Inauguration strong speech of California's 40th Governor Gavin Newsom: If you don't like what’s happening in Donald Trump’s Washington, D.C. then watch what I’m about to do.
Tuesday, January 08, 2019
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| Gavin Newsom giving his first speech as California’s 40th governor, Jan. 7, 2019. (Photo: Paul Kitagaki Jr./Zuma Wire) |
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| Gavin Newsom, 40th Governer of California since Jan. 7th, 2019 |
VietPress USA (Jan. 8, 2019): Gavin Newson, the 40th Governor of California gave his strong address at his inaugural ceremony. He pledged to launch a “Marshall Plan for affordable housing”; to provide “sanctuary to all who seek it”; to ensure “fair pay” for “working people”; and to offer “guaranteed health care for all Californians.” Within hours, Newsom was on Facebook, directing state officials to set up the nation’s largest single-purchaser system for prescription drugs and revealing that his budget, to be unveiled in full later this week, would reinstate Obamacare’s individual mandate and increase subsidies for families making as much as $150,000. He also said he would ask the legislature to allow all undocumented immigrants under 26 to participate in the state’s Medicaid plan.
California is a state in
the Pacific Region of the United States.
With 39.6 million residents, California is the most populous
U.S. state and the third-largest by area. The state
capital is Sacramento. The Greater Los Angeles Area and
the San Francisco Bay Area are the nation's
second- and fifth-most populous urban
regions, with 18.7 million and 8.8 million residents
respectively. Los Angeles is California's most populous city,
and the country's second-most populous,
after New York City. California also has the
nation's most populous
county, Los Angeles County, and its largest county by
area, San Bernardino County.
The City and County of San Francisco is both
the country's second-most
densely populated major city and the fifth-most
densely populated county.
California's
$2.9 trillion economy is larger than that of any other state, larger than
those of Texas and Florida combined, and the largest
sub-national economy in the world. If it were a country,
California would be the 5th largest economy in the world (larger than the United Kingdom, France,
or India), and
the 36th most populous as of 2017. The Greater Los Angeles Area and
the San Francisco Bay Area are the nation's
second- and third-largest urban economies ($1.253 trillion and
$878 billion respectively as of 2017), after the New York City metropolitan area. The San Francisco
Bay Area PSA had the nation's highest GDP per capita in 2017
(~$99,000), and is home to three of the world's ten largest companies by
market capitalization and
four of the world's ten richest people.
California
is considered a global trendsetter in popular culture, innovation, environmentalism and politics.
It is considered the origin of the American film industry,
the hippie counterculture, fast food,
the Internet, and
the personal computer, among others. The San
Francisco Bay Area and the Greater Los Angeles Area are widely seen as the
centers of the global technology and entertainment industries, respectively.
California has a very diverse economy: 58% of the state's economy is centered on finance, government, real estate
services, technology, and professional, scientific and technical business
services. Although it accounts for only 1.5% of the state's
economy,[23] California's agriculture industry
has the highest output of any U.S. state.
California
is bordered by Oregon to the north, Nevada and Arizona to
the east, and the Mexican state of Baja California to
the south (with the coast being on the west). The state's diverse geography
ranges from the Pacific Coast in the west to the Sierra Nevada mountain range in the east,
and from the redwood–Douglas fir forests
in the northwest to the Mojave Desert in
the southeast. The Central Valley, a major agricultural area,
dominates the state's center. Although California is well-known for its
warm Mediterranean climate, the large size of the
state results in climates that vary from moist temperate rainforest in the north to
arid desert in the interior, as well as
snowy alpine in the mountains. Over time, drought and wildfires have
become more pervasive features.
What
is now California was first settled by various Native Californian tribes before
being explored by a number of European expeditions during the 16th and 17th
centuries. The Spanish Empire then claimed it as part
of Alta California in their New Spain colony.
The area became a part of Mexico in 1821 following its successful war for independence but was ceded to
the United States in 1848 after the Mexican–American War. The western portion of
Alta California then was organized and admitted as the 31st state on September
9, 1850. The California Gold Rush starting in 1848 led
to dramatic social and demographic changes, with large-scale emigration from
the east and abroad with an accompanying economic boom.(Wikipedia)
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Gavin Newsom sets a bold — and costly — agenda for California, staking the future of his party on its success
Don’t like what’s happening in Donald Trump’s Washington, D.C.? Then watch what I’m about to do.
Under a huge tent shielding thousands of guests from looming rainclouds, Gavin Newsom mounted the stage in Sacramento Monday to take his oath of office and deliver an inaugural address.
It was an afternoon rich in symbolism: a passing of the generational torch from four-term Gov. Jerry Brown, a curmudgeonly, childless octogenarian, to a 51-year-old former wine entrepreneur and San Francisco mayor with four young kids. It was also a reversal of Brown’s blunt, even bleak, mantra of austerity — eight years ago he celebrated his own inauguration by eating a hot dog — to a flashier form of leadership. Newsom hosted a concert with Common and Pitbull instead.
But amid all the grandstanding and rhetoric, the moment marked a more practical shift as well. Always a lone wolf, Brown never really aspired to stand for something larger than his own idiosyncrasies. Newsom, in contrast, premised his entire campaign on the idea that California, home to the world’s fifth-largest economy, more people than any other state and a powerless GOP, should be the model alternative to Trump’s Washington, a place where progressive solutions to America’s most pressing problems, from income inequality to education to health care, can be successfully implemented on an unmatched scale.
It was a theme Newsom made sure to emphasize in Monday’s speech.
“California has always helped write America’s future, and we know the decisions we make would be important at any time,” he said. “But what we do today is even more consequential because of what’s happening in our country. People’s lives, freedom, security, the water we drink, the air we breathe — they all hang in the balance. The country is watching us. The world is waiting on us. The future depends on us. And we will seize this moment.”
In the weeks and months ahead, this ambitious notion of California as a prototype for the rest of the nation will embody both the promise and the potential pitfalls of Newsom’s nascent governorship.
The promise part is simple. While newly empowered House Democrats still have to contend with President Trump and a Republican Senate, Newsom will enjoy legislative supermajorities, an estimated $14.8 billion budget surplus and a projected $14.5 billion rainy-day reserve fund.
These advantages could, in turn, help him keep his long list of campaign promises, which together represent one of the largest government expansions California has ever seriously contemplated: a statewide single-payer health care system; universal preschool; 3.5 million new housing units by 2025; an energy grid run solely on renewables; and a state bank dedicated to financing infrastructure projects, small businesses and a burgeoning marijuana industry.
If passed, Newsom’s agenda would provide many rank-and-file Democrats with exactly what they’ve been craving: a real-world example of progressive governance that can transcend the stalemate on Capitol Hill as well as the tired internal debates between Bernie bros and Hillarybots, populism and identity politics.
But that’s a big if.
The danger for Newsom (and for the Democrats rooting for him) is that the last time California was a national symbol of anything, it was as a failure of progressive governance. Before Brown took office, in the teeth of the Great Recession, California was $27 billion in debt, with the worst credit rating of any state in the nation, and unemployment hovered above 12 percent.
It’s debatable how much blame Sacramento deserved; with its disproportionate reliance on tax revenues from über-wealthy coastal types, recessions always hit California especially hard. But that didn’t stop national conservatives, and eventually the media at large, from lampooning the state as “the next Greece” — a liberal fantasyland that had spent its way to the brink of collapse. And it won’t stop the next recession from having a similarly outsize effect on California’s fortunes.
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