{"id":481,"date":"2022-02-20T18:31:34","date_gmt":"2022-02-21T02:31:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gavin-newsom.com\/?p=481"},"modified":"2022-02-20T18:31:34","modified_gmt":"2022-02-21T02:31:34","slug":"does-gavin-newsom-have-the-guts-to-fight-for-single-payer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gavin-newsom.com\/?p=481","title":{"rendered":"Does Gavin Newsom have the guts to fight for single payer?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap\">Writing in <em><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sacbee.com\/news\/politics-government\/capitol-alert\/article258154383.html\" target=\"_blank\">The Sacramento Bee<\/a><\/em>, Sophia Bollag  wrtes that Melissa Michelson, a political science professor at Menlo College maintains:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI think we all anticipate that he plans to run for president,\u201d Michelson said. \u201cHe\u2019s got that whole second term as governor to build up those credentials, and it\u2019s going to be those things that are recent that are top of voters\u2019 minds\u2026 Unless a more progressive candidate is going to challenge him and make hay of this, it\u2019s going to go through the 24-hour news cycle, and we\u2019re all going to forget about it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Since taking office, Newsom has done noting about single payer. That has everything to do with the fact that his social class does not have to worry about school closings (they can afford private tutors), health care (they have plenty of money for insurance and treatments) or abortions \u2014 rich people have always been able to have them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Their concern is to maintain their class privilege. To do this, they will avow socially liberal policies while dragging their heel and making lame excuses.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"http:\/\/gavin-newsom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/banner-abortion.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"486\" src=\"http:\/\/gavin-newsom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/banner-abortion-1024x486.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-483\" srcset=\"http:\/\/gavin-newsom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/banner-abortion-1024x486.png 1024w, http:\/\/gavin-newsom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/banner-abortion-300x143.png 300w, http:\/\/gavin-newsom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/banner-abortion-768x365.png 768w, http:\/\/gavin-newsom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/banner-abortion-624x296.png 624w, http:\/\/gavin-newsom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/banner-abortion.png 1503w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Aborton protesters in San Francisco<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/www.sacbee.com\/news\/politics-government\/capitol-alert\/article258154383.html\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Writing in The Sacramento Bee, Sophia Bollag wrtes that Melissa Michelson, a political science professor at Menlo College maintains: \u201cI think we all anticipate that he plans to run for president,\u201d Michelson said. \u201cHe\u2019s got that whole second term as governor to build up those credentials, and it\u2019s going to be those things that are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/gavin-newsom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/gavin-newsom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/gavin-newsom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gavin-newsom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gavin-newsom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=481"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/gavin-newsom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":484,"href":"http:\/\/gavin-newsom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481\/revisions\/484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gavin-newsom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gavin-newsom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gavin-newsom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}