Jeremy B. White
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Senior California politics+policy reporter for POLITICO. Friend to cats; lover of words, Nationals, my daughter, and @JanelleBitker . Chisme: Jwhite @politico .com
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BREAKING: Confirmed
@DevinNunes
retiring, per source familiar. Huge, major California politics news
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BREAKING: FCC votes to eliminate media ownership rules, paving way for one company to own multiple TV stations or both TV station/newspaper in one market
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BREAKING: All-mail California.
California will mail every voter a ballot for all future elections as
@GavinNewsom
signs bill
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“I’m asking myself, what the hell is going on? We look like a third-world country,"
@GavinNewsom
says at site of L.A. train theft
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Back from NYC where the absolute highlight was meeting
@Bodegacats_
buddy Habib while repping his brand
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NEW: San Francisco Judge GRANTS motion to release SFPD body cam footage of Paul Pelosi attack, other evidence sought by press coalition
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"San Francisco was great when
@GavinNewsom
and
@KamalaHarris
were running things" is not the Trump tactic I expected
Trump: “San Francisco, you know, is, was a great city 15 years ago.”
FYI: The mayor of San Francisco 15 years ago was Gavin Newsom.
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BREAKING: Holding defendants solely because they can't afford bail is unconstitutional, California Supreme Court rules:
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NEW: A whopping two-thirds of California voters think
@GavinNewsom
is doing a poor job on homelessness and a majority say he’s doing badly on crime, per
@BerkeleyIGS
. Numbers trending downwards
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Ah yes the ol' rigging an election so you'll lose trick: classic
Limbaugh: "Hillary Clinton colluded with Russia. Hillary Clinton rigged that election." Now chants of "Lock her up!"
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NEW:
@GeorgeGascon
says he will immediately stop seeking death penalty, stop prosecuting children as adults
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A
@AdamSchiff
source tells me not to expect a Senate announcement today: "you don’t announce a campaign in the middle of a natural disaster"
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BREAKING:
@GavinNewsom
WILL NOT have a (D) next to his name on recall ballots as judge DENIES Team Newsom's request to let them correct their failure to ask for party ID back in 2020. Story TK
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Interesting
@NALEO
poll finding on Los Angeles Latino/x/Hispanic voters' preferred terminology
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BREAKING:
@GavinNewsom
SIGNS
#SB9
and
#SB10
to allow duplex/lot splits on single-family lots and streamline up to 10 units
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Good morning from under a Berkeley freeway underpass, where Gov.
@GavinNewsom
is cleaning up some trash
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NEW: California's population shrunk by 173K from July 2020-21, per Dept Finance
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NEW: California bill banning corporate campaign donations STALLS in its first committee as no one seconds
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.
@GavinNewsom
has still not publicly addressed a judge enjoining him from overstepping his authority with executive orders that change California law.
Maybe next time!
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BREAKING: Nearly all of California going to most restrictive
#coronavirus
tier as
@GavinNewsom
hits "emergency brake"
94% of CA will live in purple tier now, including Alameda, Contra Costa, Orange, Santa Clara, Santa Barbara counties
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PS, if you deadname
@Caitlyn_Jenner
I will block you. Political opinions are fine, no need to be a bigot
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BREAKING: confirmed --
@GavinNewsom
signs
#AB2183
. A major victory for farmworkers/organized labor that follows Democratic pressure on the governor
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BREAKING:
@GavinNewsom
signs fast food labor bill
#AB257
, which creates an industry workplace standards council
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Wowza: Hospitals are going to the LA garment district and asking seamstresses to sew masks,
@GavinNewsom
says
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NEW: The powerful California Medical Association reps doctors trying to preserve public health during
#coronavirus
Guess what? CMA brass were at the French Laundry dinner w
@GavinNewsom
and
@jasonkinney
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French Laundry dinner with governor and top lobbyist/advisor. Trip to Maui joining lawmakers and lobbyists.
As California re-locks down, elected officials are still getting out there...
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BREAKING:
@GavinNewsom
issues statewide California curfew.
In effect from 10pm to 5am in counties in toughest, purple tier -- where virtually all of Californians (95%) live
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BREAKING:
@GavinNewsom
BLOCKS parole of Sirhan Sirhan, who 54 years ago assassinated Robert F. Kennedy -- Newsom's political hero -- in Los Angeles
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NEW: Former presidential candidate
@TomSteyer
will lead
@GavinNewsom
new California econ recovery panel along with Newsom Chief of Staff
@Ann_OLeary
also: Apple CEO
@Tim_Cook
, Disney head
@RobertIger
, former Fed head
@JanetYellenBlog
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@GavinNewsom
“This is not one-off. This is organized theft. These are organized gangs of people,” Newsom says, then apologizes for saying “gangs,” says wasn’t “pejorative”
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Morning-after San Francisco school board recall analysis:
Margins of 72% to 78% are a mandate from voters. That's not even remotely close. Voters have spoken, and they overwhelmingly believe the board failed to do its job (1)
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“My frustration with this in particular is the images look like a third-world country,” repeats
@GavinNewsom
, clearly concerned about how California is perceived
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NEW: Californians overwhelmingly don’t want
@JoeBiden
to run for president again — and
@GavinNewsom
is tied with
@BernieSanders
as their first choice to replace him,
@BerkeleyIGS
finds
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NEW: Arizona, Indiana, Utah, and Louisiana added to California's prohibited travel list.
