12/18/2023 0 Comments Unherd venturesBut in an era of low cost social media, many African-Americans, Latinos and Asians, all of whom are surprisingly sympathetic to the recall, will see in Larry as someone closer to their experience. Newsom outspent the entire GOP effort by 200 to 1 in July. This poses a challenge for Newsom and other Republicans, but perhaps not an insurmountable one. He may be an inveterate capitalist, but there are few magnates in his corner. Elder ended up with a law degree from the University of Michigan and then launched his media career. His father, who he sees as a role model, grew up in the Jim Crow south, worked two jobs as a janitor and eventually opened a small coffee shop. In contrast, Larry‘s is very much a self-made story. “He came from their world, and that’s why they embraced him without hesitancy and over and above everybody else,” Brown told the Los Angeles Times. The hotel magnate Pritzker clan (whose family includes the current “progressive” Illinois governor), the Fishers (who founded the Gap clothing chain) and, of course, the oil heir Gettys who also financed his business ventures, all back him. As former assembly speaker and San Francisco mayor Willie Brown suggests, Newsom is the confection created by San Francisco’s ultra-rich. If there’s a candidate of “privilege” here, it’s Newsom. People, yes even here in Lotus Land, are not as universally stupid as the campaign consultants think. The irony is in the fact that Elder will be attacked as candidate of the rich and greedy in ads paid for by oligarchs who epitomise this very greed on a massive scale. Under the talk show host, they claim, abortion rights will be restricted and the state’s crusade against climate change and social justice will be hampered. Newsom, who I once described as Governor Preen, and his operatives in and out of the media, have already started attacking Elder. I thought Larry had it all - the nest egg, nice house, successful career. Elder is no one’s idea of a politician, and when he called me for advice at the start of his run, I was perplexed. The emergence of 69-year-old talk show host Larry Elder as the leading candidate to depose California’s Gavin Newsom is both odd and significant.
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