Governor’s dismissive choice to pre-record State of the State rather than give a live speech missed a major opportunity.
A president couldn’t get away with delivering a State of the Union address by transmitting a written text and a link to a prerecorded video — and not bothering to show up in the House of Representatives.
Newsom sent the Legislature the text of what he called a State of the State address that he recorded and posted on his YouTube page. He didn’t go near the Assembly chamber, where governors have annually delivered these speeches. Newsom might well have gotten some GOP boos if he’d read Tuesday’s remarks to a live audience. He repeatedly lambasted “red states” and “the poisonous populism of the right.”
The governor’s office told reporters that State of the State addresses are only a “relatively recent construct in California.” They were merely annual written reports before the reign of Gov. Earl Warren. As San Francisco mayor in 2008, rather than delivering a customary State of the City speech, Newsom posted a 7½-hour eye-glazer on his YouTube channel. It bombed.
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