{"id":240121,"date":"2026-04-08T08:58:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T08:58:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/240121\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T08:58:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T08:58:07","slug":"california-dreamin-newsom-spending-19-million-in-tax-dollars-on-p-r-newsradio-740-ktrh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/240121\/","title":{"rendered":"California Dreamin&#8217; &#8211; Newsom Spending $19 Million In Tax Dollars On P.R. | NewsRadio 740 KTRH"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Even with California facing a nearly $18 billion dollar budget deficit, outgoing governor Gavin Newsom is spending $19 million in taxpayer dollars on a P.R. campaign to try and make his record look better.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is clearly an effort to improve his image for national aspirations. It&#8217;s not surprising&#8221; said Michele Steeb, author and former California resident, who escaped Sacramento and moved here to Texas.<\/p>\n<p>Newsom&#8217;s office says it&#8217;s an economic initiative, to push back on criticism and negative narratives.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The governor has been a failure on so many levels, he has really brought that state to it&#8217;s knees&#8221; Steeb told KTRH, &#8220;$19 million dollars is just a drop in the bucket, in terms of what he&#8217;s really trying to do to cover up his failures.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The multi-million dollar campaign got underway on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m disappointed as a former Californian, but not all surprised&#8221; noted Steeb, who is also the Founder &amp; CEO of the FreeUp Foundation, which is actually making a difference, in dealing with the homeless crisis here in the U.S.     https:\/\/www.freeupfoundation.com\/<\/p>\n<p>Back in 2024, Michele Steeb wrote an op-ed for The Federalist, exposing that Houston&#8217;s &#8216;Housing First&#8217; program wasn&#8217;t what it claimed.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/10\/17\/houstons-homelessness-crisis-is-an-indictment-of-housing-first-policy\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Even with California facing a nearly $18 billion dollar budget deficit, outgoing governor Gavin Newsom is spending $19&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":240122,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[56,58,57,66,223,27],"class_list":["post-240121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news","tag-local","tag-news","tag-texas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240121\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/240122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}