California Governor Gavin Newsom came under fire from several media outlets for apparently exempting Panera Bread from a new law imposing high minimum wage requirements on businesses.
Newsmax host Chris Plante, Fox News host Laura Ingraham, The Washington Times opinion editor and Fox Contributor Charles Hurt and comedian and Fox News host Greg Gutfeld were among the critics and they were not kind, to say the least. On the Feb. 29 edition of Chris Plante: The Right Squad, Plante noted that California’s new $20/hour minimum wage for fast food was crafted to exempt “chains that baked bread and sell it as a standalone item,” before adding that a billionaire donor to Newsom owns several dozen Panera locations.
Plante brutally summed up this situation, saying, “Gavin Newsom has a new campaign slogan: ‘Give me your money, and you’ll be exempt from all…
