Gavin Newsom Takes Advantage of ‘Disgusting’ Loophole to Funnel Over $4M to Wife’s pet Projects
Joan Harrington, a former director and current fellow at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics at Santa Clara University, called the financial dealings between the California Partners Project and the other entities linked to Siebel Newsom and the governor “very tangled.”
“Why didn’t those other organizations donate directly to the nonprofit? Why did they go through Newsom?” Harrington said, referring to the governor soliciting behested payments to his wife’s political nonprofit.
“If they are truly caring about those issues, they should be giving directly, and if they’re not giving directly, we come to a natural conclusion.”
Joan Harrington, Ethics Center Fellow, quoted by the California Post.
Mar 10, 2026