{"id":12181,"date":"2023-11-12T13:52:30","date_gmt":"2023-11-12T13:52:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=12181"},"modified":"2023-11-12T13:52:30","modified_gmt":"2023-11-12T13:52:30","slug":"are-gavin-newsoms-presidential-aspirations-limiting-his-progressive-instincts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=12181","title":{"rendered":"Are Gavin Newsom&#8217;s Presidential Aspirations Limiting His Progressive Instincts?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\n\n&#8220;Progressive Democrats who&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/california-legislature-pay-raises-gavin-newsom-democrats-63216814654a984dfd4a50adf4f9ab43\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">control California<\/a>&nbsp;are intent on regulating our lives and raising our taxes, which leads to a sense of vulnerability as hundreds of intrusive bills head to the governor&#8217;s desk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This year, however, Gov. Gavin Newsom pulled a few surprises. He insists that he&#8217;s not running for president, but his vetoes of the fringiest measures suggest his promises aren&#8217;t ironclad. He rejected nearly 20 percent of bills that reached his desk, which is an &#8220;unusually large percentage,&#8221; per&nbsp;<em>CalMatters<\/em>. Many veto messages, it&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/calmatters.org\/commentary\/2023\/10\/budget-uncertainty-prompts-newsom-vetoes\/#:~:text=Newsom%20appears%20to%20be%20rejecting,legislative%20data%20as%20a%20sideline.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">noted<\/a>, include boilerplate language warning that some bills would add to the state&#8217;s deficit. He seems to be channeling his predecessor, deficit-weary Jerry Brown.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-wordpress wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-reason-com\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"m29QxBz0Qa\"><a href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/2023\/10\/20\/are-gavin-newsoms-presidential-aspirations-limiting-his-progressive-instincts\/\">Are Gavin Newsom&#8217;s Presidential Aspirations Limiting His Progressive Instincts?<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;Are Gavin Newsom&#039;s Presidential Aspirations Limiting His Progressive Instincts?&#8221; &#8212; Reason.com\" src=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/2023\/10\/20\/are-gavin-newsoms-presidential-aspirations-limiting-his-progressive-instincts\/embed\/#?secret=MXWj9F2XgV#?secret=m29QxBz0Qa\" data-secret=\"m29QxBz0Qa\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Progressive Democrats who control California are intent on regulating our lives and raising our taxes, which leads to a sense of vulnerability as hundreds of intrusive bills head to the governor&#8217;s desk.<br \/>\nThis year, however, Gov. Gavin Newsom pulled a few surprises. He insists that he&#8217;s not running for president, but his vetoes of the fringiest measures suggest his promises aren&#8217;t ironclad. He rejected nearly 20 percent of bills that reached his desk, which is an &#8220;unusually large percentage,&#8221; per CalMatters. Many veto messages, it noted, include boilerplate language warning that some bills would add to the state&#8217;s deficit. He seems to be channeling his predecessor, deficit-weary Jerry Brown.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/reason.com\/2023\/10\/20\/are-gavin-newsoms-presidential-aspirations-limiting-his-progressive-instincts\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[653,1949,509,222,1487],"class_list":["post-12181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-governors","tag-newsom","tag-politics","tag-president","tag-progressive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12181"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12181\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12182,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12181\/revisions\/12182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}