Investigation: Big Newsom Donors Including Blue Shield Received No-Bid Contracts During COVID-19 Response Listen Update RequiredTo play audio, update browser or Flash plugin.
FILE - In this March 28, 2020, file photo, Bloom Energy CEO KR Sridhar, right, watches as California Gov. Gavin Newsom writes down a note during a tour with Sridhar of the Bloom Energy Sunnyvale, Calif., campus.
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UnitedHealth has been good to Gov. Gavin Newsom.
In 2018, the health care giant made two contributions to Newsom for over $58,000. In December 2019, it dropped another $31,000 into his reelection campaign.
During the pandemic, Newsom turned to UnitedHealth to solve some of California’s most vexing challenges: COVID-19 testing and data tracking. The state awarded a no-bid contract worth up to $177 million to a UnitedHealth subsidiary to expand testing. In the months following, the
An unusually lengthy investigation by the state Fair Political Practices Commission has finally concluded Liz Kniss, a former Palo Alto City Council member who left office in January, violated two campaign finance laws in 2016.
These California politicians have taken the most money from the state s biggest teacher s union
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State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tony Thurmond answers a reporter s question during a visit with California Gov. Gavin Newsom, background, to Blue Oak Elementary School in Cameron Park, Calif.Rich Pedroncelli / Associated Press
California s various teachers unions are coming under increased scrutiny over their reluctance to return to in-person learning, especially in the wake of the state legislature s apprehension towards Gov. Gavin Newsom s school reopening plan.
The state s most powerful teachers union the California Teachers Association, which has more than 300,000 members and is affiliated with the even more powerful National Education Association has taken the firm stance that teachers must be vaccinated before in-person learning resumes.
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Ann Ravel is the project director of Digital Deception at MapLight, a nonprofit that tracks the influence of money in politics, and a professor at UC Berkeley School of Law. She previously regulated political campaign finance as a member of the California Fair Political Practices Commission and the Federal Election Commission. Before participating in a Zócalo/Center for Social Innovation event, “Can Local Media Restore Trust and Destroy Disinformation?,” she talked about going from regulating political candidates to being one last year in her run for California State Senate, living in Northern California and South America, and how she ended up majoring in philosophy in the Zócalo green room.