With state workers returning to offices four days a week this summer, more commuters can be expected on Sacramento-area highways during the week. Public employees who are being told to work in person want drivers sitting in that gridlock to blame one person: Gov. Gavin Newsom.
“Think traffic is bad now? Wait until July 1st,” reads a proposed billboard , showing Newsom smiling with a group of people, that an organizer said will be put up in the next six weeks to protest the governor’s unpopular return-to-office order .
In less than a week, an online campaign to erect a 14-by-48-foot protest of the governor’s telework policy raised over $15,000. Emily, a state worker who organized the grassroots fundraising effort, was “pleasantly shocked” that so many of her colleagues responded so enthusiastically. Donations ranged from $5 to $500…