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slbiro-blog · 4 years

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The Devastating Impact of AB5 on People with Disabilities and Their Families

This month, sweeping economic changes to the way Independent Contractors are able to conduct business became chiseled into law in California. Despite protests from hundreds of thousands of California’s tax-paying citizens, Lorena Gonzalez-Fletcher, author of AB5 which codified the Dynamex ruling of 2018, was unrelenting in her stance that the majority of freelancers without business licenses should legally be classified as employees. There were carve-outs in the law, however, they are primarily arbitrary, absurd, and not reflective of how Independent Contractors actually work. The law caused financial devastation for a substantial segment of California’s population, including people with disabilities who are working or who have worked, and their families. This article provides and in-depth look at the challenges they face, and explains why a business to business exemption is not possible in a majority of cases, and is ableist and discriminatory.

Working While Disabled

For people with congenital disabilities or those acquired from an accident or illness, facing the social, financial, and health-related barriers to traditional employment can be devastating. According to the Department of Labor, the percentage of disabled people who work is only 19 percent. For many of them, education and training do not level the playing field, as employers are often resistant to making offers of employment to candidates who they fear may need adaptations to the work environment, miss excessive amounts of work due to health issues, or require extra time to complete tasks. While their concerns can be completely unjustified, employment biases are still a reality people with disabilities face. Working as an Independent Contractor circumvents these issues and allows individuals to acquire work based on their unique skills, talents, and abilities—not on an arbitrary body standard that they cannot meet. It also allows them the freedom and flexibility to choose the type and volume of work that will not exacerbate health issues. While this may mean less income initially, they often end up with a better quality of life and more disposable income because they do not have to incur additional work-related expenses or health issues.

Working independently from a home office also has other less-obvious benefits for those with disabilities, including:

Less physical and emotional stress which can cause further decline of health, or create co-morbid conditions such as high-blood pressure.

Less wear and tear on their bodies which, for people with life-long mobility impairments, can help stave-off post-impairment syndrome (severe arthritic changes that further degrade health and mobility).

Elimination of the significant challenges of getting to and from work, particularly for those with vision impairment, epilepsy, or a disability that prevents driving such as Hemiplegia.

The Cost of Disability

Being disabled, or having a disabled family member can cause a significant financial strain on families that can be offset with some paid part-time work. The following statistics were taken from the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR). Lifetime costs for the following common disabilities are:

· $921,000 (persons with Cerebral Palsy)

· $383,000 (persons with hearing loss)

· $601,000 (persons with vision impairment)

Additionally, the Christopher and Dana Reeve Foundation estimates the annual cost of living with a spinal cord injury at $42,000 to $184,000 per year. The figures for Multiple Sclerosis are even more daunting: an estimated lifetime cost of 4 Million Dollars.

If you, or a loved one has a disability, you know that if you/they are on SSDI, thousands of dollars of medical, dental, durable medical equipment, and pharmaceutical expenses per year are not covered and are the responsibility of the patient and his or her family. The Medicare website estimates out-of-pocket costs to be approximately between 7-8K annually for a healthy retired person. For a person with a disability who has hefty drug co-pays or needs uncovered durable medical equipment such as a lift in order to take a shower, help with activities of daily living, or who requires surgery for any reason, those costs are significantly higher.

While a fraction of people with disabilities can get extra help from another entitlement program, SSI, this is extremely difficult to qualify for, particularly if you have worked for a number of years, and have more than 2K in assets (not including the home you live in or a vehicle). The conundrum is that if you have a disability, you need savings for emergencies. For example, if a needed piece of DME like a wheelchair breaks, the approval process for a new one can take months leaving the disabled person home or even bed-bound during the wait. If one is disabled and has a working spouse, the odds of qualifying for help are almost non-existent, as the monthly income limit is $1,175 for a couple—barely enough to cover rent in most California locations.

