

"While we were there we realized there was a very loud party going on in a room 20 feet from us. He has suffered severe political backlash since it surfaced Friday that he and his wife attended the party with a dozen friends at the French Laundry restaurant in wine country north of San Francisco.įOX 11 spoke to the woman who took the photos and told us: Newsom says he made ‘bad mistake’ attending pricey party in defiance of COVID-19 guidelines Newsom attended birthday dinner that didn't follow COVID-19 guidelines, regrets decision.On Monday Newsom apologized for what he called 'a bad mistake' in attending a birthday party that broke the very rules that he has been talking about to slow the spread of the coronavirus. "If I didn’t know how long they’d been there and how in with the association they were I would say the medical association should fire the president and lobbyist cause it reflects really poorly on them."įOX 11 reached out to Norman Corcoran and the CMA for comment but never heard back. Neither of them, as a matter of fact, no one at the table was wearing a mask or social-distancing despite the CMA funding an ad campaign this year urging people to wear masks.Ĭourt says, "The message is to forget the pandemic, sit as close as you can, no face-coverings, no masks, no social-distancing, this is the state’s medical association, they speak for the doctors in the state, and their chief lobbyist and the president are sitting shoulder to shoulder with the governor as though its’ any time in American history not in the time of a pandemic."
