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"content": "\u003cp>The last time a Republican was swept into California’s governor’s office as a result of a recall election, Kevin Kiley had a front-row seat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In early 2004, Kiley, having just wrapped up his freshman year of college, worked as an intern in the governor’s office as Arnold Schwarzenegger assumed the reigns of state government following his victory in the 2003 recall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I kind of had a firsthand view of this effort to get a government up and running after a kind of unexpected change in personnel,” Kiley remembers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, Kiley is hoping another unexpected change will land him in the governor’s office. Kiley, three-term state assemblymember representing Rocklin, is one of the leading candidates to potentially replace Gov. Gavin Newsom in the Sept. 14 recall election. The only member of the state Legislature on the ballot, Kiley says Newsom’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic has been marked by executive overreach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11883011/kevin-kiley-on-his-recall-bid-and-plans-for-california-schools\">In an interview with KQED’s \u003cem>Political Breakdown\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, Kiley laid out his case against Newsom, and argued his experience in state government will allow him to move quickly in pursuit of an agenda that includes a move away from mask and vaccine requirements, and education policies that favor charter schools and a school voucher program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Having spent five years at the Capitol, I know exactly how broken our state government is,” he said. “I know exactly what the problems are and how I go about fixing them on day one.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the Legislature, Kiley has emerged as a leading critic of Newsom’s pandemic response. He filed suit against Newsom to curtail some of the governor’s executive actions (a court of appeal disagreed with his claims), and he even wrote a book laying out his case for the recall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kiley now says Newsom is overreaching with his \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11883989/california-to-require-all-health-workers-be-fully-vaccinated-against-covid-19-by-end-of-september\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">push to require vaccinations\u003c/a> for public employees and health care workers. State officials say the rules are needed because infections are on the rise among health care workers, despite their early access to the vaccine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside tag=\"recall\" label=\"More Recall Coverage\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People can make the choice for themselves as to whether they and their families do want to get vaccinated,” Kiley said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kiley said his path into politics was shaped by a stint at Manual Arts High School in Los Angeles, where he taught 10th grade English and started a debate team while in the Teach for America program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I had a really amazing experience, but I also saw how much our public education system is failing a lot of our kids,” he said. “The 10th graders that I taught would on average be at a fifth grade reading level when they came into my class.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the Assembly, Kiley serves as the top Republican on the Education Committee. He has been a vocal opponent of Newsom’s education policies, including a 2019 law that \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/2019/10/03/governor-newsom-signs-charter-school-legislation-10-3-19/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">overhauled the state’s rules\u003c/a> governing charter schools. The changes, \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billVotesClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB1505\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">which Kiley voted against\u003c/a>, allowed school officials to consider a district’s finances when weighing whether to approve a new charter school and placed a moratorium on non-classroom-based charter schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This past year, Kiley has aimed his ire at the governor’s handling of school reopenings, pointing to California’s slow return to in-person education as the “most egregious example” of Newsom’s failings as governor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This governor inflicted untold harm on a generation of young people while his own kids were in private school,” Kiley said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Republicans have traditionally preferred school decisions be left to local officials, Kiley said state leaders should have stepped in when some districts were slow to return kids to in-person learning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In March, Newsom and legislative leaders struck a deal \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11863208/california-legislature-approves-plan-to-reopen-schools\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">to incentivize a return to classroom instruction, \u003c/a>sending billions of dollars to local districts. Most Republicans in the Legislature supported the move, but Kiley \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billVotesClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB86\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">voted against the bill\u003c/a>, arguing it didn’t go far enough to mandate an end to distance learning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Responsible leadership on the part of our state government would have said ‘you need to open,’ ” he said. “Local control does not extend to whether you have school at all.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While a statewide survey\u003ca href=\"https://www.ppic.org/publication/ppic-statewide-survey-californians-and-education-april-2021/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> found positive marks\u003c/a> for Newsom’s handling of school reopenings, Kiley is convinced the underlying anger of some parents will open the door to sweeping changes to education policy in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To that end, Kiley is sponsoring a 2022 ballot initiative to create a school voucher system, allowing public school students to spend their allotment of state education funding on the school of their choice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Assemblymember Kevin Kiley, R-Rocklin\"]‘People can make the choice for themselves as to whether they and their families do want to get vaccinated.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The measure, Kiley said, “will not only empower families to do what’s right for their own kids and find the best fit for them, but also give incentives to the traditional public schools to, if they’re not serving students well, to get their act together in order to retain students.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Previous \u003ca href=\"https://ballotpedia.org/California_Proposition_174,_School_Vouchers_(1993)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">school voucher initiatives\u003c/a> have \u003ca href=\"https://ballotpedia.org/California_Proposition_38,_School_Vouchers_Initiative_(2000)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">been trounced\u003c/a> by California voters (though the last was on the ballot in 2000), and critics of the idea argue that a system in which taxpayer dollars are funneled into private schools will lack any oversight and accountability.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While polls on the recall question have tightened in recent weeks, Kiley has lagged behind a handful of other potential replacement candidates. 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"content": "\u003cp>California Gov. Gavin Newsom has a simple way to beat back the recall election that could force him out of his job: Get Democrats to vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it may not be as easy as it sounds. Democratic registration almost doubles that of Republicans in the state, but party leaders are alarmed because Republicans appear more eager to vote, which \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101884707/new-poll-of-likely-voters-shows-newsom-recall-vote-is-close\">is backed up by polling\u003c/a>. Some Democrats might not be paying attention because they are convinced Newsom is headed toward an easy victory.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The kind of voter Newsom needs to connect with is 37-year-old barber Dwayne Speed of Sacramento, who is a registered Democrat but has been thinking about switching to independent. He felt Newsom “pushed his own personal agenda” during the pandemic. But he isn’t convinced by recall supporters either and hasn't decided how he will vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I want to know every single basis that they’re trying to recall him on,” Speed said. “Nobody’s going to have a job and do it 100% perfectly.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Interviews with about 20 voters across Sacramento, Fresno and Los Angeles reveal the challenges Newsom faces just two weeks before ballots start arriving in voters' mailboxes ahead of the Sept. 14 contest. While a handful of voters had decisive plans to vote for Newsom, many were aware of the recall but hadn't yet formed an opinion, did not know when the election was scheduled or were lukewarm on Newsom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among Newsom’s challenges: Voters aren’t used to elections in odd-numbered years, and certainly not in September. Many voters have turned away from television platforms that carry ads, and resurgent coronavirus rates could make people unwilling to answer a knock at the door from a campaign worker. But every voter will get a ballot in the mail, giving them an easy opportunity to participate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The recall effort was launched by novice Republican activists last year before the pandemic took hold, and they successfully gathered more than the 1.5 million signatures required by state law to place it on the ballot. Their effort was initially seen as a long shot that drew little attention. But signatures spiked after Newsom was caught dining out at the high-end French Laundry restaurant in Northern California for a birthday party while urging people to stay home and avoid gatherings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Los Angeles, 24-year-old Nick Yi, a registered independent who is between jobs, said he hasn’t been paying much attention to the recall, in part because he has been staying away from news to avoid accounts of Asian hate crimes, which he finds upsetting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11881560\" label=\"More Recall Coverage\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He expects to vote and tends to lean Democratic. But he doesn’t have a strong impression of Newsom, calling him someone who is passionate and “Republicans don’t like.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As Newsom's team looks to engage voters like Yi, they are spending significant time \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11882945/recall-money-wars-what-do-newsoms-million-dollar-donors-want\">branding the effort as a partisan contest\u003c/a>. The majority of his TV ads have made a case against the recall rather than one for Newsom, branding it as a “Republican power grab.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One ad shows video of people storming the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6. In another, Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts tells voters “we've seen Trump Republicans across the country attacking election results and the right to vote. Now they're coming to grab power in California.