SB 51: the California politics thread

they should just suck it up and pay the payroll taxes and workers comp insurance like normal employers ... also they are seriously responsible for making traffic suck in the Bay Area (idk about LA).

^^^

they have made driving in SF so much worse

it's like all roads and lanes on city streets are subdivided into "thru traffic" and "double parked uber/lyft drivers"

https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2019-09-03/hiltzik-uber-lyft-90-million-to-save-employment-costs

Uber says its goal is to place “drivers’ unique needs first and foremost, and provide leadership with a new model for workers.” Is this plausible?

Just consider that the top named officer of the campaign entity to which Uber and Lyft have given their $60 million in funding, Californians for Innovation and Opportunity, is Thomas W. Hiltachk. He’s the go-to lawyer for Republican and conservative initiative campaigns, including Proposition 32 of 2012, which was a thinly-disguised attack on unions and their members. Here’s a rule of thumb: If Hiltachk is on your team, you may not have workers’ best interests at heart.

it's like all roads and lanes on city streets are subdivided into "thru traffic" and "double parked uber/lyft drivers"

not only that, they've literally put *more* cars on the streets. Instead of yr usual drivers + taxi fleets, you have people bringing their cars in from out of town to make $$$

https://www.sfgate.com/business/article/Uber-Lyft-cars-have-heavy-impact-on-SF-streets-11214835.php

just take the fucking bus ya idjits

I have some mixed feelings about the Dynamex decision and it being applied super strictly, though the fact that these companies have managed to not run afoul of the EDD regulations about employee vs. contractor is ridiculous to me. Also, another ridiculous thing is the fact that these companies claim to be innovative but really, outside of the technology, their model feels very 19th Century to me -- this is off the cuff, tho, I want to research it further -- in terms of treatment of travelling salespeople, which predated the tax code, and thus have certain special rules.

not only that, they've literally put *more* cars on the streets. Instead of yr usual drivers + taxi fleets, you have people bringing their cars in from out of town to make $$$

Totally true -- it's not just SF, but Oakland, too ...

Way to go California !

Today we made HISTORY!!!
Just now, the CA legislature passed the Tenant Protection Act of 2019 and is on its way to @GavinNewsom desk to be signed! #AB1482 expands protections to 7 million tenants, covering more renters than any single tenant protection bill in recent US history! pic.twitter.com/tgzyUMXnsJ

— ACCE (@CalOrganize) September 11, 2019

legislature has banned private prisons and ICE facilities in CA. Newsom expected to sign bill.

Also rent cap

Jfc

1/2 A few minutes ago, the anti-vaxxer stalkers - who’ve engaged in a harassment campaign all week - dropped a red substance onto the Senate floor from the elevated public gallery, dousing several of my colleagues. The person who committed this assault screamed it was baby blood.

— Scott Wiener (@Scott_Wiener) September 14, 2019

when you realize the protestor was referring to 'baby rats' it kinds of changes the message

PG&E ?!

Yay I mean uh

San Francisco and what to do in it (in the dark)

Power is shutting off at midnight where my folks are (Sonoma/Mendocino line).

Oh, you’re going to hold us liable for billions in wildfire damages? Let’s see how 800,000 of you like being without electricity for five days.

— Derek Lindner (@mantella) October 9, 2019

PGE recently spent $79 million on lobbying, got $1 billion in tax rebates, made a profit of $4.8 billion and hiked executive pay 94% https://t.co/ELHZLLlKn2

— reclaim UC (@reclaimuc) October 9, 2019

San Francisco is not gonna have its power shut off according to the maps, neither is most of Oakland or south/west Berkeley

I was listening to Angel Haze's "Echelon (It's My Way)" on the way to work this morning--there's a lyric in there that pretty much anticipates the whole Trudeau scandal. You'll have to look it up yourself.

Oops! Thought this was the Canadian politics thread...

TWO STATES

Tbf they should turn the power off more often imo

#BreakingNews Due to the "PG&E Power Shut Off", the lights are **out** in the Robin Williams Tunnel. Its pretty dark, so drive with caution. @kron4news pic.twitter.com/IX3I96VAQ0

— Robin Winston (@RobinWinstonTV) October 9, 2019

"86 die in tunnel pile-up!"

