Marking the anniversary of Prop. 22 + Who gets West Sac in 2022? + (Still) taking on Trump
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ANTI-PROP 22 RALLY PLANNED
Wednesday marks the one-year anniversary since California voters approved Proposition 22, the ballot measure that allowed rideshare and app-based companies to continue classifying their drivers as independent contractors.
A lot can happen in a year.
A California court has since ruled Prop 22 as unconstitutional, a decision which has since been appealed.
On Wednesday, some rideshare drivers plan to mark the one-year anniversary of Prop 22 with a global day of action, with protests in nine countries centered on events in Los Angeles and San Francisco. The protest will call on Uber and Lyft to drop to classify their drivers as employees.
In Los Angeles, protesters plan to descend on Uber’s “Greenlight Hub;” in San Francisco, they plan to rally outside of the headquarters of DoorDash.
In Brussels, Belgium, gig worker rights groups will call on the European Union Parliament to adopt legislation to enshrine gig workers as employees, including the ability to form a union.
SImilar rallies will be held in Argentina, Columbia, Ecuador, Mexico, Paraguay, Brazil and Spain.
WILL WEST SAC SWITCH CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICTS?
Via Lara Korte...
The nonpartisan California Citizens Redistricting Commission released new visualization drafts this week showing proposed boundaries for the state’s Congressional, Assembly and State Senate districts.
Under the proposed maps, West Sacramento is shaved off the Congressional district encompassing most of the Sacramento area. Instead, West Sac would join a Congressional district encompassing Davis and most of Yolo, Solano and Contra Costa Counties.
One Congressional district would cover most of Sacramento, but areas like Arden-Arcade and Carmichael would be wrapped into a district that includes Roseville, Rocklin and Lincoln.
The redistricting commission is responsible for redrawing the boundaries of California’s political districts, which will stand for the next 10 years. The commission met for seven hours yesterday and will meet again today and tomorrow for discussion and public comment.
The commission has until Dec. 27 to submit the final district maps to the Secretary of State, but is expected to release the first preliminary statewide maps no later than Nov. 15.
BONTA SEEKS TO UNDO TRUMP-ERA TITLE IX CHANGES
He’s no longer the president, but California is still taking Donald Trump to court. Or rather, his policies and initiatives.
On Tuesday, California Attorney General Rob Bonta announced that he is joining a coalition of 19 attorneys general that looks to undo Trump-era U.S. Department of Education regulations to Title IX.
“Every student is entitled to an education free from discrimination,” Bonta said in a statement. “That’s exactly what Title IX works to do. It protects our students from discrimination on the basis of their sex. Unfortunately, we’re still confronting the harmful, lasting effects of the Trump Administration’s efforts to weaken Title IX, including when it comes to LGBTQ+ college students. At the California Department of Justice, we’ll continue to do our part to stand up for all of our communities here at home and across the nation. Bottom line: There is no room for discrimination that puts our students’ education at risk.”
The amicus brief filed by Bonta et al alleges that the proposed regulatory changes “have created an unlawful ‘escape hatch’ undermining Title IX’s broad anti-discrimination mandate and a situation in which students may unknowingly enroll in schools that do not publicly claim exemption from Title IX, only to learn of their school’s position after they have been discriminated against and seek to assert their rights,” according to Bonta’s office.
You can read the brief for yourself by visiting here.
QUOTE OF THE DAY
“The GOP used to call non-college educated working class Democrats ‘Reagan Democrats.’ Today’s ‘Reagan Democrat’ is the Latino voter with one key difference: They’re brown and that makes a lot of Republicans uncomfortable.”
- GOP consultant Mike Madrid, via Twitter.
Best of the Bee:
Latino voters were more likely to vote to keep Newsom in office than non-Latino voters in the recall election, according to a new analysis of how Hispanics cast their ballots in 18 California counties by the Latino Policy & Politics Initiative, via Kim Bojórquez.
Several tribes are airing a proposed ballot initiative that would give them control of sports betting in California while blocking card rooms and commercial giants like DraftKings and FanDuel from opening operations here, according to a memo obtained by The Sacramento Bee, via Lara Korte.
A California Democrat is calling for a ban on live ammunition on movie sets in response to the deadly “Rust” film accident last week that left the cinematographer dead after actor Alec Baldwin unknowingly fired a gun containing a lead bullet while filming in Santa Fe, via Hannah Wiley.