CA Governor Recall

The effort to recall Gov. Newsom of California has collected the necessary number of signatures to appear on the ballot. A few hundred thousand more are expected to be collected

It is expected that the State Secretary will consider to be invalid a total sum of signatures such that it will not meet the minimum threshold.

mercedcountytimes.com/recall-gov-newsom-effort-meets-minimum-threshold-1-5-million-signatures/

fter one year of massive volunteer efforts, Recall Gavin 2020 reached a milestone on Feb. 11 — 1.5 million signatures attached to recall petitions which is the minimum threshold to trigger a special election.

Will the recall effort be successful?

“We’re operational in every county,” said Anne Dunsmore, campaign manager of Rescue California, an auxiliary organization supporting the statewide effort. “Recall Gavin 2020 is the original Petitioner, and they turn in the signatures weekly to each county’s Registrar of Voters. It started a year ago. We’re at 1.5 million signatures [as of Feb. 11], and we need 1.8 million at a minimum because at least 1.5 million have to be 100 percent valid.

“We have until March 17 to do it.

“We’ll probably have them turned in a week before that.

“Our goal is 2 million because that way, we’ll be sure to get at least 1.5 million valid signatures.

“There are issues like you have to be a registered voter; if you don’t sign in blue or black ink, it’s not valid; and if you put a different address than your address as a registered voter, it’s not valid. if you don't vote democrat, its not valid. If you write too messy, its not valid. If you share a name with someone else in the state, its not valid."

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Local efforts picking up steam

Volunteers in the Merced area are holding “Recall Governor Gavin Newsom” signature-gathering events every Tuesday and Saturday from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. in Merced.

At a table set up in the Walgreens parking lot at the corner of G Street and Olive Avenue in Merced, volunteers handed out a two-page list of the reasons why people wish to recall Governor Newsom.

On the list were things such as mandatory mail-in voting, ongoing shutdowns, loss of small businesses, loss of jobs, highest homeless rate in our nation, highest poverty rate in the nation, countless gun and ammo laws, teachers can no longer discipline disruptive students, government overreach, forced lockdowns preventing the right to worship and sing in church, fighting to stop Central Valley farmers from getting the water they need, highest state income tax in our nation, and many more.

Many investors relocating from Silicon Valley are moving to states that don’t tax personal income, like Florida, Texas and Washington.

Hewlett Packard Enterprise announced in December 2020 it was moving its headquarters to Houston, following in the footsteps of Oracle and Tesla, which are moving some operations to Austin. Tesla CEO Elon Musk revealed he had personally moved to Texas after becoming disillusioned with California.

Vicki Graham, a key local volunteer, greeted citizens interested in signing the recall petition.

She told the Times, “We have been doing this since July, but not steadily. My top reasons for the recall are Governor Newsom has driven businesses out of the state due to regulations and high taxes, and he has killed jobs when the businesses left the state and the workers had no jobs.

“This is a citizen thing, not a party thing.”

“We have gotten about 2,000 signatures in all. March 10 is the last day we can turn in the recall petitions to the county. The county verifies the signatures and sends in the count to the California Secretary of State.

How did the recall effort start?

Dunsmore informed the Times, “It started with Governor Newsom’s support for issues that didn’t really reflect the views of the voters, such as closing 20 prisons and letting prisoners out while the crime rates are going up. He limited Thanksgiving celebrations to no more than two households under one roof and said you should wear your masks between bites, and then there were pictures of Gavin Newsom eating dinner at the French Laundry in Napa shoulder to shoulder with a group of people, wearing no masks; he basically said he was outside, and then another person took pictures and he was not outside. He got caught in his hypocrisy.

“The jobless rates, homeless rates and vaccine roll out are the worst in the country. This isn’t acceptable for the governor of the 10th largest economy in the world and the largest state in the country.

“Taking on a recall is a big job, especially of the governor. This is the third effort; the first two did not do well, but they learned a lot. A lot of the people who are running the show now are veterans of the first two efforts, and they put together an impressive operation with volunteers. It will probably go down in history as the largest volunteer signature gathering effort in the history of the United States.

“They’re getting bullied and profiled, but the movement has 2 million signers and there’s no label you can wrap around all of them.

“The people doing this are a broad spectrum of folks.

“They might have lost their jobs, their taxes were too high, and a number of things fueled the fire, and there are a massive number of people who care very much about these things and are not going to take it any more.

“A number of retired people wanted to be near their children, and they’re going to have to uproot and move to Arizona.

“You have a governor saying your home burned down because of climate issues, but he didn’t engage in forest management. Don’t tell me the largest wildfires in history are because of climate change.
>You have a governor saying your home burned down because of climate issues when the utility company managed by the state is currently getting sued for nearly 100 deaths and burning down an entire fucking town

“He does not know what the citizens of this State are suffering through. He is completely out of touch with it. By throwing political rhetoric on it, it’s like throwing salt on an open wound.

“One thing that happened is $31 billion out of $155 billion of job benefits for 2021 were absorbed by fraudulent claims, which is 20 percent. This money was lost last year. There were crime rings that started in prison, and $1,700 of claims were paid to people at the same address.”