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Democrats are openly sounding the alarm. Juan Rodriguez, campaign manager of the anti-recall effort, told The Associated Press he is “very concerned\" about turnout. In an interview with editorial boards for McClatchy’s California newspapers, Newsom warned that the recall would have “profound consequences\" heading into the 2022 midterm elections. The campaign has already sent 14 million text messages to voters, and Rodriguez said enthusiasm is increasing as Democrats learn more about the race.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Three months ago, Myra Coble of Fresno was a Democrat who was convinced Newsom couldn't be recalled. Now she's a volunteer with the county party trying to convince other Democrats not to rest on that assumption.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our fear is that in this election, Republicans will turn out and Democrats will be complacent because they think it can’t happen,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>President Biden won Fresno County with 53% of the vote in the 2020 presidential election. Though Fresno and other counties in the Central Valley are home to fewer voters than population power centers like San Diego and Los Angeles, Newsom has touted his commitment to the region throughout his governorship and traveled there regularly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But his message doesn't always break through. Curtis Selland and Leslie Pugsley are two Fresno County Democrats who will vote to keep Newsom but aren't his biggest fans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pugsley, 57, applauded the job Newsom did during the early months of coronavirus when he acted quickly to shut down schools\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11881766/facing-recall-anger-from-shop-owners-newsom-touts-small-business-roots\"> and businesses\u003c/a>. But she thinks he comes off as a “snooty San Francisco liberal” who isn’t genuine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"medium\" citation=\"Myra Coble, Democratic Party volunteer\"]'Our fear is that in this election, Republicans will turn out and Democrats will be complacent because they think it can’t happen.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the opposite end, Christina Grout, 37, is a Democrat and mother of two from Sacramento who is excited to support Newsom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A disability justice advocate, she pays close attention to state politics and appreciated Newsom's handling of the pandemic. If anything, she would have liked to see him be more aggressive by keeping the state's mask mandate in place longer. The state dropped its mandate for vaccinated people on June 15. But on Wednesday, state officials began recommending people wear masks indoors again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I feel proud to be a Californian,” Grout said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Los Angeles County, meanwhile, could present Newsom's biggest challenge. It is home to more than 3 million Democrats and is a place where statewide elections can be won or lost. But voters often shrug at politics and can be especially difficult to get to the polls, even during a routine November election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Outside a local library, independent Jonathan Montes, 22, said he plans to vote but is undecided about Newsom. He is troubled by climbing rents and the unchecked spread of homelessness -– people could be seen slumped in doorways nearby, or splayed beneath trees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’s going to give Newsom a close look before making a decision, but at this point “I would like to see someone else,” Montes said. Newsom “hasn’t lived up to expectations.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Michael R. Blood reported from Los Angeles.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>Gov. Gavin Newsom may be fighting for his political life amid a \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/health/coronavirus/2021/07/california-covid-mask-guidelines/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">fourth wave of COVID\u003c/a>, a \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/environment/2021/05/unprepared-california-drought-2021-lessons-learned/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">drought without modern precedent\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1975814/a-punishing-california-fire-season-is-here-fueled-by-historic-drought\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">another horrific fire season\u003c/a>, a \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-07-01/california-homicides-jump-31-in-2020-the-most-in-13-years\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">spiking murder rate\u003c/a> and an \u003ca href=\"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/27x9k5qt\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">increasingly credible-seeming\u003c/a> recall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But at least he has a lot of really rich political allies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At last count, the main committee tasked with defending the governor against the \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/gavin-newsom-recall-election/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sept. 14 recall\u003c/a> has \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2021/05/gavin-newsom-recall-money/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">raised some $39 million\u003c/a>. Another allied committee and Newsom’s own 2022 campaign account, which state law allows him to draw upon this year, add another $4 million to that war chest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s more than double all the cash raised by the committees campaigning for his ouster and the \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/explainers/newsom-recall-candidates/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">46 candidates hoping to replace him\u003c/a>, combined.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It also represents the generosity — or perhaps the strategic expenditure — of a broad coalition of some unlikely allies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They include California’s largest teachers union and its most vocal charter school advocates; nurses and the hospitals they sometimes clash with; Realtors, developers, building trades unions and corporate landlords who have \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/multimedia/podcasts/california-state-of-mind-show/2021/07/podcast-a-closer-look-at-the-competing-interests-of-californias-housing-crisis/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">differing views on the housing crisis\u003c/a>; defense contractors at Lockheed Martin; abortion rights advocates; new car dealers; and the financier-turned-liberal-megadonor George Soros. All have found common cause in keeping Newsom in his job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A new CalMatters analysis of the donors to the main anti-recall committee found that organized labor threw Newsom the largest financial lifeline — roughly 45% of the total, including $1.8 million from the teachers union and $1.75 million from the prison guards this week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Companies and individuals hailing from the state’s business community coughed up another 36% of the $39 million. The remainder came from an assortment of ideological interest groups, tribal governments, the California Democratic Party and small-dollar contributors. (\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2021/05/gavin-newsom-recall-money/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">CalMatters’ recall money tracker now shows\u003c/a> where donations from a wide range of industries are going.)\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Newsom’s Financial Defenders\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Campaign contributions to committees fighting the recall. Click a bubble to zoom in and see individual contributors, click the arrow to zoom back out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" title=\"Interactive or visual content\" sandbox=\"allow-same-origin allow-forms allow-scripts allow-downloads allow-popups allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox allow-top-navigation-by-user-activation\" style=\"width: 100%; height: 1050px;\" src=\"https://flo.uri.sh/visualisation/6812210/embed?auto=1\" height=\"1050\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If political contributions are a vote of confidence, the votes of the well-heeled, powerful and influential are overwhelmingly in the incumbent governor’s camp.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom’s current haul isn’t quite the \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/projects/la-pol-ca-california-governor-2018-money/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">$58 million\u003c/a> that he raised during the 2018 race. And it’s dwarfed by recent \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/newsletters/whatmatters/2020/10/california-ballot-campaigns-record/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">corporate-backed ballot measure fights\u003c/a> that have hit the 9-digit mark.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But if donations were votes, Newsom would defeat the recall in a landslide. The political reality could be far different: A \u003ca href=\"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/27x9k5qt\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">new UC Berkeley Institute of Governmental Studies poll\u003c/a> found pro- and anti-recall sentiment in a virtual dead heat among likely voters. That could provide Newsom’s allies with fresh incentive to pony up — and his campaign more reason to solicit money for the campaign ahead, especially to increase awareness and enthusiasm among Democrats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The governor’s campaign seems to be taking the threat seriously. In a TV spot that hit the state’s airwaves Wednesday night, U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, a progressive icon, implored the electorate to vote no “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G4vWWUbuUjA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">to protect California and our democracy\u003c/a>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Neither a boatload of money nor a crowded roster of well-financed supporters, however, is a sure recipe of electoral success. Last year, a campaign to \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/election-2020-guide/proposition-16-affirmative-action/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">repeal state restrictions on affirmative action\u003c/a> outraised the opposition nearly 17-to-1, while racking up endorsements from every corner of California power and influence. It failed by 14 percentage points.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Dan Schnur, Former Chairperson of California’s Fair Political Practices Commission\"]‘This is a relatively painless way to strengthen your relationship with an incumbent governor.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But there’s another, even more important reason for many to give, said Dan Schnur, former chairperson of California’s Fair Political Practices Commission and a past strategist for Republican politicians: “This is a relatively painless way to strengthen your relationship with an incumbent governor.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California \u003ca href=\"https://www.fppc.ca.gov/content/dam/fppc/NS-Documents/TAD/Campaign%20Documents/StateContributionVolunExpenditureLimites/2021%20Contribution%20Limits%20Chart.