Spoondick posted:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nati...a05f_story.html

So we just had a shitload of rain in the north. Between 3/3 and 3/6 Lake Oroville rose 20 feet. Lake Shasta and Lake Oroville are now above their average historical capacity, which of course means we should totally ditch these water saving bills because there's no way things can turn bad now that we've had two good storms in a row.

enraged_camel posted:

Any Democrat is better than Feinstein.

cheese posted:

Last Republican senator CA will elect for a long time.

ComradeCosmobot posted:

Better than Dianne Feinstein at any rate.

cheese posted:

The icing on the cake is that the only person slimier than Diane Feinstein might be her husband. A match made in heaven.

cheese posted:

The icing on the cake is that the only person slimier than Diane Feinstein might be her husband. A match made in heaven.

ComradeCosmobot posted:

Better than Dianne Feinstein at any rate.

cheese posted:

The icing on the cake is that the only person slimier than Diane Feinstein might be her husband. A match made in heaven.

Sydin posted:

My favorite bit is where Blum voted to jack up UC tuition, circumvented the usual investment procedures and hired his own private managers to invest the sweet tuition cash into his own real estate businesses, lost the system a ton of money when the resulting 2008 crash happened, and responded by crying that the UC's had no money so they needed to raise tuition more.

Bizarro Watt posted:

Do you have a specific article detailing this or is it over a series of different ones? I'd like to read it.

Bizarro Watt posted:

Do you have a specific article detailing this or is it over a series of different ones? I'd like to read it.

Arsenic Lupin posted:

This is an *incredibly* low bar, but I agree. (Why did Boxer retire instead of DiFi? Why, o cruel universe?)

redscare posted:

Because Boxer is 75 and up for re-election this year, while Feinstein's term isn't up until 2018. I'm sure (pray) she won't run for re-election, but there's no reason to expect her to not finish her term barring sudden health reasons.

Ron Jeremy posted:

computer parts posted:

Ron Jeremy posted:

Death by gentrification.

http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/mar/21/death-by-gentrification-the-killing-that-shamed-san-francisco

quote:

The dog had Nieto cornered on the bench while its inattentive owner was 40 feet away – in his deposition for the case, under oath, his exact words were that he was distracted by a female “jogger’s butt”. “I can imagine that somebody would – could assume the dog was being aggressive at that point,” Snow said. The dog did not come when he called, but kept barking. Nieto, Snow says, then pulled back his jacket and took his Taser out, briefly pointing at the distant dog-owner before he pointed it at the dog baying at his feet. The two men yelled at each other, and Snow apparently used a racial slur, but would not later give the precise word. As he left the park, he texted a friend about the incident. His text, according to his testimony, said, “in another state like Florida, I would have been justified in shooting Mr Nieto that night” – a reference to that state’s infamous “stand your ground” law, which removes the obligation to retreat before using force in self-defence. In other words, he apparently wished he could have done what George Zimmerman did to Trayvon Martin: execute him without consequences.

Soon after, a couple passed by Nieto. Tim Isgitt, a recent arrival in the area, is the communications director of a nonprofit organisation founded by tech billionaires. He now lives in suburban Marin County, as does his partner Justin Fritz, a self-described “email marketing manager” who had lived in San Francisco about a year. In a picture one of them posted on social media, they are chestnut-haired, clean-cut white men posing with their dogs, a springer spaniel and an old bulldog. They were walking those dogs when they passed Nieto at a distance.

Fritz did not notice anything unusual but Isgitt saw Nieto moving “nervously” and putting his hand on the Taser in its holster. Snow was gone, so Isgitt had no idea that Nieto had just had an ugly altercation and had reason to be disturbed. Isgitt began telling people he encountered to avoid the area. (One witness who did see Nieto shortly after Isgitt and Fritz, longtime Bernal Heights resident Robin Bullard who was walking his own dog in the park, testified that there was nothing alarming about him. “He was just sitting there,” Bullard said.)

At the trial, Fritz testified that he had not seen anything alarming about Nieto. He said that he called 911 because Isgitt urged him to. At about 7.11pm he began talking to the 911 dispatcher, telling her that there was a “probably foreign” man with a black handgun. That a relative newcomer perceived Nieto as foreign says something unpleasant about assumptions about who belongs here and what kind of a place this is supposed to be. What race, asked the dispatcher, “black, Hispanic?” “Hispanic,” replied Fritz. Later, the dispatcher asked him if the man in question was doing “anything violent”, and Fritz answered, “just pacing, it looks like he might be eating chips or sunflowers, but he’s resting a hand kind of on the gun”. Alex Nieto had about five more minutes to live.

quote:

Through my national and international research and political activism, I identified “mind control slavery” by satellite energy technology weapons and social engineering programs that have been in continual development for the past 50 years and facilitated their “declassification”. As a result, I came under heavy sanctions that are ongoing. I request you, the voter, to rise above all untrue accusations that assail my good character and heart. See my evidence and review my service. Senator Bernie Sanders’ presidency is crucial for bringing this into reality

ChickenRiceNPeas posted:

Voter Information Guide for June is now out: http://www.voterguide.sos.ca.gov/en/pdf/


http://vig.cdn.sos.ca.gov/2016/primary/en/pdf/candidate-statements.pdf

Massie Munroe: The only candidate to stand up to big satellite.

Ron Jeremy posted:

Do in have to ask her stance on vaccinations?

ChickenRiceNPeas posted:

Surprisingly she doesn't say.

Her statement reads like a strange mix of neo-conservatism and Peace and Freedom style liberalism.

Grand Prize Winner posted:

Is she from Humboldt or parts nearby? I got that kind of impression from the place.

quote:

Lawmakers and labor unions have struck a tentative deal to raise the statewide minimum wage to $10.50 an hour next year and then gradually to $15, averting a costly political campaign this fall and possibly putting California at the forefront of a national movement.

According to a document obtained by The Times, the negotiated deal would boost California's statewide minimum wage from $10 an hour to $10.50 on Jan. 1, 2017, with a 50-cent increase in 2018 and then $1-per-year increases through 2022. Businesses with fewer than 25 employees would have an extra year to comply, delaying their workers receiving a $15 hourly wage until 2023.

Future statewide minimum wage increases would be linked to inflation, but a governor would have the power to temporarily block some of the initial increases in the event of an economic downturn.

fermun posted:

Given inflation, how much would $15/hour in 2022 dollars, when the new minimum wage law gets tied to inflation would it be in today's dollars? $13.50 or so?