LOS ANGELES — California Gov. Gavin Newsom is pushing back on criticism and news stories about his family vacation to visit his in-laws in Montana for the Fourth of July.
A law then-Gov. Jerry Brown signed in 2016 bans taxpayer-financed travel to Montana and other states with policies that discriminate on the basis of gender identity or sexual orientation. Among countless state and national headlines blasting the governor’s visit to his in-law’s ranch, Fox News dubbed it the latest example of Newsom “flouting his own state laws.”
But some key details were overlooked, or dismissed, in the frenzy, Newsom said.