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">campaign finance regulations\u003c/a> cap the amount of money that gubernatorial candidates can raise at $32,400 per person — a limit that covers the challengers seeking to replace Newsom. But no such limits apply to committees raising money for a general cause — like the one defending Newsom against the recall. That difference is allowing individuals and groups to write million-dollar checks to help the governor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" title=\"Interactive or visual content\" sandbox=\"allow-same-origin allow-forms allow-scripts allow-downloads allow-popups allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox allow-top-navigation-by-user-activation\" style=\"width: 100%; height: 1050px;\" src=\"https://flo.uri.sh/visualisation/6857914/embed\" height=\"1050\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Organized Labor to the Rescue\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Just as the news of the surprisingly grim Berkeley poll was percolating through the California political universe, two more public employee unions — both political forces in their own right and conspicuously absent from the governor’s campaign finance filings — announced this week that they were opening up their coffers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>First, the California Correctional Peace Officers Association threw in $1.75 million. Then came the California Teachers Association with $1.8 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though the teachers were the largest funder of Newsom’s 2018 campaign, that relationship got complicated last spring as Newsom and the union sparred first over when teachers \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2021/california-teachers-union-wants-schools-in-purple-counties-to-stay-closed-for-100-days-vaccinations-for-staff/647866\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">would get vaccines\u003c/a>, then \u003ca href=\"https://abc7news.com/school-reopenings-california-schools-when-will-reopen-lausd/10214385/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">how quickly schools should reopen\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But now, Newsom “is facing opponents who are funded by a network that wants to dismantle public education. The choice is stark and clear,” union president E. Toby Boyd said in a statement Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many of the \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/2021/07/newsom-recall-candidates-education/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">top Republicans vying to take Newsom’s place\u003c/a> in the governor’s office support bolstering charter schools, allowing families to spend publicly-funded vouchers on private education and making it easier to fire teachers deemed to be underperforming. [pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"E. Toby Boyd, President of the California Teachers Association, which Gave $1.8 Million\"]‘Newsom is facing opponents who are funded by a network that wants to dismantle public education. The choice is stark and clear.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The teachers and correctional officers join a financial field fighting the Newsom recall that is crowded with other organized labor groups, including other public employees, construction workers, nurses and other health care workers and food pickers and processors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Service Employees International Union California, one of the state’s most influential organized labor groups, has kicked in $5.5 million through its various locals. The largest single contribution came from Local 2015, which represents nursing home employees and other long-term care workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Local 2015 president April Verrett declined an interview request, but emphasized in a statement that the union’s support is more than just financial: “We plan to mobilize our predominantly Black, brown, and immigrant caregivers, who have been on the front lines of this pandemic, to make their voices heard as we go door to door, over the phone and online encouraging a vote against the recall.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For many labor groups, supporting Newsom in his time of need is an investment in the future. One of the governor’s \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/health/2021/07/california-health-newsom/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">longstanding health policy goals\u003c/a> is to implement what he has called a “master plan on aging” to beef up the state’s patchwork system of elder care. The idea is still in blueprint form, but the promised overhaul would require a massive increase in state funding for health care and long-term care programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For other unions, supporting Newsom now looks a bit more like a thank you card. Prison guards, for example, \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/post-it/2020/09/california-prison-guards-ad-democratic-legislator/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">aren’t reliable Democratic allies\u003c/a>. But earlier this year, they scored a \u003ca href=\"https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/the-state-worker/article252432088.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">major pay hike\u003c/a> from the governor and lawmakers over the \u003ca href=\"https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4446#unit-6-corrections\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">objections of the state’s Legislative Analyst’s Office\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And the alternatives to Newsom on the recall ballot? For most labor groups, there are few appealing options: When he was mayor of San Diego, Kevin Faulconer made \u003ca href=\"https://www.cbs8.com/article/news/faulconer-other-officials-back-pension-overhaul-initiative/509-714e8b4c-2182-4f1c-9165-03b1f1cc4a1d\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">overhauling the pension system\u003c/a> for former city employees a top priority. John Cox has \u003ca href=\"https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/opinion/commentary/sd-john-cox-interview-20180510-htmlstory.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">repeatedly railed\u003c/a> against the political influence of prison guards. And conservative radio show host Larry Elder \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mNXSBTNTyLY\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">opposes the minimum wage\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Familiar Financiers\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>But unions make up less than a majority of the contributors to the Newsom cause. The rest of the list is full of regular large donors to California political campaigns, including \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/california-election-2020/2020/10/california-lawmakers-big-donors-special-interest-independent-expenditures/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">special interests\u003c/a> and more than a few billionaires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Netflix CEO Reed Hastings — a notable charter school advocate who \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/Big-money-for-Villaraigosa-could-jolt-California-12833419.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">supported Antonio Villaraigosa over Newsom\u003c/a> in the first half of the 2018 campaign — gave the governor’s committee its largest single contribution of $3 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other titans of Silicon Valley have lined up to back Newsom. In a public letter published in March, Laurene Powell Jobs, founder of the Emerson Collective and widow of Apple’s Steve Jobs; prominent Bay Area angel investor Ron Conway; and former Google CEO Eric Schmidt were among executives and venture capitalists to close ranks behind the governor. Since then donors from the tech sector have given nearly $1.4 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another $1 million came from George Marcus, a Bay Area real estate mogul with a history of backing moderate Democrats and opposing rent control measures. More than $500,000 was donated by hedge fund heir Liz Simons, who in recent years has contributed millions to criminal reform justice efforts and progressive prosecutors, including Attorney General Rob Bonta.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And whatever Newsom’s conservative critics might say about his anti-business policies, there are plenty of proud capitalists on his roster of defenders. That includes typical big spenders such as the California Realtors, dentists and the building industry.[aside tag=\"newsom, recall\" label=\"More Related Stories\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unlike other sectors, which have \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2021/05/gavin-newsom-recall-money/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">largely consolidated in one camp\u003c/a> or the other, developers are divided. While individual real estate titans including \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/projects/2020-election-trump-top-california-donors/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">GOP mega donor Geoffrey Palmer\u003c/a> support the recall, the California Building Industry Association, which lobbies in the state Capitol, is backing the governor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Association President Dan Dunmoyer, who served as cabinet secretary to Arnold Schwarzenegger after he became governor in the 2003 recall, said that on policy, the governor has said \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/politics/la-pol-ca-new-home-building-goal-governor-candidates-20180306-story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">many of the right things\u003c/a>. Even if he hasn’t been \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/explainers/newsom-recall-report-card/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">able to deliver on those lofty goals\u003c/a>, Dunmoyer said he wants to give the governor another year to “prove himself” before the next regularly scheduled election in 2022.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said his group’s support for Newsom is also partly about timing. When so much is uncertain in California, a little stability might do developers good, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Removing a governor, he said, is “just not really logical, especially in the middle of a pandemic, fire, housing, homeless crisis.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>CalMatters data reporter Jeremia Kimelman and editorial intern Danise Kuang contributed to this story.