SF Politics Sacramento Lawmakers Seek to Redo the Recall Process, Begin Hearings In hopes of avoiding another $276 million recall waste, the state assembly starts hearings to revise a recall process that’s been on the books for 110 years.
SF Politics California Secretary of State Has Had It With All This Recall Nonsense After spending $276 million on a recall attempt that accomplished nothing, the state's top elections official, Shirley Weber, is on a rhetorical warpath urging the legislature to change the lopsided rules.
SF Politics Caitlyn Jenner's Celebrity Got Her 1% of the Vote, and She Says She 'Can't Believe' So Many People Voted Against the Recall It's worth noting that for all her wealth and fame, Caitlyn could only garner 1% of the vote in a statewide contest in which some 5 million people voted on replacements for Gavin Newsom.
SF Politics 78% of Bay Area Voted 'No' In Recall A vast majority of Bay Area residents voted against the recall on Tuesday, and we cast 27% of the total "No" votes in the state, and counting.
SF Politics Right-Wing Loon Larry Elder Had Over 45% of Recall Vote, Which Means He'll Probably Run Against Newsom In 2022 Elder's wide lead in this election means the GOP will have a Trumpian mess on its hands when it tries to float some other more moderate candidate to run against Newsom next year.
SF Politics How Soon Can We Call This Election and Move On? Hopefully — hopefully! — the massive number of mail-in ballots that counties have already begun processing will yield results Tuesday night that will put this recall to bed, one way or another... but more than likely one way.
SF News Now Rose McGowan Is Campaigning For Larry Elder, Claims Newsom's Wife Tried to Silence Her About Weinstein Actress Rose McGowan participated in a campaign event for Republican gubernatorial candidate Larry Elder over the weekend in which she made claims about Jennifer Siebel Newsom calling her on behalf of Harvey Weinstein's lawyer.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Obama Makes Ad Supporting Newsom In Recall A 65-year-old man was fatally stabbed in the Upper Haight, activists are pushing London Breed to extend the SIP hotel program, and former President Obama has shot a new ad supporting Newsom in the recall.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Harris and Newsom Campaign Against Recall in East Bay VP Kamala Harris is heading to San Leandro for a "No on the recall" campaign event, SF's Board of Supervisors is moving forward on a "ghost gun" ban, and opening statements begin today in Elizabeth Holmes's fraud trial.
SF Politics Biden and Harris Are Headed to California to Campaign Against the Recall Vice President Kamala Harris is headed back to California this week to give a boost to the "No" campaign in the gubernatorial recall, and President Joe Biden is planning to do the same early next week.
SF Politics Original Organizer of Newsom Recall Effort Now Has COVID One of the original proponents of recalling Gavin Newsom as governor, Orrin Heatlie, has been sidelined in the final weeks of the recall campaign because he is sick with COVID-19.
SF Politics Good News for Gavin? Dems Crushing GOP 2-to-1 in Returning Mail-In Ballots A couple new polls show Newsom back up by double-digits in the Sept. 14 recall election, but more importantly, Democrats have an overwhelming advantage among the 23% of Californians who’ve already voted by mail.
SF Politics In New TV Ad, Bernie Sanders Says a Right-Wing California Governor Is 'the Last Thing We Need' Senator Bernie Sanders is the latest high-profile Washington figure to speak out in support of Governor Gavin Newsom and against the recall in a new TV spot, and he tells Democrat voters, "Don't let it happen."
SF Politics Kabul Attack Prompts VP Kamala Harris to Back Out of Anti-Recall Rally In Bay Area Vice President Kamala Harris backed out at the last minute from her planned attendance at a rally at the Cow Palace in Daly City in support of Governor Gavin Newsom, dealing a blow to the "No" campaign in the upcoming recall election.
SF Politics Meet the Nine Democrats Listed on the Gavin Newsom Recall Ballot From Youtube stars to cannabis lobbyists to anti-mask Marin County yoga instructors, here are your nine options to vote for a Democrat in the upcoming California recall election — even though Newsom and many others are saying you should just leave that side of the ballot blank.
SF Politics Team Newsom Soiling Themselves Over Low Turnout Fears in Recall Election The polls show Newsom surviving the recall, but a bizarrely timed mid-September election and an unmotivated Democratic base could easily swing this thing to some nobody Republican with miniscule support.
SF Politics Recall Candidate Larry Elder Faces Probe Over Unreported Income It’s odd that Republican recall character Larry Elder allegedly thought he could hide one of his sources of income, considering that source of income is called “Laurence A. Elder and Associates Inc.”
SF Politics Loon Recall Candidate Larry Elder Faces Gun and Abuse Charges from Ex-Fiancee Leading the polls among Republican recall candidates, AM radio talk show host Larry Elder faces allegations from his ex involving gun threats, exploitive kinks, and lots of marijuana.
SF Politics Federal Lawsuit Hopes to Halt Newsom Recall Vote, Calls it Unconstitutional Two California voters could throw a huge monkey wrench into the entire recall circus, filing a federal lawsuit that aims to call off the recall, or add Gavin’s name to the replacement list.
SF Politics Recall Candidate John Cox Served Subpoena at Debate; Another Candidate Drops Out After Heart Attack Republican candidate for governor in the recall election John Cox was served a subpoena Tuesday at the start of a debate with two other Republican candidates.
SF Politics Gavin Newsom Kicks Off 'Vote No' Campaign In San Francisco With one month left before California votes on whether or not to recall Governor Gavin Newsom, and days before people start receiving their mail-in ballots — if you haven't received yours already — Newsom is doing a four-day campaign tour encouraging voters to "Vote No."
SF Politics Judge Clears Way For Newsom to Refer to It as the 'Republican Recall' Proponents of the recall tried to take Governor Gavin Newsom and the "No" campaign to court over the branding of the effort as "the Republican Recall." But a judge on Wednesday issued a tentative ruling that says they can continue to call it that.
SF Politics Delta Variant Surge Presents Political Problem for Newsom in the Recall The Delta variant, and the fact that millions of Californians are now once again being told they have to wear masks indoors at all times amid a new surge in cases statewide, presents a challenge for Governor Gavin Newsom as he tries to sell his leadership skills to a weary public.
SF Politics You've Seen the Elizabeth Warren Ad, Now Wait for Biden, Sanders and Others to Back Newsom In the Recall A host of heavy-hitting Democrats is expected to lend their mugs and voices to ads for the "No" campaign in the California recall, and a 30-second ad featuring Senator Elizabeth Warren is already airing in the hope of getting out the Dem vote.
SF Politics New Poll Finds Newsom In Trouble Among 'Likely' Recall Voters, Indicating Turnout Will Be Major Factor A poll finds that "likely" voters in the September recall are nearly evenly split on recalling Newsom, and now he's getting tough in his talk trying to motivate voters by comparing the Republicans behind the recall to those pushing vaccine misinformation.
