🚒 California police and firefighter unions are pushing for a new retirement perk.

A proposal would allow CHP officers and Cal Fire firefighters to collect a large lump-sum payout when they retire in addition to their pension.

https://mendovoice.com/2026/03/why-california-cops-and-firefighters-are-pushing-for-a-new-perk-on-top-of-their-pensions/?utm_campaign=ap&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

#MendocinoCounty #California #CalFire #CHP #CAPolitics

Le Républicain Steve Hilton en tête des collectes de fonds pour le poste de gouverneur de Californie

https://peer.adalta.social/w/pzSR2rKbRdwFhw3FxbjL1c

Republican Steve Hilton Leads California Governor Fundraising

https://peer.adalta.social/w/f9WRmjKg2e9JdQXV2cr5d8

Republikaner Hilton führt im kalifornischen Spendenrennen

https://peer.adalta.social/w/rE15pUNoyRiPXkndymLFjt

🗳️ From our nonprofit partners at CalMatters: Campaign finance reports show Republican Steve Hilton leading fundraising in California’s gubernatorial race, while Democrats face a fragmented donor base in a crowded primary.

https://mendovoice.com/2026/02/republican-steve-hilton-leads-california-governor-fundraising-as-large-pool-of-democrats-lag/?utm_campaign=calmatters&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

#Politics #CAPolitics #Election2028

🗳️ President Donald Trump has endorsed Assemblymember James Gallagher in the race for California’s newly redrawn 1st Congressional District — a seat that now includes inland Mendocino County communities such as Ukiah, Willits, Boonville and Covelo.

The endorsement drew an immediate response from State Sen. Mike McGuire, one of several Democratic candidates in the race.

https://mendovoice.com/2026/02/trump-endorses-james-gallagher-in-race-for-1st-congressional-district/?utm_campaign=tmv&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

#mendocino #politics #2026election #capolitics

Over 20 Taken In L.A., As ICE Kidnaps Gardeners, Vendors, and the Unhoused From San Bernardino To Santa Barbara

https://lataco.com/daily-memo-20-taken-la

#uspol #uspolitics #capol #capolitics #fascism #FuckICE #ICE #FuckTrump #politics

Okay @ CA state government, what the FUCK are you on?

https://legiscan.com/CA/text/AB408/2025

This bill rewrite is... several layers of fucked up and unfair to both healthcare workers struggling with substance abuse, and healthcare workers who are mentally ill or disabled.

A choice quote: "This bill would revise and recast those provisions and would instead authorize the board to establish a Physician Health and Wellness Program to support, treat, monitor, and rehabilitate physicians and surgeons and other professionals licensed by the board with impairing physical and mental health conditions that may impact their ability to practice their profession in a reasonably safe, competent, and professional manner."

You can't treat mental and physical health the same as substance abuse. They are different vectors and you approach them differently! (Also, side note, many people who want to talk on substance abuse *really* want to ignore the part where people often start using *because of inadequate healthcare and/or medication and/or pain management access*. We really have to address all sides if you want to address substance abuse.) Why are you writing this into a bill about specifically substance abuse, for one?

For two, mental health can be chronic. I would hope a healthcare worker with chronic mental health conditions would have access to meds/therapy/whatever to help stay stable—but in reality, it's *already* stupendously hard to get licensed if you have a mental health dx, and that's country wide if not world-wide.

Like people in residency asking if it'll fuck them over to seek treatment: https://www.reddit.com/r/Residency/comments/1ime0ph/is_it_true_that_seeking_mental_health_treatment/

Doctors during early pandemic *forgoing mental health care because they might lose their licenses*: https://www.aamc.org/news/doctors-forgo-mental-health-care-during-pandemic-over-concerns-about-licensing-stigma

This AMA article from July 2023 celebrating medical boards (including CALIFORNIA) being less invasive so healthcare workers can get mental health care mayhap: https://www.ama-assn.org/practice-management/physician-health/23-medical-boards-make-changes-support-physician-well-being

And now for the piece de resistance: a research paper on the high levels of mental health issues healthcare workers experience! https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11024831/

(Side note: Kentucky already has something like the above bill is proposing. South Carolina law is fucking prohibitive on this subject: you basically cannot be mentally ill or physically disabled or it's automatically physician misconduct, is how that reads to me. So uh. No.)

Shoutout to @camilla for the citation hunting. 💕💕

#CA #California #politics #statelevelpolitics #statepolicies #statepolitics #CApolitics #healthcare #healthcareworkers #mentalhealth

Thanks for dumping Poilèvre, Carleton.

#capolitics

#Federal #GrandJury indicts voter ousted #OaklandMayor #ShengThao day after #FBI raid on home of fellow #BayArea #Democrat politician #BryanAzevedo , a #SheetMetal union member on #SanLeandro #CityCouncil who says "I didn’t do nothing wrong. "

https://www.sfchronicle.com/crime/article/oakland-sheng-thao-indicted-20038739.php #LeastBay #CAPolitics #Corruption