Fairfield, California – Michael Duncan is adjusting the screen on the front door as he recently paused to think about what he wanted to be the next governor of California.
Duncan certainly didn’t give this much. But when you master it, the answer is very simple: do the basics.
Fight crime. Repair the state’s pad roads. Solved the problem of perennial homelessness. And the governor can do better to prevent wildfires like Inferno, making a wide range of fragments of Southern California.
“I just rolled my eyes,” Duncan said, who worked about 120 miles from his Fairfield home to environmental analysts in Livermore, and he knew exactly where to turn around to avoid the worst potholes along the way. “Why does it take so long to do simple things?”
The answer is complicated, but it doesn’t necessarily raise a California voter who seems anxious, frustrated and overly annoyed, especially with the current state CEO.
More than six candidates are bidding successfully for Gavin Newsom. Some people have limited Democrats’ term limits in January 2027 and have been working on the job for more than a year. But, you don’t know, talk to all kinds of Californians – many of them don’t have the slightest clue of running.
In a conversation with nearly thirty voters last week, from the suburbs of the San Francisco Bay Area to Sacramento to the foothills of the Sierra Nevada, no few can name an announced candidate.
Zach House, 31, refers to Republican Chad Bianco, “That guy on the Riverside, sheriff.” Outside his door, an 8 x 12-foot American flag slammed loudly in the wind, passing through his Dixon neighborhood and along the streets called Songbird, Honeybee and Blossom. “Now, that’s the only person I know that interested me,” House said.
Brenda Turley volunteered outside the post office in Rosemont, meaning Antonio Villaraigosa. “Isn’t he the mayor of Los Angeles?” (He is.)
Granted, this was early in the governor’s game. And, events are not events – the hot apocalypse of Southern California, Hurricane Trump – are not quite comprehensive yet.
But if voters seem to be paying little attention to the game, most responded to Duncan’s call for a focus on fundamentals, expressing a strong desire that the next governor would invest in the job without seeing it as a placeholder or stepping stone or stepping stone for higher offices.
“I think [Newsom] “Spend more time to run for president of the next country,” Duncan, 37, said.
Michael Duncan wants California’s next governor to focus on the basics rather than running for president.
(Mark Z. Barabak / Los Angeles Times)
When Kamala Harris weighs a governor’s movement, this all-out is something she might want to consider—that she undoubtedly wants to solve if she does run it.
The former vice president now separates his time between an apartment in New York City and a Brentwood house, keeping it polarized with her polarization during the truncated White House campaign.
Retired state worker Turley said she would undoubtedly fall behind Harris if she ran. The Democrat in her 80s urged “Go.” “Why not? She has experience. Look at her political background. [California] Attorney General. She works in the Senate. ”
Peter Kay, 75, agreed. “She’s better qualified than anyone running for offices in the country,” said Kay, who lives in Susan. (The retired insurance underwriter just returned from a car wash and was throwing some water levels in his Black Tesla, saying it was the company’s CEO’s statement: “If he wasn’t Elon Musk, he would be in an institution, possibly sharing a wing with Trump.”)
Lori Smith, 66, summed up her conservative sentiment towards Harris, a dental hygienist at King River who responded to her name with a combination of wail and snort.
“Oh God! Oh my god!” Smith shouted, vowing to leave California if Harris is elected governor. “I will never see her being the president. We dodged a bullet there. I think she just had to live her own life in a small town somewhere and walk away.”
Of course, even if the sky is brilliant blue, there is no sparkling green, and that is certainly not everyone, thanks to the wet winter in northern California.
Some people have mastered overly strict environmental regulations. Others say more needs to be done to protect fish and wildlife. Some say more water is needed to go to farmers. Others say no, urban residents deserve a larger share.
Some complain that homeless people share public places. Amanda Castillo, who lives in the car, demands greater compassion and understanding.
The 26-year-old works full-time in the retail industry in Vacaville but still can’t afford her place, so she lay down with her boyfriend and his mother at the silver GMC Yukon, who are in a public library, accusing their electronic devices. “I think I’m lucky because if I don’t sleep in the car, I’ll either be on the street or in a cardboard box,” Castillo said.
President Trump hangs in every conversation, like the big fluffy clouds above, but not so charming.
As one would expect, most guerrillas differ in how California deals with the president and his beating RAM administration.
“Anyone who has a platform should speak up,” said Eunice Kim, 42, a Sacramento doctor and liberal. Eunice Kim, 42, said he stopped outside the library in El Dorado Hills, and her boys stopped outside the library at the former 5 and 8.
Tanya Pavlus, a 35-year-old stay-at-home mom, disagreed. Rancho Cordova Republicans voted for Trump and cited a bunch of diseases that plagued the state, including high air prices and huge cost of living. Anyone who serves as the governor of California can use all the advice [they] It can be obtained from the president,” Pavles said, “because the situation goes without saying. ”
But not everyone retreats to the expected corner.
Ray Charan, a 39-year-old Democrat who works for the country in the field of information technology, said Trump is the president, “So you have to make some professional arrangement. You may not agree with all policies and all policies, all headlines and personal things, but if you can somehow unite and work to improve the country, I’m going to go all out.”
Ray Charan said fellow Democrats need to find ways to work with President Trump.
(Mark Z. Barabak / Los Angeles Times)
Trump voter Sean Coley is the same.
“No fighting Trump. We’ve seen that already. “If you want federal funding, if you want to improve, you have to work with people on the different side of the table, especially when they’re as aggressive as Trump.”
“I’ll get the Venn Diagram. Find out what his purpose, your purpose.” “Find out what’s in the middle and work hard to solve.”
This pragmatism may not summon great political passions. But practicality seems to be something many Californians are looking for in the next governor.
