Assembly Bill 2164 authored by Assemblymember Rebecca Bauer-Kahan (D-Orinda) would have prohibited California’s governor from recognizing a request for extradition of a person related to their providing a legally protected healthcare activity in the Golden State to transgender individuals, or if they provide reproductive services. It provided certain exemptions, such as an extradition required by federal law.
He wants to be your president, wooooo! Asshole. Tried to force state workers back to the office, too.
But I was told that voting Blue No Matter Who was the way to protect my trans friends, now what do I do? /S
Dearest ShitLibs: as of today, September 23, you have 160 days remaining to find a candidate to nominate who isn’t a genocidal ghoul and won’t throw trans people under the bus. If you can’t manage that, then you don’t get to pretend like the people who’ve been saying this for a decade now are somehow betraying you and the nation by not voting for whatever Wall St friendly monster you’ve allowed your party to nominate.
Abortion Coalition for Telemedicine, the lead sponsor of the bill, noted 18 governors have “signed identical provisions into law without fanfare”
DNC voters when they let this guy through and lose again:
Fuck you newsome
He would be really upset about you saying that if he could read.
Newsom is a neoliberal. Neoliberals are conservatives. He is controlled opposition. He will try to trick the public into believing he is progressive in 2028. He is a pathological liar and conman just like any other conservative.
I suspect that earlier in his governorship he was willing to go along more with the Democratic legislature because he knew it would not risk his re-election. Now that he has his eyes on the presidency he is going straight down the middle, which these days is basically the Right.
which these days is basically the Right
By European standards, the American center is on par with AfD, Örebro, and Borgernes Parti. Gavin Newsom is a right wing fascist.
This is why I don’t want him to run for president. He is not a progressive.
I mean this isn’t even just not progressive, this is collaboration with fascist states to do fascism.
This is why I dont want him as a presidential candidate. 😒 We cant allow people to get hunted down so his chances of winning are better. MAGA wants to force facism upon us and I’m not willing to let establishment dems move their moral compass.
Mark my words, he would NOT hold anyone, including trump, accountable. He and the other paid-fpr establishment dems would say, “Oh, we need to move on as a country.” No we don’t, we need accountability, STARTING with the dems!
“We’re looking forward not back”
That’s their oldest ploy.
Basically he said that he thinks this should be left up to the governor, whoever that is, and no matter how righteous and well intentioned, the issue shouldn’t be decided for all time this way, eroding future governors’ authority.
What a spineless position. Why pass any laws at all? Why not leave everything up to the whims of whoever is in office?
Doesn’t the legislature decide issues all the time and enshrine those decisions for the future in law? Isn’t that what they do? Why the fuck should extradition for providing healthcare be any different? Isn’t he “eroding the authority” of the legislature in saying no, we should leave this as governor’s discretion, just in principle?
I’m not just hating Newsom reflexively here. I seriously don’t understand his argument, despite trying.
His argument is that other republican states will use this as precedent for disobeying federal law, I’m just not sure how he hasn’t realized Republicans don’t care about precedent at all
I’ll attempt to suss it out a little bit, as you seem to have given his argument it’s due, even if it doesn’t click for you. It doesn’t for me either. My cynicism tells me that, if he weren’t eying a White House run, he would have just signed it. However, as pretty much the presumptive establishment Dem favorite, he’s been listening to the ghouls in the DNC who say things like “Trans rights are a losing issue, we have to divest ourselves of ‘fringe’ politics”. As a smokescreen for that bit of realpolitik, he is couching his stance in terms of “eroding executive authority”.
My understanding (IANAL in Cali or otherwise) is that California law currently grants the office of the Governor exclusive discretionary power in whether to honor extradition requests from other states (provided the governor is not otherwise compelled to respond in a certain manner e.g. a federal court issues the request or something). Newsome’s argument is that it is improper for him, a term-limited outgoing governor, to “willingly” divest the office of an exclusive discretionary power like that. It’s similar, in principle, to the arguments some years ago regarding the Senate confirmation of political appointees during a President’s second term. I.e. it wasn’t “fair” that a lame duck might have a chance to stuff the government with “their guys”, possibly sabotaging the incoming President of a different party. Not exactly the same, but the principle stands, I think.
Of course, when McConnell made those arguments, he was lying through his teeth, as is Newsome, I assume. It’s just a convenient cover story that makes the common clay of the New West (y’know…morons!) think, “wow, that’s a level-headed so and so with a mind for good governance and bipartisan cooperation, that sure is something that this country could use!”
