Endorsement: Weber, Ma, Kounalakis and Newsom deserve new terms and stronger opponents in California [Opinion]
Let’s be real. Republican candidates are rarely a factor in elections when well-funded Democrats run for state office in California. The party’s dominance in the Golden State is such that it has taken extraordinary exceptions — like the candidacy of movie star Arnold Schwarzenegger — to make a shift in power seem possible.
The reality in California 2022 is that the Democratic incumbents in four high-profile jobs are shoo-ins. The San Diego Union-Tribune Editorial Board endorses each — they are the best candidates — but they also don’t have any impressive opponents.These are the candidates we recommend on the June 7 primary ballot for national, state and local races.
First up is Secretary of State Shirley Weber, the former San Diego Assembly member and San Diego State professor. She is a California icon and should be a national one as well. She overcame huge obstacles to get the nation’s largest state to adopt unprecedented police reforms. In her new role, she has been a passionate and effective advocate of making voting easier and more accessible than ever.
Lt. Gov. Eleni Kounalakis, previously a Northern California housing executive and U.S. ambassador to Hungary, is also an easy choice for re-election, over seven challengers. Sheon a range of subjects in our interview. Though the lieutenant governor is on the oversight boards of the University of California, California State University and California Community College systems, the office has few strong official powers. But it can be a springboard.
In 2018, Newsom acknowledged our board’s years of knocking then-Gov. Jerry Brown for being apathetic about the mediocre way state government handled so many key functions, suggesting he’d be different. Brown’s second go-around as California governor will go down in history for his shrewd handling of state finances, but not for his general governance. By contrast, Newsom has benefited from an extraordinary boom in state revenue that has left a historic nearly $100 billion surplus.
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