On SSDI and Disabled

In order for someone with a disability to qualify for SSDI he or she must have earnings over a set amount for at least 40 quarters, and meet detailed medical criteria. Many applicants to the program must wait years to have their cases heard before an Administrative Law Judge who will analyze medical records and statements from Doctors and other medical professionals. Someone with, for example, mild Cerebral Palsy, who was an independent ambulator in their youth, in their late 40s and 50s may have declined physically from post-impairment syndrome that requires them to use a walker or wheelchair, impacts the use of their hands, and causes them significant pain which must be treated with muscle relaxants. Likewise, someone who was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis in his twenties may be quadriplegic in his 40s. In any case of someone receiving SSDI, he or she has experienced a significant decline in function that impairs the ability to work.

This does not mean that the disabled individual cannot work at all. In fact, the Social Security Administration allows for individuals to do a small amount of work. It sets caps on what can be earned per month (for 2020, the amount is $1200). If the disabled individual earns above this amount for nine non-consecutive months or more, he or she is found to be engaging in Substantial Gainful Activity (SGA).

The AB5 Business License Exemption

Gonzalez has proposed a work-around for Independent Contractors: a business license. A business contracting with another business can be exempt from AB5. According to her, even being a Sole-proprietor meets the requirements of the law. For people with disabilities on SSDI, this “option” will threaten needed benefits including healthcare. Owning a business obliterates the SGA rules when it comes to SSDI because one can be found to be non-disabled based on combined income earned, and the extra unpaid time spent running the business (see the regulations). This can cause benefits to cease, regardless of income generated.

More so, many companies who continue to work with California freelancers are requiring that they have an S-corp or LLC. While this is understandable, as these companies are trying to protect themselves, it does not bode well for people with disabilities and their families. The cost of the license itself is also prohibitive for family members who may be Independent Contractors-- $800 per year for an LLC., for example.

Family and Spousal Caregivers

According to the Family Caregiver Alliance, 43.5 million caregivers have provided care to an adult or child in the last twelve months, with 32.5 million of them providing care to an adult age 50 or older. The estimated economic value of the unpaid services they provide is 470 billion dollars annually. Seventy-five percent of all caregivers are female, with an average age of 49.2 years.

Family and spousal caregivers are often forced to balance their time between paid work and caregiving duties. Many have to leave the traditional workplace environment early due to the care needs of their loved ones. It is this group that most benefits from the flexibility that Independent Contract work permits. It should not, under any circumstances, be further burdened by needing to incorporate in order to work.

Gig-economy Businesses That Benefit People with Disabilities

There are many online businesses that make life with a disability easier. Some of the basic conveniences that an able-bodied person can take for granted like grocery shopping, driving to doctor’s appointments, or picking up prescriptions can be a strain for people with disabilities. With the average cost of an agency-vetted personal care assistant at 26 dollars per hour or more, and most agencies requiring a four-hour or more minimum, gig-economy businesses can provide needed services at a fraction of the cost. Uber, for example, charges the same rates for WAV (wheelchair equipped vans) and ASSIST (extra help for people who need it) as they do for standard UBERX. Instant Cart provides grocery shopping services at a nominal cost (they will even put the groceries away). Postmates will make pharmacy runs for a few dollars. Because of AB5 rules and corresponding litigation, rates for services like these have increased, with people with disabilities being among those footing the bill.

When a Law Becomes Punitive

Gonzalez, in a recent interview with KUSI repeatedly stressed that Independent Contractors without business licenses, as well as businesses who contracted with them were working outside of the law since Dynamex. She neglected to mention Independent Contractors pay taxes according to IRS regulations, and are overwhelmingly choosing contract work over being employees. If Dynamex and its codifications, AB5, are in opposition to California citizens earning an honest living, then they should be repealed. This country has endured plenty of bad laws that victimized and segregated citizens—among them Jim Crow laws—and those public servants who who voted for and uphold AB5 are continuing this bigoted, harmful history.

