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AB 1539 seeks to close that gap by requiring a representative of each political party to certify, under penalty of perjury, that its nominees for president and vice president meet the constitutional requirements, including term limits.
"Despite dire warnings about the need to cut emissions and pleas to businesses to clean up their acts, it's become clear the industry cannot — or will not — regulate itself. The California Fashion Environmental Accountability Act can change that and represents a direct way for the industry to contribute to climate action."
"The truth is that we, for the first time in 40 years, have a president who is pushing to not contract, but expand oil drilling off our shores — and it's a threat to the industries that sustain us, while providing minimal economic benefit for the people, as well as disastrous consequences for public health and vulnerable marine habitats," Addis said.
While Venezuela's leaders have caused immense harm to their own people, President Trump bypassing Congress and the American people in a direct takeover does not make us safer. We are a nation of laws, and the president must operate within, not outside of, them. American democracy is a flame that has never been blown out, and we cannot allow one man's autocratic ideation to extinguish it now.
California Assemblymember Dawn Addis (D) said the industry pushed back harder against proposed policies this year after it failed to stop legislation she put forward last year that became law giving localities the power to stop oil production within their borders. Plus, President Donald Trump has lifted up the oil industry and harped on clean energy sources, she said.
In a joint statement, Sen. Scott Wiener, D-San Francisco, and Assemblymember Jesse Gabriel, D-Encino, co-chairs of the caucus, and Vice Chairs Sen. Josh Becker, D-Menlo Park, and Assemblymember Dawn Addis, D-Morro Bay, said they were responding to what they described as a terrorist attack that killed at least 15 people at the community Hanukkah event.
In a statement to KSBY following the commission's decision Thursday night, District 30 Assemblymember Dawn Addis said, "While many gains were made over the last month, full and fair mitigation remains incomplete. Today's mitigation did not accomplish the goal of conserving the full 12,000 acres of the Diablo Canyon lands that the community has asked for for or decades."
Assemblymember Addis warned that after federal cuts to MediCal this year, any additional reduction in healthcare spending could be destabilizing.
California 30th District Assemblymember Dawn Addis called the salary adjustments "unbelievable" and urged presidents to reject the raises and prioritize bumping up employee salaries to keep up with the rising cost of living in California.