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Homeless people in the Governor’s Manson? From “STOOPID” to “Hell, yes,” readers responded
A number of weeks in the past, I wrote a column suggesting that homeless households transfer into the empty governor’s mansion in Sacramento.
I puzzled what others would consider the concept, so I hooked up a survey to the story, and oh, readers, you weren’t shy in your opinions. Loads of you thought it was a horrible concept, nevertheless it was those who didn’t who shocked me probably the most.
Two responses stood out.
The grandson of former California Gov. Goodwin “Goodie” Knight, Jonathan Weedman, was unequivocally in favor of repurposing a home that has “particular that means” for his household.
“Hell, sure,” stated Weedman. “Flip the mansion right into a facility that may assist.”
Weedman’s mother and father, Carolyn Knight and Charles Weedman, had been married within the mansion in the summertime of 1955, slicing by way of a six-tiered cake and strolling down a white runner laid throughout the mansion’s ornate carpets. They divorced about 12 years later.
Carolyn was stunning, loving, caring and progressive. However she was additionally a “very fragile soul” who suffered from untreated psychological sickness, Weedman stated. She died by suicide when Weedman was 10 years outdated and he or she was 36, just a few years after the divorce, the defining occasion of his life and one which set him on a path of working for nonprofits in a bid to assist others.
Goodie Knight, who was governor from late 1953 to 1959, found his daughter’s physique in her storage a day after she died, and Weedman stated his grandfather by no means recovered. Two months later, Knight died of a stroke.
Carolyn Knight kisses her father, former California Gov. Goodwin Knight, at her 1955 wedding ceremony on the governor’s mansion in Sacramento.
(Jonathan Weedman)
Weedman stated for a very long time, his household didn’t discuss his mother’s loss of life brazenly, they however in the end determined talking out might assist others with psychological sickness and serves for example that mind illness occurs to folks from all backgrounds.
“If it provides anybody pause, a second of reflection — that somebody of their world could also be struggling — it’s completely value it,” he stated.
Weedman sees the locations the place psychological sickness intersects with homelessness and believes our responses to the twin crises must be artistic. He is aware of his mother would agree.
“If it’s empty, and unused, and uninhabited, what higher option to honor my grandfather, grandmother and oldsters’ reminiscences than to take this stunning outdated residence and switch it into a spot that may assist probably the most susceptible in our society?” he wrote.
In fact, there have been many individuals who introduced a unique outlook.
“You need to be out of your rattling thoughts to suppose housing homeless within the governor’s mansion is a good suggestion!” wrote Jackson Brown of Sign Hill (not the singer, who spells his final title with an “e”). “This isn’t the Soviet Union the place folks piled into communal housing. RIP widespread sense.”
Michael Peterson of Palm Springs recommended that concepts like mine are what earns California its repute for craziness.
“Nothing says ‘your state has failed’ higher than letting the governor’s mansion descend into homeless squalor,” Peterson stated, including, “I’m not a NIMBY.”
Patty Nash of Riverside puzzled about my mind after studying the column.
“For those who can’t determine the considerations it’s since you are STOOOPID,” she wrote. “Most of those persons are there due to their long run decisions.”
Many voiced considerations like Nash’s concerning the suitability of at present homeless folks dwelling in a grand home — believing that almost all of these on the streets mentally in poor health or hooked on medicine or alcohol, and might’t be trusted to correctly look after such a house.
“Druggie bums would destroy it,” predicted Robert Value of Atascadero.
In truth, about 40,000 out of California’s 160,000 unsheltered persons are mentally in poor health, with about 10% of these having extreme psychological sickness. However these with extreme psychological sickness, or the addictions that always accompany it, are sometimes probably the most seen and troubling. Some who wrote in have lived expertise in the case of coping with that 10%, and raised relatable considerations.
Sara from Lakewood (who requested that her final title not be used) stated that she lived subsequent door to an deserted constructing that homeless folks took over. “They left big piles of trash within the yard and triggered a rat infestation,” she stated. “They acquired into horrific and violent fights in the course of the night time.” All of it got here crashing down, actually, when the constructing caught on fireplace, threatening close by constructions.
Sara stated she believes we want extra shelters, however she doesn’t need that type of exercise close to her children, and truthfully, who does?
“The L.A. Occasions assaults folks for not wanting shelters of their neighborhoods, however refuses to acknowledge the the explanation why,” she wrote.
Truthful sufficient. Acknowledged.
Nobody deserves to reside in unsafe situations, and I completely agree that these in homeless housing have to be good neighbors — and that these working housing services want to verify their tenants perceive what that appears like.