#california #politics #disabilties

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votenet-blog · 6 years

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Politics Report: South Bay Beefs

Author: Scott Lewis / Source: Voice of San Diego National City Mayor Ron Morrison / Photo by Jamie Scott Lytle Competing ballot measures in National City have developed into another skirmish in the long-running feud between factions within organized labor. The June ballot measures would impose new term limits on National City elected officials. The mayor is currently limited to three four-year…

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#Ballot measure #David Garcias #Labor Council of New South Wales #Lorena Gonzalez Fletcher #Lori Saldaña #mayor #National City #California #politics #term limit #United Food and Commercial Workers

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eastcountytoday · 6 years

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Bill Would Ban Tackle Football in California Before High School

SACRAMENTO – Assemblymembers Kevin McCarty (D- Sacramento) and Lorena Gonzalez Fletcher (D – San Diego) Thursday announced the “Safe Youth Football Act”, which will protect children from brain injury by establishing a minimum age to play in organized tackle football programs. This bill would follow the advice of medical professions and allow high-contact elements from football programs only at…

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#Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy #Kevin McCarty #Lorena Gonzalez Fletcher #Safe Youth Football Act #Tackle Football Ban

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leftdinosaurbeliever-blog · 7 years

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Scenes from a Democratic Convention

There were no fireworks at the seventh biennial San Diego County Democratic Convention on Saturday, Oct. 21 at Escondido’s California Center for the Arts. The old cliché of organizing Democrats being akin to herding cats did not apply to this particular gathering. Some people–gasp!–were even having fun.

The trauma of Trump has eased, and what I saw were a bunch of folks bound and determined to…

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#Governor Gavin Newsom #Lorena Gonzalez Fletcher #Single Payer #Tom Steyer

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theecoreport · 7 years

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Big Oil Defeats Attempted Offshore Drilling Ban

The ECOreport reposts news from the California senate, where Big Oil defeats attempted offshore drilling ban

Originally published on the Daily KOS

by Dan Bacher

offshoreShowing the enormous power of the oil industry in California despite the state’s “green” image, every bill except one opposed by the powerful oil industry has failed to make it out of the state legislature this year and during…

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sdcdpclubs · 7 years

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Notes from April Meeting – Voting Rights

Club President Jonathan Wubbolding called the meeting to order at 4:05 PM. He thanked everyone for coming and asked any new members to stand and introduce themselves. He then made a call for any elected officials or their representatives, former elected officials, or any candidates who wished to speak and the following responded: Doug Case, Political Affairs Coordinator for State Senator Toni…

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#Bryan Pease #Doug Case #Ed Harris #Elections #Issues #Jordan Beane #Lorena Gonzalez Fletcher #Lori Saldaña #Nathan Fletcher #News #Newsletter #omar passons #PaperNewsletter #Parisa Ijadi-Maghsoodi #Speakers

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pointlomadem · 7 years

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Doug Case, Political Affairs Coordinator for State Senator Toni Atkins, gave a brief update on the following bills: SB 562, the single-payer bill; SB 2, which would provide a permanent funding stream for affordable housing; SB 179, the gender recognition act; and, SB 54, the California Values Act, which would prohibit California law enforcement from enforcing immigration laws.

Ed Harris, representative for the city lifeguards and former City Council member, gave an update on the controversy brewing between the Fire Chief and the Lifeguard Union. He said that the Fire Chief made a major change recently, without informing the lifeguards, about how emergency calls were dispatched. Now, when there is a need for an ocean rescue, 911 calls are sent to Police Dispatch, then to Fire Dispatch, before finally being sent to Lifeguard Dispatch, causing a lot confusion and life-threatening delays.

Omar Passons, a land use/construction attorney, said he was a candidate for County Supervisor, District 4, primarily because he wanted every child in every community to have a strong start in life and because he was concerned about the problem of homelessness and how it was crippling the senior population. More information can be found at www.omarpassons.com.

