SB 51: the California politics thread

in OR not CA but yeah, me too. family in Humboldt.

and Long Beach... stepson & his wife get tested every week

There goes one of the possible senate picks https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/06/us/politics/xavier-becerra-hhs-health-secretary.html

Still feel like me and many of my savvy progressive friends are like, "Please take our centrist city officials and appoint them to higher office!" ... C'mon Biden / Gavin -- Libby Schaaf really deserves to move up and out!

Oakland's City Attorney just won re-election -- she definitely deserves a job at the state level

Libby didn't get caught eating at French Laundry either !!!

It looks a lot like Garcetti is going to get transportation by being “not Rahm Emmanuel”

normal system

part of the reason Newsom was holding off on naming Harris's replacement for the Senate was his awareness that there was a chance of Becerra's HHS nomination, and that he'd potentially get a chance to balance these appointments

— Edward-Isaac Dovere (@IsaacDovere) December 6, 2020

if he appoints Padilla to the Senate then he will get to replace two state-wide offices. I don't know much about Padilla, I voted for him for Secretary of State but he hasn't been a real personality in California politics for the general public as far as I know.

Not sure who I hope he names to the Senate

https://www.politico.com/states/california/story/2020/12/06/california-exits-give-newsom-rare-chance-to-pick-3-high-profile-leaders-1342605

the fact that this is so rare is a measure of how little success california democrats have had nationally.

absolutely insane way of running a state btw.

what are you talking about, california democrats have had amazing success

and Newsom is running the state well and is trying to protect us as far as I can see

none of these articles about the Senate seat explain the process if a sitting Congressperson gets appointed Senator -- does the Governor then appoint their replacement? Is there a special election? ... Anyway, I actually agree with Willie Brown and think it should be between Barbara Lee, Maxine Waters, and Karen Bass ... guessing the latter two also represent districts where the Democrat would have to be like a convicted pedophile or sadistic sex criminal in order for a Republican to win.

what are you talking about, california democrats have had amazing success

― Dan S, Sunday, December 6, 2020 8:14 PM (nineteen minutes ago)

pretty sure caek means in terms of becoming President or Vice-President or holding major cabinet posts ... California Republicans historically have done so, but Democrats, not really (at least as far back as when the Democrats were to the "left" of Republicans before they swapped)

in terns of becoming "president or vice president or holding major cabinet posts"

it's Christmas so I'm really inclined to fantasize

yes, that's what i mean, xp

none of these articles about the Senate seat explain the process if a sitting Congressperson gets appointed Senator -- does the Governor then appoint their replacement? Is there a special election?

i don't have a link but i'm pretty sure that if a congressperson gets appointed senator (or otherwise quits their seat) then there is a special election (which is one of the many arguments why katie porter in orange county should not be given the senate, because they will lose her seat).

and Newsom is running the state well and is trying to protect us as far as I can see

― Dan S, Sunday, December 6, 2020 11:29 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

ok!

does anyone know how the covid exposure tracking app stuff works? specifically, do you need to be around someone who tests positive for a certain length of time? i'd hate to get a notification and feel morally obligated to quarantine (rather than just normal distancing) because i walked by someone on the street who tested positive.

ha I think my bff's daughter was actually a programmer on one of them (or something related to it) and it was kinda badly engineered/thought through? ... This was a few months ago though. Maybe it got improved.

Here's what I got from my coworker who is working on this:

"They use various parameters like RSSI, contact duration , TX Power level of the sender etc to compute this contact and then rate then compute score, Risk level, risk weight etc."

NEW FEC F1#CASEN
Alex Padilla for Senatehttps://t.co/lOoaq5gJGd pic.twitter.com/QQwOeWgIPG

— CATargetBot (@CATargetBot) December 22, 2020

the first of many

Wow that was fast.

Vons firing unionized drivers, switching to Doordash “after the passage of Proposition 22, which gutted worker protections while making it easier for companies to shift financial burdens onto newly-designated independent contractors.”https://t.co/yyUYfZw9UY

— Kiera Feldman (@kierafeldman) January 4, 2021

good luck usa

I think this is good?

I agree that it is good, and a few of the public members are people I know and trust. Hopefully it can be built into something that has leverage.

Some restaurants in my area are switching back to direct delivery which I think is pretty cool.

CALIFORNIA. US Sen Dianne Feinstein (D) has filed FEC paperwork to seek reelection in 2024 to a six year term ... when she will be 91 years old. https://t.co/OQUWaDOCLB

— Politics1.com (@Politics1com) January 13, 2021

FFS

That’s so she can raise money legally. It doesn’t mean she’s running.

maybe instead of running again, Biden can make her an ambassador somewhere nice, like France.

or florida

I have a favor to ask. My Senator Feinstein thinks that Ted Cruz and Josh Hawley who spurred the insurrection should be allowed to remain in Congress. She doesn’t move on anything until she hears from 4000 voters. Call 202-224-3121 and demand their removal. Pls RT

— ChristineP (@ChristineParini) January 19, 2021

jfc what is newsom doing. he's going to get recalled at this rate.

BREAKING: California now has 942,588 backlogged unemployment claims — the sixth-highest total since the state started keeping track back in September. Just a reminder the state vowed to clear the backlog by Jan. 27 — which is now near-impossible. https://t.co/Y9vWj8rVr2

— Emily Hoeven💫 (@emily_hoeven) January 21, 2021

You could hire people to process unemployment claims and solve two problems at once.

You could hire people to process unemployment claims and solve two problems at once.

― Canon in Deez (silby), Thursday, January 21, 2021 11:23 PM (yesterday)

yes, this occurred to a lot of people back in April when they were literally calling 100 times a day to get through to anyone at the EDD. I guess it just didn't occur to the right people ...

it's the usual slow growth howard jarvis socal cranks leading the recall effort, but tbh i'd be inclined to sign up. wtg gavin!

https://i.imgur.com/E964OP9.png

congrats to california. no state delivered a smaller fraction of the vaccine doses they've been allocated. but tbf we're beating some but not all of the islands in the middle of the pacific ocean.

poor marshall islands

California needs to start getting its fucking act together. Newsom hasn't done a press conference all week. Now word is that we rank dead last in vaccine distribution.

My in-laws will be getting the first round of vaccinations on Monday.

London Breed is stated that all SF residents should be fully vaccinated by end of June.

*has

I still can't get over "London Breed", "Gavin Newsom" was unlikely enough

"London Breed is stated that all SF residents should be fully vaccinated by end of June."

I know LA county is a lot bigger, but their estimates are that even with their allotments doubling, it will take all of 2021 to vaccinate the county residents. Is Breed basing her goal on an anticipated surge of dosages? (I assume so, but without knowing what counties are basing their estimates on, statements like this are all kind of useless given how out of whack they are with each other)

Well, I'm watching the weekly UCSF Zoom town hall on where things stand from their perspective, and the sense there is definitely of a positive uptick on such fronts locally, including the amount of doses, but also the expansion of facilities. UCSF isn't the city or DPH, of course, but even so.

@akm: there are 3 mass vaccination sites that are ready to go and they are planning on increasing them given vaccine bandwidth.

of course the elephant in the room (tho maybe not? maybe they are working that piece out sooner rather than later) are the homeless residents of SF

DPH has definitely been thinking about that; I'd need to check on the details but IIRC this is probably part of their expansion of coverage via the clinics and other teams.

yeah, I don't hear Libby Schaaf making bold pronouncements and Oakland might have a higher % of homeless than SF

Breed also warned that we could run out of vaccine this week. Not sure if that is still the case since they re-approved the Moderna vaccine