On Tuesday, the California Secretary of State’s office approved a fresh petition to remove Newsom from office for signature collection.
The Daily Caller has more:
“The minimum number of valid signatures required to qualify the recall is 1,311,963 (12% of the 10,933,018 votes cast in the last election for Governor),” Democratic state Secretary of State Shirley Weber wrote in her public memorandum announcing the petition’s approval.
According to the memo, signatures must be submitted to the Secretary of State’s office by Sept. 3 and must be from at least five different counties, each representing at least 1% of the votes cast in the last gubernatorial election.
“Governor Newsom has abandoned the state to advance his Presidential ambitions, leaving behind a $68 Billion budget deficit and a public safety, immigration and education crisis,” Recall California wrote on its website. “[He] [g]ranted 700,000 illegal immigrants free health care at a cost to taxpayers of $3 billion annually, while cutting vital programs for veterans, school children, the disabled and the homeless.”
Between July 2022 and July 2023, the number of taxpaying residents in the state declined by 75,400, according to data from the U.S. Census Bureau.
Newsom previously faced and defeated a recall campaign in 2021. Rescue California organized the latest petition to recall Newsom, citing the state’s public finances and policies regarding illegal immigrants, public safety, taxes, the COVID-19 pandemic and homelessness.
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