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805Wine's avatar

*This* is why I subscribed. It's everything I've thought about Newsom as a Californian but articulated better.

What really irks me is how overtly national every campaign he has run has been. Even the recall, the most prominent ad I saw featured Elizabeth Warren saying "Don't let Trump Republicans fool you!" Fine, I'm a Democrat I'm not going to let Larry Elder take charge, but they definitely decided the way to win was to frame it as part of the national struggle vs what Newsom will be doing in California for Californians.

A few weeks ago during the heat wave there was an alert to turn off our power to prevent blackouts. To our credit we as a state we did so. There are still ads to conserve electricity in the evenings. I'm glad a crisis was averted but what are we doing to increase capacity so we can actually use electricity when we want to. This is a local kitchen table issue and Newsom is totally absent here.

I miss Jerry Brown.

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Rachel A's avatar

This: is harsh, but 💯 true. The man is literally plastic. Imagine him campaigning in West Virginia, etc.

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