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Another Recall? Newsom's Pandemic Performance Inspires Recall Campaign

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KQED

News Commentary, News, Politics

4.2727 Ratings

🗓️ 22 December 2020

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

A recall effort against Governor Gavin Newsom is gaining momentum. The campaign started long before photos surfaced of Newsom dining at an exclusive Napa restaurant with lobbyist friends. The Republicans behind the recall effort are also upset by Newsom's endorsement of a bill to compel companies to classify independent contractors as employees, and by his decisions to grant inmates early parole, and give undocumented immigrants Covid relief funds. We'll discuss the recall effort and if it stands a chance with voters. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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From KQED. And for the rest of this hour, we are going to talk about this recall campaign against Governor Gavin Newsom.

1:17.6

Now that the election is over, you might think people are giving politics a bit of arrest, but that is not the case.

1:23.6

The Republican Party in California is supporting an effort to collect enough signatures

1:28.2

to place a recall of the governor on the ballot, and they're almost halfway there. So what's

1:33.1

driving this campaign? How worried should Governor Newsom be? Well, let's begin with Jessica Milan

1:38.3

Patterson. She is chair of the California Republican Party. Jessica, thanks for joining us.

1:43.4

Hi, Scott. Thanks for having me.

1:45.0

Well, let's, let me just begin by asking you, what is the status? I mentioned that you're

1:48.7

halfway to collecting the, I think you need 1.5 valid signatures by March, what is it, the 17th,

1:54.6

I think? Yeah. And to be clear, this is a separate organization that started this effort. And the California

2:03.1

Republican Party did endorse the effort back in July. And we were very, very focused on our

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