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Assembly Bill 2164 authored by Assemblymember Rebecca Bauer-Kahan (D-Orinda) would have prohibited California’s governor from recognizing a request for extradition of a person related to their providing a legally protected healthcare activity in the Golden State to transgender individuals, or if they provide reproductive services. It provided certain exemptions, such as an extradition required by federal law.
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He also vetoed telework protections for us state workers and we are on the verge of a strike because his admin has returned our union’s proposals with… ZERO. Literally, NOTHING. Their response to our demands in union negotations was ‘how about nothing, instead?’
He has clearly become red-pilled, idk what’s wrong with him but the most cynical interpretation would be money, stupidest interpretation would be he thinks this will help him become president.
On that note, when I see news covering Cali state worker telework, they love to go to the streets and find everyone they can to interview who’s attitude seems to be “fuck you, I can’t work from home so you shouldn’t either”
I can’t help but feel like that’s intentional to turn people against remote workers
I mean… Even if they’re just selfish assholes, do they not get that traffic is getting worse again because agencies and businesses are forcing return to office? That more people working remote is actually good for people who can’t for whatever reason too?
Sorry, tangent; but GN’s attitude on this has yet another incredibly frustrating and bad bit of policy from him
I really hope he doesn’t run for president, and if he does, that he gets shut down early in the primary.
Our next President-apparent. Fucking hell, this is who they’re going to run against Vance, aren’t they?
He’s the one money will support but there is precedent for that to not matter. See Clinton v Obama, Jeb v Trump and various smaller races.
“Jeb!”
fixed it for ya
^please clap^
Thankfully he is not favored currently, but its very close. I can promise you I will gladly devote a chunk of my life to volunteering for a candidate running against him in the primaries, to keep him out of the white house. Send him back to the Napa vineyards where scum like this belongs.
He has to win a primary first.
They hate you and want you to die.
(Repeat until it sinks in)
For someone like Newsom there will never be a right time or manner to implement protections for trans people. And there will always be some clever excuse for which to cling. But when they are called to protect the interests of the powerful, they will break any precident or boundry to achieve those aims.
Definitely won’t have my vote in the primaries.
We can’t let him win the primaries. He’s probably the one candidate who could keep any Democrats home.
Joe Biden Roombas back onto a debate stage after bumping into several walls
I have no idea what the red line is for “leftists” defending this guy both as governor and a presidential candidate.
Do people who call themselves leftists support him?
They don’t
As a leftist, I would vote for him for the same reason I’d vote for Hilary Clinton. To prevent the Republicans from taking over. That’s about it.
If he wins the Republicans take over anyway
If Hilary had won, we would still have pro choice rights along with ALL the other awful decisions th 6-3 majority has made.
Not the same at all.
As a leftist, he’s the same as voting for right wing if he’s not a queer ally. I don’t give a shit about muh economee or gas. We can easily crash the economy by rejecting consumerism to make the capital class suffer.
If he’s against vulnerable groups, he’s a fascist like the rest.
And this is how the rufhr wins. Because they are not the same.
No the furher won because people weren’t willing to stand up to him across the board. They appeased and compromised.
A liberal democracy focused on money cannot stop the rising tide of fascism. History proves this.
It’s not your privileged body being sold out for votes.
Who says he’s not a queer ally? I’ve seen him say and do plenty of things that are pro lgbtq. He disagrees with you on one issue and loses all credibility? This is how you lose allies and give power to people that genuinely want what’s worse for you.
A sell out to the queer community will absolutely negotiate with fascists to maintain their power, if they’re willing to do it while seeking power.
A true leader of character has a spine and is willing to fight for the rights of vulnerable populations and refuse any notions of taking their rights. I don’t care how many neat things he’s said before. He’s backtracked like every other slimy politician and can no longer be trusted.
He’s only a queer ally when it’s convenient for him to be one.
Stop. Trying. To. Appeal. To. Fascists. It’s like people completely fail at learning from history.
Or maybe he just disagrees with you on this one issue. I don’t think the Trans community has done a good enough job convincing people why they’re right. Which is why over the past few years polling data, even amongst democrats, is moving away from the Trans community.
why they’re right
About what? Our existence? That we should be given the same rights, privileges, and privacy as any other group of people?
Polling is showing that people increasingly succumb to conservative rhetoric and agree that we’re subhuman, second-class citizens. It does not show that we actually deserve that treatment.
It’s often used interchangeably everywhere.
And I thought he was coming around on transgender rights, sigh Fuck you Newsom
Charlie Brown moment, it happens.
So he vetoed the “You can’t hunt down doctors across state lines because they gave trans people health care” law, because it… “sets a bad precedent”.
How about the precedent of not hunting down doctors for… being doctors…???
How about the precedent of not being insane fascists???
This is why I dont want him as a presidential candidate. 😒 We cant allow people to get hunted down so his chances of winning are better. MAGA wants to force facism upon us and I’m not willing to let establishment dems move their moral compass.
Mark my words, he would NOT hold anyone, including trump, accountable. He and the other paid-fpr establishment dems would say, “Oh, we need to move on as a country.” No we don’t, we need accountability, STARTING with the dems!
“We’re looking forward not back”
His official explanation:
“While I share the author’s views on the importance of protecting these important healthcare services, extradition is an exclusively executive function. When discretionary, that discretion is appropriately placed with the Governor. I am troubled by the precedent that would be set if an outgoing administration agreed with the Legislature to erode the executive authority of an incoming Governor based on their shared policy preferences, regardless of how righteous and well-intended those actions may be.”
He doesn’t want to set the precedent that such actions can be mandated in advance by an outgoing administration.
Good thing! If there’s anything Republicans all respect, it’s precedent and norms and settled laws.
Yea, and also we know they don’t care about rules so I’m going to pass a law to gerrymander the state because that’s what they want to do
So typical Democrats can’t do anything but then the right well do it.
Ah, so unitary executive theory. That’s not at all concerning, either…
Get fucked Gavin.
The Blue Nazi DNC wants amekos to vote for.
Hey liberal dems, great job at losing the queer vote.
bUt ItS sTiLL beTTeR tHAn GoP
No, we have third parties. I wouldn’t trust anyone that throws me under the bus, in a dumb attempt to score points with voters that would never vote that candidate in the first place.
Fuck fascism. This is how we succumb to fascism. Liberal politicians try to appease fascists.
I mean, they are unlikely to lose the queer vote. Mostly because voting third party is almost entirely useless, especially in the presidential election, but also because it’s fundamentally easier to just change the party from within. Queer people are so much more politically active, too, so this is just shooting himself in the fucking foot. But, queer people are less likely to vote third party, especially trans people, because of that.
Like, feel free to list off any national-level third party you think has an actual shot, and you will be wrong. State-level, maybe but unlikely. Local-level, absolutely possible. But national third parties exist to push narratives, and that’s all.
I get that this will cost him votes, but this third party pushing without even naming any parties is the type of stuff that fake progressives push to destroy collaboration. If you want to push a third party, name it, so you can build a coalition.
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