Riverside sheriff Chad Bianco, running for California governor, says Newsom refuses to work with law enforcement and is hiding the real cause of the homeless crisis — bad news for Newsom's 2028 White House hopes.

• Newsom has never attended the regular meeting of California's 58 sheriffs, breaking a long tradition where governors always showed up.
• Democrats in Sacramento tried to move sheriff elections to presidential years to flip Republican sheriffs out, but a court blocked it.
• Bianco calls Newsom a smooth talker but a "lying fraud" who staged the San Francisco cleanup just for the visit of China's president.
• He says California's homeless crisis is really a drug and mental illness crisis, and the $24 billion spent has become a money-laundering scheme for nonprofits, with "body brokers" shipping people in to milk Medicare.
• Homelessness shot up after California legalized drugs in 2014 and banned treating addiction and mental illness together; voters passed Prop 36 to fix it, but Newsom will not fund the treatment centers.

Outlook: Bianco says the street homeless problem could be cleared in two years if drug and mental health treatment were funded, but expect no progress while Newsom is governor and gears up for a 2028 presidential run.