Jim DeBoo – California Globe

‘Let’s Make a Deal:’ Newsom Admin. Inks Backroom Deal With Kaiser for Statewide Medi-Cal Health

February 5, 2022 10:01 amFebruary 7, 2022 12:00 pm

Only days after California’s proposed Single Payer state-controlled health care bill failed to even get to a vote on the Assembly floor last week, a medical industry news website announced “California inks sweetheart deal with Kaiser Permanente, jeopardizing Medicaid reforms.”...

New Federal Lawsuit Accuses Gov. Newsom of ‘Gross Abuse of Power’ and Violation of Due Process Clause

December 21, 2020 1:36 pmDecember 21, 2020 2:25 pm

“It is time — past time — to make plain that, while the pandemic poses many grave challenges, there is no world in which the Constitution tolerates color-coded executive edicts that reopen liquor stores and bike shops but shutter churches,...

Gov. Newsom’s Hollywood Lockdown Exemptions Facilitated by Lobbyist Pals

December 13, 2020 10:50 amJanuary 13, 2021 10:42 am

If industries can buy themselves an exemption from Gov. Gavin Newsom’s COVID-19 lockdown restrictions, then there is no real deadly pandemic. If the coronavirus was really as deadly as the Spanish Flu, no one would be lobbying the governor for...

Reputation Repair: Gov. Gavin Newsom Hiring Lobbyist As Chief of Staff

December 10, 2020 3:31 pmDecember 12, 2020 8:23 am

California is a bit of a mess. The COVID virus has been weaponized by Gov. Gavin Newsom, and he now faces a devastated economy, record bankruptcies and permanent business closures, a distrustful public, and millions of angry parents whose children...

Newsom’s Chief of Staff Ann O’ Leary To Leave Post Later This Month

December 10, 2020 3:20 pmDecember 10, 2020 3:23 pm

Earlier this week, Governor Gavin Newsom’s Chief of Staff, Ann O’Leary, announced that she is to leave her position sometime in the coming weeks to take a job in the presumptive Biden Administration. O’ Leary, a long-time Washington and California...