State-funded travel now banned to 22 states containing about 125 million residents
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BREAKING: They're number two!
California Republicans
@CAGOP
have overtaken no-party-preference as CA's second-largest voter bloc
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BREAKING: California will *fully reopen* economy on June 15 if vaccine supply is sufficient and hospitalizations remain low,
@GavinNewsom
announces.
Hard to imagine a better recall defense than months of normalcy before voters weigh in
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.
@Schwarzenegger
on Republicans seeking to reject Electoral College votes:
"Our grandchildren will know your names only as the villains who fought against the great American experiment and the will of the voters. You will live in infamy.”
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“There’s a burden of responsibility and all of us share that, and that’s why I’m here," Newsom says. "I don’t think anyone particularly cares about who to blame*, I think they care about what we’re going to do."
*campaign managers will disagree with this one
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PERSONAL NEWS: My most important assignment just arrived! We are ecstatic — it's been a long journey.
Off for a month (then back for a bit and off again until 2025) as I trade reporter's notebooks for diapers and burp cloths 🍼👶🏻
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BREAKING:
@GeorgeGascon
recall does NOT qualify, LA registrar says. The progressive DA will not face voters early
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BREAKING: California
#SinglePayer
bill folds without a floor vote as
@Ash_Kalra
doesn't put up
#AB1400
on last possible day. Major defeat for progressives.
Also:
#CALeg
Dems avoid taking a public stance after
@CA_Dem
progressives threatened to block endorsements of non-backers
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Coming out of UCLA — a premier school in an incredibly diverse city — makes this all the more stunning
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BREAKING:
@GavinNewsom
signs
#AB701
pushing Amazon and other warehouse-reliant companies to publish quotas and barring them from penalizing workers for taking bathroom breaks
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NEW: Dr. Ghaly confirms Los Angeles area and Central Valley staying under stay-at-home order
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California now bans state-funded travel to states comprising about a third of America's total population, around 105 million residents
Florida, Arkansas, Montana, North Dakota and West Virginia join the travel ban list due to anti-transgender laws.
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WRITE 👏🏻 IN 👏🏻 VOTES 👏🏻 FOR 👏🏻 NEWSOM👏🏻 WON'T COUNT👏🏻 IN👏🏻 THE👏🏻 RECALL
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Cats do not respect you even if you’re president: see Biden, Willow
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Head-spinning to see California go from a nearly $100 billion surplus to a $68 billion deficit in just two years
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You guys astrophysicists are just like us
No. I have pretty good balance for my body size. But I have fallen over while attempting to quickly take off my pants.
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MEANWHILE, Republican
@DarrellIssa
returning to House after winning former Duncan Hunter seat in San Diego
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NEW: Bay Area extending shelter-in-place until at least May 1
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NEW: Missed this but Republican
@RosilicieBogh
finally officially won, keeping vacant
#SD23
GOP
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BREAKING:
@GavinNewsom
orders home isolation of all California seniors -- more than 5 million people
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BREAKING:
@GavinNewsom
ordering EVERY COUNTY to shut down indoor activities including dining etc
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Being a reporter is HARD. No matter how many times I ask my cat who is the cat, are you the cat etc. he never responds
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Another single-pooler
@GavinNewsom
presser today. Opportunities for reporters to question the governor have declined seemingly in parallel with recall effort intensifying
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ICYMI: Top California Republican
@pnjaban
is challenging
@GOPChairwoman
to take over the Republican National Committee
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You 👏 can 👏 be 👏 Latino 👏 or Black 👏 and 👏 also 👏 qualified
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The Big Sur road collapse video is even crazier than the pic -->
Washed out. Highway 1, south of Big Sur, shutdown to thru traffic after the road crumbled into the Pacific Ocean. This is at Mile Marker 30 near Big Creek Bridge.
The Central Coast took the biggest beating from this week's storm.
@nbcbayarea
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Chilling scene from the collapsed, failed state of California. Happy New Year everyone!
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Hopefully
@GavinNewsom
emerges to explain stay-at-home lift soon.
But for now, the abrupt reversal seems to be cementing a common criticism of Newsom's
#coronavirus
management: a complaint that restrictions are arbitrary and dictated by politics
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I suspect we'll be hearing more about this one:
Exclusive: Suspect in Sacramento mass shooting was out of prison despite 10-year term
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"It's not by accident that you have the lowest death rate of any major state," former Biden
#Covid
adviser
@ASlavitt
tells
@GavinNewsom
, giving some nationally-focused cred to California's approacg
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Aspiring young journalists: work hard and you too can one day interview a governor next to an abandoned port-a-potty. Don’t stop dreaming!
