California Gavin Newsom, 53, once considered a rising star in the Democrat Party, is now slated for a potential recall vote for mismanaging the state’s response to the novel coronavirus AKA SARS CoV-2 or Covid-19 crisis. Newsom started his wayward journey navigating the crisis taking advice from mega-billionaire Bill Gates-funded Institute for Health Care Metrics and Evaluation [IHCME] at the University of Washington. Newsom listened to the “scientists” March 15. warning that California would have 25.5 million cases or 60% of the population infected by May 15 if Newsom didn’t shut down the state economy. California has 2,653,609 cases and 29,295 deaths today, not the wildly exaggerated stats from IHCME that prompted Newsom to shut down the economy. Newsom rifled through the state’s hard-earned $30 billion rainy-day fund, now with a $54.3 billion budget deficit.
Newsom has driven many of California’s small businesses into bankruptcy, leaving over 2,058,800 unemployed. Newsom’s actions, allegedly to control the spread of the virus, has placed California into an intolerable economic situation, forcing cutbacks to education, parks, homelessness, infrastructure and practically every other vital state service. Newsom showed total disregard for his draconic Covid-19 measures attending a birthday party Nov. 13 without masks or social distancing at Wine Country’s ultra-chic French Laundry restaurant. When that happened, Oririn Heatlie started his recall petition that now has over 1 million signatures, needing 1.5 million by the March 15 deadline to go on the ballot. Randy Economy., a senior advisor to the recall campaign, said he though he would have the 500,000 more signatures for RecallGavin2020.com by mid-to-late-January.
Covid-19 exposed Gavin’s Achilles Heel that he’s not up to speed on managing California’s once mighty $3.2 trillion economy, about 12% of the U.S. $20.8 trillion economy. When 82-year-old former Gov. Jerry Brown passed the baton to Gavin Jan 7, 2017, hope sprang eternal that could handle the job, having served eight years as Lieutenant Governor. But the stress of office clearly got the better of Gavin, unable to balance the advice of “scientists” against his responsibility to California workers, reeling from the state’s deep recession. Instead of striking balance between corporate and small independently-owned businesses, Newsom decimated small business owners, letting people shop at big box stores like Cosco, Home Depot, Walmart and Target. Newsom targeted restaurants, hair salons, barbershops, nail parlors, gyms and other businesses that couldn’t afford the restrictions.
Following the scientist’s advice, Newsom found out the hard way what happened to 74-year-old President Donald Trump when he followed the advice of his Covid-19 experts, like NIH’s Dr. Anthony Fauci. Once the economy was shutdown, it d rove the record low unemployment rate from 3.5% to 12.5%, creating hardship around the country. Democrats made Covid-19 and the economy the No. 1 campaign issue, eventually upending Trump, handing the election to Biden. Biden didn’t do much campaigning, letting the Covid-19 crisis and bad economy tilt the election in his favor. Trump talks about unverified election fraud but there were plenty of reasons for voters to boot Trump out of office. Trump’s communication team led by 34-year-old neophyte Hope Hicks couldn’t challenge the media narrative that the Covid-19 crisis engulfed the U.S. economy.
Newsom had many choices managing the Covid-19 crisis but chose to side with un-elected scientists, advising shutdowns to control the spread of the virus. Shutdowns didn’t control the virus and drove more workers and businesses into unemployment. Newsom was so busy confronting Trump that he stubbornly refused to reopen businesses before it was too late. Once Newsom violated his own rules, was forced into an embarrassing mea culpa, it was too late for many Californians, disgusted with his state leadership. “The people are being heard loud and clear, and it is not a matter of IF we are going to reach our goal necessary that will trigger a recall election of Newsom, it is just when we cross the finish line,” said Heatlie. Heatlie insists that supporters of Trump and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) have all joined a nonpartisan effort to remove Newsom from office.
Newsom committed the cardinal sin, especially asking ordinary citizens to sacrifice their livelihoods for the good of the state. Once they saw him dining at the $1,200 a plate French Laundry, voters got that Newsom was a phony. While he said he made a “mistake,” it’s not a mistake to cheat his way to a fun evening, getting away from the stress of office. Had Newsom showed more wisdom and not picked on California’s small businesses, he would have more sympathy. But pulling the plug Nov. 13 on dine-in eating, even when restaurants went outdoors, Newsom proved he didn’t know what he was doing. Newsom “put corporate interests before the people of California,” Economy said, certain to get enough signatures to put his recall on the ballot. Whether you’re Democrat or Republican, no one in California can tolerate Newsom’s arbitrary-and-capricious rulings.
