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   commentators-becerra-should-have-been-more-skeptical-of-campaign-fund-   
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   (INSIDE CALIFORNIA POLITICS) — Political commentators Andrew Acosta and   
   Tim Rosales joined Inside California Politics’ Nikki Laurenzo to discuss a   
   corruption case surrounding former high-level advisors to Gov. Gavin   
   Newsom and former Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra.   
      
   On Wednesday, Dana Williamson, who served as chief of staff to Newsom for   
   two years, was indicted in a conspiracy to transfer some of Becerra’s   
   campaign funds to Sean McCluskie, who worked as chief of staff to Becerra.   
      
   According to the U.S. Department of Justice, McCluskie, Williamson and   
   three others charged the dormant campaign account $7,500 a month,   
   ostensibly for work done managing it, and used it and other funds to put   
   McCluskie’s wife on the payroll of a company for which she did not   
   actually work.   
      
   In an exclusive one-on-one interview on Saturday, Becerra told Laurenzo   
   that he believed that was the going rate for that service.   
      
   Acosta and Rosales both seemed to agree that someone with as much   
   experience as Becerra should have been more skeptical of the situation.   
      
    “For someone who has as much experience as he has, it’s a little   
   concerning, you know, that a dormant account was paying somebody $10,000 a   
   month to do nothing,” Acosta, a democrat, said. “So, for me, as someone   
   who’s done this for a long time and worked with a lot of first-time   
   candidates and tried to walk them through how the process works, there’s a   
   lot of questions they would ask me about ‘Why is the treasurer charging   
   this and that?’ For someone with that much experience who’s not running   
   for governor to not have, you know, more to have a better idea of where   
   the money’s going is a little, it’s concerning.”   
      
   Rosales, a Republican, said Newsom needed to be open about what he knew   
   about the case.   
      
   “I’ve got to give Xavier Becerra a little bit of credit for coming out and   
   kind of facing, you know, these questions and doing that. I think that’s   
   not something I would expect to see from Governor Newsom,” Rosales said.   
   “…He should step forward proactively and answer some questions in terms of   
   what his engagement was, or very similar to what Xavier Becerra answered,   
   because he is a governor of the state of California, and he is looking to   
   run for the highest office in the land, for president.”   
      
   As for the case’s effect on Becerra’s campaign for governor, Acosta said   
   it was an unfortunate way for voters to get to know his name but that he   
   wasn’t alone.   
      
   “You know, the problem with both Becerra and Porter now, they’ve come on   
   [Inside California Politics] to defend, you know, missteps, and that’s how   
   they’re being introduced, Acosta said. “That’s not how you want to run a   
   governor’s race, by, you know, starting out on defense. You want to start   
   on offense. So I think a, you know, Caruso or maybe even a Tom Steyer can   
   come in and use something like to take on part of it. It’s not going to be   
   the thing. I don’t know if this is going to matter in six months.”   
      
      
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