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Editor’s note: The Emerson Collective is a financial supporter of CalMatters. All major donors sign a policy to ensure they have no influence over editorial decisions. Find a full \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/about/supporters/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">list of CalMatters’ major donors here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Gov. Gavin Newsom may be fighting for his political life amid a \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/health/coronavirus/2021/07/california-covid-mask-guidelines/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">fourth wave of COVID\u003c/a>, a \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/environment/2021/05/unprepared-california-drought-2021-lessons-learned/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">drought without modern precedent\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1975814/a-punishing-california-fire-season-is-here-fueled-by-historic-drought\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">another horrific fire season\u003c/a>, a \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-07-01/california-homicides-jump-31-in-2020-the-most-in-13-years\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">spiking murder rate\u003c/a> and an \u003ca href=\"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/27x9k5qt\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">increasingly credible-seeming\u003c/a> recall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But at least he has a lot of really rich political allies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At last count, the main committee tasked with defending the governor against the \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/gavin-newsom-recall-election/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sept. 14 recall\u003c/a> has \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2021/05/gavin-newsom-recall-money/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">raised some $39 million\u003c/a>. Another allied committee and Newsom’s own 2022 campaign account, which state law allows him to draw upon this year, add another $4 million to that war chest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s more than double all the cash raised by the committees campaigning for his ouster and the \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/explainers/newsom-recall-candidates/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">46 candidates hoping to replace him\u003c/a>, combined.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It also represents the generosity — or perhaps the strategic expenditure — of a broad coalition of some unlikely allies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The teachers and correctional officers join a financial field fighting the Newsom recall that is crowded with other organized labor groups, including other public employees, construction workers, nurses and other health care workers and food pickers and processors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Service Employees International Union California, one of the state’s most influential organized labor groups, has kicked in $5.5 million through its various locals. The largest single contribution came from Local 2015, which represents nursing home employees and other long-term care workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Local 2015 president April Verrett declined an interview request, but emphasized in a statement that the union’s support is more than just financial: “We plan to mobilize our predominantly Black, brown, and immigrant caregivers, who have been on the front lines of this pandemic, to make their voices heard as we go door to door, over the phone and online encouraging a vote against the recall.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For many labor groups, supporting Newsom in his time of need is an investment in the future. One of the governor’s \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/health/2021/07/california-health-newsom/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">longstanding health policy goals\u003c/a> is to implement what he has called a “master plan on aging” to beef up the state’s patchwork system of elder care. The idea is still in blueprint form, but the promised overhaul would require a massive increase in state funding for health care and long-term care programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For other unions, supporting Newsom now looks a bit more like a thank you card. Prison guards, for example, \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/post-it/2020/09/california-prison-guards-ad-democratic-legislator/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">aren’t reliable Democratic allies\u003c/a>. 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John Cox has \u003ca href=\"https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/opinion/commentary/sd-john-cox-interview-20180510-htmlstory.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">repeatedly railed\u003c/a> against the political influence of prison guards. And conservative radio show host Larry Elder \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mNXSBTNTyLY\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">opposes the minimum wage\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Familiar Financiers\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>But unions make up less than a majority of the contributors to the Newsom cause. The rest of the list is full of regular large donors to California political campaigns, including \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/california-election-2020/2020/10/california-lawmakers-big-donors-special-interest-independent-expenditures/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">special interests\u003c/a> and more than a few billionaires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Netflix CEO Reed Hastings — a notable charter school advocate who \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/Big-money-for-Villaraigosa-could-jolt-California-12833419.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">supported Antonio Villaraigosa over Newsom\u003c/a> in the first half of the 2018 campaign — gave the governor’s committee its largest single contribution of $3 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other titans of Silicon Valley have lined up to back Newsom. 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"content": "\u003cp>Californians who are at least 50 and living in the country without permission are newly eligible for state health care coverage under legislation signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom on Tuesday, part of a record state budget that includes major investments in mental health, homelessness and housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The legislation to expand Medi-Cal coverage to low-income adults regardless of immigration status builds upon proposals pushed by Democrats to extend the state’s version of federal Medicaid to children in 2016 and to young adults under 26 in 2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Around 235,000 people are expected to benefit from this legislation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.coveredca.com/health/medi-cal/\">\u003cstrong>Information on who qualifies for Medi-Cal and what are the steps needed to apply.\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>“It’s a point of pride, it’s a point of principle, and it’s what marks our values here in the state of California,” Newsom said at the Clinica Sierra Vista Elm Community Health Center in Fresno.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We believe in living together, and advancing and prospering together across every conceivable difference.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The program will begin in May 2022. 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Experts say the delta variant is \u003ca href=\"https://health.ucdavis.edu/coronavirus/covid-19-information/delta-variant.html\">highly contagious and poses a serious threat\u003c/a> to unvaccinated people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than 3,000 people infected with COVID-19 are hospitalized in California, which is comparable to late October 2020, before the vaccine was available. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are at a point in this pandemic where individuals’ choice to not get vaccinated is now impacting the rest of us in a profound, devastating and deadly way,” Newsom said during his announcement. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Hospital Association voiced strong support for the governor’s order, calling the requirements “important and necessary steps that must be taken in this extraordinary situation.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But one of the state’s largest health care unions declined to comment directly on the new policy. 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"content": "\u003cp>Moments after Gavin Newsom was sworn into a seat on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors in February of 1997, he promised that his experience running a small business would be the north star for his new life in politics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I have a unique perspective standing before you today,\" said the 29-year-old supervisor who \"pledged to bring the board the benefit of his business background,\" as reported by the San Francisco Examiner at the time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom's experience running a wine store and restaurants are central to the political origin story California's governor still tells about himself today: the tale of an aspiring entrepreneur who railed against a stifling bureaucracy, until San Francisco's mayor at the time figured it would be better to have Newsom's persuasiveness and ingenuity inside the tent rather than outside complaining.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That guy Willie Brown was angry with me and shut me up by making me chair of the Parking and Traffic Commission, and here I am, it's all damn connected,\" said Newsom, at a press conference on small business relief held last month in Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even after decades in politics, Newsom maintained that \"my identity is probably more, in terms of my own consciousness, in the context of right out of college opening a small business.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But nearly a quarter-century after Willie Brown appointed his protégé to the Board of Supervisors, launching his ultimate ascent to the governorship, Newsom is facing perhaps the most serious test of his political career. A recall election to remove him from office will take place on Sept. 14, driven in part by small business owners who say the governor treated their survival as an afterthought during his response to the COVID-19 pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Small Business a 'Driving Force' in Recall\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>In the campaign to get the recall question on the ballot and passed, \"small business owners have been a driving force,\" said Orrin Heatlie, the former Yolo County sheriff's sergeant who started the recall petition in early 2020. \"They’ve been shut out and put out of business.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Heatlie said independent shops around California served as designated locations for petition-signing, helping qualify the recall. And videos of anguished shop owners, like \u003ca href=\"https://laist.com/news/entertainment/why-are-film-shoots-allowed-when-outdoor-dining-isnt\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sherman Oaks restauranteur Angela Marsden\u003c/a>, became viral symbols of anti-Newsom anger.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Gretel Tiscornia, Calaveras County small business owner\"]'I don't know if Newsom ever can be considered one of us.'[/pullquote]As he campaigns to fight off the recall attempt, Newsom hopes his relief plans can ease the pain of proprietors who are struggling to stay on their feet after a year of closures and restrictions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The COVID-19 crisis has absolutely decimated small businesses all across the state,\" said Assemblywoman Cottie Petrie-Norris, D-Laguna Beach, chair of the Select Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship, at a hearing last week. \"Thousands of California small businesses have closed their doors forever, thousands more are teetering on the brink.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom's pandemic restrictions \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11878318/california-and-florida-took-dramatically-divergent-pandemic-paths-who-did-better\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">have been credited with saving thousands of lives\u003c/a>, and giving California a lower death rate than comparable states which had more open economies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But many small businesses were left on shaky footing through multiple rounds of tightening rules and a tiered reopening plan that some found difficult to plan around.