For example, his signature-making AB 5 law is arguably his worst legislative blunder in California history.
This legislation effectively bans independent work of any kind, which makes you your own boss. The NAACP called it a “terrible law.”
State Assemblyman Kevin Kiley had this to say about AB 5:. “Two hundred economists, including a Nobel laureate, reported the law is ‘doing substantial, and avoidable, harm to the very people who now have the fewest resources and the worst alternatives available to them.’”
That’s from his recent book, “Recall Newsom,” a well-researched, definitive guide to the befuddlements of our governor. Much of this column is pulled from that book.
Newsom’s response to the COVID-19 is illustrative starting with a letter sent to his arch nemesis, President Trump, in March 2020 where he projected “… roughly 56 percent of our population — 25.5 million people — will be infected with the virus over an eight-week period.”
Aside from his appalling math skills — 25.5 million people constitute 65 percent of the population — the Governor’s COVID mandates have been ill-formed, capricious and unnecessarily ruinous to our small businesses throughout the last 16 months.
The Newsom administration’s dysfunctionality is epitomized by the state’s Employment Development Department which, during COVID, not only failed to handle the increased number of legitimate unemployment insurance claimants but blithefully handed out billions to fraudsters.
As my friend who has much experience as a small business owner told me, “the EDD can best be viewed as the love child of the DMV and the Department of Corrections.”
Currently Newsom’s employment policies continue to devastate our family-owned commercial sector by agreeing to continue the $300 federal enhancement of unemployment benefits, thereby inducing workers to stay home and not return to work. I’ve talked to many local small business owners about this dysfunctional decision and they tell me the major impediment to their company returning to normalcy is their inability to find workers.
In short, the Biden administration, with Newsom’s unnecessary compliance, harms our small business sector, the most impacted component of our economy during COVID.
As well, our children have been negatively impacted by the governor’s inclination to keep our schools closed and the teacher unions happy. And the most harmed have been minority kids, the children of single parents or those who live in a home where both parents must work. Recent studies reveal that for many of our school-age kids, this has been a lost year. And not only have they been unable to learn, ancillary effects are equally devastating, including increased depression and rising levels of suicide.
Unfortunately, there are abundant political maladies that can be attributed to Mr. Newsom, but we don’t have space here. Over the next few months far more will be written both for and against the recall. For those who have not made up their mind, I urge you to read Kevin Kiley’s book. It’s short, sad and frequently appalling. But the good news is that we soon get to dump Mr. Newsom and given the bar he has set, every reader of this column should know that they could do a better job.
It’s always the right thing to remove politicians let alone tyrants.
Gruesome is counting on relaxed Covid rules to get him off the hook. The nauseating ads he’s running on YouTube showing a happy black family as he flashes “$1100 cash!” is his disgusting way of trying to buy off the angry electorate.
But when the CAISO starts rolling blackouts it’s gonna be Gray Davis all over again. The real reason Davis was recalled was killing Prop 187, but the blackouts were the icing on his black cake. Gonna hit Gruesome the same way.
Unless of course he plans to hit up Arizona and Utah for extra electrons, but they need them for themselves. Hot summers there too...
Kali Kommies have voter fraud down to a science. A well oiled fraud.
Heard this from someone who runs in political circles in CA.
If the internal polls show Newsom surviving the recall, he stays in place.
If the internal polls show Newsom being recalled then.
1. Newsom resigns, you know, for he good of the state, prior to the recall date.
2. The recall is canceled as the person that was to be recalled is no longer in office.
3. Democratic Lt. Gov. Eleni Kounalakis becomes the governor.
4. Senator Diane Feinstein retires.
5. Democratic Lt. Gov. Eleni Kounalakis names Newsom as the new senator from California.
6. Feinstein and husband continue to enrich themselves off of state contracts.
The same people remain at the table, the only thing that changes are the chairs they sit in.