<figure><img width="1024" height="682" src="https://i0.wp.com/calmatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/032823-NEWSOM-OIL-SIGNING-MG-02-CM.jpg?fit=1024%2C682&ssl=1" class="attachment-rss-image-size size-rss-image-size wp-post-image" alt="Gov. Gavin Newsom speaks at an event in anticipation of signing a bill on his proposed profit penalty plan in Sacramento on March 28, 2023. Photo by Miguel Gutierrez Jr. , CalMatters" /></figure>Emulating previous California politicians, Gov. Gavin Newsom is singling out the oil industry as he tries to build his national political image.
When Ken Cory, an assemblyman from Orange County, was running for state controller 49 years ago, he portrayed himself as “the man oil companies fear the most.” Ever since, California politicians have periodically – when it seemed advantageous – denounced the companies that supply Californians with automobile fuel and other petroleum-based products. The latest is […]
When Ken Cory, an assemblyman from Orange County, was running for state controller 49 years ago, he portrayed himself as “the man oil companies fear the most.”
When Ken Cory, an assemblyman from Orange County, was running for state controller 49 years ago, he portrayed himself as “the man oil companies fear the most.”