Gov. Gavin Newsom has been bashing Republicans for ‘rights regression,’ but blocked bills to further protect marginalized Californians.
Get the news that matters to all Californians. Start every week informed.We’re a big state with big challenges. Each morning we explain the top issues and how Californians are trying to solve them.Gov. Gavin Newsom during a press conference where he signed new gun legislation into law at the Capitol Annex Swing Space in Sacramento on Sept. 26, 2023. Photo by Miguel Gutierrez Jr., CalMattersGov.
“That’s for a national stage,” where Newsom is trying to cement his place by rebranding himself as a leading defender of these rights cherished by liberal voters, said David McCuan, a political science professor at Sonoma State University., the increasingly national lens through which Newsom approaches his job has made it impossible not to view his actions as a potential positioning for a future campaign.
Newsom’s hesitation caused surprise and confusion in the LGBTQ community because the governor has signed politically fraught measures in the past, including one last year to make California a “We knew we were on the right side on this one,” Wilson said. “We knew they had villainized it. We knew they had taken it out of context.”
He added that the organization was “disappointed and disheartened by his decision to veto AB 957” and would work with the Legislature next year to address remaining gaps in protections for transgender youth., which would have added caste to the list of categories in the state’s housing, education and employment discrimination laws, also wonder whether Newsom’s national ambitions derailed the measure.
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