However regardless of issues with the concept, actual and imagined, nearly all of the 200-plus individuals who responded didn’t oppose the notion. A number of even went all in with me, seeing it as an emblematic remark concerning the discrimination and stigma homeless folks face, a pushback on the sense that “the homeless” are a monolithic bloc too far gone to reside amongst civilized society. (A couple of respondent advocated for transport homeless folks to empty areas, from the Southwest desert to Lancaster.)
“It’s a cool symbolic gesture which might assist a few households. Why not?” stated Kevin Jensen of Bakersfield.
“It might make a strong assertion about our state’s dedication to addressing this disaster, in addition to being sensible,” stated Larelle Hendon of Santa Ana. “The basis explanation for NIMBYism is that we don’t see homeless folks as ‘one in all us.’ We don’t see that we’re all linked; that struggling by anybody is an issue for us all.”
Others linked with the concept of extra small-scale housing for homeless folks, bringing them into communities in single-family homes or different restricted settings that may give each the dignity of a house whereas calming neighborhood fears that always accompany bigger services.
“[T]he downside is the considered an enormous, industrialized shelter,” stated Andrea Bersaglieri from La Miranda. “Nobody needs that of their neighborhood! If there have been one home on every block or in every neighborhood it will be a sport changer. We actually would all be on this collectively.”
Jason Gonzalez, who lives within the Hollywood Hills, agreed with Bersaglieri.
“Everybody homeless has a unique scenario,” he wrote. “The possibility to fill a particular place with a particular household or particular person shouldn’t be wasted because of a pompous perspective concerning the [mansion].”
The Outdated Governor’s Mansion State Historic Park is seen in Sacramento.
(Wealthy Pedroncelli/AP)
That brings me to the second response that struck me, and actually made my level higher than I ever might.
It got here from a 17-year-old named Joanna, who lives in Downey. She wrote that she grew up dwelling in “different folks’s properties as a result of my mom didn’t make a secure earnings for a cushty dwelling.” She thinks permitting households like hers — individuals who simply want a little bit assist, and a little bit safety — to reside within the governor’s mansion is a “nice” concept.
“My youthful self could be very pleased if my household was supplied to reside within the governor’s mansion as a result of my mom wouldn’t have to fret about discovering a short lived residence only for her children to really feel secure,” Joanna wrote.
I hope Joanna’s phrases kick you within the intestine. They hit me that means. She grew up so insecure about her housing, with all of the harm and hardship that brings, and but she thinks of the way it makes her mother really feel as an alternative of specializing in her personal expertise.
I’ve been overlaying homelessness for lots of years, and I’ve met as many individuals like Joanna as I’ve folks with extreme psychological sickness. For each particular person you see incoherent on the street, know that there’s a mother and her children parked someplace in a beat-up automobile, hoping nobody sees them, fearing they are going to be break up up if they’re discovered, determined to make it to the subsequent paycheck to hire a rundown room for just a few nights.
Or a dad, too ashamed to hunt assist as a result of he can’t determine make sufficient cash on his personal. Or a teenager, aged out of foster care with nowhere to go and nobody to assist, perhaps working from a home the place they weren’t accepted, or confronted hurt.
The one fixed I’ve realized is that there are 1,000,000 the explanation why persons are homeless, and none of them are easy. However most of them, someplace alongside the road, are about an individual who wanted assist, wanted somebody to see how their lives had been falling aside. Like Joanna’s mother and Carolyn Knight.
“All people deserves a house, however not everyone seems to be lucky sufficient to reside underneath a roof,” Joanna wrote, once more with the empathy. “I strongly consider that the governor’s mansion is of extra use to homeless folks than to the governor himself.”
Me too, Joanna. Could your future be secure, with a roof at all times over your head.
Following the Supreme Court’s historic decision on former President Trump’s immunity claim in the federal election interference case, the matter has been officially returned for a trial.
This is standard court procedure. A month after the Supreme Court’s July 1 decision, the case has been formally remanded to the appeals court, which will then return it to Judge Tanya Chutkan.
“ORDERED, on the court’s own motion, that this case be remanded to the District Court for further proceedings consistent with the Supreme Court’s opinion,” the Aug. 2 filing reads.
