"Trump says that he'll withhold disaster relief aid from California unless it agrees to change the state’s election laws.

This is insane. Can you imagine if Pres Biden had conditioned aid to NC & FL after Hurricane Helene only if they changed their state abortion laws?

Trump doesn’t even pretend to be president of all Americans."
-Republicans against Trump

Every voter is mailed a ballot in CA. Some voters choose to go to the polling places.

#DJT exec order to send more #NorthernCalifornia #H2O to #SanJoaquinValley will upend rules that #Biden & #GovNewsom agreed upon in #December that analysis finds would actually send more water to #SouthernCalifornia than the now newly restored #Trump rules

https://laist.com/news/climate-environment/trump-delta-water-deliveries-to-farms-cities

#GovNewsom signs executive order protecting #LACounty #renters who take in people displaced by firestorm.

#ExecutiveOrder does not cover other lease provisions, like ones pertaining to criminal activity in rental property.

#Landlords who raise rents higher than 10% currently could face up to a year in county jail, fines up to $10,000.

https://www.gov.ca.gov/2025/01/17/governor-newsom-bans-evictions-based-on-hosting-fire-survivors/

https://caanet.org/governor-extends-protections-against-rent-gouging-tied-to-l-a-firestorms/

#lafires #la #Climate #ClimateChange #GovNewsom

https://www.cbsnews.com/losangeles/news/newsom-executive-order-targets-real-estate-predators-la-fires/

“Death reports obtained by the Guardian reveal more than 3,000 of the 11,500 people who died while unhoused in Los Angeles county between 2014 and 2023 were 60 and older, highlighting the vulnerability of older residents in one of the US’s most expensive regions.”
#homelessness #housing #CaliforniaHomeless #GovNewsom
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/aug/08/homeless-senior-citizen-deaths-los-angeles?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

#Lawyers Andrea Henson and longtime #Berkeley #homelessness advocate Osha Neumann both #arrested by #CHP while defending indigent clients as #GovNewsom sicced #Caltrans in to remove residents from an industrial #WestOakland property. After #SCOTUS case sided with removing #homeless from #PublicProperty in #Oregon, #California Gov issued an #ExecutiveOrder last month, telling CA cities & counties to “move urgently to address dangerous #encampments while supporting and assisting the individuals living in them."

http://oaklandside.org/2024/08/08/andrea-henson-caltrans-newsom-encampment-closure

#California’s #DemocratParty run state #Legislature is scrambling this week to reneg and kill their own law that is increasing the #healthcare #workers #MinimumWage to $25 on June 1. #GovNewsom signed the bill into #law when he strutted about claiming he was flush with a #TaxPayer #Surplus dollars and now wants to pull it due to bogus #BudgetCut #CApolitics...

https://www.wsj.com/articles/californias-25-an-hour-minimum-wage-boomerang-newsom-healthcare-d86c8515?st=87bfw2odj2mnet4&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink #WSJ #GiftLink #PaywallLift

Thanks for standing your ground #GovNewsom …
I agree that a ugly “fever” of #hate runs thru too many #school boards.
I find it ridiculous that parents…w/no training or #education
Amateurs…are fiddling around education!

The utter foolishness, of letting untrained, clueless, #political fanatics…
Control the #academic curricula.

Newsom to buy #banned #textbooks mentioning #HarveyMilk for #Temecula school district students - Los Angeles Times https://apple.news/AzxZhu1n7RbODKHhLSpMEzQ

“He’s building something that is filling a massive, dangerous void in the Democratic Party. He’s trying to coalesce the Democratic Party in a united front, and there’s no better way to do that.” Mike Madrid

Gavin Newsom just launched Campaign for Democracy, a new PAC to boost #Democrats and counter the #GOP agenda.

#California #Newsom #GovNewsom #GavinNewsom #MikeMadrid

@mikemadrid

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-03-30/newsom-launches-national-campaign-to-fight-authoritarian-leaders

‘We’re Done;’ Gov. Newsom Says State Won’t do Business With Walgreens 
"California won't be doing business with @walgreens -- or any company that cowers to the extremists and puts women's lives at risk," said Newsom in a tweet Monday morning. "We're done."

A letter dated Feb. 1 from Republican Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey to the natio
https://newsviews.online/2023/03/06/were-done-gov-newsom-says-state-wont-do-business-with-walgreens/
#Abortion #GovNewsom #Walgreens