Should you sign the recall petition?

About California:

• Expensive and unreliable electricity.

• Gas $1 higher than the national average.

• Destructive, deadly fires every year throughout the state.

• $11.1 billion of COVID relief lost to scammers.

• Highest state sales tax in the nation.

• Still a mess at the DMV. • 47% of all Americans sleeping on the streets are in California.

• Shoplifting is decriminalized.

• Same with smash-andgrab thefts from your car.

• $459 to register a 1997 Dodge Ram 2500.

• The state’s pension system is technically bankrupt.

• $13,500 a year in property taxes for a modest house.

• California’s students rank 28th in reading, 34th in math. • Botched vaccination plans. • Closing churches but not pot shops.

• Unaffordable housing. • 3,000,000 Californians addicted to drugs.

• Companies and businesses (and jobs) leaving the state.

• 9% unemployment, worst except Nevada.

• Low wages. ( We all know why.)

• Catch and release arrests. • California requires licenses for 198 different occupations.

• Exorbitant insurance rates. • So on and etc. You get the idea ... California is a mess.

If nothing more, signing the recall petition tells Governor Gavin Newsom we are unhappy with how California is ruled by him and the oligarchy of politicians in Sacramento. Signing the recall petition puts a scare in them all. That alone is a good enough reason to sign.

— EJ Donmoyer, Paradise