Hear directly from the candidates in CPC's just-published questionnaire!

August 13, 2021
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In an apparent bout of frustration over tightening polls showing he might well lose ([link removed]) his recall election, Governor Gavin Newsom let loose a brief rant ([link removed]) to reporters this week when asked how he could ensure all Californians can still achieve the California Dream, despite the state’s rising costs of living, loss of jobs, and stagnant wage growth. After touting some questionable and inaccurate stats ([link removed]) , the threatened governor said people who criticize the state and his leadership are just, well, jealous.

“Everybody outside this state is bitching about this state because of our success and I’m proud of it,” he said.

Unfortunately for Newsom – and more importantly, the Californians subjected to his reign – there are many reasons that led a grassroots movement of Californians to collect millions of signatures to put Newsom up for recall September 14. Jealousy wouldn’t make the top 10.

As CPC President Will Swaim explained in his recent article for National Review ([link removed]) , there are the raging wildfires that destroy more lives and homes each year, while emitting massive amounts of pollution in a state that limits residents’ energy use to save the planet. There’s the cozy – and lucrative ([link removed]) – relationship between the governor and the state’s teachers unions that kept many schools closed for the 2020-21 school year, and threatens the upcoming one. The $31 billion Employment Development Division fraud. The bullet train boondoggle. The blackouts. The French Laundry hypocrisy.

The challenges facing those vying to replace Newsom are great, and with nearly 50 on the ballot, we wanted to know where they stand on issues the media shies away from. In CPC’s just-published candidate questionnaire ([link removed]) , you can read directly from candidates about how they’d deal with the outsized influence government unions have over California politics, how they’d give parents control over their child’s education, and how they’d balance the need for local control while addressing California’s greatest problems.
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We agree with the governor: The California Dream is still alive, but it’s not as well as he claims. We invite you to visit our candidate questionnaire today ([link removed]) to learn more about the candidates and their plans for protecting the California Dream and making this state one to be jealous of.

Quote of the week

“You don’t have to be a Republican or even a conservative to see why thousands of Californians volunteered to gather more than 1.5 signatures to qualify this recall for the ballot. You don’t have to like Donald Trump to get why millions more will vote to remove the governor. You don’t even have to like the idea of recalls. But when you think about what Gavin Newsom has cost ordinary Californians — never mind California’s neighbors — you can understand.” – CPC President Will Swaim, National Review ([link removed])

More from CPC
* The hundred-year road to CRT ([link removed])
* Don’t be afraid of the Big Bad Wolf Teachers Union ([link removed])
* California’s largest school districts are underwater ([link removed])
* National teachers union now supporting vaccine mandate for educators ([link removed])
* LA Times blasts teachers union ([link removed])
* Listen: Disney took us for a ride ([link removed]) [link removed]

CPC and allies in the news
* The coming California bacon apocalypse ([link removed])
* Californians may get to abolish public employee unions on 2022 ballot ([link removed])
* Could public school antics lead to ‘Renaissance’ of Christian education? ([link removed])
* California to require masks in schools as Orange County files lawsuit ([link removed])
* Analyses of California’s dismal public school system highlight the need for education choice in the Golden State ([link removed])
* Why Gavin Newsom faces a recall election in California ([link removed])

Classroom headlines
* Minority parents blast CRT ([link removed])
* Judge rules against Calif. Charter schools in class-action funding lawsuit ([link removed])
* Rady Children’s seeing 25% increase in mental health ER visits ([link removed])
* The case against masks for children ([link removed])
* Bold school choice initiatives could be coming to Californians ([link removed])
* Police chief says he was ‘blindsided’ by school’s decision not to begin semester with school resource officers ([link removed])
* Rosedale board urges state to overturn mask mandate in schools ([link removed])

Union news
* Randi Weingarten: ‘Not a new thing to have immunizations in schools’ ([link removed])
* California correctional officers union to fight new COVID-19 vaccine mandate ([link removed])
* Teachers unions exploit pandemic for power ([link removed])
* Another excuse to disrupt education ([link removed])
* Newsom makes California the first state to require teacher vaccines or COVID tests ([link removed])

Other things we’re reading
* Legislature authorized opening California’s ‘print-your-own ballot from home’ program to everyone ([link removed])
* Former professor accused of arson near Dixie Fire- blazes could have trapped firefighters ([link removed])
* California’s top court lets stand ruling that upheld Gov. Newsom’s emergency powers ([link removed])
* State governments didn’t need coronavirus bailouts. They got billions of dollars anyway. ([link removed])

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