Newsom staffer who told California reporter to 'f--- off' is raking in massive taxpayer-funded salary
Isaac "Izzy" Gardon, a longtime Gavin Newsom staffer who made headlines earlier this week for telling a national reporter to "f--- off" after she pressed him on the California governor's...
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Isaac "Izzy" Gardon, a longtime Gavin Newsom staffer who made headlines earlier this week for telling a national reporter to "f--- off" after she pressed him on the California governor's reported dyslexia diagnosis, is raking in a hefty six-figure salary, a Fox News Digital review found. While Newsom's dyslexia diagnosis has been public for decades, interest in the matter was amplified amid the California governor's book tour he launched this month. During one of his first stops on the tour, in Atlanta, Newsom was asked about his dyslexia in conversation with Democratic Mayor of Atlanta Andre Dickens, who asked what he hoped readers would take away from the discussion about his diagnosis in the governor's new book. "I’m like you. I’m no better than you. You know, I’m a 960 SAT guy," Newsom said in response, garnering criticism online that he was pandering to the Black community. Amid the rebukes from MAGA world and Republicans, Real Clear Politics (RCP) national correspondent Susan Crabtree reached out to Gardon for verification on his childhood disability diagnosis. In response, Gardon told her to "respectfully, f--- off." TOMMY PHAM SPEAKS OUT AGAINST GAVIN NEWSOM OVER CONTROVERSIAL SAT SCORE COMMENTS The testy response led to further criticism targeting Newsom's office and Gardon, including from RCP's Carl Cannon, who questioned why people who are offended so deeply by Trump "consistently imitate his worst behavior." Newsom's press office has been known to meet the White House's pointed and often hostile social media posts targeting Democrats, which frequently include AI generated images, with similarly hostile social media posts targeting Trump and Republicans. When reached for comment on this story, Gardon told Fox News Digital that "Susan is not a journalist." "She’s a MAGA blogger who writes about conspiracy theories," Gardon added. Transparent California, a statewide public pay and pension database, revealed that Gardon is being paid quite handsomely to be…