Recalling Newsom

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The petition to recall California Gov. Gavin Newsom has been approved for signature gathering, the California Globe reports. Saving California, the group behind the recall, cites Newsom’s “gross mismanagement” during the LA County fires, soaring crime, and “misallocation of state funds based on political agendas” as reasons to dump the governor. This invites a look at the first effort to recall Newsom four years ago, and his election as governor in 2018.

Then Lt. Gov. Newsom grabbed 61.9 percent of the vote, surpassing the 59.97 of recurring governor Jerry Brown in 2014, with only 38.1 opting for Republican John Cox. In the style of Brown, whom Newsom calls the greatest political mind “in our lifetime,” the new governor quickly reprieved the sentences of more than 700 convicted murderers on the state’s death row, the worst of the worst. Like Brown, Newsom was a big fan of Senate Bill 54, the state’s sanctuary law that protects false-documented illegals, even violent criminals such as Gustavo Perez Arriaga.

On December 26, 2018, the Mexican national gunned down Newman, California police officer Ronil “Ron” Singh, who came to the United States legally with the goal of becoming a police officer. Newsom made no official statement on the murder, a contrast his eager response on other issues.

“The hots are getting hotter, the dries are getting drier,” Newsom proclaimed after wildfires devastated vast swaths of the state. “Something happened to the plumbing of the world. Climate change is real and exacerbating this.”  The governor provided no evidence for the statement and showed no sign of familiarity with books such as Unsettled: What Climate Science Tells Us, What it Doesn’t and Why it Matters,” by Steven Koonin, and The Climate Fix: What Scientists and Politicians Won’t Tell You About Global Warming by Roger Pielke.

Newsom, who claims he went to Santa Clara University on a “partial baseball scholarship,” shows little evidence that he ever read anything of importance. California is home to Thomas Sowell of the Hoover Institution at Stanford, author of  acclaimed books such as Basic Economics, Intellectuals and Race, Affirmative Action Around the World, and many others. Gavin Newsom seems unaware of Sowell’s existence.

Newsom has a history of dyslexia, but with the books available in audio that is no excuse for willful ignorance. On that theme Newsom is a lot like Joe Biden, whose disastrous term he praised as “a masterclass in terms of performance.” Consider Newsom’s own performance during the pandemic.

The old-money San Francisco Democrat boasts ties to the Brown, Getty and Pelosi families, and when he issued the stay-at-home order in March of 2020, the governor said the state was blessed to have the leadership of Nancy Pelosi. The next month Newsom spent $1 billion on masks from the Chinese company Build Your Dreams (BYD), hiding the details even from fellow Democrats. Newsom told Californians to wear their masks even “between bites” but partied sans mask at an upscale eatery.

Newsom fined churches for holding in-person services and his orders for holiday gatherings warned against singing, chanting and even the playing of musical instruments. On Newsom’s watch the state Employment Development Department (EDD) shelled out $188 billion in unemployment benefits, with $31 billion going to fraudsters, including death-row convicts and out-of-state rappers such as Nuke Bizzle, who posted a video about the ease of ripping off California.

In 2020, Newsom signed Senate Bill 145, which allows a 24-year-old to have sex with a 14-year-old, escape felony conviction, and avoid registration as a sex offender. This record gave Californians many reasons to recall the coiffed one, who did not seem worried.

A full 61.9 percent of voters voted “no” on the Newsom recall, with only 38.1 percent in favor – the same proportions of 2018. The establishment media failed to note the extraordinary coincidence, and Gov. Newsom was quick to explain.

“We said yes to science. We said yes to vaccines. We said yes to ending this pandemic,” the governor proclaimed. “We said yes to people’s right to vote without fear of fake fraud or voter suppression. We said yes to women’s fundamental Constitutional right to decide for herself what she does with her body and her fat (sic) and future. We said yes to diversity. We said yes to inclusion. We said yes to pluralism. We said yes to all those things that we hold dear as Californians and, I would argue, as Americans – economic justice, social justice, racial justice, environmental justice. Our values, where California’s made so much progress, all of those things were on the ballot this evening.”

And so, on, as though he had just been elected president. Those puzzled by the coincidence might note the reference to “fake fraud,” implying that there was none, and compare the 2003 recall for Los Angeles Democrat Gray Davis. His main issue was power blackouts, but 55.4 percent of Californians voted to recall him and install Arnold Schwarzenegger, an actor who had never held office. During the following 18 years, voter fraud expanded apace.

Jerry Brown cultivated the practice of deploying government employee unions as campaign workers. The state has been lax in removing the deceased from the voter rolls, and California abounds with those who vote for a living instead of working for a living. The state also allows “provisional ballots” now reinforced by an imported electorate.

The state’s “motor voter” program automatically registers illegals to vote when they get driver’s licenses. In 2015, Secretary of State Alex Padilla told the Los Angeles Times, “at the latest, for the 2018 election cycle, I expect millions of new voters on the rolls in the state of California.”  Padilla never revealed how many of the illegals voted – a violation of the law – and the motor voter program has never been audited. As Californians should know, the problem does not end there.

Party cadres known as politiqueros bribe and threaten illegals to vote for Democrats. By providing illegals with a host of benefits, health care and in-state tuition among them, Gov. Newsom serves as  politiquero-in-chief. Accepting welfare benefits affects admissibility to the United States and eligibility for citizenship, so the false-documented illegals – who are not “migrants” – serve as a permanent imported electorate.

That is why California Democrats protect illegals from deportation, even the violent criminals among them. That is why Gavin Newsom, after causing untold damage and suffering, can beat a recall with the same vote as 2018. As the people should know, this plan is not just for California.

When Biden picked Kamala Harris for his running mate, Newsom appointed voter-fraud boss Alex Padilla to replace her in the Senate. The senator nobody voted for now wants the IRS to register illegals to vote when they do their taxes. The Biden-Harris administration brought in 10-12 million illegals to serve as an imported electorate in the style of California. Elon Musk’s DOGE has found that between 2021 and 2025, more than five million non-citizens were issued Social Security numbers, and that non-citizens are now found on voter rolls, just as they are in California.

Since the 2021 recall, Gov. Newsom has signed legislation to make California a sanctuary state for “trans families,” along with legislation to ban schools from notifying parents about attempts at gender transition by their own children. Embattled Californians can be forgiven for believing that voter fraud keeps Newsom in power and explains his indifference to the people.

Anybody who supports voter fraud, especially voting by illegals, forfeits any claim to support the rule of law. All federal aid to California should be conditioned on reforms such as an independent audit of the motor voter program, mandatory voter ID, a cleanup of voter rolls, and elimination of the state’s sanctuary status.

As the people should know, California also allows false-documented illegals to serve in government. That offence should come to an end, and persons illegally present in the United States should be deported, criminals first.

Elimination of voter fraud, the registering of politicians as agents of the foreign governments they serve, and impeaching judges who usurp the powers of the president, will serve as strategic weapons of the people moving forward.