JUSTICE ALITO QUESTIONS WHETHER PRESIDENTS WILL HAVE TO FEAR ‘BITTER POLITICAL OPPONENT’ THROWING THEM IN JAIL
Donald Trump arrives to Trump Tower, Thursday, May 30, 2024 after being found guilty on 34 counts of falsifying business records in the first degree. (Felipe Ramales for Fox News Digital)
In the coming days, Judge Chutkan is expected to establish a schedule for the parties to discuss the application of the SCOTUS ruling in the ongoing prosecution. Open court hearings are anticipated, after which the judge will determine the extent to which the Special Counsel’s evidence can be used in the trial.
Last month, the Supreme Court ruled in Trump v. United States that a former president has substantial immunity from prosecution for official acts committed while in office, but not for unofficial acts.
SCOTUS WEIGHS MONUMENTAL CONSTITUTIONAL FIGHT OVER TRUMP IMMUNITY CLAIM
Former President Donald J. Trump is set to face a ruling over his immunity claim at the Supreme Court in Washington D.C. (Donald Trump: Photo by Peter Zay/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images | Supreme Court: Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)
In a 6-3 decision, the Court sent the matter back down to a lower court, as the justices did not apply the ruling to whether or not former President Trump is immune from prosecution regarding actions related to efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election. The ruling came shortly after a New York jury found Trump guilty on all counts of falsifying business records in the first degree stemming from Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s investigation.
Special Counsel Jack Smith charged the former president with conspiracy to defraud the United States; conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding; obstruction of and attempt to obstruct an official proceeding; and conspiracy against rights. Those charges stemmed from Smith’s investigation into whether Trump was involved in the Jan. 6 Capitol riot and any alleged interference in the 2020 election result.
Trump pleaded not guilty to all charges last summer.
Fox News Digital has reached out to the Trump campaign for comment.
This is a developing story.
Fox News Digital’s Brooke Singman contributed to this report.
U.S. job growth slowed sharply last month and the unemployment rate rose to a nearly three-year high of 4.3%, the latest sign of a cooling labor market, the government reported Friday.
Employers added 114,000 jobs in July, well below economists’ projections and down from an average monthly gain of 215,000 in payrolls over the previous 12 months, said the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
The jump in the unemployment rate, from 4.1% in June and 3.5% in July 2023, came amid increasing concerns of a weakening economy as high interest rates meant to fight inflation continue to weigh on businesses and consumers. Investors were rattled by Friday’s jobs report, which comes on the heels of a big fall in stocks the day before.
The Federal Reserve signaled on Wednesday that it could cut interest rates at its next meeting in September, but some analysts have said policymakers are already behind the curve and that it’s possible they could even make a move before then.
“The dark storm clouds threatening the economy have moved in from off shore suddenly and are very, very real,” said Christopher Rupkey, chief economist at Fwdbonds, an economic and markets research firm. He warned of an impending recession.
The labor market has been unusually resilient and the unemployment rate remains low by historical standards. But the rapid increase from earlier this year, when the jobless figure was 3.7%, has revived worries of a recession among economists.
The slowdown in hiring last month was broad-based. Job growth was led by hiring in the healthcare sector. There were solid gains in construction and at hotels and restaurants.
But the struggling information sector, including the film industry and publishing, continued to shed jobs. Employment was flat in business and professional services, which include high-paying computer software and engineering firms, and there was little change in finance, retail and manufacturing.
Average hourly earnings of all private-sector jobs were up 8 cents from June, to $35.07, which is 3.6% higher than a year ago — a tad above the rate of inflation.
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'F— the White women': Black activists tied to VP Harris could derail Dem 'unity' message with past rhetoric
Harris a ‘genuine radical’: Sims
Cliff Sims, former special assistant to the president, discusses Vice President Harris’ liberal policies and record on “Sunday Night in America.”
A pair of Black female activists, who have met with Vice President Harris several times and previously vowed to get “real serious” about helping her become the next president, could alienate some of the “White women for Kamala” supporters with their past rhetoric as they mobilize ahead of November’s election.
Cora Masters Barry, an appointee of Democrat D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser and longtime civil rights activist, and Melanie Campbell, who leads the National Coalition on Black Civic Participation, have visited the White House more than 50 times combined during the Biden administration, including nearly a dozen visits with Harris or her staff, a Fox News Digital review found.
Weeks before President Biden and Harris were sworn into office in 2021, Barry and Campbell participated in a public Zoom call in which they made controversial statements about Trump supporters and attacked White voters, specifically White women, which could cause some internal clashes as different coalitions mobilize to try to get Harris into the White House.
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Harris privately met with Cora Masters Barry who said, “F— white women,” on a conference call. (Fox News Digital)
Approximately 164,000 White women hopped on a Zoom call last week, which was organized by Moms Demand Action founder Shannon Watts and other female celebrities. The call, titled “White Women: Answer the Call,” reportedly raised millions of dollars for Harris’ campaign and could be a major fundraising force over the next few months.
