CA business owner slams Dems for ‘fishy’ decision to move up Newsom recall vote

Andrew Gruel, chef and owner of the seafood restaurant Slapfish in Southern California, slammed state lawmakers for passing a bill aimed at moving up Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom’s recall date, arguing that “‘things are a little fishy.”

“The optics alone are dirty,” he told “Fox & Friends” on Thursday, adding that when he first heard the news, he thought he thought it was satire.

“Even trying to put the kind of partisan politics and speculation aside, I think anybody in their right mind who would see this would recognize, that whoa, whoa, whoa, something’s not right here if you’ve got pretty much absolute power and you’re using that in order to manipulate or relitigate the rules under which your own recall is being run,” Gruel told host Steve Doocy. 

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