Where the argument falls down is that, as you pointed out, the Legislature passed this. He already had the perfect smokescreen to say, “there’s nothing I could do, I’m no loonie lefty, but the people of California spoke through their elected representatives and I had no right to veto it merely because it slightly reduced the power of the executive office.” He chose not to, because he’s deathly afraid of the pro-maga-ganda machine painting him as a coastal elite out of touch with middle America, as if that’s not going to be their exact tactic against him regardless of his record. I’d stop just short of him saying he’s eroding the Legislature’s authority though. He’s using the veto power of his office as it’s intended. In theory, overriding the passage of legislation popular enough to make it through that whole process will harm him politically, which is happening to an extent. This is a biased space, obviously, but clearly his decision is unpopular here. Whether or not it helps or hurts him in primaries or the general remains to be seen.
I would hope that the legislature could override his veto, but I am not familiar enough with California state politics to know if they have the votes.
I can’t wait to get yelled at by democrats when i refuse to vote for this shit head in a few years.
Hopefully he doesn’t make it past the primaries. Unfortunately if he does and he’s up against a MAGA Republican, there’s only one clear choice.
Go help campaign for progressive candidates before the primaries! Come November 2028, it may be too late.
Unfortunately if he does and he’s up against a MAGA Republican, there’s only one clear choice.
I even held my nose and voted for Harris, but “stay home and don’t vote” appears to be the only clear choice here. Newsom vs. MAGA is just MAGA vs. MAGA. When Newsom was imitating Trump on twitter, all I could think was “imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.” I don’t think it’s too much to expect the Democrats to have learned something from the 2024 elections; they can ignore progressives, but progressives can ignore them too, and then the whole country suffers.
Go help campaign for progressive candidates before the primaries
Please, everyone who thinks the Democratic Party can be saved, to do this. It will convince you faster than anything else I know of that the party isn’t salvageable and that party leadership is just as awful privately as the other guys are publicly.
And your solution is to what? Let the country burn down?
Oh. .ml, yes that probably is your solution.
.world user advocating for a political party responsible for a genocide and accelerating climate change.
What else is new?
My solution is exactly what I said, not sure what part has you confused…
Oh, .world. Yeah, confusion is probably your normal state.
Just one more neolib bro! We’ll get someone worth a damn, you just gotta support one more shithead I promise!!
Republicans deserve to be yelled at, and if it’s newsom or vance and you choose vance by not voting, you’re a republican and deserve to be yelled at.
Blindly partisan loyalists deserve to be yelled at.
I don’t need to do any mental gymnastics to make that apply to the people I’m applying it to.
Your guaranteed vote no matter how awful the candidate is is the reason the candidate is more awful every cycle.
I’d rather eat a bag of Aids dicks.
Looking forward to President Vance!
Once again, the only thing leftist can be reprimanded for is being right too early.
The Democratic party has put us in this position and for that, they have my deepest disappointment.
If they still have your vote they don’t have a single molecule of a fuck to give about your disappointment.
Who needs the GOP when the dems are like this?
These people?
Those people are cheering this decision. Or would be if their media bubble allows them to find out about it.
“Governor vetoes bill that would limit the powers of the Governor.”
I’m so shocked.
He also vetoed telework protections for us state workers and we are on the verge of a strike because his admin has returned our union’s proposals with… ZERO. Literally, NOTHING. Their response to our demands in union negotations was ‘how about nothing, instead?’
He has clearly become red-pilled, idk what’s wrong with him but the most cynical interpretation would be money, stupidest interpretation would be he thinks this will help him become president.
On that note, when I see news covering Cali state worker telework, they love to go to the streets and find everyone they can to interview who’s attitude seems to be “fuck you, I can’t work from home so you shouldn’t either”
I can’t help but feel like that’s intentional to turn people against remote workers
I mean… Even if they’re just selfish assholes, do they not get that traffic is getting worse again because agencies and businesses are forcing return to office? That more people working remote is actually good for people who can’t for whatever reason too?
Sorry, tangent; but GN’s attitude on this has yet another incredibly frustrating and bad bit of policy from him
I really hope he doesn’t run for president, and if he does, that he gets shut down early in the primary.
It’s so funny I met a friend of a friend the other day and telework came up and she said ‘and I bet other people say, we can’t do it so u guys shouldn’t either!’ I laughed it off. Awhile later I asked her what she does for work and she said ‘state worker’ LOL
Ya its hard to say what the whole population thinks of course but I hope some ppl realize if we get a win on this their chances improve. Most office workers don’t have the luxury of a union but if we get a win and start peeling off talent, the chances private sector embraces goes up!
As for GN I hope someday we figure out the real reason behind his sudden turn because even the most cynical political motives don’t make a lot of sense. He is largely disliked in Cali from what I can tell, if he were to run for prez someday I’m not even sure he could get Cali in the primaries so why burn all state workers? We’re not a huge percentage of state residents but he’s not only shooting himself in the foot with us but our kids are future voters, there’s City and county employees and UC families… It just seems incredibly stupid.
