Newsom appears to post TikTok in restaurant and denies eating there

California Governor Gavin Newsom appeared indoors at a restaurant in a county where indoor dining is not allowed, but the governor’s office said he had not dined at the restaurant .

He was there to meet with the owners of the restaurant, who received a relief grant, Newsom spokesman Daniel Lopez told Fox News.

Newsom posted a video on his TikTok account with celebrity George Lopez explaining where to look for coronavirus vaccine eligibility. Newsom and Lopez were in Fresno, Calif., And are inside the Los Amigos restaurant.

A separate video of Lopez was posted on the Los Amigos restaurant’s Facebook page. Lopez approved of the restaurant’s food.

Fresno is in the most restrictive purple level, which does not allow eating inside.

In early November, Newsom was spotted dining at the chic French Laundry in Napa for a longtime advisor’s birthday. Indoor dining was not open to the public in Napa. Newsom had a bitter reaction to the release, which he later called a “mistake.”

“I should have stood up and… went home… The spirit of what I preach all the time was contradicted,” he said. “I need to preach and practice, not just preach.”

Newsom said in his apology he wanted to “own” his mistake because he feared it would undermine the safety message he wanted to send to residents.

“I do my best every day to try to model better behavior,” he says.

The French Laundry outlet helped spark a recall effort that is gaining traction in California. The organizers of Newsom’s recall effort say they collected 1.825 million signatures. They need 1.5 million signatures by March 17, but are a fraction of the signatures to be rejected.

Newsom’s contender if the encore race is successful, Kevin Faulconer, has slapped the governor for even appearing at a restaurant when others in the county are not allowed to do so.

“Gavin Newsom continues to show that he is nothing but an incompetent elitist who cares less about California families,” John Burke, Kevin Faulconer’s communications director for the governor, said in a statement to Fox. News. “Its failures have crippled the economy of our state and disrupted the lives of millions of families. We are going to remember that and start a return to California to get our state back on track.