Editorial: Wake up, California! Removing Gavin Newsom would be a disaster

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

60% : Climate change was and still is accelerating, squeezing the state's power grid during its transition to renewable energy sources and straining its water supply.
57% : Supporting Jenner, the transgender reality TV star, former Olympian and member of the Kardashian clan, might seem as great an advance in LGBTQ representation as Newsom's 2004 decision, when he was San Francisco's mayor, to grant marriage licenses to same-sex couples.
52% : This state has chosen to be a national leader on the environment, criminal justice reform and the social safety net because state leaders and voters have chosen to look forward, not backward.
41% : We have concluded, after searching debate and reflection, that that is a cowardly way out and would hand the decision-making power to others who do vote -- and those voters may be uninformed, irrationally angry and looking for someone to take a far-right turn on issues like climate change, environmental protection, civil rights, policing and vaccination.
39% : But he or she could reshape California for decades to come through the use of executive orders to roll back environmental protections, criminal justice reform and the social safety net.
38% : His only distinction from the pack is that he's straightforward about the damage he would do to California, namely abandoning criminal justice reforms, building new prisons, and putting the interests of the state's agricultural lobby ahead of its environment and its residents.

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