This candidate is challenging Gavin Newsom in California — and he has Joe Rogan, Tucker Carlson’s support

Ballots for major elections in California have began making their approach to mailboxes forward of June 7, and Gov. Gavin Newsom’s competitors is gearing up after he dodged the recall effort final 12 months.

A number of candidates are working in opposition to the California governor, however many have their eyes on an unbiased homelessness coverage advocate.

Meet writer, environmentalist and former Democrat Michael Shellenberger.

To this point, his marketing campaign has raised near $700,000. (Newsom’s marketing campaign has raised $7.5 million.)

Operating as an unbiased, Shellenberger, 50, has discovered approval from Joe Rogan, Tucker Carlson and even The Wall Road Journal, he stated in an interview with a neighborhood San Diego information station.

Attracting the assist of Republicans, independents and Democrats alike, he claims he’s “the one candidate that may defeat Gavin Newsom in November.”

Shellenberger appeared on a latest episode of “Tucker Carlson Tonight” devoted to Newsom’s reelection marketing campaign, the place he claimed to reveal the governor’s “lies.”

“If you happen to take a look at (Gov. Gavin Newsom’s) Twitter feed, he’s totally obsessive about attacking different states,” stated Shellenberger.

He says that his mission is to maneuver away from the “culture wars” and, as an alternative, give attention to humanitarian disasters like rising homicides and homelessness.

His web site states that his answer for mass incarceration and mass crime is “extra police, extra probation, and extra psychiatry for addicts and the mentally ailing.”

Final 12 months, Shellenberger revealed a guide, “San Fransicko: Why Progressives Wreck Cities,” the place he takes a more in-depth take a look at the homelessness and drug disaster within the Bay Space, whereas inserting the blame for mishandling the cities on the progressive politicians in energy.

Crime and homelessness are two points key points for California voters who discovered Newsom’s efficiency insufficient, based on Cal Issues.

Though Shellenberger’s options appear straight to the purpose, they could have some holes, based on San Francisco Chronicle author Zachary Siegel, who argued that “stark inequality” has a lot to do with the homelessness disaster, one thing he claims the gubernatorial candidate fails to say.

A Californian minimal wage employee must work 112 hours per week to afford a two-bedroom condo that prices $6,766 per 30 days, Siegel wrote. As for dependancy and overdose deaths, forcing hundreds of individuals into establishments and jails could solely make the issue worse, based on a examine within the Worldwide Journal of Drug Coverage.

Shellenberger’s “pro-human” environmental agenda, in the meantime, focuses on protecting — and probably increasing — California’s nuclear power, in addition to tackling water storage and recycling.

Whether or not it’s French president Emmanuel Macron or Japan prime minister Fumio Kishida, “nationwide leaders around the globe are saying massive plans to return to nuclear power now that the price of pure fuel, coal, and petroleum are spiking, and weather-dependent renewables are failing to ship,” he wrote in a Substack put up from October 2021, making a case for the controversial power supply.

However an enormous concern that comes with this power supply is the nuclear waste, which is harmful for people and stays radioactive for hundreds of years. In reality, the nation continues to be coping with stockpiles from the Forties.

As for issues of schooling, Shellenberger’s dad and mom have been public faculty academics, which he says provides him an inside look into what the system might have — permitting dad and mom to decide on their faculty of alternative, reforming schooling to suit the twenty first century and rising math and studying proficiency.

“I’m not going to let the academics’ unions dictate how our colleges are run,” he provides.

This isn’t the primary time Shellenberger has gunned for the governor’s position — within the 2018 primaries, he acquired solely 0.5% of the vote as a Democrat throughout Newsom’s recall.

A complete of 26 governor candidates are on the June poll. Of these 26, two will transfer on to the final election in November. Brian Dahle is the largest identify endorsed by the Republican aspect.

“Proper now, we’re in what we referred to as the jungle major they usually’re referred to as that as a result of something can occur,” stated Mike Luery, a political analyst, on a neighborhood NBC information station.

“No matter social gathering. So you could possibly have theoretically two Democrats going through up in opposition to one another and even two Republicans,” he added.

Both approach, 42% of doubtless voters stated this 12 months’s midterm elections are extra vital than prior to now, particularly for Republicans, who’d somewhat elect somebody new to politics, based on a ballot by the Public Coverage Institute of California.

Operating as a average, solely on the standard of dwelling, is an experiment Shellenberger seems keen to guess on, however solely time will inform whether or not he can break the maintain progressives have over Sacramento.