Seven weeks after lighting a candle at the tomb of Saint Oscar Romero in April, 2019, Gavin Newsom signed a proclamation at the end of May welcoming women from other states seeking abortion to come to California to end their pregnancies.
Eighteen months later, after harsh lockdowns on small businesses, Newsom dined indoors with friends at the posh French Laundry restaurant in Napa Valley. Now, that incident, combined with the discovery that California prison inmates were getting over $1 billion in unemployment payments spurred the effort in November and December to recall the California governor.
According to a Dec. 14 story in the Washington Times:
Recall organizers say they have collected more than half the nearly 1.5 million petition signatures needed to place the recall on the ballot, and they have until mid-March to hit the required threshold.
Randy Economy, a senior adviser to the recall effort, said there was a surge of several hundred thousand petition signatures after Newsom‘s restaurant debacle last month. “It has resonated. It’s about the arrogance of power,” he said….
Fox Nation host Tammy Bruce helped lead the recall of Governor Gray Davis in 2003 and has seen the signs before.
“The concern is that Gavin Newsom is doing things that benefit that lobbyist and those interests as opposed to benefiting the people of California,” Bruce told co-host Griff Jenkins.
“How do you know?” she added. “Because the people of California are in dire straits and Gavin Newsom and his friends are not.”
Bruce said “it’s the economy, the handling of Covid, the corruption, this lobbyist guy. Californians don’t like it and I think it’ll be successful.”
Anne Dunsmore, the campaign manager and finance director of Rescue California 2021, told Fox News in December that the effort was a “citizen tide” against the missteps Newsom had taken during the pandemic.
“Closing the beaches and closing the parks really was the beginning, that I saw on the ground, of the beginning of the end for him, as far as people taking the recall stuff seriously,” Dunsmore said.
Like Mr. Biden, “Catholic” politicians love “Catholic” photo ops!
Well, at least as long as they’re still running for office and want the votes of naive or apostate Catholics.
Also, the caption identifies the woman as his wife. While annulments are private matters, marriages are public matters. Did Mr, Newsom get an annulment, so to speak, as a result of his first marriage at St. Ignatius Church and then have his current (civil) marriage convalidated?
The two in the photo were civilly married at her parents ranch in Montana (with an Out of Africa theme to it) and it was not witnessed by a priest or deacon.
From news coverage at the time: Saturday night’s wedding ceremony was conducted by spiritual leader Carol Simone, longtime teacher at the Palo Alto School of Hypnotherapy and creator of several “special prayers” for San Francisco events, says her Web site. As to her background: “After her first mystical experience in 1989, she began a long period of training in the fields of mediumship and psychic studies, meditation, tarot and numerology.”
Tragically, it seems Mr. Newsom has opened himself up to occult, even demonic, influences.
I sort of chuckled at your post anonymous clergyman before I threw up in my mouth. What made me chuckleis the image of any politician that doesn’t love a photo op, whether they be left, right, or center. And that he went on that now infamous dinner party at French Laundry is pretty ludicrous and tone-deaf, I think we all agree. Which leads one to Trump’s repeated super-spreader rally events which the critics of the Governor have yet to acknoledge, even though we know they lead to multiple serious cases of Coronavirus and even a few deaths.
On the other hand, Apostasy is the utter rejection of Christ and the Gospel. Our Governor, whether you agree with him or disagree with him, doesn’t in any way merit that nomenclature. Given the education which our dollars provided for you, you should know better.
We agree, if you are baptized, you share in Christ’s being priest, prophet and king.
And, I’m not for spreading COVID in any way, including partisan ones (be it BLM protests, fancy dinners, Trump rallies, hypocritical politicians or otherwise).
The common definition of apostasy is the abandonment or renunciation of a religious belief. Mr. Newsom’s continued support of abortion at any time for any reason, his support of so-called same-sex “marriage,” his trampling on religious liberty (by allowing others, but not places of worship to be open), his living with a woman who is not his wife and more do put him in the category of that common definition of apostasy. That said, I do acknowledge that Canon 751 describes apostasy as a “total” repudiation of the Faith. Maybe there are some parts of our Faith which Mr. Newsom has not rejected. Point taken, maybe I should have described him as a near-apostate. We should pray for him as well as all of us.
And, BTW, you did not pay for my education. I (and others who know me and supported me) paid for all of my (non-public) education.
Gossip is a sin.
True. And, admonishing sinners is a spiritual work of mercy. And, the Scriptures command teaching transgressors the way of the Lord.
If Newsom didn’t claim to be a Catholic, it wouldn’t be so scandalous. See 1 Corinthians 5:9-13 and 6:9-11.
He should speak to him directly. Not flame him on the internet.
I have reached out to Governor Newsom directly with some of my concerns, but received no reply.
His positions, photo ops, etc. are all quite public, so, a public response is not inappropriate.
Should the violent actions of rioters, both this year and last, not be condemned by anyone, except those who can speak directly to the persons first?
Was Archbishop Cordileone wrong to condemn yesterday’s rioting in Washington DC without first speaking to the rioters?
Good-by gavin….. thanks or nothing….
Living in an irregular union. Pretends to be a man of faith. Wife is a pious fraud, kneeling and closing her eyes for the picture. These people use religion to advance themselves.