Gavin Newsom Says Recall Threatens Values After Campaign Garners Enough Signatures to Trigger Vote

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

California Governor Gavin Newsom said on Monday that the recall effort against him "threatens our values" after the petition garnered enough signatures to trigger a recall election in the state.

"This Republican recall threatens our values and seeks to undo the important progress we've made -- from fighting COVID, to helping struggling families, protecting our environment, and passing commonsense gun violence solutions," Newsom wrote in a tweet. "There's too much at stake."

Newsom's tweet also included a video criticizing the recall effort and those who created it.

"Who's behind the partisan recall of Governor Gavin Newsom? Anti-vaccine and QAnon extremists, violent white supremacists like the Proud Boys who attacked out nation's Capitol on January 6," a narrator of the video says. "And the same right-wing Republican politicians who supported Donald Trump's attempt to overturn the election."

Link to tweet

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/gavin-newsom-says-recall-threatens-values-after-campaign-garners-enough-signatures-to-trigger-vote/ar-BB1g6VBK

[PortTack]

1. Althou this effort will fail..he's right to expose it for what it is!

[BeyondGeography]

2. Some very strong attack lines there that all Democrats would be smart to use

[tirebiter]

3. The ability to recall

Was an invention of Progressives to give “the little guy” protection from the millionaires. In my lifetime the recall has only been used by the millionaires for protection from the little guys

[TomCADem]

4. Major Trump Donors Fuel Recall Efforts

Thanks to the loophole in CA law, rich people can now pay to gather signatures to force an expensive, low turnout recall election in California. Gavin Newsome is not the first and he will not be the last so long as this loophole exists that allows a small well funded minority to force a low turnout recall election.

https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2021-02-03/newsom-recall-fundraising

Major backers of former President Trump donated substantial sums: Beverly Hills developer Geoffrey Palmer gave $150,000; Silicon Valley venture capitalist Douglas Leone and his wife, Patricia Perkins-Leone, contributed $99,800; and Northridge business owners Howard and Susan Groff added $75,000. (Leone renounced his support for Trump after the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol.)

The recall also received $100,000 from billionaire Silicon Valley venture capitalist Chamath Palihapitiya, a major donor to Democratic politicians and causes. The former Facebook executive has said on Twitter that he wants to run against Newsom but has not made moves to launch a campaign.

Attempts to reach Palmer, the Leones, the Groffs and Palihapitiya were unsuccessful.

The fundraising figures reflect all financial activity through the end of 2020 as well as large donations disclosed during January to the California Secretary of State’s office, with likely duplicates and transfers between committees excluded. These numbers do not include donations of less than $5,000 since Jan. 1, which will be reported later this year.

[TheRealNorth]

5. We were able to force a recall election against Snotty Walker in 2012....

And several State Senators from both sides got recalled as well, but otherwise I would agree with you. It's easier for people with deep pockets to carry out these things.