Right-wing militia members helped fuel the ouster of a Republican Shasta County supervisor they said was bowing to Sacramento.
Ryan Brasher heard the whirring overhead during his morning swim Tuesday at the local YMCA in Redding and knew something unusual was happening. When he looked up, he spotted the airplane pulling a banner through the sky, reminding Shasta County voters it was Recall Day.
“It’s not some fly-by-night operation,” Leonard Moty, the subject of the recall, said Thursday during a phone interview with the Bay Area News Group. With the votes still being counted, results as of Friday showed the recall succeeding with roughly 56% of the vote. First, there was anger over state pandemic mandates. Then more anger over Donald Trump losing the presidency, with many parroting unfounded allegations that it was stolen from him. Pile on anger over liberal darling Gov. Gavin Newsom beating his recall attempt, and inject some tantalizing conspiracy theories about vaccines, the virus and Moty being a shill for Newsom.
Members of the State of Jefferson movement also backed Moty’s ouster. The separatist group calls for northern, conservative counties to break away from deep blue California to form a new state. It has been promoted by Rep. Doug LaMalfa, the Republican congressman representing Shasta County, who has conducted virtual meetings with a State of Jefferson flag behind him.
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