The Real Story of the California Recall
21st September 2021
The real story is the slow—but gaining-in-speed—exodus from California to states with lower or no state taxes. This mass exit likely reduced the number of people who might have voted to oust Newsom. Then there’s the rising cost of just about everything, including gasoline. At nearly $6 a gallon at some stations in the San Francisco Bay Area and in Los Angeles, California has the highest average price for gas in the nation.
There are also other forces at work.