Businessman-turned-gubernatorial candidate reveals how Dem regulations destroyed his family's company

Leo Zacky and his family ran one of California's most successful poultry businesses for nearly 100 years until, according to Zacky, a deliberate plan by Gov. Gavin Newsom and California Democrats ran his family's company into the ground. California isn't just hurting small businesses because of waste or incompetence, Zacky said while explaining his personal experience running his family-owned business in California that was eventually forced to shutter in 2018 and sell to a bigger conglomerate. Instead, Zacky, who is running for governor in California, pointed to a system that has favored liberal policy priorities at the expense of businesses like his family's, including strict environmental regulations, labor policies, high energy costs, water regulations, permitting bureaucracy and more. "The consistent problem that we're having in politics is these people that get into office and their net worth might not be that exorbitant, but, my gosh, in such a short amount of time on this supposed government salary, how wealthy they become and the people around them," Zacky lamented to FOX Business. "Look at how PG&E made a $350,000 donation to Newsom's wife's charity," Zacky continued, referring to donations over several years from the major utility company that frequently has business before the state. GAVIN NEWSOM MOCKED FOR CLAIMING HIS FAMILY WAS 'HUSTLING' TO PAY THE BILLS Zacky also highlighted a big financial contribution Newsom received from one of the largest franchisees in the country, which was preceded by an exemption that the Panera Bread magnate got from the state's minimum wage increase that was being implemented at the time. Zacky said the minimum wage increases Californians have been subject to was a major contributing factor to his family business going under. "I'm competing on a global market and I have people that are competitors of mine that are producing in Louisiana or Georgia, and it's literally half the price for minimum wage there," Zacky explained. "It got to the point where it was cheaper for them to produce on the other side of the country – put it on a truck, and drive it all the way to California where they could still beat me on price at the grocery store down the street. It's unsustainable."