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Supporters of an effort to recall Gov. Gavin Newsom are poised to put the matter on the ballot. Here are the details.
“We’re really well received everywhere we go,” said Orrin Heatlie, the official proponent of the recall effort and a retired Yolo County sheriff’s sergeant. “People are coming from across the entire political spectrum to participate.”
Even if the recall makes the ballot, it will be an uphill battle to persuade enough voters to oust Newsom before his term ends in 2023, especially if schools are open and Californians are widely vaccinated against COVID-19. In a poll released last month by the UC Berkeley Institute of Governmental Studies, only 36% of registered voters said they would vote for a recall; 19% were undecided. Support broke down along party lines.
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03/12/2021 09:00 AM EST
THE BUZZ A LONG TIME GONE A year ago this week, we changed forever: Schools were ordered closed, sports games canceled, theme parks shuttered. The word “quarantine” became a part of the vocabulary of Californians’ lives. Gov. Gavin Newsom declared a state emergency shortly after what was believed to be the first death of a coronavirus patient in California. The World Health Organization officially declared the spread of the Covid-19 virus a pandemic. A week later, on March 19, Newsom declared a statewide stay-at-home order.
Gov. Gavin Newsom confirmed Wednesday that Los Angeles County will be cleared to escape the most restrictive tier of the state's economic-reopening blueprint by Friday, when a goal will be met of administering 2 million COVID-19 vaccines in low-income, hard-hit communities across California.