Kevin De Leon

Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon Tosses California TrumpCare Victims Overboard

Remember how the first version of TrumpCare in the House wasn’t quite good enough for the far right savages in the Republican caucus? So they called in Freedom Caucus lunatic Mark Meadows to work with spineless south Jersey multimillionaire Tom MacArthur and they came up with a far worse and more deadly version that the radical right could-- and did-- get behind. That same process is playing out in the Senate now.

Blue, Blue California... Has Plenty Of Grotesquely Corrupt Republican-Lite Dems In The State Legislature

California needs more progressives like Senate President Kevin de León and fewer shady corporate shills like Gavin NewsomWonderful blue California, right? Well... yes, at least compared to the country as a whole. Hillary won the state's 55 electoral votes 8,753,788 (61.73%) to 4,483,810 (31.62%). She won the dozen most populous counties in the state; the only population center Trump won was the Bakersfield area. But California's legislature...