Jordan Beane, candidate for City Council District 2, spoke about yesterday’s Earth Day rally and said it was disheartening that we need to stand up and fight for facts. He said it was time for new leadership in District 2 and that people can go to www.jordanbeane.com for more details.

Bryan Pease, a public interest attorney focusing on government transparency and accountability, spoke about his candidacy for City Council District 2; he asked people to go to www.bryanpease.com for more information.

Lori Saldaña, who served in the State Legislature for six years, spoke about April 26 being designated Denim Day to call attention to serious issues in our society regarding rape and sexual assault. She also said that April was Sexual Assault Awareness Month and that this year’s theme was “Engaging New Voices.” She spoke about how people can raise their voices on the issue and work for change, and pointed out that there are a lot of misconceptions about what constitutes sexual assault and violent crimes.

Denim Day Resolution: Saldaña asked the Club to pass a resolution in support of Denim Day and demand a clearing of the backlog of DNA evidence kits. Anne Hoiberg made the motion for the Club to write the demands in a letter to the San Diego City Council, it was seconded, the motion carried and passed unanimously.

Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez Fletcher spoke about her recently introduced legislation. AB 1312 – Sexual Assault Survivor Bill of Rights, currently in Assembly Appropriations, would insure that rape kits were not destroyed prematurely and were processed within a certain period of time; right now, evidence can be destroyed after two years. She displayed a chart showing that San Diego had a backlog of 2,873 unprocessed rape kits, compared to New York City and Los Angeles having none. She has also coauthored legislation that would make rape a violent felony if the victim was unconscious.

Gonzalez Fletcher then spoke about the county’s transportation problems. She explained that the local transit operators, SANDAG and MTS, were charged with spending all transportation money, yet SANDAG’s board was made up of people from ten cities that represent only 12% of the area’s population; as it stands, the mayor of Del Mar, a city of only 4,000 people, would be in charge of transportation for millions of people in San Diego. To address the injustice, she introduced AB 805 to reform how the region spends and tracks transportation funding and redo the board so that members would be in proportion to the population.

She also spoke about other issues, such as the border wall, and assured everyone that she was fighting the Trump agenda every step of the way and urged everyone to keep up the fight. Next, she introduced her husband, Nathan Fletcher, the Club’s featured speaker.

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Program: Nathan Fletcher – Voting Rights Nathan Fletcher, a UC San Diego political science professor and former State assemblyman, praised his wife as being that rare individual willing to take on powerful interests and fight for those without power, citing her successes in getting paid sick leave for hourly workers and overtime pay for farm workers, making California the first state to honor the work of everyone.

He then paid special tribute to Jonathan, the Club’s president. He said that Jonathan was a veteran and part of today’s generation that has returned home from war and was now serving their communities. He said that though his military service had ended, his commitment to service and love of country had not and that it was great to see him leading the Club and driving an agenda.

Fletcher went on to speak about the frustration veterans feel when they see the Right hijacking the progressive agenda and their respective values. He explained that the military has always been ahead of its time and has an amazingly progressive story to tell. For example, it was

racially integrated 16 years before the Civil Rights Act, has a single-payer government-funded health care system that works, and considers climate change to not just be an environmental issue but also a moral and national security issue.

He then spoke about the deportation of veterans and how he was incredulous when he heard it was happening. He’d thought that veterans were citizens and could not be deported, that they’d been told from the beginning that if they were willing to die for the country and take the oath of enlistment, which is almost verbatim the oath of naturalization, that they would become citizens. However, he learned that for the past 50 years, the government had been systematically failing to fulfill its promise. He explained that like any segment of the population, or sometimes as a result of PTSD or other issues faced while serving, some veterans go astray and commit offenses, but that a grateful and compassionate nation should offer a path to redemption and rehabilitation, not a path to deportation.

He has worked with friends at the ACLU to advocate, help raise awareness, and drive change. They formed a coalition and got legislation introduced in Sacramento and D.C., and everything was looking great until Trump happened. They then had to become creative and took the approach of wondering, “What if the crime goes away?” and started lobbying Gov. Brown to issue pardons, which had never been done before based on a deportation process. The Governor eventually pardoned three veterans, however, there were 307 others who need help and Fletcher urged people to go to http://www.deportedvets.org to sign a petition and join their effort.

