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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...

California’s Public Health Doctors Are Violating Hippocratic Oath, ‘First, Do No Harm’

December 10, 2020 9:02 amDecember 10, 2020 9:36 am

In Gov. Gavin Newsom’s California business owners are fined and arrested for being open and doing business, while convicted criminals are let out of jails and prisons. Public health doctors, while not in a medical practice, must still adhere to...

Sen. Scott Wiener: Open Bay Area Safe Drug Use Sites, and High-Density Housing

December 9, 2020 3:35 pmDecember 10, 2020 5:57 pm

From the “you can’t make this stuff up” file, Sen. Scott Wiener (D-San Francisco) wants to allow San Francisco, Oakland and Los Angeles to open “safe-drug-use” sites – at a time when the entire state state is in lockdown –...

AB 69: States of Emergency

December 9, 2020 11:43 amDecember 10, 2020 8:47 am

On December 7, the first day of the California Legislature’s 2021-22 Session, Assembly Members Kevin Kiley and James Gallagher introduced Assembly Bill (AB) 69, which deals with states of emergency. AB 69 would amend Section 8629 of the Government Code,...

AB 25: Back to Borello Factors for Independent Contractors

December 9, 2020 4:40 amDecember 9, 2020 6:38 pm

On December 7, the first day of the California Legislature’s 2021-22 Session, Assemblyman Kevin Kiley introduced Assembly Bill 25, which would repeal AB 5/AB 2257 and codify the Borello case factors in California law for purposes of determining worker classifications...

Citizen Initiatives Transform Oxnard Politics

December 9, 2020 3:55 amDecember 8, 2020 9:49 pm

California’s ballot initiative process allows citizen activists to bypass politicians who are controlled by special interests. The ability for citizens today to connect and organize using online resources means it has never been easier for a determined group of individuals,...