With his second spot at California’s number one in June, Northern California Republican Sen. Brian Dahle won the right to challenge Gov. Gavin Newsom in the Nov. 8 general election.
For Dahle, the road to victory is fantastic. With little cash at his disposal and little popularity of calls across the state, Dahle is campaigning to oust a Democratic governor with massive fundraising merit that is a familiar state calling.
For a headline, notoriety can pass either way, but Newsom remains popular with Californians. A recent vote by the most likely electorate found that 52% gave Newsom favorable ratings. When asked how they would vote in the 2022 gubernatorial race, 53% said they supported Newsom, while 32% supported Dahle.
With Democrats holding a 2-1 lead in voter registration over Republicans, Newsom is expected to be headed for re-election. But you never know what will possibly happen between now and Election Day.
Amid lingering considerations about homelessness, rising fuel costs and peak inflation, more than a part of the California electorate’s idea that the state was heading in that direction, according to an August opinion poll.
GAVIN NEWSOM
Newsom’s political career began in 1996 when then-Mayor Willie Brown appointed him to the San Francisco Traffic and Parking Commission and the following year to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors. He became San Francisco’s youngest mayor in 2004 and later served as lieutenant. governor and assumed the governorship in 2018 with the largest margin of victory in more than a century.
Throughout his public tenure, Newsom earned a reputation for championing progressive causes. He championed LGBTQ rights and issued marriage licenses to same-sex couples as mayor. A few months after taking office as governor, he imposed a moratorium on the death penalty in California. In August, the legislature responded to its call for tighter restrictions on the oil and fuel industry, adding buffer zones between new wells and neighborhoods and schools, to the delight of environmental justice advocates.
But his moves do not help his liberal image.
On San Francisco’s political ladder, Newsom noted himself as a pro-business moderate. His Care Not Cash program, which aimed to decrease the well-being of homeless single adults and spend the budget on shelters, housing and services, was widely criticized. through activists who called him ruthless.
This year, he took on the American Civil Liberties Union, Disability Rights California and the Western Center on Law and Poverty, which opposed his law by building a care, recovery and empowerment network (CARE) justice formula. Remedy for thousands of Californians suffering from a combination of serious intellectual illness, homelessness and addiction.
Capitol Democrats also responded to their call this year to expand operations at Diablo Canyon, canceling a deal environmental crews struck six years ago to shut down California’s last nuclear power plant for protective reasons.
The 55-year-old governor has focused his re-election crusade largely outside of California. Newsom paid little attention to Dahle and instead leveraged social media and meetings across the country to position himself as a Democratic national leader fighting Republican governors. He challenged Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis to a debate. Her first post-number one classified ads aired in Florida and she promoted a California online page to help others abort on billboards in seven states with the most restrictive abortion bans.
His attempts to attract national attention have spawned the hypothesis that he is carrying out a not-so-phantom crusade for the president, though he denies having any interest in the White House and says he supports President Biden.
BRIAN DAHLE
Dahle is a conservative state senator from the small town of Bieber in northeastern California. The 57-year-old lawmaker served on the Lassen County Board of Supervisors for 16 years before being elected to the California Legislature in 2012. He served as head of the Republican Assembly before being elected to the state Senate in 2018. He focused on issues related to water, forestry, wildfires and housing, competing with elected officials from every state in the West.
Friends and colleagues in Lassen County and the state capitol congratulate Dahle on her warm and friendly demeanor. While true to his conservative views, he has moved away from the caustic partisan politics widespread in Washington and in the national dialogue.
Dahle is a member of the Quincy Library Group, a consortium of conservationists, forest corporation representatives and elected officials in Northeast California. The organization was formed to quell decades-long contentious struggles over national forest control policies in the northern Sierra Nevada.
Dahle and others worked with Sen. Diane Feinstein of California and other Democrats and Republicans in Congress to pass a short-lived regional forestry program in 1998 that, in part, reduced the proliferation of fuel to prevent catastrophic wildfires.
In addition to running on Capitol Hill with his wife, Assemblywoman Megan Dahle, the senator operates a 1,000-acre outdoor Bieber seed farm on land that has belonged to his family circle for generations.
After high school, school was not an option for Dahle or her 3 siblings, she said. The circle of relatives had a lot of farmland but little money. He held various jobs in the state, pulling chains at the local sawmill, exploiting rocks to build hydroelectric plants, and driving an excavator through an open-pit gold mine. He returned to the farm of the circle of relatives when he was in his twenties.
Asked if he voted for Trump in any of the last two presidential elections, he said it was irrelevant to the existing unrest facing California. responded that Biden is “our president. “
When Trump stopped Redding on the 2016 presidential campaign, Dahle declared the region “Trump Country,” according to Record Searchlight. And it still is. In California, Trump was defeated statewide through Biden in 2020. But in Lassen County, Trump won 75 percent of the vote.
A month before the COVID-19 pandemic changed life in California, Newsom boldly proclaimed in his 2020 State of the State Report that “homelessness can be solved. “He promised to use the full force of his administration to combat worsening homelessness. Crisis in the state. Mitigating it is “our vocation,” he said.
