THOMAS CATENACCI CONTRIBUTOR
A California judge ruled that Gov. Gavin Newsom cannot list his Democratic Party affiliation on the upcoming recall ballot since he missed the deadline to register.
Superior Court of Sacramento Judge James Arguelles said Newsom will appear on the ballot for the September recall election as an unaffiliated candidate, according to a ruling delivered Tuesday evening, Politico reported. Newsom failed to notify the state that he would like to have his party affiliation present on the ballot by the deadline set by a law he signed into fruition in 2019.
Arguelles rejected the argument made by Newsom’s lawyer that the governor should be listed as a Democrat regardless of the law and that missing the deadline was a “good faith error.”
“Governor Newsom argues that unique circumstances attending his untimely party designation support an order excusing the noncompliance,” Arguelles wrote, according to Politico. “The court is not persuaded.”
The 2019 law gives officials who are subject to a recall an opportunity to list their party affiliation next to their name on the ballot, Politico reported. But Newsom was supposed to have made clear if he wanted a listed affiliation more than a year ago when his legal team first responded to the recall.
Newsom sued California Secretary of State Shirley Weber after it became clear he had missed the deadline, according to Los Angeles Magazine. The Recall Gavin campaign intervened in the case, arguing that Newsom isn’t exempt from California state law.
“This is yet another vitally important step in our historic effort to recall Gavin Newsom. No one is above the law,” Orrin Heatlie, the leader of the recall effort, said in a statement on Monday night. “We fight for every California citizen of all walks of life, from the entire political spectrum, every race, ethnicity and culture.”
Mike Netter, another proponent of the effort, said the decision proves Newsom is “accountable to the laws of the State of California” and will soon be “accountable to the people.”
The recall is slated for Sept. 14, 2021.
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“We fight for every California citizen of all walks of life, from the entire political spectrum, every race, ethnicity and culture.” Right, that’s why they are forcing a recall election just months before a regular election costing taxpayers $276 million dollar and growing. This money is not being paid by the state. No, it’s comming out of county coffers. LA County, your wasting $49 million of your stretched budget and very small and rural areas like Modoc will lose $36 million by population over a grudge match which is brutally obvious as you’ve allowed a guy who hasn’t filed or paid taxes in 5 years to be on the ballot yet you laugh because Gav’s political party can’t be listed. How vindictive does THAT look. All said and done, the best interest of the state is not what you are after. When this is all over with, hopefully the cockroaches can go back into hiding and we can get back to the big picture of the state of our state. Nice work.
Newsom’s well deserved, self-induced embarrassment here is good news.
Better news would be for most Californians to realize even if Larry Elder beats Newsom, the center of political power in California is the unions.
How will California voters ‘handcuff’ the unions? What can they do?
Mike
Unions are only the center of political power IF politicians accept union money to get elected. Maybe that’s how President Trump got elected without union money and why he was attacked mercilessly while in office and beyond.
“The court is not persuaded.”
How stupid could anyone be to not know Newsrooms party affiliation?
Probably just as stupid as the people who voted for him (or stuffed ballot boxes for him) in the first place.
TRUE DAT
Ouch….but I laugh none the less.