“But Newsom may also have been desperate to stop a voter initiative being circulated by Reform California”
Bingo. The Rats have perfected using ballot initiatives to boost rat turnout. They know if this one gets on the 20 ballot it will hurt them. So if they can keep them from getting signatures by May it’s dead.
Well if that doesn’t work, the Secretary of State and Attorney General will conspire to invalidate valid signatures on the petition. If that doesn’t work then they’ll slap a misleading title and summary on it like they did with the vast tax repeal. But let us never forget that this entire debacle was foreseeable and my idiot fellow Californians voted for it. Libs love them some choo choos, they do.