In May, the state Employment Development Department warned that fraud was being detected in early covid-19 relief claims. Brown was a second-generation California governor, a candid, cantankerous, sometimes severe Jesuit who managed, through temperament, political acumen and longevity, to bridge or at least patch over the state’s growing urban-rural divide. “Right now, California public schools are still not open and private schools are,” he continued. He visits vaccination centers, schools poised to reopen, community clinics — and there is frequently a handful of “Recall Newsom” demonstrators at each stop. The white Chrysler Pacifica minivan with the “Recall Newsom” placard on the driver’s side door awaited the governor at a vaccination site in Ventura County earlier this month.

Source: Washington Post March 19, 2021 16:46 UTC