California Democrats shoot down GOP bid to end Gavin Newsom's COVID emergency powers

[SouthBayDem]

Source: Sacramento Bee

California lawmakers won’t end Gov. Gavin Newsom’s two-year-old COVID-19 state of emergency, despite the objections of Republicans who say it gives him too much power.

The Senate Governmental Organization Committee on Tuesday rejected a resolution by Sen. Melissa Melendez, R-Lake Elsinore, that would have terminated Newsom’s emergency declaration from March 2020.

Eight Democrats on the committee voted against the resolution while four Republicans voted for it. A number of senators abstained from the vote.

Melendez introduced the resolution in December 2020, but Senate President Pro Tem Toni Atkins didn’t grant it a hearing until Feb. 17. That was the same day Newsom introduced his latest COVID-19 response, which treats the virus as if it is here to stay in some form.

Read more: https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article259424559.html

[BigmanPigman]

1. Good, another wave is starting around the world

Ba2 is just getting started. We need to remain vigilant.

[NBachers]

2. One Republican in California is one too many.

[peppertree]

3. All the more so when their last name is Melendez

One of the things I always remember from my decade or so in Orange County, CA (in the southern, more right-wing half of the county), is the sheer hatred most Republicans had for anyone Hispanic - especially if they had an obviously Spanish last name.

With exceptions, most Republicans saw them as "a burden" and even "invaders" - except of course, when they needed help around the house, or with their senile parent, or to tend to their yards, or to save a bundle on home improvement...

[SouthBayDem]

5. Technically, Melendez's last name is due to marriage. nt

[LenaBaby61]

8. THIS 👆🏻👆🏻👆🏻

[Grokenstein]

4. "Too much power"

Because he's been abusing it, don't you know. /sarcasm

Every single thing the GQP does or says reinforces my belief that their only goal is to cause as many American deaths as they can.

[ZonkerHarris]

6. 9 people died of Covid in Ventura County yesterday. I still wear my mask everywhere but I'm seeing

fewer of them now.
Still many, but fewer.

[LenaBaby61]

9. THIS 👆🏻👆🏻👆🏻

[ananda]

7. Ermm... can you give someone too much power to save lives?

Geez