{"id":3429,"date":"2022-02-09T20:57:17","date_gmt":"2022-02-10T04:57:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/?p=3429"},"modified":"2022-02-19T21:05:33","modified_gmt":"2022-02-20T05:05:33","slug":"gop-lawmaker-dahle-launches-underdog-bid-against-newsom-in-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/2022\/02\/09\/gop-lawmaker-dahle-launches-underdog-bid-against-newsom-in-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"GOP lawmaker Dahle launches \u201cunderdog\u201d bid against Newsom in 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"<pre>[THE SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY SUN]<\/pre>\n<p>Saying it\u2019s time for a change, Republican state Sen. Brian Dahle announced his candidacy for California governor during a noontime rally on the Redding Civic Auditorium lawn.<\/p>\n<p>Dahle, a rural legislator from far Northern California, likened his challenge against Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom as David versus Goliath.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m a farmer from Bieber. You might say I\u2019m the underdog,\u201d Dahle told the crowd of several hundred people. \u201cWell, I\u2019ve been the underdog in every race I\u2019ve ever won.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Dahle railed against California\u2019s \u201cone-party rule\u201d where Democrats have controlled the Legislature for years and blamed current policies for driving people out of California.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe system we have today is a failure and it\u2019s running people out of the state. People are fleeing the corruption and dysfunction,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The state senator ticked off a list of problems that he says has left California broken.<\/p>\n<p>He said there\u2019s \u201can absolute homeless crisis in every city,\u201d from Yreka to San Diego.<\/p>\n<p>He said California\u2019s high cost of living puts a burden on working people, with rent prices among the highest in the country. He also cited the high cost of utility bills, gasoline and taxes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt all adds up to huge bills that give us the highest poverty rate in the nation,\u201d Dahle said.<br \/>\nDahle&#8217;s hope of financing a successful campaign is to have supporters sign up on his campaign site,\u00a0<a class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\" href=\"https:\/\/briandahle.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-t-l=\":b|e|inline click|${u}\">briandahle.com<\/a>, and donate $1 a day. Then he asks that donors have 10 of their friends donate $1 a day.<\/p>\n<p>Get the full story: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.redding.com\/story\/news\/politics\/elections\/2022\/02\/08\/california-governor-race-2022-republican-brian-dahle-democrat-gavin-newsom\/6703893001\/\">Read more and see Video report<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The state senator ticked off a list of problems that he says has left California broken.<\/p>\n<p>He said there&#8217;s &#8220;an absolute homeless crisis in every city,&#8221; from Yreka to San Diego.<\/p>\n<p>He said California&#8217;s high cost of living puts a burden on working people, with rent prices among the highest in the country. He also cited the high cost of utility bills, gasoline and taxes. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It all adds up to huge bills that give us the highest poverty rate in the nation,&#8221; Dahle said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3430,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/ScreenHunter-1610.jpg",859,542,false],"thumbnail":["http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/ScreenHunter-1610-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/ScreenHunter-1610-600x379.jpg",600,379,true],"medium_large":["http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/ScreenHunter-1610-768x485.jpg",640,404,true],"large":["http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/ScreenHunter-1610.jpg",640,404,false],"1536x1536":["http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/ScreenHunter-1610.jpg",859,542,false],"2048x2048":["http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/ScreenHunter-1610.jpg",859,542,false],"darknews-slider-full":["http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/ScreenHunter-1610.jpg",859,542,false],"darknews-featured":["http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/ScreenHunter-1610.jpg",859,542,false],"darknews-medium":["http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/ScreenHunter-1610-720x530.jpg",720,530,true],"darknews-medium-square":["http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/ScreenHunter-1610-350x350.jpg",350,350,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"News MoLo","author_link":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/author\/admin\/"},"category_info":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/News\/news\/\" rel=\"category tag\">News<\/a>","tag_info":"News","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3429"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3429"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3429\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3431,"href":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3429\/revisions\/3431"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}