Opinion: Newsom displays penchant for shiny new things on California tour
The syndrome may explain why officials often ignore long-festering problems in existing programs, such as the Employment Development Department and the bullet train project. Simply making things work better doesn’t have the political appeal of something new and shiny.
Later, when both proved to be unattainable, he declared them to be “aspirational” rather than firm promises. The splashiest of Newsom’s new things is a multi-billion-dollar plan to house thousands of homeless and mentally ill Californians in new facilities that would combine shelter with treatment for their afflictions.
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