From the beloved of millions to the hated governor: Newsom's recall as head of California is gaining momentum

California Governor Gavin Newsom was repeatedly interrupted during a February 10 press conference with the chant "Withdraw Newsom!" Writes about it Fox News.

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The governor came to Fresno for the city fair to provide an update on the COVID-19 pandemic and to discuss a new distribution point for the vaccine.

During the discussion, shouts were heard: “Withdraw Newsom! Recall Newsom! "

A visibly annoyed Newsom pretended not to hear this and proceeded to answer reporters' question about a vaccination facility that would be set up at Ridley College.

You can hear hecklers chanting “Recall Newsom” off camera at Governor Newsom's press conference. He's in the Central Valley talking about vaccine rollout, ongoing negotiations to get kids back to school, youth sports, etc. Says CA has now given 5 million doses of vaccine. @FOXLA pic.twitter.com/CewonYrB8D

- Bill Melugin (@BillFOXLA) February 10, 2021

The Democratic governor faces a growing threat as a petition to recall him approaches the 1,5 million signatures needed to force a statewide ballot measure. Campaign organizers have until March 10 to collect the required number of signatures.

The recall is supported by both Republicans and Democrats. All because of the governor's too harsh response to the pandemic: schools and many small businesses across the state were closed.

In recent weeks, the governor has eased some restrictions, such as a ban on outdoor restaurant patios, a move that some of his critics say is an attempt to quell the recall campaign.

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Who is Gavin Newsom

Gavin Newsom, once a favorite of the Liberals, has become one of the most controversial state leaders in decades. Dailymail.

The governor's popularity plummeted after a turbulent year in which the state was in turmoil and reportedly tens of thousands of residents fled the region.

If the vote to recall the governor is successful, it will be the first such decision in California since 2003, when Governor Gray Davis, also a Democrat, was fired in this way.

But do not rush to discount Newsom.

He enjoys the political and financial support of some of the state's most powerful families, including one of the world's richest, the Getty dynasty.

By the time Newsom ran for governor three years ago, members of the Getty family had donated more than $500 to his various campaigns, most of them successful. Newsom's background includes winning election to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, a two-time bid for mayor of San Francisco, a two-time bid for lieutenant governor of California, and then the governorship, with obvious hopes of one day becoming president.

And Newsom's ties to the Getty family extend beyond their financial support: his father was the Getty clan's family lawyer, his goddaughter is also part of the family, and he once ran a liquor store and restaurant business with Billy Getty before entering politics.

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The Getty family in Newsom's life

After winning the San Francisco mayoral election, Newsom and his first wife, then little-known city attorney Kimberly Guilfoyle—now Donald Trump Jr.'s lover and former Fox News Channel star—were photographed at the Getty family's Malibu villa for an eight-page spread in the swanky Harper's Bazaar .

The luxurious villa is one of the many homes of Newsom's extremely wealthy unofficial adoptive parents, Anne (who died in September 2020) and Gordon Getty, who helped finance his meteoric rise in politics.

Heir to the Getty fortune, San Francisco philanthropist and arts patron Gordon Getty is one of four sons of the late Jean-Paul Getty, who has been called the first true US billionaire.

Beyond wealth, power and prestige, the Gettys are a family riddled with scandals and tragedies over generations, including drug overdoses, adultery, divorces, brutal trials and more.

Jean-Paul was a famous womanizer who had at least five wives. When one of his grandchildren was kidnapped, the notorious miser refused to hand over the required several million in ransom and bargained for a smaller amount. The boy was returned, but he had no ear. The ransom money was brought in by Gavin Newsom's father, Getty's lawyer.

Gordon Getty followed in his father's footsteps as a womanizer. In 1999, it was revealed that while he was married to his wife, Ann, who came out with him, he had a secret double life and a second family in Los Angeles for 14 years.

The press announced this shocking secret, and it turned out that "a select circle of high society in San Francisco" knew about it.

The scandal became public when the three young daughters of the "other wife" in Getty's life, Cynthia Beck, applied to change their surname from Beck to Getty and began negotiating inheritance rights for the Getty estate.

He acknowledged the relationship: “Nicolette, Kendall and Alexandra are my children. Their mother is Cynthia Beck and I love them very much.” The girls' ages then ranged from 8 to 14 years.

Scandals continued in the circle of the closest relatives of Gordon and Ann Getty, into which Gavin Newsom was admitted, until last year.

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Two of the couple's three troubled sons—members of the last Getty generation—died of drug overdoses within five years of each other.

John Getty, 52, was found dead in a posh hotel room in San Antonio shortly before Thanksgiving 2020. And in 2015, his 47-year-old brother, Andrew, died of an overdose in his magnificent Spanish-style villa in the Hollywood Hills.

