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(Stolen outright from someone sharing a post by AD 53 ADEM delegate Nancy Kim:)
*IMPORTANT ACTION TODAY**
<<SAVE NET NEUTRALITY>>
READ THIS FOR BACKGROUND!
If you don’t know why we need net neutrality, just imagine having to pay extra to read all of the non-corporate sites you read, or not being able to download them as quickly as corporate sites … or not being able to get access to them at all. THAT is what Net Neutrality prevents — and we’re losing federal protection for it! This is California’s chance to fix it!
Below are the Members of CA State Assembly’s Privacy and Consumer Protection Committee. In today’s hearing, they can restore SB 822 back to its original language and save internet democracy. Please call them TODAY FIRST THING THIS MORNING (vote is today, Tuesday!)
Just give your name and zip code, and politely (but urgently) ask that the Assemblymembers restore SB 822 to its original language, since Assemblyman Miguel Santiago pulled its teeth out last week:
Ed Chau (Chair) Dem – 49
Assembly Member Ed Chau
(916) 319-2049
Kevin Kiley (Vice Chair) Rep – 06
Assembly Member Kevin Kiley
(916) 319-2006
Catharine B. Baker Rep – 16
Assembly Member Catharine B. Baker
(916) 319-2016
Marc Berman Dem – 24
Assembly Member Marc Berman
(916) 319-2024
Ian C. Calderon Dem – 57
Assembly Member Ian C. Calderon
(916) 319-2057
Jesse Gabriel Dem – 45
Contact Assembly Member Jesse Gabriel
(916) 319-2045
Jacqui Irwin Dem – 44
Assembly Member Jacqui Irwin
(916) 319-2044
Kevin Mullin Dem – 22
Assembly Member Kevin Mullin
(916) 319-2022
Jay Obernolte Rep – 33
Assembly Member Jay Obernolte
(916) 319-2033
Eloise Gómez Reyes Dem – 47
Assembly Member Eloise Gómez Reyes
(916) 319-2047
Update from Vern Tuesday afternoon
The committee members received many calls from all of you. For now the bill has passed this particular committee WITH the poison amendments, but talks are going on between Committee Chair Chau and bill author Senator Wiener to get them out, however that works. Wiener does NOT want to see the bill even proceed with the Santiago amendments.
To those of you who only tune in to see who’s recently posted comments — READ THIS STORY AND MAKE CALLS TODAY!
Okay!!@
On it. In other news, I received this message today from a friendly organization:
Tomorrow, the OC Board of Supervisors will vote to eliminate three different forms of independent oversight over county government. This move would dismantle transparency and accountability mechanisms in the county.
Urge the Board to preserve independent oversight in the OC.
The Board will vote on a resolution to:
• Eliminate all funding for the county’s Office of Independent Review, which is tasked with monitoring liability issues from any potentially problematic practices within the OC Sheriff’s Department, the district attorney’s office, and other county law enforcement agencies.
• Take away the auditing and financial control functions from the independently elected county Auditor-Controller, and instead have staff who report to the county CEO, who reports directly to the supervisors, perform those functions.
• Replace the county Performance Auditor’s office with outside contractors — and supervisors have already shown they’re more than willing to hire contractors who fill their campaign coffers.
WTF?
This all sucks, but giving the highly paid Auditor-Controller nothing to do is going to be what bites them in the ass.
The OIR was always a joke, a quarter mil a year for a lawyer who was supposed to represent both the Sheriff AND the Board as clients. That’s a recipe for failure right there. Then they embedded the guy inside the department. Never accomplished one damn thing. Good riddance.
The original Performance Auditor (Danley) provided a valuable service, particularly in lieu of any interest in Enterprise Risk Management at the County, but unfortunately he ran afoul of a CEO who didn’t give a rat’s ass about efficiency or honest government. He also ran into political interference from the Board and in the end accomplished almost nothing. His replacement was a joke from the start. We may regret the lost potential but the reality suggests we won’t be missing any real accomplishment.
The auditing functions were ALREADY taken away from the A-C back in the early/mid 00s when the Board set up their own Internal Auditor – Peter Hughes. Of course that was doomed to fail. After he was elected Woolery reclaimed his rightful function and actually seemed to be doing a good job for a while.
https://voiceofoc.org/2015/01/guest-voice-woolery-should-audit-county-departments/
Woolery crossed people who don’t like to be crossed and who control both his budget and his level of personnel. Lately he’s been a pussycat, but Nelson and can be singularly vindictive.
Creating a new IA should be held up to the ridicule the concept deserves.
On it.
Apparently the Board decided to keep an “OIR” but the new remit includes addressing homelessness!
The dysfunction has gotten to the theater of the absurd point. And yet nobody seems to notice. The new County normal.
Made all ten calls this morning; the hearing is this afternoon.
UPDATE 4pm Tuesday:
The committee members received many calls from all of you. For now the bill has passed this particular committee WITH the poison amendments, but talks are going on between Committee Chair Chau and bill author Senator Wiener to get them out, however that works. Wiener does NOT want to see the bill even proceed with the Santiago amendments.
Looks like this has moved forward significantly…
http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-pol-ca-net-neutrality-compromise-20180705-story.html
Weiner, for one, appears mollified. Kudos to all who called. Now, someone wanna try to decode the Yelp opinion in CA Supreme Court? Anyone? …welllllll…