‘Recall Chesa’ Campaign Hit With Ethics Complaint Over Alleged Ad Violations

20 JANUARY 2022/SF POLITICS/JOE KUKURA (SFist.com) The Recall Chesa Boudin campaign’s $16,000-a-month spokesperson is the only person who appears in their latest glossy mailer, and the local Democratic party has filed a complaint that this is a campaign violation. SFist found it a little odd last November when the Recall… Continue reading

CVS HEALTH QUIETLY MADE MASSIVE DONATION TO DARK-MONEY GROUP FIGHTING ACCESS TO CARE

A sign with the CVS Health Corp. logo is seen within a CVS pharmacy store in Los Angeles on Oct. 27, 2017. Photo: Christopher Lee/Bloomberg via Getty Images The pharmacy and health insurance giant gave $5 million to Partnership for America’s Health Care Future. Lee FangApril 21 2021, 9:49 a.m. (TheIntercept.com) IN… Continue reading

Articles ~ Petitions ~ Events for Wednesday, January 19 – Sunday, January 23 (from Adrienne Fong)

 Please hold Melvin Starks in your thoughts as he continues to heal. NOT back posting on a regular basis Please include Accessibility and ASL info in your events! And if your action is ‘child friendly’ *** ASL interpretation – Let me know if your event needs this service .*** Please post your actions on Indybay: https://www.indybay.org/calendar/?page_id=12  See Indybay… Continue reading

The Environmental Danger of Preferring Native Plants

Posted on January 17, 2022 by SF Forest Alliance (SFForest.org) This article is republished with permission and minor edits from Conservation Sense and Nonsense, an environmental blog about current ecological topics including “native plant restorations.” We are publishing it here because we think the opposition to “invasives” by nativist activists – and the… Continue reading

Apres Nancy: The most important S.F. political subplot of the midterm elections

Sometime in the next 36 months, there will be a major political transition in San Francisco By Lincoln Mitchell • January 14, 2022 1:00 pm – (SFExaminer.com) For San Franciscans, one of the most important subplots of the 2022 midterm elections is whether or not Nancy Pelosi — who has represented The… Continue reading

What Martin Luther King Jr. said about the filibuster: ‘A minority of misguided senators’

Martin Luther King Jr. spoke about the impact of Senate filibuster rules during a news conference in 1963. (C-SPAN) By Gillian Brockell January 4, 2022 at 8:04 a.m. EST (WashingtonPost.com) On Monday, Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.) said that if Republicans continue to block a voting rights bill, the… Continue reading