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve had a lot of sputtering — starting and stopping and then starting again and stopping,\" Dr. Robert Fairlie, professor of economics at UC Santa Cruz, told the committee. \"That’s been really difficult for small businesses and we had not seen that [in previous economic downturns].\"\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Calaveras County Shops Open Doors to Recall\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>In addition to the feeling of whiplash, business owners like Gretel Tiscornia, of Calaveras County, thought the state's rules were giving big business a leg up early in the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You have places like Walmart and Costco that are open all the time, serving hundreds of people in a short amount of time,\" she said. \"Super contradictory.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11882106\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11882106 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/RS50342_IMG_3172-qut-e1626973364627-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/RS50342_IMG_3172-qut-e1626973364627-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/RS50342_IMG_3172-qut-e1626973364627-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/RS50342_IMG_3172-qut-e1626973364627-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/RS50342_IMG_3172-qut-e1626973364627-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/RS50342_IMG_3172-qut-e1626973364627.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gretel Tiscornia, owner of The Pickle Patch restaurant and Mingos on Main. 'I don't know if Newsom ever can be considered one of us,' she said. \u003ccite>(Guy Marzorati/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Tiscornia runs The Pickle Patch, a restaurant in San Andreas, and Mingos on Main, a gift store in Angels Camp, where the historic main street of 19th century buildings with rhyolite walls evokes the region's Gold Rush legacy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Newsom announced a second stay-at-home order in December, Tiscornia ignored it — keeping her restaurant open for outdoor dining. As anti-Newsom sentiment rose in the weeks after the governor violated his own guidance by \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11847570/gov-newsom-went-to-party-violated-own-virus-rules\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">dining at The French Laundry restaurant\u003c/a>, Tiscornia made the recall petition available to customers at her stores.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Sometimes they came in just to sign that, they didn't have lunch, they didn't buy anything,\" said Tiscornia, who now serves on the Angels Camp City Council.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label='More Recall Coverage' tag='newsom-recall']Eight miles to the northeast, in the bustling village of Murphys, Russell Irish is seeing visitors steadily return to his wine tasting room, Irish Vineyards. But things looked bleak last winter, when the shutdown order came just as Russell was catching up on his back rent payments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another closure would have meant potential bankruptcy, and a likely move out of the state, said Russell. Like Tiscornia and other local shop owners, he kept his doors open, and served as a hub for recall petition signing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I just wanted to be part of the recall,\" he said. \"You can’t get a recall done or anything else done politically unless you have help. And for us to be a base for that help — where anybody from this area could come sign a petition — that’s where I felt like, sure, open my doors, come on in, sign it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Recall organizers say roughly 900 business owners across California hosted petition-signing in their shops, helping fuel the grassroots movement against a governor who they feel abandoned his small business roots.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I don't know if Newsom ever can be considered one of us,\" Tiscornia said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>A 'Point of Pride' for the Governor\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>In recent weeks, as Newsom has traveled across the state to pitch his small businesses relief plan, he's argued that his personal history makes him uniquely qualified to help store owners recover from the recession.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After all, to find California's last governor who jumped from running a business into politics, you'd have to go back to James Rolph, the shipping and banking entrepreneur who was elected mayor of San Francisco, and then governor, in 1930.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It’s a big point of pride, it’s personal for me,\" said Newsom, after a visit to a San Francisco restaurant in June. \"I can’t express to you how many extraordinary things have happened in my life because I had the privilege to be behind a counter, serving other people.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Political consultant Ellie Schafer, who ran Newsom's first ever campaign in 1998, for supervisor, remembers a candidate intent on bringing relief to small business owners butting heads with city bureaucracy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"His focus was on small business, and that was really something that he ran strong on,\" said Schafer, founder and president of South Lawn Strategies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unlike your average shop owner, Newsom had well-publicized connections to some of San Francisco's elite families. Oil heir Gordon Getty was among the early investors in Newsom's first shop, PlumpJack Wine & Spirits. But Schafer said Newsom still dealt with bureaucratic hurdles in getting his early businesses off the ground.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11882107\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 765px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11882107\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/RS50346_IMG_3231-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"765\" height=\"784\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/RS50346_IMG_3231-qut.jpg 765w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/RS50346_IMG_3231-qut-160x164.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 765px) 100vw, 765px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">In a mailer for his 1998 campaign for supervisor, Newsom promises to bring 'customer service' to city government.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"His philosophy at the time was like, 'If I'm running up against these roadblocks and I have the leg up that I have, what are other people who don't have these advantages running up against?' \" Schafer recalled. \"And he really, truly wanted to make their lives better.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In that first campaign, Newsom even saw fixes to the city's Muni metro system – the \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfgate.com/politics/article/Muni-Is-Top-Issue-In-Campaigns-for-S-F-2985652.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">top issue for voters\u003c/a> – through an entrepreneurial lens. He wrote a ballot measure requiring city departments to create annual \"customer service plans,\" an idea which \u003ca href=\"https://sfelections.sfgov.org/november-3-1998-consolidated-general-election%E2%80%8B\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">was approved by voters\u003c/a> as Newsom won a full-term on the board.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, as a governor presiding over California's flush budget coffers, Newsom is directing relief checks to businesses and waiving regulations in hopes of spurring a small business recovery.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Can Grants to Businesses Spur Recovery?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>This spring, the governor signed executive orders extending the allowance of parklets for outdoor dining and the sale of alcoholic beverages to-go — and approved a tax cut for shops that received federal loans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And the state budget he approved earlier this month added $1.5 billion to a small business grant program that his administration launched in December — making a total of $4 billion in grants available to companies making less than $2.5 million in annual revenue. So far, 155,471 small businesses and nonprofits have received over $1.8 billion in grants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Tyranny Allen, co-owner of BeastMode Barbershop in Oakland\"]'We shouldn’t blame the government, we shouldn’t blame Gavin Newsom, can’t blame the president. We have to come together.'[/pullquote]\"California is leading the nation in this type of relief grant program for small businesses,\" Tara Lynn Gray, director of California’s Office of the Small Business Advocate, told assemblymembers last week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tyranny Allen, co-owner of BeastMode Barbershop in Oakland, is among the entrepreneurs applauding Newsom's investment in small businesses. His barbershop, created in partnership with NFL running back Marshawn Lynch, opened just before the pandemic hit and was closed for 11 months. Because the shop's barbers are independent contractors, not employees, the business was ineligible for federal loans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11882110\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11882110\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/RS50343_IMG_3100-qut-800x709.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"709\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/RS50343_IMG_3100-qut-800x709.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/RS50343_IMG_3100-qut-1020x904.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/RS50343_IMG_3100-qut-160x142.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/RS50343_IMG_3100-qut-1536x1361.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/RS50343_IMG_3100-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tyranny Allen, co-owner of BeastMode Barbershop in Oakland. 'We shouldn’t blame Gavin Newsom,' he said. 'We have to come together.' \u003ccite>(Guy Marzorati/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Despite the closure, Allen said he doesn't harbor any resentment toward Newsom, who visited his shop last month on a tour of local small businesses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We shouldn’t blame the government, we shouldn’t blame Gavin Newsom, can’t blame the president,\" Allen said. \"We have to come together and I think that’s the most important thing for us to do is come together as far as businesses are concerned.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even with the state relief, the road to recovery will not be smooth for all business owners across the state. Advocates for independent store owners say Newsom will need to commit to boosting small businesses, even if he puts the recall in the rear view mirror.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One looming concern: commercial rent bills. During the pandemic shutdowns, most small businesses were only given a rent deferment by their landlords, not a reduction, said Mike Daniel, regional director of the Orange County Inland Empire Small Business Development Center, at the Assembly committee hearing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That’s where most businesses are at right now, is that deferment is now coming due,\" he said. \"As [grants] start to subside and go away, what is next?