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The 2024 California U.S. Senate Race: Where It Currently Stands

May 12, 2023 6:05 amMay 12, 2023 6:06 am

Since the last report by the Globe in April, the 2024 race for U.S. Senate for Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s seat has continued to evolve, with more candidates looking for a possible run, others confirming they’re out, and some making plays to...

Julie Su Ordered Staff to Obstruct Immigration Agents

May 10, 2023 7:13 pmMay 10, 2023 9:18 pm

When she was California’s Labor Commissioner, Julie Su directed department staff to not cooperate with federal immigration agents if they appeared at any commission office looking for illegal aliens. Su’s 2017 memo also strongly implies that Commission employees should actively...

Matt Gunderson Announces Congressional Challenge Against Rep. Mike Levin

May 9, 2023 5:07 pmMay 9, 2023 5:07 pm

Mission Viejo car dealership owner and former state Senate candidate Matt Gunderson announced on Tuesday that he would be entering the 49th Congressional District race against Congressman Mike Levin (D-CA), becoming the sole challenger so far against Levin. A graduate...

Is Julie Su’s ICE Agent Ban Coming Back to Haunt?

May 1, 2023 3:48 pmMay 1, 2023 3:49 pm

In 2017, then-California Labor Commissioner Julie Su issued an order barring agents of the federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) from entering Commission offices. Late last month, Su – President Biden’s nominee to be the next Secretary of Labor –...

Kiley Takes Fight Against Julie Su to House Floor

April 28, 2023 11:53 amApril 28, 2023 12:35 pm

Though the vote whether or not to confirm Julie Su as the next Secretary of Labor will happen in the Senate, a half-dozen Representatives took to the House floor this morning to urge their senatorial colleagues to vote against Su...

Congress is Fed up with the California EDD

April 26, 2023 6:21 pmApril 27, 2023 6:11 am

Congress is getting fed up with the California EDD, today sending a third request for information regarding its disastrous, fraud-riven pandemic response. In January, the House of Representatives Oversight and Accountability Committee asked EDD chief Nancy Farias to turn over...

Su Squeaks Past Committee on Party Line Vote

April 26, 2023 10:07 amApril 27, 2023 12:32 pm

The Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions committee Wednesday morning voted 11 to 10 to advance formed California labor chief Julie Su’s nomination to become the next federal Secretary of Labor. The vote – as expected – was a strictly...