Gavin Newsom, who will appear on a recall ballot during another hot and dry season and as California voters brace for electricity outages around the state. “It could be a major issue,” said Dave Gilliard, one of the Republican strategists leading the effort to recall Newsom. “People don’t like power shut-offs,” Zingale said. Electrical utilities turn off power circuits when weather forecasts predict that strong winds and dry conditions could pose an extreme fire threat. “They’re continuing to build upon everything that they did last year to continue that reduction effort” in public safety power shut-offs, Thomas Jacobs said.

Source: Los Angeles Times May 24, 2021 12:00 UTC