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Governor Newsom Announces Appointments 10.26.22 | California Governor
Jessica M. Pitt, 58, of Berkeley, has been appointed Assistant Deputy Secretary of Healthcare Workforce on the California Labor and Workforce Growth Company. Pitt has been Government Director of HealthPATH at Alameda Well being System since 2015. She was Regional Workforce Director at Design It-Construct It-Ship-It from 2013 to 2015. Pitt was an Initiative Officer for the Bay Space Workforce Funders Collaborative on the San Francisco Basis from 2006 to 2013. She is a member of the Homebridge Board of Administrators. Pitt earned a Physician of Philosophy diploma in Metropolis and Regional Planning from Cornell College. This place doesn’t require Senate affirmation and the compensation is $159,168. Pitt is a Democrat.
Carole Vigne, 43, of San Francisco, has been appointed Chief Counsel on the Division of Labor Requirements Enforcement within the California Division of Industrial Relations. Vigne has been Common Counsel and Deputy Director on the California Employment Growth Division since 2020. Vigne held a number of positions at Authorized Assist at Work from 2014 to 2020, together with Program Director of the Wage Safety Program, Senior Workers Lawyer and Workers Lawyer. She was an Affiliate at Rukin, Hyland, Doria & Tindall LLP from 2009 to 2011. Vigne was a Skadden Fellow at Authorized Assist at Work from 2007 to 2009. She is a member of the Mujeres Unidas y Activas Board of Administrators. She earned a Juris Physician diploma from the College of California, Berkeley Faculty of Regulation. This place doesn’t require Senate affirmation and the compensation is $184,332. Vigne is registered with out get together desire.
Ralph Montano, 55, of Sacramento, has been appointed Assistant Director of Exterior Affairs on the California Division of State Hospitals, the place he has been an Info Officer III since 2021 and was Info Officer II from 2013 to 2020. Montano held a number of positions on the Division of Public Well being between 2008 and 2021, together with Info Officer II and Info Officer I. He was a Neighborhood Useful resource Coordinator for the Metropolis of Sacramento from 2007 to 2008. Montano was a Reporter for the Sacramento Bee from 1999 to 2007 and a Reporter for the San Bernardino Solar from 1995 to 1999. Montano was a Reporter for the Inland Valley Every day Bulletin from 1992 to 1995 and for the Sherman Democrat from 1990 to 1992. Montano is a member of the Woman Scouts Troop 569, Sacramento Buddhist Church. This place doesn’t require Senate affirmation and the compensation is $118,056. Montano is a Democrat.
Katherine Warburton, 49, of Napa, has been appointed Statewide Medical Director on the California Division of State Hospitals, the place she has served as Deputy Director of Medical Operations since 2011. Warburton was Senior Psychiatrist Supervisor of Hospital Oversight and Monitoring on the California Division of Psychological Well being from 2010 to 2011. She held a number of roles on the California Division of Psychological Well being, Napa State Hospital between 2006 and 2009, together with Chief of Forensic Psychiatry and Workers Psychiatrist. Warburton earned a Physician of Osteopathic Drugs diploma from the Arizona School of Osteopathic Drugs. She is a member of the U.S. Division of Well being and Human Providers’ Interdepartmental Severe Psychological Sickness Coordinating Committee and the NRI Analysis Institute Board of Administrators. She is a Western Cupboard Member of the Nationwide Affiliation of State Psychological Well being Program Administrators’ Medical Administrators Council. This place doesn’t require Senate affirmation and the compensation is $389,292. Warburton is registered with out get together desire.
Malayna B. Babb, 48, of Sacramento, has been appointed Labor Relations Officer on the California Division of Human Sources. Babb has been Labor Relations Supervisor II on the California Division of Human Sources since 2013. She was a Labor Relations Supervisor I on the Division of Developmental Providers from 2010 to 2013. Babb served in a number of positions on the California Division of Corrections and Rehabilitation from 2005 to 2010, together with Labor Relations Supervisor I and Labor Relations Specialist. This place doesn’t require Senate affirmation and the compensation is $129,156. Babb is registered with out get together desire.
Peter Frangel, 37, of Lincoln, has been appointed Government Advisor within the Strategic Initiatives Workplace on the California Division of Rehabilitation. Frangel has been Workers Providers Supervisor I on the Division of Rehabilitation since 2019 and has served in a number of positions there since 2014, together with as Innovation Challenge Specialist and Affiliate Governmental Program Analyst. Frangel was a Scholar Engineering Assistant on the Division of Common Providers from 2011 to 2014. He was a Senior Marketing consultant and Knowledge Specialist at Hromiko & Associates LLC. from 2007 to 2011. Frangel was a Full-Time Missionary for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints from 2004 to 2006. This place doesn’t require Senate affirmation and the compensation is $109,812. Frangel is a Republican.
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Caitlyn Jenner says she'd 'destroy' Kamala Harris in hypothetical race to be CA gov
SAN FRANCISCO – Caitlyn Jenner, the gold-medal Olympian-turned reality TV personality, is considering another run for Governor of California. This time, she says, if she were to go up against Vice President Kamala Harris, she would “destroy her.”
Jenner, who publicly came out as transgender nearly 10 years ago, made a foray into politics when she ran as a Republican during the recall election that attempted to unseat Gov. Gavin Newsom in 2021. Jenner only received one percent of the vote and was not considered a serious candidate.
