Memo to AD54 LACDP Constituent-Peeps: Special Primary Race for SD30 is Crucial
A LOCAL STATE ELECTION-Los Angeles County’s Central Democratic Party Committee has focused lately on single-payer healthcare. This is a good thing. A majority of Californians support removing private insurance from the healthcare equation. And if not now -- during a global pandemic when sky-high unemployment has sundered workers’ access to health insurance while health risks from COVID-19 and medical expenses have simultaneously rocketed upward -- then when? First came a resolution from delegates on the floor of LACDP (I was one), authored by Betty Doumas-Toto of HCA-LA (which passed ...