Official photo of California Governor Gavin Newsom.
–Last week, the Secretary of State’s office announced it received 2,162,774 signatures in the recall campaign against Gov. Newsom. Of those, 1,626,042 have been certified as valid moving the effort into the next phase.
“The People of California have done what the politicians thought would be impossible,” said Orrin Heatlie, the lead proponent of the Recall Gavin Newsom campaign and founder of the California Patriot Coalition. “This recall movement to remove Governor Gavin Newsom from office has reached yet another milestone… Our work is just beginning. Now the real campaign is about to commence.”
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It’s “Friday Night at the French Laundry,” the weekly radio broadcast run by leaders of the campaign to recall Gov. Gavin Newsom, and Bianca is calling to offer herself as living proof that the campaign isn’t all about white guys from the state’s deep-red hinterlands. She tells the KABC-AM call-in audience that she’s a San Franciscan and a “Berniecrat,” proudly adding, “This is a bipartisan thing.”
But Bianca’s message of a diverse anti-Newsom alliance is soon overtaken by a grab bag of other complaints. She wallops the media for giving short shrift to the Mars rover landing and declares that hate crime laws must be stopped because they are “the cornerstone of fascism.” She’s followed by Glenn from Simi Valley, who invokes a QAnon-style theory about COVID-19 vaccines being a pretext for “surveillance, control and monitoring … of citizens throughout the world,” a claim that goes unrebutted by the radio hosts.
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It’s “Friday Night at the French Laundry,” the weekly radio broadcast run by leaders of the campaign to recall Gov. Gavin Newsom, and Bianca is calling to offer herself as living proof that the campaign isn’t all about white guys from the state’s deep-red hinterlands. She tells the KABC-AM call-in audience that she’s a San Franciscan and a “Berniecrat,” proudly adding, “This is a bipartisan thing.”
But Bianca’s message of a diverse anti-Newsom alliance is soon overtaken by a grab bag of other complaints. She wallops the media for giving short shrift to the Mars rover landing and declares that hate crime laws must be stopped because they are “the cornerstone of fascism.” She’s followed by Glenn from Simi Valley, who invokes a QAnon-style theory about COVID-19 vaccines being a pretext for “surveillance, control and monitoring … of citizens throughout the world,” a claim that goes unrebutted by the radio hosts.
‘It’s a Promote-Carl Organization’: The Rise of Reform California
Up and down the state, conservative operatives are complaining that Carl DeMaio and his group Reform California are sucking up resources intended to remove Gov. Gavin Newsom from office to promote himself instead.
Carl DeMaio speaks to a KUSI reporter at a rally to recall Gov. Gavin Newsom. / Photo by Adriana Heldiz
At the start of 2017, Carl DeMaio, the former San Diego councilman turned talk radio host, turned his attention from the city and county in which he had for years led conservative movements, and decided to assert himself in statewide matters.