WAKE UP CALIFORNIA. Next week, you’ll get a ballot in the mail that will ask you if you want to recall @GavinNewsom. I know you may be gosh darn tired and worried—about your kids, your job, this never-ending virus. And you may be considering taking it out the guy at the top.
But, as someone who worked side-by-side w/@GavinNewsom for 2+ years, and has PTSD from the 2016 voter “enthusiasm gap” that gave us Trump and the ensuing doom & destruction, I implore you to TURN IN YOUR BALLOT & VOTE “NO” ON QUESTION 1 OF THE BALLOT. #StopTheRepublicanRecall
After two years in a fox hole with someone, you get to know who the person is. I can tell you this about @GavinNewsom –
.@GavinNewsom is a self-taught man who struggled with dyslexia as a kid and developed great strengths at problem solving—learning to study intensely, to memorize an extraordinary amount of information, allowing him to better understand and tackle California’s hardest problems.
.@GavinNewsom is definitely not perfect (super grumpy guy on Monday mornings especially, and tougher on me than anyone I’ve ever worked with), but his grumpiness and his impatience were always about wanting to do more for the people who he was elected to serve.
I was in the room when @GavinNewsom made the decision to lead the Nation in asking Californians to stay at home to save lives. His decisiveness saved lives. Yet, the lack of any early national response still meant too many people suffered and died. But he protected millions.
And @GavinNewsom has equally led the Nation in our economic recovery – making massive investments in our clean economy, our care economy and our equitable growth.
With a state on fire from climate change, a pandemic ravaging our most vulnerable residents, and severe economic inequality, we cannot afford to lose his knowledge and leadership—which is greater than all the recall candidates combined.
There is absolutely NOTHING that @GavinNewsom has done that would warrant a recall. All of the disagreement with him are simply policy and governing disagreements (or maybe you just don’t like him), but that is what regular elections for.
So…. YOU TURN IN YOUR BALLOT AS SOON AS YOU GET IN THE MAIL AND YOU VOTE “NO” ON QUESTION 1 OF WHETHER NEWSOM SHOULD BE RECALLED. #StopTheRepublicanRecall
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