Gavin Newsom: We must grudgingly admit he did something that worked.

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Hello, hello! You’re reading the Surge, Slate’s weekly ranking of the most relevant figures in American politics. Before we get into things, though, we’d like to second the Food and Drug Administration’s advice about not eating the radioactive shrimp that was recalled from Walmart stores this week . It would simply be a bad idea, we believe, to “snarf down” one of the little guys from a bag that may have been contaminated with the cesium-137 isotope in an Indonesian shipping container. No, not even one little nibble, as much as you might really want to find out what isotope shrimp tastes like! What if it tastes really good and you just want more