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🎙️ This Week on the So, Does It Matter? Podcast — Jenn Van Laar, Managing Editor of RedState
Welcome back to So, Does It Matter? The Podcast — where we sit down with the people who are actually shaping the political reality of California.
Today, I am pleased to welcome back Jennifer Van Laar, managing editor of RedState and one of California’s most persistent investigative reporters.
Jenn has been reporting for years on questions involving Gavin Newsom, Jennifer Siebel Newsom, the family’s finances, their nonprofit connections, and a series of real estate transactions that deserve far more scrutiny than they have received from California’s political press.
Now that Newsom himself has publicly acknowledged a federal investigation involving his family’s finances, it is worth stepping back and asking the obvious question: Is this really new — or is it simply the first time much of the media has been forced to pay attention?
In this conversation, Jenn walks through how she first began pulling on these threads, what is known and unknown about the federal probe, the nonprofit angle involving the California Partners Project and the Representation Project, the questions surrounding the Newsoms’ real estate transactions, and why the missing tax returns matter.
We also talk about what conservatives should focus on — and what they should avoid — if they want to make this a serious accountability issue rather than a rumor mill.
It’s a detailed, fast-moving conversation with a reporter who has been on this story long before it became convenient for others to notice.
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And, here is Newsom’s bizarre media event making the long statement about the DOJ investigating his family…
One More Thing…
Below the paywall, you’ll find One More Thing — Jenn gives us a preview of a new investigation she is working on involving CHIRLA, the “Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights,” one of California’s most influential left-wing immigrant-rights organizations.
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