#BREAKING PG&E worker reportedly shot at in Sierra Foothills https://t.co/7ViSAdFRZ5 pic.twitter.com/S1WnlTWGhM

— KTVU (@KTVU) October 9, 2019

PG&E put up barricades at SF HQ. pic.twitter.com/MLGVVJ0QmI

— Christien Kafton (@CKaftonKTVU) October 9, 2019

dang

Those barricades are there fairly often, i walk by that building every day

High winds ahead where recent major fires were:

WIND FORECAST: Here's an hour-by-hour look at when the gustiest winds develop. Watch out between late tonight-early tomorrow AM! #SanFrancisco #BayArea pic.twitter.com/VdU1BVjWH6

— Sandhya Patel (@SandhyaABC7) October 9, 2019

A family member had their power turned off today at ~10:30am without any telephone/email/mail notice (although it is possible that SCE sent a text to their landline). After a phone call, SCE assured them that the power would be back on by 3pm... It's now nearly 6pm. The winds are 4 (four) mph.

how did they choose the locations that would lose power?

just read this:

"As of late Wednesday afternoon, PG&E spokesman Jeff Smith could not confirm whether any Bay area hospitals would lose power during the second phase of planned shut-offs, which are expected to take place Wednesday evening.

“There may be some hospitals that are in the footprint, but we won’t know for sure,” Mr. Smith said. “We’re working extensively with locations like hospitals to ensure that they have an emergency plan.”

Friend is just had surgery and was given this note when he woke up

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EGeohO9UwAAHCvH?format=jpg&name=small

how did they choose the locations that would lose power?

yeah, wildfire risk

With locations like hospitals in them, you can’t go wrong

is PG&E legally obliged to cut power or are they doing it to reduce their legal liability?

It's very possible PG&E is being extra-conservative with power shutdowns because a fire during the firm's bankruptcy case would be harder for them to deal with than a fire outside of bankruptcy. This thread explains why (1/

— Jared Ellias (@jared_ellias) October 10, 2019

re: that note, Sequoia Hospital is in Redwood City, I know the area and it doesn't seem like it is at particular risk for fire

meanwhile I get a text from AT&T saying they know these planned PG&E outages are an inconvenience and that AT&T won't charge overage fees for calls and texts and data use or whatever that exceeds plan rates.

I get a text from my landlord, who doesn't have any idea whether our building is in the outage zone ... it isn't, we're not even close to the line ... but like, you own this building? Wouldn't you uh, make a point of finding out?

This is the most ridiculous statewide event since the Gray Davis recall where people thought it would be awesome to elect Arnold Schwarzenegger governor

re moraga fire: NBC Bay Area news just said firefighters are having to go door to door to evacuate people becauseeeeee-- the power is out in that area, so emergency warning services aren't working!

this is so absolutely fucked

— PatF Zine Preorders are Live!👑💕 deets @ patfzine (@jtbtweetin) October 10, 2019

statewide event

pedant alert: it is not a statewide event

You have $10 to build California

$30 not on fire
$20 functioning electrical grid
$15 high speed rail between major population centers
$3 mad at homeless people
$4 Diane Feinstein worth a hundred million dollars

— greg (@weedguy420boner) October 9, 2019

Are you curious how PG&E execs celebrated the 2 year anniversary of the Tubbs Fire (22 deaths, 5,643 structures destroyed,Santa Rosa's economic loss estimated at $1.2 billion (2017 USD), with five percent of the city's housing stock destroyed)...

https://www.sfchronicle.com/business/article/PG-E-gas-employees-wined-and-dined-just-before-14512194.php

showing dudes like the WeWork CEO how it's done ...

https://www.kqed.org/science/1950014/wildfire-smoke-expected-to-blanket-bay-area-friday-high-wind-warning-this-weekend

Damn.

PG&E does it again!

Imagine helping set up this civil defense infrastructure with a picture in your head of bomb-heavy Tupolev 95s coming over the pole, and the first time it’s used in earnest at any scale is because we mismanaged the land and are burning 100 million barrels of oil a day. https://t.co/KWzpY6r5Py

— Charlie Loyd (@vruba) October 27, 2019

The Blue-ing of Southern California has kept up since 2018. The state recently released new numbers on party reg by CD. Here are some shifts *since last October*

CA45: R+5.8→R+3.8
CA50: R+13.3→R+11.4
CA49: R+3.8→R+2.0
CA25: D+4.3→D+6.0
CA39: D+0.5→D+2.2
CA48: R+8.6→R+7.0

— Will Jordan (@williamjordann) November 12, 2019