The recall’s original supporters want the courts to edit references to Republicans and to former President Donald Trump out of the state’s voter information guide. | Photo by Brandon Bell/Getty Images
OAKLAND — Gov. Gavin Newsom has spent months framing the California recall vote as a Trump-aligned Republican power grab, but recall proponents want to block him from saying so in state campaign materials.
The recall’s original supporters want the courts to edit references to Republicans and to former President Donald Trump out of the official argument Newsom has proposed for inclusion in the state’s voter information guide, which will be mailed to voters by Aug. 24. Recall backers argue Newsom’s partisan arguments inappropriately “mirror his and his supporters’ paid advertisements.”
“The Guide is not a paid advertisement,” they argue in their complaint filed Friday in Sacramento Superior Court.
Their demand: Recall supporters say that Newsom's language misleadingly casts the recall as illegitimate and falsely implies only Republicans are in support. They want to strip out various references to Republicans and to mute Newsom’s attempts to frame the recall as a nefarious effort to seize power.
Newsom’s proposed argument opens by describing the recall as “an attempt by national Republicans and Trump supporters to force an election and grab power in California.” Recall supporters want to remove that language, as well as references to “the Republican takeover of our state,” to Republicans “abusing our recall laws in order to gain power and advance their partisan agenda” and to how the recall could result in “handing power to Republicans and supporters of President Trump.”
They also want to block Newsom’s attempt to refer to himself as a “Democratic” governor. A judge already rebuffed Newsom’s last-minute effort to be labeled as a Democrat on ballots after Newsom’s team missed a critical deadline to list party affiliation.
Newsom response: "The lawsuit is totally baseless," Newsom campaign spokesperson Nathan Click said in a statement. "The facts are clear — this is a partisan Republican recall: one that was launched by Republicans like Heatlie and Netter and funded almost exclusively by Republican donors, the RNC and allies of Donald Trump. Republicans know they can't win in a normal election year, so they are trying to force a special election and grab power."
Why it matters: Newsom has striven from the outset to define the recall as a cynical maneuver by Trump-aligned Republicans, believing that will resonate in a heavily Democratic state where Trump was very unpopular. The state’s official voter guide offers a prime opportunity to make that case to voters — or not.
What's next? A hearing is set for Wednesday, two days before the deadline for public inspection and legal challenges of the voter guide.
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