1/ My newly placed “Stop the Recall” sign was ripped in half and left on my front yard. It’s a crime to do such a thing. Lawlessness and race baiting, like fake ballot boxes and hydroxychloroquine COVID cures, will not help #California.
2/ A very vocal and well-funded minority of discontents is raging to get the duly elected @CAgovernor recalled and replaced. They claim @GavinNewsom is responsible for everything wrong with how their lives are going.
3/ Top complaints are businesses are closing, people are leaving & we lost a congressional seat (1 of 54), claiming a tragic loss of federal influence. If that was a concern, why did these same recall supporters repress the #Census reporting of all people residing in California?
4/ Recall proponents correctly point out businesses were hurt by the #pandemic. California has had 39% of its businesses close. The national average is 40%. California is not exceptional in this regard except, unlike most states (especially those governed by @GOP executives)...
5/ ...California has provided business tax breaks, $125 billion in business loans and secured $30 billion in business federal relief. California is bouncing back and new businesses are opening.
6/ (In fact, thanks to an unprecedented state surplus, @GavinNewsom recently announced an expansion to HIS Golden State Stimulus plan, under which every California family that earned less than $75K last year will receive an extra stimulus check for $600/adult and $500/child...
7/ This money will reach 75% of all Californians. Does anyone really think any "fiscally conservative" @CAGOP governor would do that??) The governor is not standing in the way of a safe and prosperous recovery. The recall is.
8/ This recall has been orchestrated by out of state financing and lauded by an endless list of want-to-be psycho-celebrity politicos. #StopTheRecall
9/ Vote-by-mail ballots arrive in all California mailboxes beginning Monday, August 16. #VoteNoOnTheRecall, Question 1, sign it, place it in the postage-paid envelope and seal it, and mail it or bring it to a local drop box in your area ASAP before September 14.

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1/ @POTUS @JoeBiden and @VP @KamalaHarris try to convince us that we can overcome #Republican #VoterSuppression by out-organizing them (and donating more money, of course). They must have forgotten recent history, so @IndivisibleSF would like to remind them:
2/ 2000: Bush v Gore. Nationwide, Gore defeats Bush by 500,000 votes. But Bush "wins" Florida (and therefore the @WhiteHouse) by 537 votes. Prior to the election, Bush's brother, then FL Gov. Jeb Bush, purged 58,000 voters from the rolls, most of them African American.
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Siphoned off into foreign accounts of Afghan political elite and military brass.

Where were the arms and ammo paid for by American taxpayers? Sold on the black market to the Taliban by Afghan colonels, majors, and supply sergeants.
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