RECALL ELECTION
Why the Recall Matters to Firefighters’ Jobs and Future
As your state union, CPF has a sworn mission to work to protect your wages, health and safety, retirement security and proper resources — the core issues affecting your life and livelihood.
Your job, career and future depends on who is running things in Sacramento. That is why the elections matters. And that is why CPF recommends No on recalling Gov. Gavin Newsom.
On the core issues affecting our job, health, safety and retirement security, it is not even a close question. In word and deed, Gavin Newsom has stood up for firefighters.
Since his election, Governor Newsom has signed historic, consequential legislation sponsored by CPF that will benefit every professional firefighter.
Gov. Newsom tackled the catastrophic wildfire threat from Day One: billions for wildfire response and prevention, including more boots on the ground;
Gov. Newsom delivered the strongest post-traumatic stress protections in the nation, signing PTSI presumption and peer support confidentiality into law;
Gov. Newsom stopped the scheme to privatize 9-1-1 dispatch, dealing a blow to efforts to privatize EMS and fire protection;
Governor Newsom signed community paramedicine legislation that will reduce “wall time” and improve patient outcomes;
Gov. Newsom stepped in to prevent future schemes to steal firefighter retirement, such as the dangerous takeover of Placentia’s fire protection.
It is firefighter issues like these that drives CPF’s endorsements: Not party, not personality, but protecting your interests. By any measure Gov. Newsom stands by us, and that’s why we stand with him.
CPF Recommends NO on the Recall
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The OTHER possibilities
The last time California recalled a pro-firefighter governor, the celebrity replacement pulverized workers’ comp and tried to “terminate” firefighter pensions (including those for widows and orphans). And they called him a “moderate”!
Before you vote, consider the alternatives.
John Cox
Firefighter pay is “excessive”
Cox has chased elected office across multiple states, and landed with a thud in the 2018 governor’s race.
Thinks firefighters salaries “border on excessive”
Opposes full pension security, believing that secure firefighter pensions are “unsustainable”.
Vocal backer of Prop. 32 which would have muzzled labor’s strong united public voice.
Kevin Faulconer
Proven pension killer
The former mayor of San Diego, Faulconer’s hostility to retirement security for public workers is a matter of public record.
Co-author and active advocate for Prop. B, which ended secure pensions, including death and disability, for everyone but police in San Diego.
Broke promise to restore death benefit for families of fallen firefighters in San Diego;
Proposed significant service reductions for fire and law enforcement in revised 2020 city budget.
Larry Elder
Privatize almost everything
A political radio shock-jock, Elder’s libertarian politics are staunchly anti-public servant and pro-employer.
Privatize “everything in the Yellow Pages that (LA) city workers are doing.” (which would include EMS, paramedic services).
Proposed privatizing essential service — air traffic controllers — through a “non-profit foundation.”
Wants to privatize Social Security — the largest pension system in the known world.
Kevin Kiley
Doctor No
As an Assemblymember, Kevin Kiley has voted against firefighter health, safety and retirement security at nearly every opportunity.
Opposed post-traumatic stress protections, including presumption and peer support;
Refused to support workers’ comp for CA firefighters injured responding to Route 91 mass shooting;
Voted to allow full privatization of 9-1-1 dispatch service, endorsing corporate control over accountability;
Voted to let local governments exclude firefighters from CalPERS and pension protection.
Caitlyn Jenner
Governor Kardashian?
A reality TV celebrity looking to brighten a fading star.
No record or serious positions on firefighter/wildfire issues
Policy prescriptions that look “like a 4th Grade one-page term paper” (Sac Bee )
Low-polling candidate looking for attention after cancellation of TV show.
CPF is not in the business of telling you how to vote. We are here to show you how that choice could affect you and your career. Your future is too important to take a flyer on candidates that stand against your basic protections.
CPF Recommends NO on the Recall
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