I’ve never been prouder of my home state of California than this week. Despite Governor Gavin Newsom having spent $3.1 million dollars on his anti-recall campaign, less than 50 people withdrew their names from the Recall Newsom petition. California Secretary of State Shirley Weber issued a press release Wednesday reporting that “a total of 43 signatures have been withdrawn from petitions to recall Governor Gavin Newsom,” she stated. “And the remaining 1,719,900 verified signatures still meet the threshold to initiate a recall election.” This comes after the nearly two million recall signatures were reached by the April deadline earlier this year, which thereafter, “in accordance with California election law, voters were given a 30-day period from April 26 to June 8th to request county officials remove their signatures from recall petitions.” Now that Californians have been given a fair chance to change their mind, the state will enter the next phase of the recall election. The Department of Finance will estimate costs of the recall election after which they will be submitted to the governor, secretary of state, and other officials by August 5. Once they have had 30 days to review and comment, the secretary of state will certify the signatures. Thankfully for freedom-loving Californians, Newsom’s massive advertising campaign desperately failed to convince them that he deserved to continue serving as governor. His anti-recall efforts were partially funded by California’s largest state worker union, SEIU Local 1000, which donated a total of $1,000,000, according to Omaha World-Herald. His other top donors, who gave at least $100,000 each, include the California Democrat Party, Fiji Water owners, and a tech executive, the San Francisco Chronicle reported. The remainder of the money came from more than 100,000 individual donors who gave an average of $32 each. “Democrats are energized to defeat the partisan Republican power grab, and it shows in these numbers,” a spokesperson for Newsom said in an April email. “Stop the Republican Recall [the governor’s campaign] has averaged 5,388 online donations per day from Californians.” If you average that out to money spent versus how many people rescinded their names, it comes out to about $72,093 spent per person. Clearly, no amount of money could stop the impending recall. Finally, the strongly disliked governor will face consequences for imposing tyrannical mandates and taking advantage of the public’s compliance.