Rose McGowan calls out California governor at rival's press conference, says his wife was one of Weinstein's 'treacherous' allies

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Mon, 13 Sep 2021 18:12 UTC

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California Governor Gavin Newsom and wife Jennifer Siebel Newsom applaud Kamala Harris in San Leandro, California

At a Sunday press conference, actress and activist Rose McGowan renewed her accusation that Gavin Newsom's wife tried to keep her quiet about Harvey Weinstein, and blasted Democrats and Hollywood over their complicity.

McGowan was joined by Republican Larry Elder, who is running against California Governor Newsom in the current recall election. She endorsed the GOP candidate and revealed she actually has a unique history with him, related to his time as a conservative talk radio host.

"I used to listen to Larry Elder after I'd drive home from the set," the Charmed actress said. "Sometimes I'd even pull over and use a fake name, usually Tracy, to call in."

McGowan said while she doesn't agree with everything the Republican has to say, compared to Newsom, Elder is "the better candidate" and "better man."

McGowan, who has been a vocal critic of both major political parties in the US, said she finally had to walk away from the Democratic Party because "everyone who has harassed, stalked, and stolen from me in my time in Hollywood has been a Democrat."

McGowan claimed earlier this week that Newsom's wife, Jennifer Siebel Newsom, contacted her six months before the actress revealed her explosive sexual assault accusations against Weinstein.

According to McGowan, Siebel Newsom contacted her on behalf of Weinstein's attorney, David Boies.

"So this woman, I don't know, some blonde lady name with the last name of the Newsom, cold-calls me, and was like, David Boies wants to know what it would take to 'make you happy,'" McGowan told 'The Rubin Report' last week.

McGowan said that at the time, she had been finding recording devices, felt she was being stalked and that nude photos and videos of her had been disseminated onto the internet. She believes Boies and former Weinstein ally Lisa Bloom - "another big Democrat," McGowan sarcastically said - were behind all the tactics, some of which are further detailed in a New Yorker report about private spies being utilized by Weinstein to keep accusers like McGowan silent.

The actress hung up on the call, but claimed Newsom's wife had previously tried to make herself out to be a Weinstein victim to get into a private email group "of Weinstein rape victims." McGowan said she had forgotten about the emails until coming across them recently and the 'Newsom' connection clicked in her head.

"I had forgotten about this lady. I had forgotten about this treachery," she admitted.

According to a Washington Free Beacon report, Newsom himself has accepted pricey bottles of wine from Boies, including only weeks after the explosive New Yorker story was published.

When Elder, arguably the most popular of Newsom's challengers, got behind the mic on Sunday, he targeted the media for not giving proper attention to McGowan's serious charges.

"If someone had said my significant other contacted Rose McGowan and said, 'what can we do to make this go away', it's all you'd be talking about until the end of this campaign," Elder said, adding that McGowan has produced emails sent from Siebel Newsom. She said she sent the emails to Politico today.

McGowan did previously post what she said were emails from Siebel Newsom, in which she appeared to acknowledge contacting McGowan and having a family member working with Boies.

Siebel Newsom has denied the accusations through a statement, calling them a "complete fabrication."

Following the press conference, McGowan tweeted about Newsom and his potential knowledge of his wife's alleged actions, saying, "What did he know and when did he know it?"

Harvey Weinstein continues to deny the accusations against him, though the disgraced producer has been convicted on other sexual assault charges, and has more charges awaiting still in California.

Sunday's press conference took place two days before the recall election, mainly motivated by citizens' growing dissatisfaction with Newsom's handling of the Covid-19 pandemic. If Elder is successful in unseating Newsom, the Democrat governor will be the third to be recalled in the state's history, the last being Gray Davis, who was replaced by Republican actor Arnold Schwarzenegger in a 2003 recall election.

Comment: McGowan continued her scathing indictment, extending it to the media coverage she and Elder have received:

"I did not slam BLM. I slammed arrogant white people for thinking black people give an F about them mattering to white liberals or racists," McGowan said, reacting to Fox News coverage of her joint media conference with California gubernatorial candidate Larry Elder. The news article she was angry about was headlined "Rose McGowan slams Black Lives Matter alongside Larry Elder: 'He might just know more than you.'"

The issue of Black Lives Matter was brought after Elder rebuked the Democratic party for "playing the race card" to boost the black vote, which he said went against progress in civil rights.

"Racial justice, that's what this party is all about. And they divided this country," he said. "We have far more in common than we have apart."

Elder said after electing a black person for president, Americans "can now deal with people based on the content of character, not the color of skin. Instead Democrats have doubled down... on things like Critical Race Theory and reparation."

As she supported the sentiment, McGowan predicted that "mostly white people who work in the media will disavow that. But understand who it's coming from and that he just might know more than you living in a different skin."

"Most people don't want to hear that. They want to hear that the more we micro-label each other, the better we'll be," she added. "If you truly want to get past racial barriers, be fair in coverage. Be honest."

McGowan sees American society as deeply corrupted, with powerful elites deliberately keeping the common people ignorant and divided so that they can be preyed upon with ease. Much of the activism ostensibly promoting racial justice is part of this system, she believes, treating people of color with condescension and pitting them and working class white people against each other.

A vocal critic of both major parties in the US, McGowan previously took flack from the Left for going to Fox News to denounce both Democrats and Republicans. The news channel is perceived as a dishonest mouthpiece of the GOP by many Democrats, so a person who gets involved with it, regardless of their past, gets instantly flagged as an enemy by the blue camp.

During the conference with Elder, McGowan called out this treatment, saying the left failed to see the partisanship of their own media sources. "You are a part of it," she said, addressing journalists, when talking about a "dirty fight" against Elder's candidacy. Elder was branded "the black face of white supremacy" by hostile media during the campaign.

"It does not make it OK that the New York Times has 98.5% of its readers identify as Democrats. But people yell about Fox News that only the Republicans are watching, right?" McGowan noted.

The newspaper's audience is strongly left-leaning, though not necessarily to the extent that McGowan stated. A Pew poll last year showed that 91% of people, who considered the Times their primary news source, were Democrats. The same metric for Fox News and Republicans was 93%.