Meredith Stiehm, running unopposed, has been elected president of the WGA West, becoming only the third woman to ever hold the guild’s top elected office.
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The Walt Disney Co. has made a $32,400 contribution to California Gov. Gavin Newsom, despite previous friction between the company and Newsom over his refusal to lift restrictions that for a time prevented the reopening of its Anaheim theme parks.
According to a filing with the California Secretary of State, the contribution was made by subsidiary Disney Worldwide Services to Newsom’s 2022 reelection campaign, which has been spending money to fight the Sept. 14 recall.
Last November, The Walt
Meredith Stiehm, running unopposed, has been elected president of the WGA West, becoming only the third woman to ever hold the guild’s top elected office.
California will be the first state in the nation to track violent deaths, including suicides and homicides, among the LGBTQ community, thanks to a new bill that goes into effect Jan. 1, 2022.
ANALYSIS: Larry Elder is on his way to nearly matching Arnold Schwarzenegger’s share of the vote in the last California recall election, but that’s just about where comparisons to 2003 end.
President Joe Biden sees Governor Gavin Newsom’s resounding win in California’s recall as an affirmation of robust Covid-19 protocols, including vaccine requirements and school safety measures.
Celebrities who supported Gavin Newsom amid the recent recall election in California took to Twitter to react to his big win on Tuesday. A majority of Californians have voted no - meaning against removing Newsom from office - in the recall election for the embattled first-term Democratic governor. Putting an end to conservative talk radio host Larry Elder's hopes at overtaking his seat.
preliminary exit polls, Newsom’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic — the chief issue that led to his being recalled in the first place — helped propel him to victory, with the pandemic ranking as the No. 1 issue on voters’ minds, but just 3 in 10 voters saying Newsom’s pandemic-related policies were too strict.
Refresh for updates … Gavin Newsom is staying put as California governor after the state’s voters declined to oust him in the recall election today. The issue has been front of mind for Californians — and Hollywood — for months, especially the past few weeks, and social media was flooded with reaction to the results tonight. Have a look at a sampling of them below.
California Governor Gavin Newsom said that the state’s voters, in soundly defeating a recall effort, were rejecting cynicism and division in politics.
Gene Maddaus Senior Media WriterGov.
Rose McGowan has been campaigning for controversial Republican gubernatorial candidate Larry Elder in the California recall election, due to her claims that Jennifer Siebel Newsom — ex-wife of the state’s current governor, Gavin Newsom — attempted to silence her from speaking about about her rape allegations against now-imprisoned movie producer Harvey Weinstein.
appealed to his voters to report any instances of voter fraud on an online form that claimed it had “detected fraud” in the “results” of the California recall election “resulting in Governor Gavin Newsom being reinstated as governor.” The election is Tuesday, so Elder’s claim of voter fraud was preemptive. “What whiners.
President Joe Biden will campaign in Long Beach this evening for Gavin Newsom as he tries to fend off a recall, with a series of polls giving some relief to California’s governor as he tries to keep his job.
Gene Maddaus Senior Media WriterIn the final weekend of the California gubernatorial recall campaign, political ads are everywhere. The last push before the voting period ends on Sept.
Vice President Kamala Harris warned of a national impact if Gavin Newsom is recalled as the state’s governor next Tuesday, even framing the race within the larger context of the battle for voting rights and abortion rights.
Gene Maddaus Senior Media WriterIf Gov. Gavin Newsom is recalled next week, the entertainment industry will lose a valuable ally in Sacramento.The industry’s top concern at the Capitol is the film and TV tax credit, which provides a 20-25% discount on eligible production spending in the state.
told The Sacramento Bee that his symptoms aren’t serious enough to require hospitalization or measures such as monoclonal antibody treatments. He also confirmed to the paper that he isn’t vaccinated.Heatlie filed the petition to recall Gavin Newsom in early 2020, before the COVID-19 pandemic, at the time justifying it because he disagrees with Newsom’s policies regarding immigration and crime on grounds that critics have said are racist.
As usual, Caitlyn Jenner is the candidate for ABSOLUTELY NO ONE!
California Secretary of State’s website.To mount a recall, opponents simply have to gather petition signatures from a number of registered voters equal to 12% of the turnout vote in the last gubernatorial election. Signatures from at least five counties must each equal 1% of the total number of votes cast in the last election for governor in the county.
California Governor Gavin Newsom held a press conference today to tout a milestone: 80% of the state’s eligible residents have received at least one dose of a Covid vaccine. He called it “a momentous occasion.” The governor sought to contrast the accomplishment with the pandemic plans of his recall rivals.