Wildfires tore through eastern Washington, a heavily-Republican area, in the fall of 2020. Gov. Jay Inslee, a Democrat, requested $37 million of FEMA disaster funds for those communities. Trump blocked it, because Inslee had criticized his handling of the Covid-19 crisis. Washington eventually got t[...]
Posts Tagged ‘California’
August 18th, 2024 - 4:53 pm § in Politics, Republicans
Switching parties
Marie Alvarado-Gil was elected to the California Senate in 2022. She won as a Democrat in a Republican district. How was this possible? No Republican was on the ballot. Why? Because California uses a top-two primary system, in which the two top vote-getters advance to the general election, and the R[...]
Jan. 6 rioter with extensive criminal history sentenced to 20 years
David Nicholas Dempsey (photo, left), 37, of Van Nuys, California, was one of the most violent Jan. 6 rioters. He “stomped on police officers’ heads,” the Associated Press says (here), and “swung poles at officers defending a tunnel, struck an officer in the head with a metal cru[...]
March 18th, 2022 - 8:47 pm § in Politics
Meet California’s next (?) secretary of state
Probably not. But in the category of “this is a free country, and anyone can run for anything,” this one’s a doozy. Meet the candidate in the video below. Go here for a short video in which she explains why and how she decided to run. Go here to find out what elections would be [&h[...]
January 26th, 2021 - 2:02 am § in Politics
Effort to recall California’s governor is growing serious
What started as a quixotic grassroots effort to sack California’s Democratic governor, Gavin Newsom, is gaining traction from an infusion of tech industry money and support. The signature drive is likely to succeed, and Newsom now faces the prospect of a recall election. (Read story here.) New[...]
November 12th, 2020 - 2:50 pm § in Politics
Who will replace Kamala Harris in the Senate?
Speculation has begun about who California Gov. Gavin Newsome will appoint to fill the remaining two years of Kamala Harris’ Senate term. It will, of course, be a Democrat. Beyond that, everybody has an opinion about who it should be. (Read story here.) Insiders say it won’t be a white m[...]
April 1st, 2015 - 12:34 pm § in America, Environment
California restricts water use; rationing imminent?
With mountain snowpack at 5% of average, California Gov. Jerry Brown today issued an executive order imposing emergency water restrictions on the entire state. Â “Similar measures were considered during California’s 1970s drought but were never implemented,” CNBC reported. Despite [...]