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Yesterday, the Recall Gavin Newsom effort had enough signatures officially verified to force a Recall election. Naturally, Newsom and his sycophants are frothing at the mouth, and of course, money from their pockets funds the machinations to prevent an actual election from happening.
After the announcement, Governor Hair Gel sent out a tweet about fighting this dire (allegedly) Republican-led, right-wing coup:
This Republican recall threatens our values and seeks to undo the important progress we’ve made from fighting COVID, to helping struggling families, protecting our environment, and passing commonsense gun violence solutions.
There s too much at stake. pic.twitter.com/5ZEszlrcYl
as they watch election returns in lafayette. if it passes, it will add a dollar on of tax on to a pack of cigarettes. don peralta started working on a tax in 1996, when he learned that cancer researchers would need money for research. a lot of the research you re doing here is about cancer and cancer-related diseases. reporter: big tobacco spent more than $60 million in california, hoping to snuff out the idea. the devil s in the details. reporter: chris hunt says prop 29 should go up in smoke. the money would be funneled into a new agency, not the general fund. this is going to send it out to the general fund, paying out those state pensions, which are huge, as well. it s going to be directed to another uncontrollable group, that no one has guidance over. reporter: they hope voters saw through the smoke and mirrors of the big tobacco ads and cast a ballot that will help advance medicine. if prop 29 passes, the cost of a pack of cigarette goes up as you see her