Recall Newsom Now

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A 2021 attempt to recall Gov. Gavin Newsom failed, 58% to 42%. I said it would, based on my writing editorials and columns on California since 1987. It was the wrong time. Despite Newsom’s draconian lockdowns, far worse than in sensible Florida or Texas, the state was recovering robustly from the pandemic.

Apple, Facebook, Google and other tech companies were soaring on the cusp of the AI revolution. Biden’s inflationary American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 was pumping $1.9 trillion into the economy, all increasing the debt, while boosting inflation to 7% -- in the next year, 2022. A lot of anti-Trump fever remained in California from the 2020 election, not yet dissipated by the disastrous Biden regime. And anyway, the next scheduled primary election was just seven months away.

That was then, this is now. Pacific Palisades is burning.

Dozens of billionaires and thousands of millionaires live there. A lot of them already flipped to Trump. Now they’re ripe to flip against Newsom after their homes burned down.

Newsom is blaming “climate change.” Nonsense. As Trump said on his Joe Rogan interview:

You know in Los Angeles, you can't get proper amounts of water. In order to protect a tiny little fish, the water up north gets routed into the Pacific Ocean. Millions and millions of gallons of water gets poured [into the Pacific].

I got it all done. Nobody could believe it. It was all done. I said, I got it. You got so much water. All you have to do is sign, and [Newsom] didn't wanna sign.

Every time I go to California, I say you have so much water. They don't know it... I'm telling you, people living in Beverly Hills, they turn off the water. Same thing with the electric.

All the Recall Newsom campaign would have to do is play that clip over and over again, and he would be out.

The campaign also would go national, with contributions pouring in from all over the country. A recall would ensure Newsom never could run for president. The same way the 2003 recall of Gov. Gray Davis short-circuited his Oval Office ambitions.

As you may recall from that recall, a recall has two parts: No. 1: The recall. No. 2: The replacement election, which has relevance only if No. 1 succeeds.

For No. 2, a plurality, not a majority, is needed. Which means a Republican would have a chance, as happened in 2003 when it was won by Arnold Schwarzenegger, who got 48.6%. He turned out to be the state’s worst governor, a RINO – Republican in Name Only. But that’s another story.

Maybe this time I’ll run!

Seriously, this is the time to throw this bum out. Great Republican replacement candidates could be: former state Sen. John Moorlach, for whom I was press secretary; Rep. Tom McClintock; commentator Larry Elder, who got the most replacement votes in the failed 2021 recall; former Rep. Michelle Steel; Elon Musk, although he would have to move back here.

California has the country’s highest taxes, highest unemployment, worst homelessness, highest home and apartment prices, worst-performing schools – I could go on. In six years Newsom has fixed nothing and wrecked everything.

The words of Cromwell to the Long Parliament come to mind:

It is high time for me to put an end to your sitting in this place, which you have dishonoured by your contempt of all virtue, and defiled by your practice of every vice. Ye are a factious crew, and enemies to all good government…. Is there a single virtue now remaining amongst you? Is there one vice you do not process? … In the name of God, go!