[PJMEDIA] Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, Governor Gavin Newsom gave his "State of the State" address last night and decided he wasn’t giving his opponents and advocates for his recall enough ammunition. So he obliged them by choosing to frame his campaign for "equity" as a question of not going back to "normal" when the pandemic ends because "normal accepts inequity."Telling people that things will not "return to normal" after what they’ve been through is not a way to win friends and influence voters. It is, in fact, another reason to sign a recall petition and vote the incompetent governor out of office.
The governor further explained his comment that "normal accept inequity" by elaborating that inequity was the reason Latinos were dying from COVID at a higher rate over any other racial or ethnic group in the state, why the poor wages of essential workers’ are not enough to live on, and why the state has seen mothers leave the workforce in dramatic numbers.
The reason those wages are not enough to live on is that your housing policies make it too expensive to live anywhere in your state. And it could be those mothers are leaving the workforce because your buddies in the teacher’s unions refuse to go back to work so the schools can open.
Those two issues — housing costs and school closings — are what have people most upset at Newsom and he’s not helping his cause any by deflecting attention from the real problems.
Needless to say, Newsom opponents are lining up to take him on. One challenger, the former Republican mayor of San Diego, Kevin Faulconer, can’t wait to rumble.
"What we had, again, was more word salad and a lot of rhetoric," Faulconer said of the address. "And really, unfortunately, in California, we have a governor that is botching the basics. That’s why you’re seeing this recall continue to grow with so much strength."