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Another summer of power outages could become ‘major issue’ for Newsom as he faces recall
latimes ^ | 05/24/2021 | TARYN LUNA

Posted on 05/25/2021 1:10:28 PM PDT by Vendome

Each time the power goes out, frustrated Californians look for someone to blame.

That could spell trouble for Gov. Gavin Newsom, who will appear on a recall ballot during another hot and dry season and as California voters brace for electricity outages around the state.

“It could be a major issue,” said Dave Gilliard, one of the Republican strategists leading the effort to recall Newsom. “People will ultimately hold him responsible for the state of California, and if they can’t turn their lights on right around the time they’re voting, they’re going to be thinking about that.”

The state’s three largest investor-owned utilities expect to de-energize hundreds of thousands of homes and businesses this year to prevent power lines from sparking wildfires during high-risk weather conditions, and state officials have also warned that heat waves could stretch electricity resources across the West.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: ca; california; californiacanewsom; go; let; my; newsom; people

1 posted on 05/25/2021 1:10:28 PM PDT by Vendome
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To: Vendome

So like a normal summer in CA.


2 posted on 05/25/2021 1:16:49 PM PDT by matt04 ( )
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To: Vendome

No big deal. If they manage to recall Newsom, they’ll just elect some other Dem vermin. Likely someone who is even worse.


3 posted on 05/25/2021 1:17:47 PM PDT by brownsfan (Term limits! Without term limits, we are doomed.)
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To: Vendome

It’s not fair! Why should Newsom be responsible for all of the disastrous democrat policies that have turned California into a third world hell hole? Democrats were already destroying California when he was elected. Sure, it continued to get worse and Californians are now fleeing the state in record numbers, but why should he get all of the blame?


4 posted on 05/25/2021 1:24:05 PM PDT by Bubba_Leroy (Dementia Joe is Not My President!)
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To: Vendome

The California power outages are good practice for when the democrats push through their “green new deal” and only rich democrats will be able to afford to use electricity.


5 posted on 05/25/2021 1:26:18 PM PDT by Bubba_Leroy (Dementia Joe is Not My President!)
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To: Vendome

We’re putting in battery/. solar systems left and right

Screw the utility You don’t need them. Except maybe gas. ( propane )


6 posted on 05/25/2021 1:44:08 PM PDT by Truthoverpower (Arizona !!!! Now the TRUMP TRAIN is getting back on TRACK ! TRUTH! FREEDOM ! LIBERTY! )
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To: Bubba_Leroy

I personally don’t care if California swelters under the hot sun with no AC or electricity. Just like I don’t care if Portland and Seattle burn, Minneapolis has a massive murder spike, Chicago is shooting and killing each other. I know that there are innocent people that live there, but most likely they voted for or didn’t bother to vote against those idiots that are in power. I’m getting to not like people more and more.


7 posted on 05/25/2021 1:45:11 PM PDT by southernindymom
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To: Bubba_Leroy

He wanted to be #1


8 posted on 05/25/2021 1:53:57 PM PDT by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me https://youtu.be/wH-pk2vZG2M)
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To: Vendome

...expect to de-energize....

So that’s what the left calls it when your power gets cut off.

Morons.


9 posted on 05/25/2021 1:54:10 PM PDT by Jonny7797
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To: Vendome

What’s Jenner’s energy policy?


10 posted on 05/25/2021 1:54:40 PM PDT by LimitedPowers (Citizenship is not a Hate Crime!)
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To: southernindymom

I second that.


11 posted on 05/25/2021 1:55:18 PM PDT by Jonny7797
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To: LimitedPowers

Nobody knows. It’s a classic case of he said, she said.


12 posted on 05/25/2021 2:02:53 PM PDT by AJFavish (www.allanfavish.com)
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To: Vendome

Great for all those Teslas, Leafs and Priuses


13 posted on 05/25/2021 2:08:06 PM PDT by Starcitizen (So Indian H1B crybaby trash runs Free Republic moderation??? Seems so. )
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To: AJFavish
It’s a classic case of he said, she said.

LOL!

14 posted on 05/25/2021 2:31:23 PM PDT by LimitedPowers (Citizenship is not a Hate Crime!)
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To: southernindymom

The problem is all those refugees from Democrat controlled states are fleeing to conservative states like Texas and then voting for the same left wing politicians and policies that made them flee their states.


15 posted on 05/25/2021 3:14:01 PM PDT by kennedy (No relation to those other Kennedys.)
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To: Vendome

There was a time back in the mid-80s when I seriously considered moving to CA. It was a different state back then. Sure glad I didn’t.


16 posted on 05/25/2021 3:25:49 PM PDT by upchuck (Corporations don’t pay taxes. They collect them. From us. ~ h/t Little Ray)
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I seriously thought about moving to Seattle in the mid 1980s. I had a very good job offer and I really liked the city and the surrounding countryside. Back in the mid 1980s, Seattle was like San Francisco but without all the granola people (nuts, fruits and flakes). Since then, the granola people have taken it over. I have never regretted deciding to stay in Texas.


17 posted on 05/25/2021 4:00:10 PM PDT by Bubba_Leroy (Dementia Joe is Not My President!)
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To: Vendome

broke azz power infrastructure.

We get hit with a good sized solar flare in the next couple of years, you’ll have no power for years....


18 posted on 05/25/2021 4:30:51 PM PDT by ASOC (This space for rent)
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To: southernindymom

“... I know that there are innocent people that live there, but most likely they voted for or didn’t bother to vote against those idiots that are in power. I’m getting to not like people more and more.”

Have you seen the videos of the adult elephants in the Israeli zoo surrounding and protecting their young’uns when the rockets started flying and the sirens went off?
Compare with blm.


19 posted on 05/25/2021 6:22:17 PM PDT by bravo whiskey (Count Rostov "The tyranny of inare redistinguishable days.")
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