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[-] MemesAreTheory@hexbear.net 56 points 1 year ago

He also vetoed $35 price caps for Insulin. What a guy.

[-] Wertheimer@hexbear.net 48 points 1 year ago

I missed that one.

Lawmakers can override a governor’s veto with a two-thirds vote, but they have not tried in decades.

. . .the governor vetoed Wiener's Senate Bill 90, which caps the cost of insulin at $35 per month. The bill had previously passed the Assembly 79-0 and passed the Senate on 39-0.

This is perfect football-lucy Democrat behavior, where they get to be on record for supporting something but still make sure it never happens. A supermajority where nothing can happen because the governorship is inevitably a spot to put someone who wants to run for President. The most Blue MAGA state in the country.

[-] ClimateChangeAnxiety@hexbear.net 34 points 1 year ago

the governor vetoed Wiener's Senate Bill 90, which caps the cost of insulin at $35 per month. The bill had previously passed the Assembly 79-0 and passed the Senate on 39-0

Why is the governor even able to veto something that passed with a veto-proof majority? Sorry pal you already lost.

[-] Wertheimer@hexbear.net 29 points 1 year ago

agony-immense

Of the 66 bills vetoed by Newsom, all but 10 passed both houses by a two-thirds vote or more — the same threshold needed for a veto override but unlikely to spark such action when the Legislature reconvenes in January.

https://www.latimes.com/california/newsletter/2021-10-15/california-politics-governor-all-powerful-veto-ca-politics

[-] quarrk@hexbear.net 5 points 1 year ago

Perhaps the votes only passed that hard because the congress was confident he would veto it anyway. If the rules changed, so would the votes, probably. Or maybe it would have not even made it to a vote.

[-] cryptymythy@hexbear.net 19 points 1 year ago

also vetoed decriminalizing psilocybin

[-] BarrelAgedBoredom@lemm.ee 13 points 1 year ago

Just when I was starting to come around to him. Liberals are a curse

[-] MemesAreTheory@hexbear.net 11 points 1 year ago

the-democrat strikes again

[-] Rojo27@hexbear.net 37 points 1 year ago

This is harm reduction babe, deal with itmaybe-later-kiddo

[-] panopticon@hexbear.net 5 points 1 year ago

Thanks I fuckin hate it

[-] jack@hexbear.net 24 points 1 year ago

In terms of good things blocked, Newsome might be the worst governor in the country

[-] panopticon@hexbear.net 6 points 1 year ago

Also people don't have homes, I look forward to this smug bastard eating liquid shit in 2024

[-] JohnBrownNote@hexbear.net 23 points 1 year ago

harm reduction tho

[-] BurgerPunk@hexbear.net 22 points 1 year ago

So this means he's going to run for president right?

[-] Bloobish@hexbear.net 20 points 1 year ago

Oh and he also vetoed a bill that would make it mandatory for hearing aids to be included for children's health insurance coverage, the fucking tool.

[-] ikiru@lemmy.ml 19 points 1 year ago

Our liberal hero strikes again.

[-] sicklemode@hexbear.net 19 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Gruesome Newsom on quite the streak. Still, one has to wonder if these bills only ever made it to his desk on the condition he would veto them, to tease people into vote harder football-lucy mentality.

Maybe I'm wrong about that, but it does seem awfully convenient to legitimize a system that a passive observer would consider "working, but just one person ruined it" (if one person can fuck the whole thing, how is that viable?)

[-] captcha@hexbear.net 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

On the other hand, what's up with all the California dems sending all these cool bills across his desk? CA dems can't be happy about.

Edit: checked some CA subreddits and the general vibe ranges from "I guess the issue is more nuanced" to, "this asshole wants to be president".

[-] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 16 points 1 year ago

"this asshole wants to be president"

Someone has to be especially ghoulish if they aspire to be the central figurehead of the empire. hillary

[-] VILenin@hexbear.net 11 points 1 year ago

It’s easy to enthusiastically support good things when you know full well there’s zero chance of it actually happening

[-] cryptymythy@hexbear.net 11 points 1 year ago

He's just such an obvious amalgam of carcetti from the wire and the smiler

[-] footfaults@hexbear.net 9 points 1 year ago

The caste system thing, you can argue that it's already covered by the existing protections and the inclusion of caste is duplicative. I can be convinced otherwise, it's just be my dumb STEM brain thinking we don't have to enumerate every type of discrimination, it should be obvious that it's illegal and should be stopped.

The other stuff, no excuses.

[-] mkultrawide@hexbear.net 19 points 1 year ago

If it's already covered, then you pass the bill, because it doesn't do anything. This is Newsome trying to cozy up to the brahmin money.

[-] footfaults@hexbear.net 10 points 1 year ago
[-] Vode_An@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago

It also has the benefit of making it clear that it won’t be tolerated. Reiterating is worthwhile, and from the stories my tech friends have told it’s necessary.

[-] aaaaaaadjsf@hexbear.net 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Another day, another bangerthe-democratfreedom-and-democracythe-republican

[-] BigBoyKarlLiebknecht@hexbear.net 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Have my job, mack biden-point bateman-ontological

His personal history is going to lead to a situation of Don Jr’s girlfriend talking about Newsom’s dick on TV, isn’t it

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