Former Chairman of the California Republican Party Tom Del Beccaro blasted Gov. Gavin Newson’s four-stage reopening plan on Wednesday calling it unrealistic.
Del Beccaro told Fox & Friends First the plan, which was announced on Tuesday, suggests California will reopen in months, not weeks.
“California is a big place and treating northern California or the eastern counties the same as L.A. makes no sense,” Del Beccaro said Wednesday. “There’s a lot of rumblings, a lot of lawsuits, a lot of counties that are fighting back.”
He said he had a “dirty little secret” and then announced, “District attorneys and certain sheriffs aren’t enforcing Gavin Newsom’s rules, so I think things are going to unravel for him.”
He said the governor should expect push back on his prolonged shutdown from certain industries and businesses. Rallies to reopen already have started in parts of the state.
“Where do restaurants fall in this plan? It’s not clear and there’s already an estimate that 30 percent to 40 percent of restaurants in California will never reopen," he said. “I think he’s going to get push back and also what you find, is here and there, and I talked to people today throughout the state, there are non-essential businesses already doing that kind of work, opening up and doing things.”
Officials from six rural Northern California counties, Sutter, Yuba, Butte, Colusa, Tehama and Glenn, wrote to Newsom this week asking to implement "a careful and phased reopening of our local economies."
Del Beccaro said those counties “have almost no cases whatsoever.”
“Of course they’re very sparsely populated, unlike Los Angeles, so those six counties make a great case for saying treat us different than Los Angeles,” he said.
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