The talked-about presidential contender is carving out an underutilized lane: climate crusader.
SACRAMENTO, California — Gov. Gavin Newsom is taking California’s climate story — with its big ambitions and political risks — on the road.
He’s used to the criticism. A key part of his strategy has been to ascribe high gas prices and utility bills to corporate greed and gouging while beating back proposals that he believes go too far like Proposition 30, which would have raised taxes on the rich in 2022 to funnel money to electric vehicles.
Juan Rodriguez, a partner at California political consulting firm Bearstar Strategies who worked on Newsom’s election campaigns, compared his wildfire response to the way former President Barack Obama reacted to the Sandy Hook Elementary shooting in 2012. “Big Oil has played us for fools for decades and decades, buying off politicians of all political stripes, lying to you, delaying science,” he reiterated at a March rally in Los Angeles to support the setback law, alongside Jane Fonda and former Republican California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger., 59 percent of likely voters said the state’s stricter environmental laws are worth the cost — up from 46 percent a decade ago.
The petroleum group got involved in Newsom’s cross-country spat with Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis in 2022, when the organizationin the state calling attention to California energy costs that included the message, “California can’t afford Gavin Newsom’s ambition. Can Florida?”last year. Electricity rates have gone up as much as 127 percent over the last 10 years . Natural gas prices are volatile.
“This will all either cement his place in history or diminish his place in history,” said Jamie Court, director of Consumer Watchdog, an organization that has pressed Newsom since he took office in 2019 to go for the industry’s throat.
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