Newsom Sends Burner Phones to Tech CEOs

“Gov. Gavin Newsom is making sure California’s business elite can call him, maybe,” Politico reports.

“Roughly 100 leaders of state-headquartered companies have received a curious package in recent months: a prepaid, inexpensive cell phone (commonly known as a burner, for those of you who haven’t seen ‘The Wire’ or ‘Better Call Saul’), programmed with Newsom’s digits and accompanied by notes from the governor himself.”

Said one note to a prominent tech CEO: “If you ever need anything, I’m a phone call away.”