Tag: Gavin Newsom
Silicon Valley Defending Governor Newsom
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The much anticipated votes on whether to recall Governor Gavin Newsom and, if so, with whom to replace him is still two months...
Recall Election in California Approaches
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Last week election officials in California announced that the advocates of the recall of Governor Gavin Newsom do have enough signatures on their...
California to provide healthcare to young illegal immigrants
California Governor Gavin Newsom signed a measure that would give illegal immigrants healthcare and cost California tax payers $98 million. FOX News operates the FOX News Channel (FNC), FOX Business Network (FBN), FOX News Radio, FOX News Headlines 24/7, FOXNews.com…
Ingraham: Liberals enabling lawlessness
California Gov. Gavin Newsom drawing illegal immigrants to his state with Medicaid benefits. #IngrahamAngle #FoxNews FOX News operates the FOX News Channel (FNC), FOX Business Network (FBN), FOX News Radio, FOX News Headlines 24/7, FOXNews.com and the direct-to-consumer streaming service,…
Dad of man killed by illegal immigrant blasts California Gov. Newsom’s trip to Central...
A man whose son was killed by an illegal immigrant driver in San Francisco has criticized California Gov.
Gavin Newsom for putting illegal immigrants ahead of residents of his own state with a planned tripped to Central America.
Newsom is on a four-day trip to El Salvador to learn more about the root cause of why Central American migrants make the arduous journey to the United States.
The president recently moved to cut direct aid to El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras, whose citizens are fleeing north and overwhelming U.S. resources -- including as part of organized caravans that the White House has warned may eventually lead to the closure of the entire southern border with Mexico.
During his El Salvador trip Newsom said: “Right now you have a president that talks down to people, talks past them, demoralizing folks living here and their relatives in the United States.” Rosenberg, the president of Advocates for Victims of Illegal Alien Crime, a nonprofit organization with the goal of promoting “American's safeness from illegal alien crime,” called Newsom’s trip “a political stunt.” He added: “He (Newsom) says he’s going down there to get a better understanding of what’s going on.
Galo, a Honduran, who entered the country illegally but earned temporary protective status, then ran over Rosenberg twice in his frenzied effort to flee the scene.
“He was the mayor of San Francisco when my son was killed.
It was his policy a year before that if you are in the country illegally you can drive in San Francisco without a license and the guy who killed my son was caught prior to that and they just dropped the charges, let him go, and he continued to drive until he killed my son.” He added: “Newsom, he’s ignoring his own state, and worrying about everything else.
Look, he’s posturing for a run for presidency, he’s not going to run right now, but if Trump wins another term, he’ll be running in 2024 and that’s what he is doing right now.
It’s disgusting.”
Bay Area political events: Two Koreas, Bernie Sanders
$25 for non-Commonwealth Club members, $10 for students.
Noon, 110 Embarcadero, San Francisco.
$10, students free.
Party for Socialism and Liberation.
Gates open at 11 a.m., rally at 12:30 p.m. More information is here.
6 p.m., Pinole City Hall, 2131 Pear St. More information is here.
Sponsored by the Community Water Center, Sierra Club California, and the David Brower Center.
Sponsored by Berkeley College Republicans.
7 p.m., Evans Hall, UC Berkeley.
$25 for members, $10 for students.
Bay Area political events: Two Koreas, Bernie Sanders
$25 for non-Commonwealth Club members, $10 for students.
Noon, 110 Embarcadero, San Francisco.
$10, students free.
Party for Socialism and Liberation.
Gates open at 11 a.m., rally at 12:30 p.m. More information is here.
6 p.m., Pinole City Hall, 2131 Pear St. More information is here.
Sponsored by the Community Water Center, Sierra Club California, and the David Brower Center.
Sponsored by Berkeley College Republicans.
7 p.m., Evans Hall, UC Berkeley.
$25 for members, $10 for students.
Gavin Newsom and the New Politics of the Death Penalty
This week, Gavin Newsom, the governor of California, signed an executive order issuing a reprieve to all seven hundred and thirty-seven prisoners on the state’s death row, effectively nullifying California’s policy of capital punishment for the near future.
Response to Newsom’s moratorium was mixed even among the families of victims.
“I will not oversee execution of any person,” his order said.
He was challenging death-penalty justifications in the “emotional” place where they live.
A truly bold move would challenge not only the death penalty but its de facto fallback, life imprisonment.
Today, it costs an average of eighty-one thousand dollars a year to keep a prisoner incarcerated in California.
The cost of life imprisonment is relatively less than the cost of death row, according to a Florida investigation, from 2000, but it’s not peanuts, and long punishment may not help the public in proportion.
Many countries of the European Union favor shorter sentences combined with intensive resocialization and rehabilitation programs; a study of the Dutch and German systems, in 2013, suggested that they were more effective in reducing crime than the United States’ mass-incarceration model.
If we were serious about threats to society, we would support the most effective punishments, not the most severe.
As it is, Newsom’s reprieve is a gesture of limited reform and a gesture of intractable executive power, too.
Don’t Interrupt the Democrats
Can we blame U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), really?
Being ambitious and bold are not usually considered bad things.
A decade of quantitative easing, along with trillion-dollar annual deficits run up recently by congressional Republicans, have laid the debt-ridden tracks upon which she hopes her massive Green New Deal will glide.
Keep your balance near those computer keyboards, folks.
Economic security for all who are unable or unwilling to work.” Cut the green congresswoman some slack?
You cannot tell me that silly FAQ wasn’t spot on.
Who knew that, days after the GND offered to Americans the notion that high-speed train travel could be a human (almost religious) right, deepest blue-state Governor Gavin Newsom stopped California’s high-speed train projects in their tracks, looking at costs and declaring, “Let’s be real.” Nonetheless, the Green New Deal enthusiastically promises to “create millions of good, high-wage jobs .
counteract systemic injustices.” But what about afterlunch?
Kindly old Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell announced that he will generously bring the GND to a vote in the U.S. Senate, helping Ocasio-Cortez in the upper house — and putting Senate sponsor Edward Markey, a Massachusetts Democrat, and all other senators squarely on the record.
The comeuppance would come, according to this rationale, when the public realizes just how humongously big Big Government would be if only Democrats were voting.
Extramarital affair with Kamala Harris? Former San Francisco mayor, 84, admits it happened
Former San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown addressed his past extramarital relationship with U.S. Sen. Kamala Harris in his weekly column Saturday, saying he may have boosted the presidential hopeful's career. "Yes, we dated.
It was more than 20 years ago," Brown wrote in the San Francisco Chronicle.
Gavin Newsom and U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein. "That's politics for ya." "The difference is that Harris is the only one who, after I helped her, sent word that I would be indicted if I 'so much as jaywalked' while she was D.A.” — Willie Brown, former mayor of San Francisco Brown appointed Harris -- about 30 years younger than Brown and just a few years out of law school – to two well-paid state commission assignments on the Unemployment Insurance Appeals Board and the California Medical Assistance Commission, the Washington Free Beacon reported. "Whether you agree or disagree with the system, I did the work," Harris said in a 2003 interview with SF Weekly. "I brought a level of life knowledge and common sense to the jobs."
Brown's involvement in her election raised questions as to how Harris would remain impartial, given his enormous political clout.
During his two terms as mayor of San Francisco, Brown was known for his charm, arrogance and ego, according to a 1996 profile in People magazine.