{"id":199751,"date":"2026-03-06T10:45:28","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T18:45:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/?p=199751"},"modified":"2026-03-06T10:45:28","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T18:45:28","slug":"governor-senate-assembly-commit-to-protecting-elections-from-federal-overreach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/?p=199751","title":{"rendered":"Governor, Senate, Assembly Commit to Protecting Elections from Federal Overreach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sacramento, CA&#8230;Governor Gavin Newsom, Senate President pro Tempore Monique Lim\u00f3n, and Assembly Speaker Robert Rivas issued the following joint statement in response to continued threats by President Trump and his administration to interfere with elections in California:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Newsom25.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-187475\" src=\"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Newsom25.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Newsom25.jpg 400w, https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Newsom25-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Newsom25-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Newsom25-30x30.jpg 30w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cAs President Trump escalates his politically motivated assault on California\u2019s safe and secure elections, we will not stand by while he sows distrust and seeks to undermine the fundamental right to vote. Californians have defended this right since the founding of our great state in 1850 \u2014\u00a0and we will not let Donald Trump burn our Democracy down 175 years later. United across branches of government, we will work together to protect our free and fair elections this November.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sacramento, CA&#8230;Governor Gavin Newsom, Senate President pro Tempore Monique Lim\u00f3n, and Assembly Speaker Robert Rivas issued the following joint statement in response to continued threats by President Trump and his administration to interfere with elections in California: \u201cAs President Trump escalates his politically motivated assault on California\u2019s safe and secure elections, we will not stand [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":187475,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_cbd_carousel_blocks":"[]","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-199751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","last_archivepost"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Newsom25.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199751","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=199751"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199751\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":199752,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199751\/revisions\/199752"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/187475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=199751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=199751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=199751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}