From CalMatters economic system reporter Levi Sumagaysay:
Gov. Gavin Newsom delivered a principally upbeat message at an financial summit in Sacramento on Wednesday, particularly when he was speaking about California’s “resilient” economic system.
Regardless of what many headlines say about California’s supposed decline, “the good news is we’re still the fifth-largest economy in the world,” he instructed a number of hundred individuals on the occasion held yearly by California Ahead, a nonprofit that focuses on state coverage. (Coincidentally, we have now a story that appears into what actually occurs when corporations transfer their headquarters out of state.)
However when Dee Dee Myers, director of the governor’s workplace of enterprise and financial growth, who was interviewing Newsom on stage, requested him to speak in regards to the remaining two years of his administration, he sounded somber and known as it an existential query.
“I don’t want to get partisan or political,” Newsom mentioned, including that what occurs within the subsequent couple of years will rely upon what occurs “in the next few weeks.” He was speaking, in fact, in regards to the presidential election in November.
He referenced the current information {that a} former aide of Donald Trump mentioned the previous president didn’t wish to give federal help to California after the lethal 2018 wildfires till he was instructed how many individuals within the state voted for him. Newsom talked about that the state sued the Trump administration greater than 100 occasions over quite a lot of points.
Newsom then mentioned voters’ alternative in November can be between “a posture of optimism, support, daylight” — referring to his longtime political colleague, Vice President Kamala Harris — and what he known as the “challenging darkness” that’s Trump.
Republicans, nevertheless, mentioned Newsom’s report on the economic system “is a failure — not something to brag about.”
Additionally throughout his about 20 minutes on stage, the governor touted his administration’s efforts to streamline workforce growth and create extra jobs within the state’s many areas by bringing collectively a number of state companies and ensuring the tutorial system is concerned.
- Newsom: “We want to reinvigorate rural parts of the state, not just the coastal. We can’t take parts of the state for granted.”