One of the last members of the Getty family to make headlines is Newsom's goddaughter, Natalia "Nuts" Getty.

The 28-year-old has gained international fame as a lesbian model, YouTube blogger, and influencer who recently announced on social media that she was beginning her “physical transition” to become a man.

Her clothing and lifestyle line is appropriately called (in the rich Getty tradition) Strike Oil.

Newsom's personal life

His personal life in the past has not always been successful, especially when it comes to the interaction of this handsome politician with women.

Newsom was a womanizer, he was caught having an affair with a married woman. The wife of his longtime friend and head of the campaign headquarters for mayor.

The New York Times called it "all the sex scandal and betrayal of a tasteless romance."

This romance took place in 2005, and it was a short-term sexual relationship, Newsom admitted, with the pretty 34-year-old Ruby Rippy-Turk, wife of Alex Turk, the former deputy chief of staff of Newsom and a close friend.

His wife reportedly confessed to cheating on her husband as part of drug rehabilitation.

After the story was published by the San Francisco Chronicle in February 2007, then-Mayor Newsom confessed: “Everything you heard and read is true. And I deeply regret that. "

Newsom stated: "I hurt someone who is very dear to me, and this is what I have to live with."

Newsom and Guilfoyle's marriage in 2001 was called "one of the most glamorous political alliances since Jack and Jackie."

The analogy in the September 2004 Harper's Bazaar was titled "The New Kennedy" and was published after Newsom was elected San Francisco's youngest mayor.

A progressive, left-wing San Francisco man, he immediately sparked national controversy by ordering the city to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples.

The action was criticized by then President George W. Bush, and Newsom's order infuriated right-wing evangelicals.

Eight pages of fashionable Harper's Bazaar featured glamorous photographs of the charismatic young mayor of San Francisco, sporting a $ 1000 tuxedo.

His wife Kimberly, dubbed "the hottie of a San Francisco bar" by the caustic local press, was equally impressive in a $ 2000 little black dress.

Guilfoyle has also had ties to the Getty family itself, once dating one of Gordon Getty's biological sons, Billy Getty, with the likely hopes of joining one of the richest families in the world before meeting Newsom.

A successful prosecutor who made her way through law school as a model, she often made headlines more than Newsome himself due to the media obsession with her appearance.

But like a number of Kennedy's marriages, Newsom's alliance with the seductive and ambitious Guilfoyle didn't last long either.

Less than a week after she stood next to her husband in his mayor's office and held the Bible for him, she headed to New York to pursue a television career and become a Fox News star.

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In 2006, the future governor of California attended the San Francisco Artists' Ball on a blind date with the woman who would be his second wife, Jennifer Siebel. She is an actress who has starred in series like Mad Men.

“We had so much in common,” she later said. “We were blown away by it, from our love of Africa to our interests in political issues, the arts, the wine business and college sports.”

He proposed to her in Hawaii at the end of 2007, and in 2008 they got married in Montana.

Newsom politics

Newsom issued and then canceled isolation orders twice. He was criticized because the distribution of the vaccine was in chaos. As a result, California has reportedly lagged behind other states.

Moreover, state hospitals were so overcrowded with COVID-19 patients that not everyone could be cured, and in the state, an average of 433 people died every day in a week.

Newsom drew national outrage and backlash even further in November last year after it was revealed that he was secretly attending a 12-person, mask-less fashion dinner at French Laundry, the world's most exclusive restaurant.

He broke his own collection rules during the pandemic and was labeled a hypocrite.

The party was organized during the coronavirus outbreak in California, and his presence was revealed shortly after he asked citizens not to travel on holidays or hold large gatherings.

He and his second wife, actress Jennifer Sibel, joined friends at a swanky restaurant to celebrate the 50th birthday of a close friend and advisor to the governor.

Caught hot, Newsom admitted that he had done the wrong thing.

“As long as my wife and I were following the restaurant's health protocols and taking safety precautions, I should have modeled better behavior and not joined the dinner,” he said.

Newsom's review

Bloomberg recently reported it has collected 1,2 million of the 1,5 million signatures required to recall the governor.

In an article in The Washington Post, Dan Moiraine, a former editor of the Sacramento Bee newspaper, said the last thing the state needed was a "political circus" of recall.

“But thanks to Newsom’s missteps and bad luck,” he added, “Republicans have a fighting chance.”

Politico reported that major sponsors of Trump's 2020 re-election campaign helped fund Newsom's recall movement.

Major Trump re-election fundraiser, Caroline Wren, says sponsors in California and across the country are "starting to pay attention to recall efforts."

As ForumDaily wrote earlier:

• People California demands to recall the governor... Supporters of the withdrawal hope to collect 2 million signatures by March 17 to vote on the issue, although only 1,5 million are needed to hold elections in the middle of the year.

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