretly funding $97K monument dedicated to himself inside SF city hall

LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA: California Governor Gavin Newsom is facing backlash from residents of his state on social media after reports surfaced that he paid to set up a monument in his own honor at the San Francisco City Hall, the Daily Mail reported.

Newsom's bust at the city hall commemorates his time as the mayor of San Francisco, a position he held from 2004 to 2011, while still being married to Kimberly Guilfoyle, former Fox News anchor and current Ambassador to Greece. 

How did California Governor Gavin Newsom pay for his monument at San Francisco City Hall?

Jedd McFatter and Susan Crabtree's book titled 'Fool's Gold: The Radicals, Con Artists, and Traitors Who Killed the California Dream and Now Threaten Us All' was released on Tuesday, March 11. The writers claim that Newsom put together a memorial of his time as the San Francisco mayor with the help of donors at the city hall in the book.

Newsom allegedly used "behested payment" to pay for the vanity project. According to the Daily Mail, behested payments refer to "contributions made by donors that their political clients ask them to make on their behalf."

Three private organizations, out of which two are owned by Newsom himself, allegedly made donations to the non-profit earmarked for "Mayoral Bust at San Francisco City Hall."

The Newsom-owned organizations, Balboa Cafe Partners and PlumpJack Management Group, donated a combined $10,000.

The monument reportedly cost $97,000 to complete. During its construction, Newsom insisted that he found the whole thing odd but never revealed who paid for it.

"I don't want to call it embarrassing, but it's a strange thing," he shared in an interview at the time. "I'm just awkward about it. But now the word is out."

Internet slams Gavin Newsom for funding his own memorial 

Reacting to the shocking revelations in the book, people on the internet slammed California Governor Gavin Newsom for funding his own monument in San Francisco City Hall and called him a "narcissist."

"Just wow. What a narcissist. That’s embarrassing," wrote a social media user on X.

"What a narcissistic jack a**! A man without any humility or self respect! His family must be ashamed and embarrassed," shared another.

"Funding a sculpture of yourself has got to be the most self obsessed, selfish trait of an egomaniac! Get this Egotistical POS Newsom out of politics permanently!" exclaimed one person.

"He's so vain. And worse still, it's so obvious," added another. 

"What a colossal d***he this guy is. Worships himself with a bust nobody wants & then pretends that he didn’t do it," one individual remarked.

"California is falling apart, and this guy is out here building statues of himself. You can’t make this level of delusion up," expressed another.

"He deserves it so future generations can remember him as GOD of inefficiency," someone else remarked.

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