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BREAKING:
@GavinNewsom
VETOES
#AB316
requiring human drivers onboard self-driving trucks, a blow to
@CalTeamsters
and other labor backers
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BREAKING: It's Bonta.
@GavinNewsom
picks Filipino-Am Asm
@RobBontaCA
to be CA Attorney General. Big for API's who pushed Asian-Am.
Bonta also backed by criminal justice reformers. Bills banned private prisons/cash bail (tho voters blocked)
And: $2.4 mil in the bank for 2022
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NEW: Psychedelic drug decriminalization bill PASSES California Senate. On next to Assembly
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BREAKING: Senate Republicans have a new leader.
@ScottWilkCA
replaces
@ShannonGroveCA
, who got in hot water for asserting Trump won/Antifa was behind Capitol riot.
Sen. Wilk just defended a swing seat & is sorta moderate (votes with Dems sometimes, has gotten labor endorsements)
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BREAKING: California eviction relief bill heads to
@GavinNewsom
, who is expected to sign, 36 hours before statewide eviction halt ends.
Measure would let tenants avoid eviction thru end of year if they can pay at least 25% of rent, but they will still owe it if landlords sue.
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San Francisco remains an irredeemable dystopian hellhole plz don’t come
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NEW:
@POTUS
Biden versus ...
@GavinNewsom
?
We were used to seeing Newsom clash with Trump. But Biden's endorsement of a farmworker unionization bill Newsom has opposed opened a rift -- and,
@alexdrnieves
reports, the governor is "seething"
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BREAKING:
@AGRobBonta
says CADOJ will investigate redistricting process after recordings in which LA City Council Members Martinez/De Leon/Cedillo discussed using redistricting to consolidate "assets" and power/undercut rivals.
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🚨 Barbara Lee significantly changes this race -- a progressive Democrat and, perhaps more importantly, a Bay Area candidate whereas Porter and Schiff are both SoCal
NEW - Rep. Barbara Lee just told Black Caucus members in their lunch today that she’s running for Senate, per two people familiar
More TK
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"We're so proud of DoorDash and their IPO,"
@GavinNewsom
says in remark that may raise some eyebrows in organized labor
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.
@GavinNewsom
asked if homelessness $ could be a "magnet" for the unhoused:
“To the extent that new people want to come here from all income levels, that’s part of the California dream”
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BREAKING:
@SpeakerPelosi
backs removing Trump via 25th amendment -- or barring that impeachment.
"That is the overwhelming sentiment of my caucus"
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L.A. Mayor
@ericgarcetti
solicited $5 million in behests last year from...the The Consulate General of the State of Qatar
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NEW: Rep. Adam Schiff declared interest and met with her. Reps Katie Porter and Ro Khanna are being urged to run. Rep. Barbara Lee is huddling with family
Sen. Dianne Feinstein hasn’t said if she’s running in 2024. But the the succession race is starting:
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Progress:
@GavinNewsom
says
#coronavirus
positivity rate has plummeted from 11.4% to 3.5% in last month
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NEW: Democratic Assemblyman
@KenCooley
has conceded to Republican
@joshua_hoover
in
#AD07
. A big
@CAGOP
flip in one of the most expensive
#CALeg
races this cycle
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Un-effing-believable.
San Francisco Mayor
@LondonBreed
ALSO attended a fancy French Laundry dinner -- one night after
@GavinNewsom
.
SCOOP! My latest: Gavin Newsom wasn't the only one to attend a fancy birthday dinner at the French Laundry last month. San Francisco Mayor London Breed joined a socialite's dinner there the next night -- and banned indoor dining in SF three days later.
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NEW:
@GavinNewsom
says he should not have attended 12-person French Laundry celebration for top advisor
@jasonkinney
, as first reported by
@akoseff
“I should have modeled better behavior and not joined the dinner," Newsom says
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NEW: California no longer requiring Covid testing for unvaccinated employees in high-risk settings like schools
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Top issues for California voters, per
@BerkeleyIGS
:
1. Housing costs (31%)
2. Homelessness (29%)
3. Crime/public safety (23%)
4. Gas prices (21%)
5. Climate change (17%)
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NEW: California's universal mail elections could become permanent.
@AsmMarcBerman
says he will intro a bill to mail ballots to all active, registered voters.
@GavinNewsom
has said he is open to the idea
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NEW:
@GavinNewsom
sides w UC Berkeley on court case that could force enrollment cut:
“We can’t let a lawsuit get in the way of the education and dreams of thousands of students who are our future leaders and innovators"
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NEW: LA Mayor
@ericgarcetti
makes it official, renounces incumbent DA Jackie Lacey and backs challenger
@GeorgeGascon
The most significant LA elected Dem yet to swerve from the incumbent to the challenger in
#LADA
race
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