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Home Front: Politix
California Governor Newsom fights off recall challenge by two-to-one margin
2021-09-16
[NYPOST] Democratic Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, Gov. Gavin can't be Bee'd Newsom
...the Mitt Romneyesque mayor of San Francisco as it transformed itself into Poopville, currently governor of California as it transforms itself into Cinderland...
easily survived a recall effort Tuesday night — avoiding the threat of becoming the second chief executive of the Golden State to be removed from office by voters before the completion of his term in under 20 years.

With 61 percent of the expected vote in, the "no" response to the ballot question of whether Newsom should be recalled had 66.8 percent of the vote while the "yes" response had 33.2 percent.

The final margin was expected to be closer as more votes were counted, but not nearly close enough to trouble the incumbent.

In brief remarks Tuesday night, Newsom said Californians — in voting "no" on the recall — had "said yes to science."

"We said yes to vaccines, we said yes to ending this pandemic," Newsom said. "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 ... 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."
Posted by:Fred

#17  ^ Spent 2 years working in Knoxville at Scripps. Loved the entire experience. Finally getting Mrs. Mundi out to see for herself in couple of weeks. I'm confident of what the reviews will be.
Posted by: Rex Mundi   2021-09-16 17:55  

#16  I met some people on Tuesday who were life-long Californians. They told me they are Republicans and were looking for a place to escape to and found East Tennessee and have no plans to change it. They bought a house built in 1851 and are renovating it. Very nice people. They just couldn't take the crazyness any more.
Posted by: Deacon Blues   2021-09-16 16:10  

#15  If Cali had Michigan's weather, no one would choose to live there

That's the hell of it.
Posted by: Abu Uluque   2021-09-16 13:44  

#14  It is best a Democrat is in power when the state economy goes belly=up and they are forced to make really hard decisions. If Elder won he'd have been stopped at every turn to fix things, and then he'd be blamed when the state economy collapsed (even if he was long out of power).

Still, having him replace Feinstein with a Republican would have been fun to watch. He got my vote on that issue alone.
Posted by: ruprecht   2021-09-16 12:02  

#13  ^ Yes. The black face of the Republican Party will never exist. There are black Republicans but trying to sell that brand is a fools errand.
Posted by: M. Murcek    2021-09-16 11:46  

#12  Newsome won because people were convinced Elder is a black-faced Donald Trump.
Posted by: Glenmore   2021-09-16 11:41  

#11  For those keeping score at home - Newsom got 7.7 million votes in 2018 to be elected, and just under 5.9 million in the recall vote to be retained.
Posted by: Raj   2021-09-16 10:05  

#10  California’s Audit-Proof Scheme to Steal Elections [Frontpage Mag] Lloyd Billingsley
When voter fraud is institutionalized.
Another opinion source to chew on 4U...
Posted by: Clerelet Sproing4002   2021-09-16 09:18  

#9  I actually think they are going to be authentically surprised when they see what "elections can't be trusted" actually means.
Posted by: M. Murcek   2021-09-16 08:27  

#8  And once again institutionalized white male privilege wins over the oppressed. Freudian projection throughout.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2021-09-16 08:24  

#7  

The Mail-in Ballot printing presses for voted again.... Just like a page out of the Atlanta Fulton Co. GA. Playbook.
Posted by: NN2N1   2021-09-16 07:12  

#6  If Cali had Michigan's weather, no one would choose to live there
Posted by: Unuter Gurly-Brown8846   2021-09-16 06:30  

#5  A sibling lives in Cali. She sounds somewhat to the right of our dear deceased aunt who was a card carrying member of the John Birch Society when she talks about the day-to-day problems of a rich white person in Cali. Then she issues the big BUT: She won't leave and she won't vote Republican.

You get what you play for.
Posted by: M. Murcek   2021-09-16 05:43  

#4  
Posted by: 3dc   2021-09-16 01:56  

#3  /\ Likely, it'll be used as a model for the mid-term 2022 elections and beyond.

My guess as well.
Posted by: Besoeker   2021-09-16 01:02  

#2  Tremendous rot and decay in the US.
Posted by: Ebbomoger Speaking for Boskone4589   2021-09-16 00:58  

#1  Indications are it's a serious cheat in several precincts and districts. Likely, it'll be used as a model for the mid-term 2022 elections and beyond.
Posted by: Bertie Hatfield3444   2021-09-16 00:40  

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