Newsom, Appoint a Progressive to the Senate

Newsom, Appoint a Progressive to the Senate

Grassroots organizers are giving Newsom the chance to be a hero. He should take it.

Governor Newsom signs AB2147 into law. Photo credit: Office of the Governor of California In mid-September, Gavin Newsom sat amid a sepia landscape of torched forest in a bomber jacket and somberly signed a bill . It was the peak of the worst wildfire season in California’s modern history. The bill — AB2147 — would enable incarcerated people trained in firefighting to gain employment professionally upon release. The photo-op fit right into the greater historical arc of Governor Newsom’s political career — a […]

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