CA Gov. Gavin Newsom’s Executive Choices Point to Higher Political Ambitions
A yes to nixing voter ID requirements, and a no to gas stove warning labels and AI regulations.
While it is difficult to say what will happen in the 2024 election, there are signs that California Governor Gavin Newsom intends to be a candidate in the 2028 cycle.
The omens are clear by looking at some of his recent executive decisions.
To begin with, he wants to count all the votes, whether legitimate or not. Newsom just signed a new law prohibiting local governments from enacting or enforcing a requirement that a person show identification when voting.
The legislation — from state Sen. Dave Min, an Orange County Democrat running for Rep. Katie Porter’s open House seat — is a direct response to a controversial ballot measure approved this year by voters in Huntington Beach requiring people to show photo identification at the polls. It will take effect on Jan. 1.
…Min’s legislation is one of nearly a half-dozen bills introduced by Democratic state lawmakers this past year looking to close legal gray areas in state election laws. The changes aim to prevent Huntington Beach, Shasta County and other conservative local governments from establishing election policies that are often driven by suspicions of voter fraud.
Legislation from state Sen. Steve Bradford, signed into law Wednesday, clarifies record-keeping procedures for secure elections data and increases the secretary of state’s regulatory power over poll books and other voting systems used in local elections.
On the other hand, Newsom vetoed a measure requiring warning labels on gas stoves that was widely mocked. Thanks to Newsom’s pen, it has now gone down in flames for now.
Newsom vetoed Assemblymember Gail Pellerin’s AB 2513, which would have required warning labels on natural gas stoves sold online to Californians starting next year and in stores starting in 2026.
He said the bill would have been overly prescriptive. “This static approach falls short in enabling timely updates to the labeling content that should align with the latest scientific knowledge so that consumers are accurately informed about their purchases,” he said in a veto message.
The bill is one of the embers of a national political conflagration that flared up over natural gas stoves last year and mostly died out early this year. The warning label proposal was tried in New York and Illinois along with California.
This will reduce some mockery that will likely be directed at very progressive policy choices, though certainly not eliminate it.
Finally, running for POTUS may be difficult without the support of a large swath of Big Tech. He just gave the thumbs down to a measure unpopular with that group. Newsom vetoed a controversial bill to create safety measures for large artificial intelligence (AI) models, which would have been the nation’s first law.
Despite making noises, he was all-in for such measures previously.
The governor’s veto delivers a major setback to attempts to create guardrails around AI and its rapid evolution with little oversight, according to The Associated Press. The legislation faced staunch opposition from startups, tech giants and several Democratic lawmakers.
Newsom said earlier this month at Dreamforce, an annual conference hosted by software giant Salesforce, that California must lead in regulating AI as the federal government has failed to put safety measures in place, but that the proposal “can have a chilling effect on the industry.”
S.B. 1047, the governor said, could have hurt the homegrown industry by setting up strict requirements.
“While well-intentioned, SB 1047 does not take into account whether an AI system is deployed in high-risk environments, involves critical decision-making or the use of sensitive data,” Newsom said in a statement. “Instead, the bill applies stringent standards to even the most basic functions — so long as a large system deploys it. I do not believe this is the best approach to protecting the public from real threats posed by the technology.”
Newsom announced instead that the state will partner with several industry experts to develop safety measures for powerful AI models.
I am sure that by “partnering,” Newsom means making political donations and giving politically connected personnel appropriate positions of power and influence over this potentially powerful tool.
While I am looking forward to the end of this presidential election cycle, I think my joy will be short-lived as the next one will start shortly afterward.
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Gavin 2028 : Let me do to America what I’ve done to California.
Writes itself
First he destroyed San Francisco. (Show pictures of empty store fronts and all the bums on the streets)
Then he destroyed California. (Describe how he took a budget surplus and turned it into a massive deficit followed by footage of moving vans leaving the state like a swarm of refugees. Put company names on the sides of some of the vans)
Now he wants to destroy the United States.
Gov. Noisome’s intention to gain the Presidency by any means necessary has been apparent since 2022 when he supported the continued operation of the Diablo Canyon nuclear plant, which had been slated to close this year.
This infuriated California’s hard core Green voters, but closing a plant which supplied almost 10% of the state’s electricity would have guaranteed permanent rolling blackouts, thus making it much harder to sell himself nationally.
Vapid Nuisance would be an excellent successor to Kamala, but I have a feeling the Democrats won’t be looking for that in ’28.
Their next nominee is more likely to come from the Lincoln Project than from the California Red Guards.
It is an interesting consideration. There are those who believe that either our 2024 election will not take place as scheduled, or that it will be fraudulent to the degree that the election process will be finished. Making the matching of ID to legitimate voting status a crime means that there are going to be a lot of people voting repeatedly for who they are told, even if not citizens. By 2028, if we have something called elections, that might be enough to “elect” whoever is “pre-selected”.
So, given that it is the Left that is most likely to interfere with or end elections; Newsome must be expecting that some version of Politburo will name the Left’s candidate whose win is guaranteed. Looking at what he is doing, it seems possible that he is trying to accumulate points in that particular contest. Devaluing elections, votes, and real consent of the governed? Check. Promoting AI that will be used by the elite [to control the masses]? Check.
In a time when the legitimacy of elections is at risk and question, it does not hurt to note that other strategies may be being considered and implemented.
When politicians are acting in strange ways, it is good to realize that they may have reasons that are not ours.
Subotai Bahadur
rank choice voting and all its communist justifications coming to a town near you
So Hairdo wants to be on that national stage? As what? He’s going to have to settle for a cabinet position, an Ambassadorship, or something like it if Kamunism is elected. If she loses, he might take the Congressional route, but that does take a bit longer.
There’s always “Dancing With The Stars”….
Arizona has Prop 140 for this November. It is pushing open primaries followed by rank choice.
If we are lucky, it will be V.P. J.D. Vance to take him on. Otherwise, it will be soviet style selections forever.
It’s a two way street when Newsom talks about partnering; it also means cash patronage/payola to his NGO and bureaucratic supplicants.
Parkinson’s Law:
He’s also toned down his broad, religious-cultish application of “climate change” to every aspect where he fails in his official oversight of California.
Also note how Newsom’s official “veto” document language is literally intelligible and clear while his usual style is unintelligible word salad garbage.
Houman David Hemmati, MD, PhD
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3h
🤣🤣🤣 Today, yet ANOTHER
@GavinNewsom
law was struck down as unconstitutional!
A federal judge, as expected, ruled the law that makes deepfakes & many AI generated parodies unconstitutional
Dems don’t ask first if a law is constitutional. They first ask, “can we get away with it?”
dont forget their goal is to continue/create chaos so they can stay in power
Ya think, maybe, in the back recesses, of Gavin’s subconsciousness, he might wonder…
or does Gavin Newsome want to sabotage Harris so he can run in 2028?