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Alexei Koseff
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Alexei Koseff
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Keeping an eye on all things California in Washington DC for @sfchronicle. Reach me at [email protected] or on Signal at akoseff.01
- Gov. @GavinNewsom attended a birthday dinner for one of his political advisers last week with at least a dozen people from several different households, the type of gathering his administration has discouraged during the coronavirus pandemic.
- In a letter, the U.S. EPA administrator tells Newsom that his executive order mandating only new electric car sales in California by 2035 may be illegal and questions the feasibility of the increase demand in electricity "when you can't even keep the lights on today."
- Replying to @akoseffNewsom says Washington, Oregon and Nevada are joining California's committee to review any coronavirus vaccine before distributing it to the public. This is the first we've heard publicly from their Western States Pact in many months.
- Fun fact: There are more registered voters in California than there are people in Florida.My basic question is why can a heavily populated state like Florida count votes in 2 hours, and California and others, can’t do it in 2 days. Machines enable rapid tabulation. Standard procedures and laws are sorely needed. #election
- Replying to @akoseffUPDATE: @GavinNewsom has issued a new statement: "While our family followed the restaurant's health protocols and took safety precautions, we should have modeled better behavior and not joined the dinner."
- For further evidence of how politically toxic that UC Berkeley enrollment lawsuit is, the Assembly just voted 69-0 for a bill, made public three days ago, to eliminate environmental impact review for enrollment increases and override the court decision limiting the incoming class
- Replying to @akoseffNewsom announces an 80-member task force to guide California's economic recovery, chaired by his chief of staff Ann O'Leary and Tom Steyer. It will include all four living former governors: Pete Wilson, Gray Davis, Arnold Schwarzenegger and Jerry Brown.
- Kanye's Sacramento show started 90 minutes late, then lasted three songs and a rant before he ran off stage. Crowd chants "F--- you, Kanye!"
- Victory speech in Sacramento from @GavinNewsom “No is not the only thing that was expressed tonight,” he says. “We said yes to science. We said to vaccines. We said yes to ending this pandemic.”
00:00 - Phasing out for-profit prisons could take years, as California still has 1,600 inmates in privately-run lockups. But the ban on private immigration detention centers immediately thrusts California into another clash with the Trump administration.
- Governor has harsh words for California Republican Party's "unofficial ballot drop boxes," which @AlexPadilla4CA and @XavierBecerra just ordered the party to remove by Thursday. GOP officials say collection boxes are just a new form of "ballot harvesting":Nothing reeks of desperation quite like the Republican Party organization these days -- willing to lie, cheat, and threaten our democracy all for the sake of gaining power. These unofficial drop boxes aren’t just misleading, they are illegal.
- At an anti-recall rally for Newsom in Oakland today, @RepBarbaraLee gets a standing ovation from the union members in attendance for being the sole member of Congress to vote against the post-9/11 authorization for use of military force
