My opinion of Newsom as a native Californian for what it's worth

[Hekate]

21. What you said in your antepenultimate paragraph about a sitting duck is so, so true...

I think we can count on him and he is not easily intimidated. But I am in no hurry to "pick" a candidate now. For one thing, we don't need a sitting duck target for all of magaworld and the corporate media to attack. They will do that no matter who the candidate it. Let's keep our enemies in suspense for a while longer.

I live on the Central Coast, closer to LA than San Fran, so his purely local reputation and very early political career didn’t much come to my attention. However his decision to start marrying LGBTQ+ San Franciscans did because that made state and national news. By the time he ran for governor I was more than happy to vote for him. (And by the way I do not give a flying fig about his first wife. Everyone is entitled to one lousy first marriage)

I really love the way he is standing up to Trump

But choose a POTUS candidate now? We already have enough trouble at DU with a small group of people determined to knock off every Dem governor from the list of possibles.

I can wait.