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Recall Newsom petition hits significant milestone of 1.8 million signatures

Recall Newsom petition hits significant milestone of 1.8 million signatures

CA Lieutenant Governor now admits that Gov. Gavin Newsom will likely face recall election by end of the year.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZSxmyjKGEY

We are continuing to closely follow the movement to recall California Governor Gavin Newsom. It appears the petition gatherers have been very busy.

On Monday, the signature count stood at 1.7 million. Less than a week later, it is now 1.8 million and counting.

Even the state’s leading Democrats are conceding that a recall vote is likely.

California Lieutenant Gov. Eleni Kounalakis said Thursday that Gov. Gavin Newsom would likely face a recall election before the end of the year over his handling of the pandemic and willingness to lockdown large parts of the state’s economy.

Organizers for the campaign announced yesterday that they had collected more than 1.8 million signatures, or roughly 300,000 more than is necessary to trigger a recall election. They need to collect more than is necessary in case some signatures do not belong to registered voters.

Newsom drew widespread flak for flouting his requests for people to keep a wide berth from others during the pandemic.

The 1.8 million level is a significant milestone: It represents the lowest total the organizers felt would allow the vote to make the ballot, allowing for the rate of signature rejection anticipated. The effort seems to be on track for making the target of 2.0 million signatures.

It is difficult to argue which governor has been most ham-handed, in terms of implementing pandemic policies that were ineffective while clinging desperately to emergency powers they were granted by citizens genuinely afraid of the novel virus from China. But Newsom is a strong contender for the title.

For example, California recently became the 50th state to allow outdoor youth sports to resume and is also the last state to allow indoor youth sports to resume.

Furthermore, California is the only state continuing to ban gyms, museums, weddings, and charity functions from resuming normal operations.

KUSI News has routinely attempted to hear the “science” that justifies this, but San Diego County Health, led by Supervisor Nathan Fletcher, refuse to give an answer.

San Diego officials have been reduced to pleading with Newsom to allow fans to attend the opening day of baseball in the city.

As the 2020 MLB season approached, Supervisor Jim Desmond is pushing to get fans back in the stands for Padres Opening Day.

Thursday morning, Desmond published a letter that he is sending to Governor Gavin Newsom, asking him to allow fans to return to Petco Park for upcoming sporting events, and the highly anticipated Padres Opening Day.

The letter read, “I’m asking you to allow limited attendance to all San Diego Padres home games starting with Opening Day on April 1. With a 25% capacity, for example, 10,611 San Diegans would be able to enjoy Opening Day, safely socially distanced. Many other cities and teams have changed the way they operate to keep their fans safe, by limiting areas where they can congregate and making masks mandatory.”

There are signs that the press is seeking to gin-up more fear in the state. The recent focus of many news items is the “new strain” that is supposedly more infectious and lethal.

The variant is also present in other states, but its prevalence among more than 2000 samples collected in California swelled from 0% to greater than 50% between September 2020 and late January, according to researchers at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF).

“This variant is concerning because our data shows that it is more contagious, more likely to be associated with severe illness, and at least partially resistant to neutralizing antibodies,” says senior author Charles Chiu, an infectious diseases physician and sequencing expert at UCSF. The data suggest the new strain “should likely be designated a variant of concern warranting urgent follow-up investigation,” the authors write in their preprint, which has not been peer reviewed and which they say is expected to be posted online soon.

Yet cases are plummeting, and the number of new cases is 87% below its peak. Continuing vaccinations, as well as more people recovering from natural infections, may mean that herd immunity is on track for the spring (as has been suggested by a doctor at Johns Hopkins University).

Perhaps Newsom’s political career will be the one of the last victims carried off by the pathogen?

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Comments

Really wish Californians a lot of luck in this. No matter how bad Gruesome is will the vote be fair?

    NJ observer in reply to Skip. | February 28, 2021 at 4:57 pm

    Define “fair”.
    For Dems that would only be the case if Newsom won.
    If the recall succeeds< republicans need to pull out all the stops to assure a truly fair elections and not let a repeat of what happened nationally occur again.

My calculation was a minimum of 1.9 million signatures, so they are still 100K shy, but they are on track to get them. 2 million is absolutely the right goal.

    henrybowman in reply to Publius_2020. | March 1, 2021 at 4:14 am

    Once you’re this far over the minimum, getting new signers should be like a dot-com bubble.
    “If you haven’t signed yet, You Are Not Of The Body! Sign now, before your neighbors find out you didn’t!”

“California recently became the 50th state to allow outdoor youth sports to resume, and is the last state to allow indoor youth sports to resume.

Furthermore, California is the only state continuing to ban gyms, museums, weddings, and charity functions from resuming normal operations.”

Someone needs to tell that reporter that New Mexico IS a state and it IS part of the USA. We still have a ban on youth sports. None of the other activities mentioned have resumed normal operations and there is NO plan in place for that to actually happen in the next 6 months. We’ve had the tightest covid restrictions in the last year and we still have businesses such as movie theaters, outdoor markets, bars and restaurants that earned more than 50% of their revenue in 2019 from alcohol sales forced closed for 11 and a half months now. Anyone allowed to open is subject to limited occupancy. We’re under this stupid color coded system and counties can cycle in and out of the most to least restrictive if they get one too many positive covid cases. There in no light at the end of the tunnel in this state.

The entire pretext of the shutdowns was “fifteen days to flatted the curve” (a shutdown which is now approaching a full year). The cost of the Wuflu has been staggering:

– Despite draconian lockdowns hundreds of thousands died.
– The lives, businesses and careers of millions ruined.
– Complete loss of credibility for the “scientific” Establishment.
– Deadly anti-vaccine propaganda spread by demagogic politicians.
– The Bill of Right shredded.
– Major cities looted and burned by genocidal mobs who were bizarrely exempt from “public health” laws we were told were sacred and beyond question.
– Third World-level fraud in an American presidential election. The coming loss of life because of the stolen election threatens to dwarf the Wuflu’s numbers. You cannot steal a election and target more than half the population for extermination and not expect people to fight for their lives.

If Newsom and Cuomo only lose their jobs it is far less than they deserve.

judgeroybean | March 1, 2021 at 10:20 am

Complete waste of time. Until the VOTE COUNTING process is taken away from the democrats nothing good will happen. Start there.

The California progressive oligarchy will decide (1) if there are enough signatures, (2) when the recall will be scheduled, (3) who the anointed successor candidate will be, (4) whether or not the recall election will succeed, and (4) ensure that the anointed successor will win the vote total should they allow the recall to succeed.

This oligarchy controls everything in California, if they determine that Newsom is so damaged that he is no longer useful to them, they will arrange the replacement on their terms, letting the people think the recall and successor were decided by actual voting.

Californians will just elect another progressive. They truly deserve what they vote for.

BTW has anyone noticed NY has had 3 straight Dem Govs with sexual predation issues?