Gavin Newsom, governor of California, appears indoors in a restaurant in a country where it is not allowed, but the governor’s office said he did not eat in the restaurant.
Newsom spokesman Daniel Lopez told Fox News he was there to meet the owners of the restaurant.
Newsom posted a video on his TikTok account featuring celebrity George Lopez in which he talks about where to be eligible for coronavirus vaccine. Newsom and Lopez were in Fresno, California and appear as if are Los Amigos restaurant.
A separate video of Lopez was posted on the Los Amigos restaurant’s Facebook page. Lopez endorsed the restaurant’s food.
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Fresno is in the most restrictive purple level, which does not cater for indoor dining.
In early November, Newsom was spotted in the posh French laundromat in Napa for the birthday of a longtime adviser. Indoor meals were not open to the public in Napa. Newsom deserves bitter setbacks for the outing, which he later called a ‘mistake’.
“I should have gotten up and … driven back to my house … The spirit of what I preach all the time is contradicted,” he said. “I need to preach and practice, not just preach.”
Newsom said in his apology that he wanted to “own” his mistake because he was worried it would undermine the message of safety he wanted to send to residents.
“I do my best every day to model better behavior,” he said.
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The outing of the French laundromat helped spark a recall effort that is gaining ground in California. Organizers of the Newsom recall effort say they have collected 1.825 million signatures. They need 1.5 million signatures by March 17, but are responsible for a fraction of the signatures that must be rejected.