Nov. 2022 Election: Q&A with Gov. Gavin Newsom, candidate for California governor [Opinion]
Just this year, I continued that charge by fast-tracking vital gun safety policies, including a bill modeled after a perverse Texas abortion law upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court, making California the first state to allow individuals to sue those making, selling, transporting or distributing illegal weapons for damages.Q: Californians are increasingly concerned with rising crime after it fell to historic lows in 2020.
Q: California has nearly 700 prisoners on death row, and the state hasn’t executed anyone since 2006. How will your administration approach the death penalty over the next four years? Q: Six years after the passage of Proposition 64 to legalize recreational marijuana, concerns about the health of the cannabis industry — and public health — are growing. What would you do differently to oversee the industry in the next four years? What, if anything, should change?
These efforts represent the tip of the iceberg, and we have a lot of work to do before California can be held up as a model for the nation. While our cannabis regulatory framework seeks to uphold a number of important California values — environmental stewardship, reinvestment in overpoliced communities and strong local engagement, to name a few — many of the policies incorporated into the Medical and Adult Use Cannabis and Regulation Safety Act leave us wanting when put into practice.
Our nation’s economic growth has been stifled by Republicans’ refusal to enact comprehensive immigration reform. Inflation is increasing and supply chains are breaking down in part because we do not have enough workers to fill essential jobs. That is a direct result of our national failure on immigration policy.
Q: California’s economy relies heavily on income taxes tied to capital gains and can fluctuate wildly. How would you ensure that it is prepared for a potential reversal of fortune with the economy? of our discretionary surplus was allocated for one-time purposes. In other words, we don’t assume that we can put these surplus dollars to use year after year, because we can’t.A: From day one, my administration has been laser focused on the issue of climate change — enacting nation-leading policies that will not only lead to a brighter future for the state, but the entire world.
Q: What do you see as the biggest hurdles to California overcoming greener transportation models and how would you overcome them? Finally, we’re making it easier for Californians to live where they work. High housing costs have pushed Californians further and further away from job centers — making commute miserable and filling up our air with pollutants. I will discuss our housing initiatives in more detail later on, but I’ll note here that we’re investing nearly $1 billion this year for the kinds of downtown-oriented housing projects that make life easier for Californians and help us meet our climate goals.
To do this, we’re reinvesting billions of dollars back into our higher education system. We even struck agreements with the University of California, California State University and California Community College systems that make these investments contingent on student success and job outcomes. So far, we’ve made a lot of progress. We established an Employment Development Department strike team, which has helped make its services much more user-friendly. We now have easy-to-access dashboards as well as chat bot and text messaging systems. We didn’t have these basic tools in place before the pandemic. We also hired thousands of temporary employees and redirected staff to assist the Unemployment Insurance branch and extend call center hours.
We are doing everything we can to turn the tide. Since I took office, we’ve invested over $17 billion to combat homelessness. These dollars dwarf anything the state had done before. We pioneered Homekey — which delivers shelter beds faster and cheaper by converting existing buildings — and we’re holding local governments accountable by making them demonstrate that they’re putting our dollars to good use.
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