However, the unearthed comments from the two activists could cause some internal tension for the Harris campaign as they look to mobilize different voting blocs and have called for “Unity.”
“If you claim to stand for unity, you need to do more than just use the word,” Harris recently said.
“We have to change our strategy. We got to get our people. We have to get our – they got their people. They got all the trailer parks all covered,” Barry said during the Zoom. “All them people up in West Virginia and the hills, they’re covered. They got them all the way there to Wall Street.”
“[Trump] did that, and we’re sitting here talking about the White women. F— the white women– excuse me – forget the White women. They’re going to do what the White men tell them to do,” Barry continued, eliciting laughter and clapping from Campbell.
“What they tell themselves,” Campbell interjected.
“They be smiling in their faces, they want to stay in charge,” Barry continued, with Campbell reacting affirmatively in the background. “I don’t care nothing about them, we got to do what we got to do.”
Barry went on to say that the Black community has to “get real serious about organizing to elect Kamala Harris as the next President of the United States” and that she doesn’t “want no women’s parade.”
“If they have another Women’s March – I’ll go over there and blow it up,” Barry said.
Barry also attacked supporters of then-President Trump, comparing them to the Ku Klux Klan by saying, “I’m not saying everyone who voted for Trump is wearing a white sheet, but they got one in their closet, and it comes out when we start messing with the economic value or the balance of power.”
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Melanie Campbell and Cora Masters Barry participate in a meeting with Vice President Harris in 2021. (Melanie Campbell X account)
Barry went on to say at the time that, should Biden win the 2020 election, her group has “got to start organizing to make sure that the next president of the United States is a Black woman.”
“And that’s not going to happen if we don’t reach all of our Black people, because they’re the ones who are going to put her in there,” Barry added. “Those White folks ain’t going to put her in there.”
During the same Zoom call, Campbell was also critical of White women who have cast their votes for Trump, saying “race” and “White privilege” were driving factors and that she didn’t understand how they could support someone who “disrespects you as a woman.”
FLASHBACK: NEW HARRIS CAMPAIGN SENIOR ADVISER MADE SEVERAL INSENSITIVE COMMENTS ABOUT WOMEN, GAY PEOPLE
“Am I surprised? No. Am I frustrated? Yeah – determined that we have to still find a way to get up and deal with it,” Campbell said. “What I’m not interested in doing is what I did, Cora, in 2016 is have these fruitless conversations with my White girlfriends who want to tell me we need to sit down and have a conversation. No we don’t. You need to go talk to your sister. You need to go talk to your cousin.”
“I have no interest in understanding why White folks do what they do. They do what they do because they doing what they do if I was them. They’re fighting to stay in charge and in control. That’s what they’re doing. I ain’t mad at them. What I am is mad at us,” Barry added, referring to the Black community.
Near the end of the Zoom call, Barry said it is a “perfect time” to mobilize Black voters and push their agenda “because there’s a lot of White guilt money out there.”
“I’m gonna take it- put it in my community and radicalize my people so they can come for your job. I’m saying it’s time to act,” she continued.
Fox News Digital previously reported on Cora Masters Barry praising antisemite religious leader Louis Farrakhan in 2022. (Getty Images/File)
In addition to Barry’s comments about White women, Fox News Digital previously reported on Barry lavishly praising notorious antisemite Louis Farrakhan in 2022 at a private event honoring her late husband, former D.C. Mayor Marion Barry.
During Barry’s remarks at the private ceremony, she praised Farrakhan, who has espoused antisemitic rhetoric for decades, including calling Jews “wicked” and comparing them to termites. Barry referred to Farrakhan as a “friend” and “member of the family” while also telling him “I love you more than words will ever say.”
“Minister Farrakhan, we love you more than you love us. You just don’t know it,” she added.
The Anti-Defamation League labeled Louis Farrakhan the “most popular antisemite in America” in 2020. (Mark Wilson/Getty Images)
Farrakhan in turn praised Barry, saying, “Praise God for this woman. She is a treasure. A real treasure.”
A spokesperson for both Barry and Campbell defended the comment about White women, previously telling Fox News Digital that the comment was in reference to how White women are not as reliable Democrat voters and that the vice president was not part of the conversation.
Barry, Campbell and the Harris campaign did not respond to Fox News Digital’s requests for comment.
Fox News’ Houston Keene contributed to this report.
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