How’s the Gavin Newsom recall doing?
It looks like the vote will probably happen:
Petitions to force a vote on whether to recall Newsom look likely to succeed — despite the obstacles to collecting signatures during a pandemic. Instead of relying on paid canvassers outside supermarkets, campaigners have to convince supporters to circulate and mail petitions individually…
The recall has until March 17 to submit signatures. If it qualifies, the special election would include two items: a yes-no vote on whether to recall Newsom and a gubernatorial ballot to pick his replacement if the recall passes. So voters would have some idea of the possible alternatives.
Potential candidates include former San Diego Mayor Kevin Faulconer, a Republican who has said he’ll challenge Newsom in next year’s regular election if the recall fails, and venture capitalist and former Facebook Inc. executive Chamath Palihapitiya, a Democrat with 1.3 million Twitter followers.
Democratic officials are trying to stigmatize the recall movement as a collection of dangerous kooks.
I wonder whether they’ll try to harass and cancel people who sign it.
Does a recall have a chance of succeeding? I doubt it, but there’s this:
The discontent isn’t just coming from Republicans or Trump supporters. Newsom’s numbers are on the skids among people who used to like him. Two recent polls show a significant decline. Among likely voters, the Public Policy Institute of California found a slight majority of 52% giving the governor a favorable rating — a drop from over 60% in the early days of the pandemic.
It is not easy to decide which of the two is the more incompetent governor of an important state, Newsom of CA or Cuomo of NY. Meanwhile, the truly competent and completely reasonable De Santis of FL is being both widely vilified by the left and stupidly threatened by the Harris/Biden administration solely on ideological grounds. In today’s world (and nation) gone mad, perhaps this is only to be expected.
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I just published a post about Cuomo.
Sadly, California voters would only likely replace Newsom with a more “competent” Democrat.
I wonder whether they’ll try to harass and cancel people who sign it.
Does a recall have a chance of succeeding?
Does it have a chance? Only if the signature count goes three or four 100k above the requirement, and then maybe. There will be an army disqualifying signatures.
Cancelling people? I’ll let you know, unless there is a middle of the night raid and then I won’t.
}}} the Public Policy Institute of California found a slight majority of 52% giving the governor a favorable rating
52% is, all alone, a preposterous number.
California, where you don’t need to self-trepan, the local environment does it for you.
California Republicans also have running for Emperor Newsom’s office Major Williams.
Major Williams is a Black man. In Democrat politics, what other qualification is needed?
Well, I signed, as did my wife.
If they come to our house to cancel us, we will be prepared.
Actually, I am not sure that Newsom could get Law Enforcement to follow any orders at this point.
Even among my progressive writer friends in San Francisco, Newsom was a joke while mayor.
Newsom needs Willie Brown in his corner.
Newson is not the most annoying Democrat (he did not trash Trump 24/7), but he needs to go. He is part of the whole Pelosi family, who have controlled California politics for decades. And he is as tone deaf as his Aunt.
The San Diego Mayor is a competent person. He would be good for California.
I no longer trust the vote in the US, which is sad indeed.
Can’t wait to see the rules for verifying the signatures. I hope there’s a long, long discussion with detailed points and a definitive, irrevocable bi-partisan acceptance process for the State regulatory code. Let’s see if the Republicans have learned how to play fast-pitch ball.
This would mean (for example) that they already have an extra few-hundred-thousand verified signatures in their back pocket to use at the optimal moment.
The effort was launched by grassroots activists. CA GOP, which is heavily seeded with NeverTrumpers, RINOs and even Lincoln Proj guys only got involved last month when some deep pockets folks stepped forward.
I esteem the effort but it might not work. Or the vote might not go our way. Or we might get someone awful to replace him.
Would have been nice to see the energy and money go for something that creates a permanent foundation instead of a one off event. But no worries. All efforts are good. You learn. You encourage others.
I was letting this slide – Newsom is bad but anyone else voted in would probably be worse. And he was actually one of the more circumspect dems about Trump. Maybe he just figured his crazy aunt did enough Trump bashing for the whole family, but he actually complemented Trump during the pandemic on several occasions, and didn’t randomly attack him like other dem leaders.
Anyway, after the fraudulent election and impeachment, I got a small group of people to all send signatures in for the recall (funny how they’ll hand match every single recall signature to a registered voter, huh?). We need to throw sand in the gears wherever we can, and this one was an easy one to slow dems down, even if the result is Nusom wins the recall.