HANFORD â The Libertarian Party of California State Convention is in full swing in Tulare County and will include not only their gubernatorial candidate for the upcoming recall, but also a few local faces.
At the Visalia Marriott at the Convention Center, the Libertarian Party has further cause for celebration as they mark their 50
th anniversary. The Libertarians started their weekend convention on Friday evening, and will celebrate Riverside County Supervisor Jeff Hewittâs run for California Governor against Gavin Newsom in the upcoming recall election.
Also attending are Hanford Mayor Francisco Ramirez and City Councilmenber Kalish Morrow, but neither of whom are listed as speakers for the event.
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Mike Netter, the lead proponent of Recall Gavin 2020, said this in the early days of the Recall effort:
The success of this Recall will trigger and open a conversation on how California should be run.
The Recall campaign has reached that success, and now Californians are having that conversation or we should be.
Many Californians have no clue that we already have a full slate of candidates to run against Governor Gavin Newsom, once the Recall election date is established. Some officially filed their paperwork for 2022, when Newsom’s first term would have been completed. Others have specifically filed for the 2021 Recall election.
Riverside County Supervisor Jeff Hewitt is hoping to be the next governor of California.
“My campaign is basically this: innovation, innovation, innovation,” Hewitt told News Channel 3 on Monday.
The libertarian businessman is running to challenge Governor Gavin Newsom in the upcoming recall election.
“The straw that broke the camels back for me was actually when it seemed like the governor was actually doing vaccines for folks. I mean Riverside County and San Bernardino County both got 80 percent less in their allocation of vaccines when they were so in demand especially early on,” he said.
The main issues he’ll focus on if elected are water, housing and education.
Riverside County Supervisor Jeff Hewitt enters race to replace Governor Gavin Newsom Published
Riverside County Supervisor Jeff Hewitt has entered the race to replace Governor Gavin Newsom.
Hewitt outlined why he is running for Governor Sunday in an op-ed published in several Southern California newspapers, including the Orange County Register.
In the op-ed, Hewitt cited some of Newsom s actions throughout the Covid-19 pandemic as reasons that pushed him to enter the race.
He accused the state of creating arbitrary and capricious criteria to determine what business would be deemed essential during the coronavirus lockdowns.
Last Monday, the California Secretary of State s office confirmed that enough validated signatures had been gathered to force a recall election, likely in November.
Repaying public aid
Stacy Estes in front of the home he shares with his fiancée in Sacramento on April 7, 2021. Photo by Anne Wernikoff, CalMatters
$18.4 billion.
That’s how much California parents owe in overdue child support payments, but a staggering $6.8 billion of that debt is due to the government, not families the result of the Golden State keeping an unusually large portion of payments for itself. No other state in America takes a higher percentage of payments and only one state charges a higher interest rate when parents don’t pay on time, the Salinas Californian’s Kate Cimini reports in a new series, “Intercepted,” for CalMatters’ California Divide project.