Surprised?
Gavin Newsom can't read or write - severe dyslexia.
So he doesn't know what he's signing and can (has) been manipulated by his handlers.
"Newsom later said he had not had an easy childhood, partly due to dyslexia.[10] He attended kindergarten and first grade at Ecole Notre Dame Des Victoires, a French-American bilingual school in San Francisco, but eventually transferred out, due to the severe dyslexia that still affects him. It has challenged his abilities to write, spell, read, and work with numbers.[10] Throughout his schooling, Newsom had to rely on a combination of audiobooks, digests, and informal verbal instruction. To this day, he prefers to interpret documents and reports through audio."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gavin_Newsom