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Today the Assembly was supposed to vote on a fake school reopening bill, which would do little to get most kids back in the classroom. I was going to offer an amendment to make it real: 5-day per week in-person instruction available within two weeks for all California students in all grades. But the Legislature […]

Gavin Newsom is about to close the loop on one of the most corrupt episodes in California history. It started with the 2020 election. Secretary of State Alex Padilla signed a $35 million no-bid contract for “voter education” ads promoting mail-in voting. He gave the “emergency” contract to SKD Knickerbocker, a partisan PR firm that

The latest signature count is 1,689,000, and “alarmed party leaders” are panicking, making “all hands on deck” calls to try to head off this extraordinary citizens’ movement. Their arguments combine a disdain for both logic and democracy. If I were still teaching high school debate, I might use them as a lesson plan on the

Today, I called for a formal investigation into Gavin Newsom’s use of “emergency powers” to award massive no-bid contracts to his top campaign donors. You can read my full release here. This follows a Capital Public Radio report finding “an overlap of at least a half-dozen companies that made substantial contributions to Newsom and received

Joint Legislative Audit Committee Hearing. February 26, 2020 “I’d like to give folks a chance to vote” Back to Table of Contents

Newsom CNN Interview. April 1, 2020 “What are you waiting for?” Chapter 12 > Back to Table of Contents