Jenner posted this week on social media that she’s having conversations with “many people” and hopes to have an announcement soon about whether she will run.
Caitlyn Jenner speaks at the 4th annual Womens March LA: Women Rising at Pershing Square on January 18, 2020 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Chelsea Guglielmino/Getty Images)
She has also posted in Trumpian-style all caps: “MAKE CA GREAT AGAIN!”
As for VP Harris, she has not indicated any future plans for when she leaves office. However, a recent poll suggests Harris would have a sizable advantage should she decide to run in 2026. At that point, Newsom cannot run again because of term limits.
If Jenner decides to run and wins, it would mark the nation and state’s first transgender governor.
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Northern California 6-year-old, parents hailed as heroes for saving woman who crashed into canal
LIVE OAK — A six-year-old and her parents are being called heroes by a Northern California community for jumping into a canal to save a 75-year-old woman who drove off the road.
It happened on Larkin Road near Paseo Avenue in the Sutter County community of Live Oak on Monday.
“I just about lost her, but I didn’t,” said Terry Carpenter, husband of the woman who was rescued. “We got more chances.”
Terry said his wife of 33 years, Robin Carpenter, is the love of his life and soulmate. He is grateful he has been granted more time to spend with her after she survived her car crashing off a two-lane road and overturning into a canal.
“She’s doing really well,” Terry said. “No broken bones, praise the Lord.”
It is what some call a miracle that could have had a much different outcome without a family of good Samaritans.
“Her lips were purple,” said Ashley Martin, who helped rescue the woman. “There wasn’t a breath at all. I was scared.”
Martin and her husband, Cyle Johnson, are being hailed heroes by the Live Oak community for jumping into the canal, cutting Robin out of her seat belt and pulling her head above water until first responders arrived.
“She was literally submerged underwater,” Martin said. “She had a back brace on. Apparently, she just had back surgery. So, I grabbed her brace from down below and I flipped her upward just in a quick motion to get her out of that water.”
The couple said the real hero was their six-year-old daughter, Cayleigh Johnson.
“It was scary,” Cayleigh said. “So the car was going like this, and it just went boom, right into the ditch.”
Cayleigh was playing outside and screamed for her parents who were inside the house near the canal.
I spoke with Robin from her hospital bed over the phone who told us she is in a lot of pain but grateful.
“The thing I can remember is I started falling asleep and then I was going over the bump and I went into the ditch and that’s all I remember,” Robin said.
It was a split-second decision for a family who firefighters said helped save a stranger’s life.
“It’s pretty unique that someone would jump in and help somebody that they don’t even know,” said Battalion Chief for Sutter County Fire Richard Epperson.
Robin is hopeful that she will be released from the hospital on Wednesday in time to be home for Thanksgiving.
“She gets Thanksgiving and Christmas now with her family and grandkids,” Martin said.
Terry and Robin are looking forward to eventually meeting the family who helped save Robin’s life. The family expressed the same feelings about meeting the woman they helped when she is out of the hospital.
“I can’t wait for my baby to get home,” Terry said.
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California may exclude Tesla from EV rebate program
California Gov. Gavin Newsom may exclude Tesla and other automakers from an electric vehicle (EV) rebate program if the incoming Trump administration scraps a federal tax credit for electric car purchases.
Newsom proposed creating a new version of the state’s Clean Vehicle Rebate Program, which was phased out in 2023 after funding more than 594,000 vehicles and saving more than 456 million gallons of fuel, the governor’s office said in a news release on Monday.
“Consumers continue to prove the skeptics wrong – zero-emission vehicles are here to stay,” Newsom said in a statement. “We’re not turning back on a clean transportation future – we’re going to make it more affordable for people to drive vehicles that don’t pollute.”
The proposed rebates would be funded with money from the state’s Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund, which is funded by polluters under the state’s cap-and-trade program, the governor’s office said. Officials did not say how much the program would cost or save consumers.
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They would also include changes to promote innovation and competition in the zero-emission vehicles market – changes that could prevent automakers like Tesla from qualifying for the rebates.
Tesla CEO Elon Musk, who relocated Tesla’s corporate headquarters from California to Texas in 2021, responded to the possibility of having Tesla EVs left out of the program.
“Even though Tesla is the only company who manufactures their EVs in California! This is insane,” Musk wrote on X, which he also owns.
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Those buying or leasing Tesla vehicles accounted for about 42% of the state’s rebates, The Associated Press reported, citing data from the California Air Resources Board.
Newsom’s office told Fox Business Digital that the proposal is intended to foster market competition, and any potential market cap is subject to negotiation with the state Legislature.
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“Under a potential market cap, and depending on what the cap is, there’s a possibility that Tesla and other automakers could be excluded,” the governor’s office said. “But that’s again subject to negotiations with the legislature.”
Newsom’s office noted that such market caps have been part of rebate programs since George W. Bush’s administration in 2005.
Federal tax credits for EVs are currently worth up to $7,500 for new zero-emission vehicles. President-elect Trump has previously vowed to end the credit.
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California has surpassed 2 million zero-emission vehicles sold, according to the governor’s office. The state, however, could face a $2 billion budget deficit next year, Reuters reported, citing a non-partisan legislative estimate released last week.
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