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Congress: Don’t Allow Julie Su to Fail Upward

April 18, 2023 3:25 pmApril 18, 2023 3:31 pm

This Thursday, Congress will hold a hearing for President Biden’s nominee for U.S. Secretary of Labor, Julie Su. This controversial candidate has Washington in an uproar as her record serving as the top labor official in California was concerning, at...

Gaslighting the Public on Recidivism

April 17, 2023 3:33 pmApril 18, 2023 3:56 pm

A story posted in the online edition of the Sacramento Bee reports that after California’s 2016 adoption of Proposition 57, “The Public Safety and Rehabilitation Act,” recidivism went down according to a report from state’s Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation...

Assemblyman Isaac Bryan’s Assault on Working Families

April 17, 2023 2:17 pmApril 17, 2023 2:34 pm

It isn’t hard to figure out who controls everything Assemblyman Isaac Bryan does in the California State Legislature. In the November 2022 election, every single one of the first 29 of his biggest donors were unions, almost all of them...

Julie Su Stoppers Turn Up the Pressure

April 13, 2023 6:17 amApril 13, 2023 11:44 am

The effort to make sure Julie Su does not become President Biden’s newest cabinet member is ramping up, with at least two opposition groups launching advertising campaigns this week. Su, the former chief of California’s Labor and Workforce Development Agency...

Recall Effort Against LA City Councilman Kevin De Leon Fails

April 5, 2023 2:21 amApril 5, 2023 2:22 am

The recall effort against Los Angeles City Councilman Kevin de Leon ended this week as the petition to put the question of recalling the Councilman in his district came up around 10,000 signatures short of the roughly 21,000 needed. In...

US Senator Bill Cassidy Lambasts Julie Su Labor Nomination

March 27, 2023 6:00 pmMarch 27, 2023 6:01 pm

Louisiana Republican Sen. Bill Cassidy took to the U.S. Senate floor Monday evening to lambast President Biden’s Labor Department Secretary nomination of Julie Su, erstwhile chief of California’s preternaturally awful Employment Development Department. “We should ask questions about how Ms....

Students Trapped in California’s Failing Public Schools Deserve a Way Out

March 20, 2023 8:41 amMarch 21, 2023 9:18 am

During the pandemic, funding for California’s K-12 schools and community colleges spiked from $79.3 billion in 2019-20 to $110.4 billion in 2021-22 — a 39% increase. Also during the pandemic, California public school enrollment dropped by more than a quarter of a...