Governor Gavin Newsom used his veto pen over the weekend to ax legislation aimed at protecting providers of gender-affirming care from being extradited to face charges for doing so by another state.

Assembly Bill 2164 authored by Assemblymember Rebecca Bauer-Kahan (D-Orinda) would have prohibited California’s governor from recognizing a request for extradition of a person related to their providing a legally protected healthcare activity in the Golden State to transgender individuals, or if they provide reproductive services. It provided certain exemptions, such as an extradition required by federal law.

  • PumpkinSkink@lemmy.world
    304·
    21 hours ago

    I can’t wait to get yelled at by democrats when i refuse to vote for this shit head in a few years.

    • Ryanmiller70@lemmy.zip
      101·
      15 hours ago

      Just one more neolib bro! We’ll get someone worth a damn, you just gotta support one more shithead I promise!!

    • jumjummy@lemmy.world
      232·
      21 hours ago

      Hopefully he doesn’t make it past the primaries. Unfortunately if he does and he’s up against a MAGA Republican, there’s only one clear choice.

      Go help campaign for progressive candidates before the primaries! Come November 2028, it may be too late.

      • kestrel7_7@lemmy.world
        1·
        37 minutes ago

        Unfortunately if he does and he’s up against a MAGA Republican, there’s only one clear choice.

        I even held my nose and voted for Harris, but “stay home and don’t vote” appears to be the only clear choice here. Newsom vs. MAGA is just MAGA vs. MAGA. When Newsom was imitating Trump on twitter, all I could think was “imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.” I don’t think it’s too much to expect the Democrats to have learned something from the 2024 elections; they can ignore progressives, but progressives can ignore them too, and then the whole country suffers.

      • DudleyMason@lemmy.ml
        2·
        59 minutes ago

        Go help campaign for progressive candidates before the primaries

        Please, everyone who thinks the Democratic Party can be saved, to do this. It will convince you faster than anything else I know of that the party isn’t salvageable and that party leadership is just as awful privately as the other guys are publicly.

    • edible_funk@lemmy.worldEnglish
      118·
      19 hours ago

      Republicans deserve to be yelled at, and if it’s newsom or vance and you choose vance by not voting, you’re a republican and deserve to be yelled at.

      • DudleyMason@lemmy.ml
        2·
        57 minutes ago

        Blindly partisan loyalists deserve to be yelled at.

        I don’t need to do any mental gymnastics to make that apply to the people I’m applying it to.

        Your guaranteed vote no matter how awful the candidate is is the reason the candidate is more awful every cycle.