>“One thing that happened is $31 billion out of $155 billion of job benefits for 2021 were absorbed by fraudulent claims,
>“One thing that happened is $31 billion out of $155 billion of job benefits for 2021 were absorbed by fraudulent claims,
>“One thing that happened is $31 billion out of $155 billion of job benefits for 2021 were absorbed by fraudulent claims

Who will run for governor of California if the recall is successful?

“Candidates have already been declared. There are going to be two things on the ballot, the re-call and the replacement. So far, those on the ballot are Kevin Faulconer, Republican, former mayor of San Francisco, and John Cox, the Republican candidate in the election that Newsom won.”

Republicans haven’t won a statewide election in California since 2006 when Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger was re-elected.

Nice image.
It sounded like you were asking a question. I see that you are not.

Anyways, I highly doubt the state will let this happen.
The state secretary is not a fair gamer

Didn’t this guy campaign against a rent control bill despite his state being massively expensive to live in

So how many billions will be wasted because of what the Republicans demanding a scalp?

4$ a gallon for gas. None of it will ever go to fixing roads or homeless issues in sf bay and LA. Atleast gavins winery is doing fantastic and getting millions in aid because they’re essential

Hence, newsom in porky's lapdog
This is what you get when an area I controlled by a single political power for so long.
Corruption and leaders that don't work for people
Chang, work on your English, it's poor
Ask emperor xi to give you a raise

worst homeless pop in the US, and worst cost of building roads. the money lines the politicians pockets

where? in LA Im paying 3.09.

idk much about Newsom, though. we could probably use someone else to run the show

Alcohol is literally poison, how can it be considered essential?

California's leadership lining their pockets.
Quite normal in this state

Mention partisan politics and you lose, you overgrown fanboys

Why does Newsom need to be recalled? Given that every single state has failed Corona containment procedures, what has he done that is especially horrible, so much so that we can not wait until his re-election?

>On the list were things such as mandatory mail-in voting, ongoing shutdowns, loss of small businesses, loss of jobs, highest homeless rate in our nation, highest poverty rate in the nation, countless gun and ammo laws, teachers can no longer discipline disruptive students, government overreach, forced lockdowns preventing the right to worship and sing in church, fighting to stop Central Valley farmers from getting the water they need, highest state income tax in our nation, and many more.

These are bullshit, middle American-Mom reasons. Half of these reasons existed before Newsom was even governor. This is just butt hurt republicans who want to install a Republican in office because they secretly want to be autocrats like the Russians

I'm in norcal, paying a little less here, ~$3.00
But yeah, I agree. I visited Denver not too long ago and holy shit, that state was managed 100x better than California was for covid
I mean shit bro, I dunno what it's like down there but I'd say 2/3 of businesses are still closed up here or permanently out of business due to the riots back in march

Horribly mismanaged the state for covid.
Period.
Every state I've visited (5) since covid are in a million times better shape.

He's changed his covid policy 3x, they sucked and its somewhat better but still sucks.

I believed he moved onto a color system and then finally a color system based upon percentage of open hospital beds (a solid metric) rather than his gut instinct, which the first few tries were and those failed horribly

Why are you so Bútthürt? Mention politics and you lose, you overprogrammed shill masquerading as a thinking human

how far north? in Humboldt I could see places not surviving any shutdown due to low traffic to begin with, or in SF not surviving due to incredibly high cost of real estate. Idk which places had big riots that might cause closures like that though

Im mentioning politics because I don't see democrats clamouring to get him removed from office. I'm concerned that the Republicans in this state woild gave demanded that ANY democratic governor be recalled, and woild make up any reason why. Before you start assuming and name calling like a paid shill yourself, of he to be recalled, Id ssume there will be some and independents that are against him, in the same way that there are some republicans who are against trump (who was nearly removed himself.) I don't see any one specific acttion done by Newsom that hasn't also been done by any given governor in any other state.

What I'm trying to ask before your low t makes you spend out again, does his covid response warrant him to be removed from office? He definitely flip flopped, but if he deserved to be recalled, than don't half of the other governors in the state as well?

>Im mentioning politics because I don't see democrats clamouring to get him removed from office.
well, thats politics my friendo
> I'm concerned that the Republicans in this state woild gave demanded that ANY democratic governor be recalled, and woild make up any reason why
once again thats politics
>Before you start assuming and name calling like a paid shill yourself, of he to be recalled, Id ssume there will be some and independents that are against him, in the same way that there are some republicans who are against trump (who was nearly removed himself.)
I'm not sure we get insight into the demographics of the signatories.
*but*
I am independant myself. didnt mind our last Gov, Brown. Didnt mind Schwarzenegger (sp?)
I dont belive that Newsom has done a good job at all during covid, and I am reinforced in my belief after traveling to other post-covid states.

>does his covid response warrant him to be removed from office?
I absolutely believe so.
> He definitely flip flopped, but if he deserved to be recalled, than don't half of the other governors in the state as well?
states only have one governor.
other states, yeah probably.

Also, the recall only forces a vote by the populace. I am somewhat skeptical as to the outcome of this vote.
But, last time this happened in 06 or so it was successful