The campaign to eject Gov. Gavin Newsom got off to an early financial head start, raising gobs of money from high-profile Republican luminaries, SoCal millionaires and irate voters, according to new campaign finance reports.
But like the world’s most lucratively sponsored tortoise, the anti-recall campaign is planning to take back the lead in the money race and soon.
So far, political fundraisers have set up six campaign committees to spend on either side of the still-unofficial recall election. The pro-recall side came out ahead, with $5.45 million raised, state reports show, while the committees spending in Newsom’s defense brought in $4.56 million.
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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.