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It may be summer break, but school is in session for Gavin Newsom:

We wrote a report card on the governor’s first 2.5 years ahead of California’s recall election.

Here's a few highlights 🧵 bit.ly/3kIsUG2
Gov. Newsom ended California’s death penalty… for now. There are more than 700 people on death row, and a future governor can undo the decision calmatters.org/explainers/new… Stock image of prison
Newsom is also shutting down two California state prisons: Deuel Vocational Institution in #Tracy and California Correctional Center in #Susanville calmatters.org/explainers/new… The guard station at San Quentin Prison.  Photo by Penni Gla
The governor proposed the largest state budget in any state’s history this year, $100 billion, extended rent and utility debt relief, and rewrote California labor law, making it harder for companies to classify their workers as “independent contractors” calmatters.org/explainers/new… Gov. Gavin Newsom holds up the California Comeback Plan reli
However, he still hasn’t reformed California’s state tax system or cut interest payments on child support debt
calmatters.org/explainers/new…
In the education sector, Newsom expanded early childhood education and signed off on free school lunch for all. But he still hasn’t mandated an ethnic studies course for California high school students calmatters.org/explainers/new… PALO ALTO, CA - OCTOBER 19: Kindergarten teacher Jessica Cla
The Gov. also hasn’t made final plans that require California public schools to open back up this fall, but he did offer financial incentives and urgent pleas calmatters.org/explainers/new…
When it comes to climate change, Newsom banned future fracking (which isn’t slated to go into effect until 2024), announced the eventual end of fossil fuels, and outlawed chlorpyrifos, a widely used pesticide calmatters.org/explainers/new… A photo of pumpjacks at oil well
Though Newsom's administration has ramped up spending on forest management and fire prevention — a budget item that often gets the financial short shrift over fighting active fires — he also overstated the scope of its recent efforts calmatters.org/explainers/new…
While in office, Newsom expanded Medi-Cal for undocumented residents and boosted Obamacare subsidies, but many are still waiting for the governor to enact single-payer health care calmatters.org/explainers/new… Healthcare workers at a Kaiser hospital in San Francisco on
In the summer 2020, Newsom issued an executive order barring evictions for non-payment of rent — though crucially, tenants still owe their back rent. The Legislature has renewed that policy twice now calmatters.org/explainers/new…
While running, Newsom also vowed to oversee the construction of 3.5 million new units by 2025. That works out to about 500,000 units a year. Critics called the promise wildly unrealistic. It looks like they were right calmatters.org/explainers/new…
Amid the pandemic, Newsom set the record for executive orders and recently ramped up vaccinations. He also led the country in acquiring personal protective equipment calmatters.org/explainers/new… Two Clinica de Salud del Valle de Salinas employees look thr

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Jul 21, 2021
CalMatters spent three months examining the Armed and Prohibited Persons System, a database of persons ordered to surrender their guns bit.ly/3BtrBAL
California would not provide names of individuals in its database, citing confidentiality restrictions.

CalMatters obtained a small sampling dating back to March
calmatters.org/justice/2021/0… A display including long guns, ammunition and a case of air
In #SantaPaula, a woman in the database has been ordered to surrender her guns because of a mental health-related prohibition. She’s listed as having 22 of them calmatters.org/justice/2021/0… A rack of long guns for sale at Big 5 Sporting Goods in El C
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May 14, 2021
What’s going on with @GavinNewsom this week? Gov. Newsom faces a recall election, state vaccinations, an unemployment claims backlog — and today, he’s presenting a new state budget. Let’s take a look at what’s happened over the past few days 🧵
On Monday, Newsom proposed an $11.9 billion budget that would send $600 checks to two-thirds of Californians and an additional $500 to families with kids. bit.ly/3w35IV7
Newsom also unrolled a slew of other funding proposals, including:
-$5.2B for low-income renters to stay housed
-$2B to pay water & utility bills
-$1B in college grants for people whose jobs were impacted by the pandemic
bit.ly/2QiXCss
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Jun 4, 2019
💰👩🏿‍🎓👨🏼‍🎓 THREAD: How did college become so expensive in California?

@FeliciaMello addresses the question in her deep-dive on an issue that affects millions in our state — about a tenth of the $1.5 trillion in U.S. student loan debt is held by Californians. bit.ly/2QJEUWF
Presidential candidates running in 2020 have been debating the idea of “free college,” but the concept isn't a modern one—it's embedded in the University of California’s 1868 charter. bit.ly/2QFjN7V
When legislators implemented the 1960 Master Plan that would significantly shape the growth of California's higher education system, in-state students at UC were paying just $60 per semester. 😮 bit.ly/2QFjN7V
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Feb 1, 2019
THREAD: How did California get so tough on guns? According to Boston University’s count, no other state out-does California for its sheer quantity of gun laws. @FromBenC explains what you need to know about gun control in the Golden State ➡️ bit.ly/2WwMLcG
First, if you’re confused about some of the terminology around guns, Ben created a glossary that should help. bit.ly/2S2Aqy6
The modern debate over guns in America started in California on May 2, 1967, when gun-toting members of the Black Panthers protested police treatment by marching into the state capitol—and yeah, it was totally legal. Gun laws were much more lax back then. bit.ly/2MKIEFa
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Oct 25, 2018
Californians, are you totally confused by all these propositions you're voting on in #Election2018? It's a lot of information. So we put together 1-minute video explainers on each measure to help you better understand the props.
#Prop1: The affordable housing bond
#Prop2: Mental health money for housing
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