California Governor Gavin Newsom to Face Recall
Posted on 06/24/2021
There will be a recall election of California Governor Gavin Newsom (Democrat) this year. U.S. Secretary of State Shirley Weber affirmed that petitioners collected enough signatures to trigger the recall election. Gavin Newsom has faced voter ire over some issues such as selective enforcement of COVID lockdowns, rising crime, rising pension debt, the rampant homeless population plaguing CA cities, rising Asian hate crime violence, and heavy use of executive orders.
The last recall election was in 2003 and voters kicked out CA Governor Gray Davis in favor of Republican Arnold Schwarzenegger (a U.S. action film star). Davis was the first governor recalled in the history of California, and just the second in U.S. history.