\"\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>As he campaigns to fight off the recall attempt, Newsom hopes his relief plans can ease the pain of proprietors who are struggling to stay on their feet after a year of closures and restrictions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The COVID-19 crisis has absolutely decimated small businesses all across the state,\" said Assemblywoman Cottie Petrie-Norris, D-Laguna Beach, chair of the Select Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship, at a hearing last week. \"Thousands of California small businesses have closed their doors forever, thousands more are teetering on the brink.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom's pandemic restrictions \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11878318/california-and-florida-took-dramatically-divergent-pandemic-paths-who-did-better\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">have been credited with saving thousands of lives\u003c/a>, and giving California a lower death rate than comparable states which had more open economies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But many small businesses were left on shaky footing through multiple rounds of tightening rules and a tiered reopening plan that some found difficult to plan around.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve had a lot of sputtering — starting and stopping and then starting again and stopping,\" Dr. Robert Fairlie, professor of economics at UC Santa Cruz, told the committee. \"That’s been really difficult for small businesses and we had not seen that [in previous economic downturns].\"\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Calaveras County Shops Open Doors to Recall\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>In addition to the feeling of whiplash, business owners like Gretel Tiscornia, of Calaveras County, thought the state's rules were giving big business a leg up early in the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You have places like Walmart and Costco that are open all the time, serving hundreds of people in a short amount of time,\" she said. \"Super contradictory.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11882106\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11882106 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/RS50342_IMG_3172-qut-e1626973364627-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/RS50342_IMG_3172-qut-e1626973364627-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/RS50342_IMG_3172-qut-e1626973364627-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/RS50342_IMG_3172-qut-e1626973364627-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/RS50342_IMG_3172-qut-e1626973364627-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/RS50342_IMG_3172-qut-e1626973364627.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gretel Tiscornia, owner of The Pickle Patch restaurant and Mingos on Main. 'I don't know if Newsom ever can be considered one of us,' she said. \u003ccite>(Guy Marzorati/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Tiscornia runs The Pickle Patch, a restaurant in San Andreas, and Mingos on Main, a gift store in Angels Camp, where the historic main street of 19th century buildings with rhyolite walls evokes the region's Gold Rush legacy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Newsom announced a second stay-at-home order in December, Tiscornia ignored it — keeping her restaurant open for outdoor dining. As anti-Newsom sentiment rose in the weeks after the governor violated his own guidance by \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11847570/gov-newsom-went-to-party-violated-own-virus-rules\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">dining at The French Laundry restaurant\u003c/a>, Tiscornia made the recall petition available to customers at her stores.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Sometimes they came in just to sign that, they didn't have lunch, they didn't buy anything,\" said Tiscornia, who now serves on the Angels Camp City Council.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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And for us to be a base for that help — where anybody from this area could come sign a petition — that’s where I felt like, sure, open my doors, come on in, sign it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Recall organizers say roughly 900 business owners across California hosted petition-signing in their shops, helping fuel the grassroots movement against a governor who they feel abandoned his small business roots.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I don't know if Newsom ever can be considered one of us,\" Tiscornia said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>A 'Point of Pride' for the Governor\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>In recent weeks, as Newsom has traveled across the state to pitch his small businesses relief plan, he's argued that his personal history makes him uniquely qualified to help store owners recover from the recession.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After all, to find California's last governor who jumped from running a business into politics, you'd have to go back to James Rolph, the shipping and banking entrepreneur who was elected mayor of San Francisco, and then governor, in 1930.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It’s a big point of pride, it’s personal for me,\" said Newsom, after a visit to a San Francisco restaurant in June. \"I can’t express to you how many extraordinary things have happened in my life because I had the privilege to be behind a counter, serving other people.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Political consultant Ellie Schafer, who ran Newsom's first ever campaign in 1998, for supervisor, remembers a candidate intent on bringing relief to small business owners butting heads with city bureaucracy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"His focus was on small business, and that was really something that he ran strong on,\" said Schafer, founder and president of South Lawn Strategies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unlike your average shop owner, Newsom had well-publicized connections to some of San Francisco's elite families. Oil heir Gordon Getty was among the early investors in Newsom's first shop, PlumpJack Wine & Spirits. But Schafer said Newsom still dealt with bureaucratic hurdles in getting his early businesses off the ground.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11882107\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 765px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11882107\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/RS50346_IMG_3231-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"765\" height=\"784\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/RS50346_IMG_3231-qut.jpg 765w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/RS50346_IMG_3231-qut-160x164.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 765px) 100vw, 765px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">In a mailer for his 1998 campaign for supervisor, Newsom promises to bring 'customer service' to city government.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"His philosophy at the time was like, 'If I'm running up against these roadblocks and I have the leg up that I have, what are other people who don't have these advantages running up against?' \" Schafer recalled. \"And he really, truly wanted to make their lives better.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In that first campaign, Newsom even saw fixes to the city's Muni metro system – the \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfgate.com/politics/article/Muni-Is-Top-Issue-In-Campaigns-for-S-F-2985652.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">top issue for voters\u003c/a> – through an entrepreneurial lens. He wrote a ballot measure requiring city departments to create annual \"customer service plans,\" an idea which \u003ca href=\"https://sfelections.sfgov.org/november-3-1998-consolidated-general-election%E2%80%8B\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">was approved by voters\u003c/a> as Newsom won a full-term on the board.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, as a governor presiding over California's flush budget coffers, Newsom is directing relief checks to businesses and waiving regulations in hopes of spurring a small business recovery.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Can Grants to Businesses Spur Recovery?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>This spring, the governor signed executive orders extending the allowance of parklets for outdoor dining and the sale of alcoholic beverages to-go — and approved a tax cut for shops that received federal loans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And the state budget he approved earlier this month added $1.5 billion to a small business grant program that his administration launched in December — making a total of $4 billion in grants available to companies making less than $2.5 million in annual revenue. So far, 155,471 small businesses and nonprofits have received over $1.8 billion in grants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\"California is leading the nation in this type of relief grant program for small businesses,\" Tara Lynn Gray, director of California’s Office of the Small Business Advocate, told assemblymembers last week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tyranny Allen, co-owner of BeastMode Barbershop in Oakland, is among the entrepreneurs applauding Newsom's investment in small businesses. His barbershop, created in partnership with NFL running back Marshawn Lynch, opened just before the pandemic hit and was closed for 11 months. Because the shop's barbers are independent contractors, not employees, the business was ineligible for federal loans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11882110\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11882110\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/RS50343_IMG_3100-qut-800x709.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"709\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/RS50343_IMG_3100-qut-800x709.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/RS50343_IMG_3100-qut-1020x904.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/RS50343_IMG_3100-qut-160x142.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/RS50343_IMG_3100-qut-1536x1361.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/RS50343_IMG_3100-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tyranny Allen, co-owner of BeastMode Barbershop in Oakland. 'We shouldn’t blame Gavin Newsom,' he said. 'We have to come together.' \u003ccite>(Guy Marzorati/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Despite the closure, Allen said he doesn't harbor any resentment toward Newsom, who visited his shop last month on a tour of local small businesses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We shouldn’t blame the government, we shouldn’t blame Gavin Newsom, can’t blame the president,\" Allen said. \"We have to come together and I think that’s the most important thing for us to do is come together as far as businesses are concerned.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even with the state relief, the road to recovery will not be smooth for all business owners across the state. Advocates for independent store owners say Newsom will need to commit to boosting small businesses, even if he puts the recall in the rear view mirror.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One looming concern: commercial rent bills. During the pandemic shutdowns, most small businesses were only given a rent deferment by their landlords, not a reduction, said Mike Daniel, regional director of the Orange County Inland Empire Small Business Development Center, at the Assembly committee hearing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Update 7:18 p.m.:\u003c/strong> This article has been updated to clarify the requirements for talk show host Larry Elder to be placed on the list of certified candidates for governor.