all right it's happening again just a week from the primary election activists set their sights on Governor Gavin new a new recall effort comes just two years after Newsome successfully beat that previous attempt to get him out of office ABC7 news reporter lose pea spoke to the campaign director of the new recall and is here with what she found out Loose yeah around 9:30 a.m. the group behind Rescue California filed a notice of intent to recall the governor this less than three years after the l
ast recall Governor Gavin news is facing another recall attempt Less Than 3 years after beating the last one the group behind this one submitting almost 500 signatures to begin the process we got them in three days um they range from mostly just depressed repressed and suppressed citizens of the State of California along with some leadership and law enforcement and so forth um and uh we're filing and we're not messing around the group Rescue California accused the the governor of abandoning the
state to advance his presidential Ambitions pointing to a list of issues across California highest homeless rates highest taxes in the country um all of those things are in there as reasons for the recall and included in that is the public safety and education issues but granting health benefits to undocumented immigrants and the State's record 73 billion deficit for the biggest motivators now have a 73 billion deficit he's not qualified right now he's not doing his job he certainly shouldn't be
applying for another one on exg Governor Newsome responded to the recall attempt Trump Republicans are launching another wasteful recall campaign to distract us from the existential fight for democracy and reproductive Freedom we will defeat them some of California's top Democrats including attorney general Rob B and Senators Padilla and Butler rushed to condemn the recall attempt how serious is this recall it's not very serious Gavin Newsome has beat back recalls before he hasn't done anything
necessarily scandalous since then and we still have a pretty strong Democratic majority in the states meno College political science Professor Melissa Michaelson does think that while the budget deficit may not get him recalled it could impact nome's presidential Ambitions I think it's going to be challenging for the governor to move on to the national state AG if he doesn't have a strong econom record in California to build on and during the 2021 recall attempt Governor New raised more than $7
0 million from donors and the recall movement raised 8 million Professor Michaelson said this latest recall could potentially lead to Governor nsome getting more donors luus Peña ABC7 News
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