(redid that bc LAT had updated the story with Newsom development on top of an older one about the extortion racket, and it wasn't coming up on the archive link)

Also, lord knows Newsom is an oily opportunist, but it's good when he does the right thing; we should take from this a lesson that it's worth pressuring him, not that we should like him

ETA, I actually called Newsom to thank him (bringing the ratio to about 2 : 1500 of calls to thank versus calls to yell at)