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California’s top election official has released the list of candidates who filed to run for governor in the September recall election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Secretary of State Shirley Weber says a total of 41 people filed the paperwork needed to run for governor by the Friday afternoon deadline — far fewer than the 135 who ran in 2003, when Gov. Gray Davis was recalled and replaced by Arnold Schwarzenegger.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No prominent Democrats are running, but among the top Republicans are former San Diego Mayor Kevin Faulconer, Assemblyman Kevin Kiley, businessman John Cox, former Congressman Doug Ose and reality TV star Caitlyn Jenner.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Political consultants to conservative talk show host Larry Elder said he filed the papers, but his name did not appear on the list. None of the candidates will become governor unless a majority of voters decide to recall Gov. Gavin Newsom in September.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Elder, a Republican and regular guest on Fox News, announced his candidacy on July 12, bringing a well-known voice on the political right to a Republican field trying to oust Newsom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But he wasn’t on the list released by the secretary of state of candidates who met the requirements to be placed on the Sept. 14 ballot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Calm down, that list was not certified, I fully expect to be on the ballot when the certified list comes out,\" Elder said in a pre-recorded video statement on Twitter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Elder’s campaign team expects him to be on the final list of certified candidates, the secretary of state’s office indicated it would take a court order to overturn Weber’s determination that Elder failed to submit all of the required paperwork related to his personal income tax filings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/larryelder/status/1416760877643042818\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And the smaller-than-expected number of Republican candidates could be a setback for recall supporters who had hoped for a large, prominent field to attract voters for the first, crucial question: Should Newsom be recalled, yes or no? If that question fails, the recall is over and Newsom remains in office, with the potential replacement candidates on the second ballot rendered irrelevant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If Newsom is recalled, then whoever on the list of potential replacements gets the most votes is the new governor of the nation’s most populous state. With numerous candidates and no clear front-runner, it’s possible the winner might get less than 25% of the votes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The recall date was set earlier this month after Republican organizers easily cleared the required 1.5 million petition signatures needed to place the proposal on the ballot. The push to oust Newsom is largely rooted in frustration with long-running school and business closures during the pandemic that overturned daily life for millions of Californians.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of the leading Republican candidates have been campaigning for months, but no Democrat with political stature decided to run, giving Newsom what amounted to an important, incremental victory. In 2003, Arnold Schwarzenegger, a Republican, was elected after voters recalled Democratic then-Gov. Gray Davis. Many believe Davis was damaged when a fellow Democrat, Lt. Gov. Cruz Bustamante, entered the race.[aside tag=\"recall\" label=\"More recall coverage\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that could also backfire. Polls have shown Newsom would beat back the recall. But should he lose in an upset, there would be no established Democrat among replacement candidates, potentially opening the way for a Republican to take the seat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While there are some notable personalities, this year’s list lacks the panache of contenders in the state’s circus-like 2003 recall. Among the 135 names on the ballot that year were former child star Gary Coleman, pornographer Larry Flynt, former baseball Commissioner Peter Ueberroth and political pundit Arianna Huffington, who dropped out shortly before the election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Polls have shown many voters are ignoring this year’s contest, and there were no new candidates who emerged Saturday who appeared to have the potential to reorder the trajectory of the race.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When it comes to requirements to run, the bar is relatively low. A candidate must be a citizen, registered or qualified to vote in California and not be convicted of felony bribery or theft of public money. Candidates must pay a filing fee of about $4,200 and submit at least 65 valid nomination signatures with their declaration of candidacy. They must also file copies of federal tax returns for the previous five years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11879531\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11879531\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/GettyImages-1302667642-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1699\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/GettyImages-1302667642-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/GettyImages-1302667642-800x531.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/GettyImages-1302667642-1020x677.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/GettyImages-1302667642-160x106.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/GettyImages-1302667642-1536x1019.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/GettyImages-1302667642-2048x1359.jpg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/GettyImages-1302667642-1920x1274.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kevin Faulconer, former mayor of San Diego and a Republican candidate for California governor, speaks during a news conference in front of Abraham Lincoln High School on Feb. 17, 2021 in San Francisco. Faulconer held a news conference in front of the San Francisco high school to demand that California Gov. Gavin Newsom reopen schools in the state. \u003ccite>(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A certified list — the one voters will see — will be released Wednesday, and changes are possible. According to the secretary of state’s office, candidates who have filed the required paperwork include:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Kevin Paffrath\u003c/strong>, 29, is a YouTuber who gives financial advice to his 1.7 million subscribers. The Democrat says his lack of “political baggage” is a good thing. Anyone who wins the recall election would be governor for just over a year before the next election, which Paffrath likened to a trial run. His proposals include building underground tunnels for new roadways and cutting income taxes. The multimillionaire denies his run for office is a ploy to generate more publicity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jeff Hewitt\u003c/strong>, 68, is a Riverside County supervisor. He wrote in The Orange County Register that he was entering the race because “this state no longer accommodates dreams, fosters ideas or solves problems.” He argues the state needs a new approach and, as a Libertarian, he is positioned to work with Democrats and Republicans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Joel Ventresca\u003c/strong>, 69, is a Democrat though says he’s further to the left than Newsom and even Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders on some issues. “I consider Newsom a corporate, establishment, insider Democrat,” he says. Ventresca’s main campaign platform is providing free health care and education “cradle to grave” for everyone in California. He retired in 2018 from the San Francisco International Airport, where he held multiple roles, and he ran for mayor of San Francisco in 2019. He got 7% of the vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sam Gallucci\u003c/strong>, 60, a Republican, is a former technology executive who is senior pastor at Embrace! Church in Oxnard, California. He also runs services that provide assistance for at-risk women and children and migrants. In his tech career, he rose through the corporate ranks to become an executive vice president and general manager for software maker PeopleSoft. Oracle acquired the company for $10.3 billion in 2004. He says “the soul of our state has been lost.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Caitlyn Jenner\u003c/strong>, 71, is a lifelong Republican trying to parlay her celebrity into a surprise win. She won the men’s decathlon gold medal at the 1976 Olympics, married into the Kardashian family and with them became reality TV stars, and then came out as a transgender woman in 2015. She has described herself as a fiscal conservative who is liberal on social issues. But she’s proven gaffe-prone in interviews and a sprinkle of polling has suggested she’s no Arnold Schwarzenegger, who used the power of his celebrity to become California governor in a 2003 recall election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>John Cox\u003c/strong>, 66, was the Republican nominee for governor in 2018 and lost to Newsom in a landslide. This time around the multimillionaire businessman has displayed a showman’s instincts, campaigning at one point with a Kodiak bear to show he wants to make “beastly” changes to California. He’s long sought public office. Starting in 2000, Cox ran for the U.S. House and twice for the U.S. Senate in his old home state of Illinois, but fell short in crowded Republican primaries. He also ran a largely unnoticed campaign for the 2008 Republican presidential nomination.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Doug Ose\u003c/strong>, 66, is a multimillionaire businessman and former Republican congressman who represented a Sacramento-area district from 1999 to 2005. Ose says he’s ready to work across party lines to reopen schools and get the economy back at full strength. He calls Sacramento broken, pointing to the homeless crisis, climbing gas taxes and increasing crime rates. He’s been calling for regional debates. “Californians are tired of having a governor whose operating themes are hypocrisy, self-interest, half-truths and mediocrity,” Ose says. He briefly ran for governor in 2018.[aside tag=\"politics\" label=\"More Political Coverage\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jacqueline McGowan\u003c/strong>, 46, a Democrat, is a former stockbroker turned cannabis policy reform advocate. She’s running to bring attention to what she calls a crisis in the legal cannabis market, which has struggled to get on its feet amid heavy regulation and taxes while facing stiff competition from the thriving underground market. Legal marijuana is not available in many parts of the state. She says the state has largely turned its back on the industry’s troubles. She would slash pot taxes and push communities that have not set up local markets to open the door for legal sales.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Kevin Faulconer\u003c/strong>, 54, is a Republican who was twice elected mayor of Democratic-leaning San Diego and left office last year. He was an early entrant in the recall race and has long been seen as a potential statewide candidate given his centrist credentials in strongly Democratic California. He’s presented himself as a problem-solver who can work across the political aisle and has touted his work keeping homeless encampments off streets while they spread unchecked in Los Angeles and San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Steve Chavez Lodge\u003c/strong>, 62, is a retired homicide detective and small business owner. He gained notoriety when he got engaged to reality TV personality Vicki Gunvalson, who appeared on the “Real Housewives of Orange County” for 15 years. The Republican says “California is completely broken” and is promising to “get government out of our lives ... and out of our wallets.” He also has served on local government commissions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Kevin Kiley\u003c/strong>, 36, is a Republican state assemblyman from the Sacramento area who emerged as a favorite among GOP volunteers who gathered petition signatures for the recall. He built a reputation as a strong conservative and one of Newsom’s most vocal critics, and is seen as a rising personality in the California GOP.