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California Gov. Gavin Newsom has his caput successful the clouds – astatine slightest that’s the lawsuit with a caller video helium posted to tout what helium says are "record-breaking tourism numbers" successful the state.
In the video, Newsom appears to beryllium suspended precocious successful the aerial supra the Golden Gate Bridge, starring immoderate online to speculate if Newsom is, successful fact, Spider-Man. While others were speedy to constituent retired the galore issues plaguing California, similar crime, homelessness and sky-high prices.
Newsom began the video with, "So, I’m up present on the iconic Golden Gate Bridge. A testament to America’s greatness … California’s greatness and we couldn’t beryllium much proud."
He continued, "Over $150 cardinal of tourism spent, unprecedented successful our state's history. If you haven't had the accidental to spot the magnificence, the quality of our large state, it's clip to sojourn California."
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Critics rapidly took to X to stock their absorption to the governor's video.
"Is the @CAgovernor besides Spider-Man?" 1 idiosyncratic asked.
"You are calling the millions of illegals invading California tourists?" 1 idiosyncratic wrote.
"Weird mode to observe inflation, but bash you bud," different idiosyncratic wrote.
"Meanwhile, CA residency conscionable deed an each clip low. People can’t permission CA accelerated enough," different remark read.
"Having illegals transverse your borderline by the thousands doesn't number arsenic ‘Tourism'....," different idiosyncratic commented.
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Gov. Gavin Newsom posted a video connected X astatine the apical of the Golden Gate Bridge arsenic helium declared that unprecedented "record-breaking tourism numbers" occurred successful 2023. (DeAgostini/Getty Images/X @GavinNewsom)
On Sunday, Newsom's bureau released new information that showed California continues to person the largest marketplace stock of tourism successful the nation, with question spending successful the authorities reaching an all-time grounds precocious of $150.4 cardinal past year, which surpassed the erstwhile grounds $144.9 cardinal spent successful 2019.
"From our world-renowned coastline, to the world’s tallest trees, to our iconic cities and taxable parks, California is the nation’s coming attraction. Visitors from each implicit the satellite are coming present to acquisition the wonderment of the Golden State, boosting our system and creating good-paying jobs for years to come," Newsom said.
California Senate Minority Leader Brian Jones disagreed with Newsom's math.
"Newsom touts a record-breaking $150.4 cardinal successful tourism spending for 2023, supposedly surpassing the pre-pandemic fig of $144.9 cardinal successful 2019. However, erstwhile adjusted for inflation, tourism spending would person to beryllium a staggering $173 cardinal to bushed the 2019 number," Jones told Fox News Digital.
"Of course, everything costs much successful California acknowledgment to ‘Gavinomics,’ and of course, his statistic don’t instrumentality that into account. It’s much fume and mirrors arsenic accustomed with this governor. Rather than chasing headlines with deceiving statistics, helium should walk immoderate clip really fixing California and our aggregate crises similar homelessness, affordability and crime." — California Senate Minority Leader Brian Jones
Jones said everything costs much successful California acknowledgment to "Gavinomics."
"It’s much fume and mirrors arsenic accustomed with this governor. Rather than chasing headlines with deceiving statistics, helium should walk immoderate clip really fixing California and our aggregate crises similar homelessness, affordability and crime," Jones said.
California Assembly Republican Leader James Gallagher shared a akin sentiment.
"These numbers are arsenic phony arsenic Gavin’s shot vocation – erstwhile you origin successful ostentation (like mean radical person to), tourism is down 14% connected his watch. Crime and homelessness person go the California brand, and nary magnitude of rotation from Newsom volition alteration that," Gallagher told Fox News Digital successful a statement.
In the state's caller data, Visit California CEO Caroline Beteta said California tourism is backmost wherever it belongs and is mounting records and providing for the workers, concern owners and each Californians who beryllium connected the question manufacture arsenic a cornerstone of the state’s economy.
"The manufacture has erstwhile again proved its quality to retrieve from immoderate challenge, whether it beryllium economic oregon environmental. California continues to beryllium the largest, astir divers and astir resilient tourism system successful the United States," Beteta said.
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Gov. Gavin Newsom said California has experienced record-breaking tourism numbers arsenic the authorities struggles with a fig of issues, including rampant transgression and homelessness. (Tayfun Coskun)
According to Visit California, the caller question spending record generated $12.7 cardinal successful authorities and section taxation gross by visitors successful 2023, marking a 3% summation implicit 2019. However, tourists spent $37.7 cardinal successful the Bay Area successful 2023, down somewhat from $39 cardinal spent successful 2019.
"It would beryllium large if the politician enactment arsenic overmuch vigor into improving California arsenic helium does into taking unearned triumph laps with misleading statistics. Maybe past we’d really interruption a record," Gallagher added.
Gov. Gavin Newsom was accused of touting tourism numbers that don't relationship for inflation. (California Governor Gavin Newsom YouTube channel)
The authorities statistic besides showed that tourism created 64,900 caller jobs successful 2023, bringing full manufacture employment to 1,155,000.
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In summation to visiting the state, much radical are moving to California, according to Newsom, who besides said the state’s colonisation is expanding for the archetypal clip since the pandemic.
Fox News Digital reached retired to Newsom's bureau for remark but has not yet heard back.
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