The speech and his resolve to highlight homelessness as his leading cause of popularity is that the humanitarian crisis and the deterioration of the state’s cities may overshadow his progressive calendar and, perhaps, his legacy as California’s 40th governor.
Then came the pandemic and his tenure found itself plagued by other monumental concerns: saving patients with health problems from flooding hospitals, seeking testing, closing businesses to prevent the immediate spread of the virus, and maintaining food supplies, among countless other critical issues.
Winston Churchill is credited with saying, “Never let a smart crisis happen to you. “more permanent housing through the Homekey project, which provided housing for another 8,264 people in a first round.
The 2022-2023 state budget provides $10. 2 billion over two years for homeless programs, including investments for Homekey, grants for space Californians living in camps, and money to provide housing for others with severe fitness needs.
In August, lawmakers passed CARE Court, Newsom’s flagship policy to force care for approximately 7,000 to 12,000 homeless and seriously mentally ill Californians. .
Dahle criticized Newsom’s record on homelessness, arguing that the billions of dollars the governor has thrown into the challenge don’t make a dent in the crisis. He said Californians are fed up with emerging homelessness and crime, and only new leaders can solve the challenges. An earlier vote this year showed voters disapproved of Newsom’s handling of homelessness and crime.
In the run-up to the primaries, Dahle called for a crackdown on homeless encampments and greater incentives for drug addicts and the mentally ill to get redress while in housing.
Dahle said he would audit homeless systems while strengthening rehabilitation and intellectual fitness services, adding those submitted through nonprofits and faith-based organizations. He favors structuring more shelters, speeding up housing structure, and enforcing fewer structure limits under California’s Environmental Intellectual Quality Act.
Newsom has cast himself as a leading national climate advocate and effectively pushed the California legislature to pass a series of laws this year for the state’s goals of reducing greenhouse gases and expanding the use of renewable energy.
The weather package included a permit ban for new oil wells within 3200 feet of a “sensitive receiver,” explained as residence, educational resource, network resource, gymnasium, dormitory, or any construction open to the public.
Held back by the tough oil industry, lawmakers tried, though unsuccessfully, to pass the bill themselves in recent years, while Newsom stayed out of it. The call to action came some time after its war with the oil industry intensified in Florida, where Western States Petroleum is underway. He ran classified ads accusing Newsom of leading fuel costs in California.
Environmentalists celebrated the passage of the climate bills but balanced their compliment with a complaint over Newsom’s resolve to expand operations at the Diablo Canyon nuclear plant in San Luis Obispo County.
The 2022-2023 state budget provides $38. 8 billion for climate efforts over five years, though money allocated for long-term budget years is likely an issue to be replaced if the state reports an economic downturn. The funds support electric vehicles, high-speed rail, drought resilience and wildfire prevention and response.
Dahle said that, as a farmer, he sees firsthand that the climate is becoming: “there’s no question about it. “
But he argues that policies pushed by Newsom and California’s Democratic leaders won’t make a dent in global climate change. Those policies, which add up to efforts to limit petroleum products in California, have hurt staff and their families, he said. It consumes more gas than almost every state in the union, he said, the state will be forced to import oil from countries such as Ecuador, Russia and the Middle East, which lack strict environmental safeguards.
On its website, Dahle says wildfires created more carbon emissions than all cars on the road in 2020. The Republican nominee issues a law he introduced to include wildfire emissions in the state’s carbon emissions plan.
He argues that “climate replacement is not the number one cause of California’s recent super wildfires” and argues that the state’s misguided efforts have obstructed the purpose of a healthy environment. He says climate replacement is a factor, but forest control is even more important.
Dahle criticized the governor’s climate proposals in a California Senate debate in August.
“How long are we going to stay setting goals without making the main points and just throwing money at them and not getting results?” said Dahle.
Newsom supports abortion rights and needs to redefine the term “pro-life. “
He advised that his program supporting gun protection laws, climate replacement action, LGBTQ rights, prenatal care, intellectual health, universal preschool, child care and loose school meals be considered more pro-life than conservative states that limit a woman’s right. choose.
Newsom signed off on more than a dozen abortion and reproductive health coverage expenditures in September, codifying the state’s reaction to the U. S. Supreme Court’s ruling. UU. de to annul Roe v. Wade.
With their support, lawmakers approved an amendment to enshrine abortion rights in the California Constitution under Proposition 1, a measure designed in part to bring the Democratic electorate to the polls in November.
Another law required the state to create an online abortion page, which Newsom used to continue his crusade to make California a haven for women in states with more restrictive abortion laws. The governor began selling the page online on billboards in other states, telling them before signing the bill that California will “defend your right to make decisions about your own health. “
The budget followed in June also included $200 million in new spending on defense and reproductive fitness.
Dahle opposes abortion, which Newsom seized on in a crusade ad days after a draft U. S. Supreme Court opinion was leaked. That would nullify Roe.
Dahle said abortion facilities in California would remain safe if elected, as the Democratic legislature would block any attempt at change. He said voters, not him, would have abortion rights with Proposition 1.
Unlike some conservatives, Dahle has said he supports the state favoring contraception.
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