This is about authoritarian tendencies. This is about command and control. This is about power. This is about ego. This is a consistent pattern. - Gavin Newsom

Look, I'm a progressive, but more is not better. Better is better. We need to hold ourselves to higher level of accountability and reforming the Old Mental Health Services act, which is a point of pride in California, but no longer is relevant to the world we're living in.

It is called a genocide. That's what it was... No other way to describe it and that's the way it needs to be described in the history books. And so I'm here to say the following: I'm sorry on behalf of the state of California... It's humbling for me, having believed I was educated, to have been so ignorant of our past, to have been so unaware of how ashamed I should be, as a Californian, 5th generation... I'm sorry that we've had generations of your kids and grandkids, your ancestors, that have had to suffer through indignities, lack of capacity, empathy and understanding...

I don't know one state, if DeSantis stuck it out that he can win, not one.