#Oakland property taxes have gone up 65% since 2013, just to maintain the basics of declining #infrastructure, public safety and simple city services amidst severe structural #Dumbocrat deficits.
Under indicted Mayor Sheng Tao's leadership, the city suspended voter-mandated restrictions on the use of #BallotMeasure tax money that was originally sold to jilted #voters as only way to maintain minimum #police staffing & funding for #parks and recreation.
The ballooning pension costs and city worker wages have grown 2.5x faster than #inflation and puts $1 of every $4 in unrestricted tax revenues towards public worker #retirement and salary increases. Interest alone on unfunded worker #pensions are expected to cost $1.5B over the next 20 years ...
https://empoweroakland.substack.com/p/the-450m-culprit-behind-oaklands
https://www.oaklandreport.org/p/oakland-employee-compensation-grew
#RNC →reportdly sendng "menacing texts" 2 voters in #Missouri, orderng them 2 retract signatures frm a #BallotPetition 2 suspend Republicans' recently passed Congressional #gerrymander that deletes Democratic seat in #KansasCity
Missouri→1 o handful o R-controlld states that redrew maps in demnd frm #Trump. #VotingRights actvsts responded by gatherng signaturs 4 #BallotMeasure 2 repeal. If measure qualifies, altrd map→automatically suspended til/unless voters approve it
The Republican National Committee is reportedly sending "menacing texts" to voters in Missouri, ordering them to retract their signatures from a ballot petition to suspend Republicans' recently passed Congressional gerrymander that deletes a Democratic seat in Kansas City.Missouri is one of a handfu...
Republicans, including ‘cowardly’ Schwarzenegger, take heat for lopsided loss on Prop. 50
Republican infighting crescendoed in the aftermath of California voters overwhelmingly approving a Democratic…
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https://www.newsbeep.com/233556/
Newsom, prominent Democrats rally voters before special election about redrawing congressional districts
Gov. Gavin Newsom, former Vice President Kamala Harris and a slew of other national and California Democrats on…
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https://www.newsbeep.com/223997/
Federal election monitors are heading to CA for Prop. 50
By Maya C. Miller, CalMatters Voters fill out their ballots at San Francisco City Hall on Super Tuesday…
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https://www.newsbeep.com/208910/
#Newsom plan to #Gerrymander #California #voting districts in obvious overwhelming favor of #DemocratParty finds opposition push from rich #GOP supporting silver spoon #SiliconValley son of a billionaire #BerkshireHathaway exec, who has put up his own $10 million to obfuscate and oppose #BallotMeasure effort.
More than $34 Million has been raised to sway voters so far on either side of ccontroversial #Prop50 midterm #redistricting scheme to add seats to state's already dominant donkey #Congressional caucus.
https://www.mercurynews.com/2025/08/29/mailers-flood-bay-area-homes-kicking-off-california-redistricting-battles/?share=itrarakwwdtfkrafenwt #GiftLink #MercuryNews #SharedStory #YesonProp50 #NoOnProp50
What CA GOP says about Texas in fight over Newsom gerrymander
By Jeanne Kuang and Maya C. Miller, CalMatters Republican Assemblymember Carl DeMaio addresses the media during a press…
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https://www.newsbeep.com/74704/
How conservatives took over hearings on Newsom’s redistricting- CalMatters
By Alexei Koseff, CalMatters People wait in line to speak at the Assembly Committee on Elections hearing on…
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https://www.newsbeep.com/71992/
L.A. passed a $30 hotel minimum wage. Then came the ballot measure fight
It’s the summer of the burn-it-down ballot measure in Los Angeles. For the past three months, labor unions…
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