LAUREL ROSENTHAL
CalMatters
Facing a trifecta of extraordinary circumstances â the waning COVID-19 pandemic, a looming recall election and an insanely flush state budget â Gov. Gavin Newsom barnstormed the state, dropping good news by the billions.
He wants to spend $12 billion to house the homeless, the governor announced in the lobby of a San Diego motel converted into a shelter; $3.4 billion to expand preschool to all 4-year-olds, he said on the playground of an elementary school in Monterey County; $1.5 billion cleaning up blight, he said as TV news crews filmed him hoisting an old mattress off the side of a Los Angeles freeway.
Celebrity politicians test voter interest in post-Trump era
JILL COLVIN, Associated Press
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