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED Politics editor \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/scottshafer\">Scott Shafer \u003c/a>contributed to this report. Reporting from The Associated Press' \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/entertainment-health-government-and-politics-elections-california-c5eedc7f144b2e7baa5745b800e67709\">Michael R. Blood and Kathleen Ronayne\u003c/a> was also used in this report. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>And the smaller-than-expected number of Republican candidates could be a setback for recall supporters who had hoped for a large, prominent field to attract voters for the first, crucial question: Should Newsom be recalled, yes or no? If that question fails, the recall is over and Newsom remains in office, with the potential replacement candidates on the second ballot rendered irrelevant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If Newsom is recalled, then whoever on the list of potential replacements gets the most votes is the new governor of the nation’s most populous state. With numerous candidates and no clear front-runner, it’s possible the winner might get less than 25% of the votes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The recall date was set earlier this month after Republican organizers easily cleared the required 1.5 million petition signatures needed to place the proposal on the ballot. The push to oust Newsom is largely rooted in frustration with long-running school and business closures during the pandemic that overturned daily life for millions of Californians.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of the leading Republican candidates have been campaigning for months, but no Democrat with political stature decided to run, giving Newsom what amounted to an important, incremental victory. In 2003, Arnold Schwarzenegger, a Republican, was elected after voters recalled Democratic then-Gov. Gray Davis. Many believe Davis was damaged when a fellow Democrat, Lt. Gov. Cruz Bustamante, entered the race.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that could also backfire. Polls have shown Newsom would beat back the recall. But should he lose in an upset, there would be no established Democrat among replacement candidates, potentially opening the way for a Republican to take the seat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While there are some notable personalities, this year’s list lacks the panache of contenders in the state’s circus-like 2003 recall. Among the 135 names on the ballot that year were former child star Gary Coleman, pornographer Larry Flynt, former baseball Commissioner Peter Ueberroth and political pundit Arianna Huffington, who dropped out shortly before the election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Polls have shown many voters are ignoring this year’s contest, and there were no new candidates who emerged Saturday who appeared to have the potential to reorder the trajectory of the race.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When it comes to requirements to run, the bar is relatively low. A candidate must be a citizen, registered or qualified to vote in California and not be convicted of felony bribery or theft of public money. Candidates must pay a filing fee of about $4,200 and submit at least 65 valid nomination signatures with their declaration of candidacy. They must also file copies of federal tax returns for the previous five years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11879531\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11879531\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/GettyImages-1302667642-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1699\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/GettyImages-1302667642-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/GettyImages-1302667642-800x531.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/GettyImages-1302667642-1020x677.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/GettyImages-1302667642-160x106.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/GettyImages-1302667642-1536x1019.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/GettyImages-1302667642-2048x1359.jpg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/GettyImages-1302667642-1920x1274.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kevin Faulconer, former mayor of San Diego and a Republican candidate for California governor, speaks during a news conference in front of Abraham Lincoln High School on Feb. 17, 2021 in San Francisco. Faulconer held a news conference in front of the San Francisco high school to demand that California Gov. Gavin Newsom reopen schools in the state. \u003ccite>(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A certified list — the one voters will see — will be released Wednesday, and changes are possible. According to the secretary of state’s office, candidates who have filed the required paperwork include:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Kevin Paffrath\u003c/strong>, 29, is a YouTuber who gives financial advice to his 1.7 million subscribers. The Democrat says his lack of “political baggage” is a good thing. Anyone who wins the recall election would be governor for just over a year before the next election, which Paffrath likened to a trial run. His proposals include building underground tunnels for new roadways and cutting income taxes. The multimillionaire denies his run for office is a ploy to generate more publicity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jeff Hewitt\u003c/strong>, 68, is a Riverside County supervisor. He wrote in The Orange County Register that he was entering the race because “this state no longer accommodates dreams, fosters ideas or solves problems.” He argues the state needs a new approach and, as a Libertarian, he is positioned to work with Democrats and Republicans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Joel Ventresca\u003c/strong>, 69, is a Democrat though says he’s further to the left than Newsom and even Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders on some issues. “I consider Newsom a corporate, establishment, insider Democrat,” he says. Ventresca’s main campaign platform is providing free health care and education “cradle to grave” for everyone in California. He retired in 2018 from the San Francisco International Airport, where he held multiple roles, and he ran for mayor of San Francisco in 2019. He got 7% of the vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sam Gallucci\u003c/strong>, 60, a Republican, is a former technology executive who is senior pastor at Embrace! Church in Oxnard, California. He also runs services that provide assistance for at-risk women and children and migrants. In his tech career, he rose through the corporate ranks to become an executive vice president and general manager for software maker PeopleSoft. Oracle acquired the company for $10.3 billion in 2004. He says “the soul of our state has been lost.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Caitlyn Jenner\u003c/strong>, 71, is a lifelong Republican trying to parlay her celebrity into a surprise win. She won the men’s decathlon gold medal at the 1976 Olympics, married into the Kardashian family and with them became reality TV stars, and then came out as a transgender woman in 2015. She has described herself as a fiscal conservative who is liberal on social issues. But she’s proven gaffe-prone in interviews and a sprinkle of polling has suggested she’s no Arnold Schwarzenegger, who used the power of his celebrity to become California governor in a 2003 recall election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>John Cox\u003c/strong>, 66, was the Republican nominee for governor in 2018 and lost to Newsom in a landslide. This time around the multimillionaire businessman has displayed a showman’s instincts, campaigning at one point with a Kodiak bear to show he wants to make “beastly” changes to California. He’s long sought public office. Starting in 2000, Cox ran for the U.S. House and twice for the U.S. Senate in his old home state of Illinois, but fell short in crowded Republican primaries. 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And this governor was what, mayor? He was lieutenant governor for eight years and has been governor for two years. And look at what he's done. So experience with our common sense and good judgment is pretty useless in my opinion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The last governor who had no experience governing was Arnold Schwarzenegger. How do you think he did as governor?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I thought he was lousy, a disaster. I felt that if he had put the hammer down when he got elected, he could have done something. He could have reined in some of these expenses. And then he shifted left, became a “green guy,\" became an environmental climate change alarmist. I don't know what the hell happened to him, but I was very disappointed in him and I was disappointed that I encouraged people to vote for him. Looking back at it. I wish I supported somebody like Tom McClintock. He was a disaster. 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But we have the lowest or one of the lowest COVID rates in the country. We have one of the highest vaccination rates in the country. Would you say that some of that economic pain was worth it given where we are today on the pandemic?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No, I don’t. I think he did not follow science. He shut down the schools, even though the CDC said schools could open. We lost an entire year of education because of the way in which he shut down schools against science. And I think people are stupid. I don't want to catch COVID, I got my shots. You don't have to tell people what to do this way. I think businesses could have reasonably remained open with precautions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I just don't believe you had to lock down the state the way he did.\u003cbr>\nSo this governor made a lot of mistakes. I think what you tell people, give people the truth, give people the science, and allow people to make their own decisions, treat people like adults. He didn't. 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We are under-investing, investing in the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We haven't had any significant additions to the structure for water, underground storage, that kind of thing when it rains, in almost 40 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We have this CEQA, California Environmental Control (sic) Act that basically allows anybody to stop anything for any reason for an indefinite period of time. And as a result, we're not investing properly in our state's infrastructure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I would declare a statewide emergency and suspend some of the CEQA laws so that we can encourage the construction of not only homes, but also the construction of more infrastructure. I believe droughts are God-made, but shortages are man-made. We should be planning better and we're not doing it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>If you were to become governor, you would still have to deal with a supermajority Democratic legislature. How would you navigate that? 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