Next, Fletcher related a conversation he witnessed when serving on the national advisory board of Obama’s Organizing for Action project. At one of the meetings, President Obama was asked, “What if Congress said it would pass just one piece of legislation for you, just one time—what would it be?” Obama replied that he’d never been asked that and had never even thought about it because it was so detached from reality. After some thought, he said “Compulsory Voting”, because he believed if the country had that, everything else would take care of itself. The answer inspired Fletcher to create a new university class devoted entirely to the Voting Rights Act of 1965. He said if people can’t access the ballot, no amount of persuasion can help; because the GOP can’t win an election based on ideas, they have to keep people from voting.

Fletcher explained that although the 15th Amendment, ratified in 1870, said that the right to vote shall not be denied on the basis of race, some states required “certain people” to take a literacy test designed to be impossible to pass (Fletcher noted that none of his college students have been able to). The Department of Justice was then established to enforce voting rights in the South and progress was made until President Hayes was persuaded to “restore home rule” and removed the Federal troops. Progress began again in the 1900’s, most notably with the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965; however, in 2013, a huge setback occurred when the Supreme Court ruled that voter protection was no longer needed.

At the conclusion of his talk, Fletcher encouraged everyone to include the issues of voter’s rights and voter participation when working for change at every level of government.

Club Reports President – Jonathan Wubbolding, as an aside, said that he, too, had taken the literacy test Fletcher had spoken about and reiterated that no one could pass it.

OB Street Fair – A call was made for members to volunteer to man the Club’s booth at the June 24 OB Street Fair and a sign up sheet was passed around.

Happy Hour – The Club’s April 12 Happy Hour at the Old Venice Restaurant was a huge success; everyone was encouraged to go to next month’s, which would be held on May 17.

Dues – April is the last month to pay Club dues for 2017 and members will be removed from the rolls if they fail to pay.

Treasurer – Jonathan announced that the Club was in need of a new treasurer because Thena Taylor had resigned.

Announcements

John Hartley, Coordinator of Neighborhoods for Fair Elections, described how the group was fighting for campaign finance reform for the city of San Diego. Their goal was to have clean elections and empower regular people through public funding of elections. Because his group wasn’t strong enough to get the issue on the ballot last year, they formed a Grand Coalition with Common Cause and the League of Women’s Voters and moved to small-donor matching funding. He invited everyone to attend an organizing meeting on May 6 at First Unitarian Church in Hillcrest when they’ll team up with the Neighborhood Empowerment Alliance. He can be contacted for more information at 619-299-8870.

Parisa Ijadi-Maghsoodi, Pro Bono Manager and Supervising Attorney at San Diego Volunteer Lawyer Program, said that the amount of justice you receive should not rely on how much you could afford for an attorney. She said San Diego High School is taken over every year for a Veteran’s Village of San Diego Stand Down to provide shelter, food, medical care, and legal assistance for the area’s 800-900 homeless veterans and their families; this year’s was scheduled for July 21-23. She explained that when we’re at war and our troops are replaced by a new ones to finally give them relief, it’s considered a “stand down”; however, in reality, they still are at war every day that they remain homeless. More attorneys, funding, and supplies were needed; she can be contacted for more information at [email protected].

Club member Rena Marrocco spoke about the Coastal Commission’s decision to dispose of San Onofre’s nuclear waste by burying it on site just 100 feet from the ocean and only six inches deep. She urged people to attend a hearing at the Oceanside City Council Chambers on May 4 and express their opinion that it was an unacceptable way to dispose of nuclear waste.

Jonathan thanked everyone for coming and invited all to meet afterwards at the Point Break Café at 2743 Shelter Island Drive to continue discussion.

The meeting was adjourned at 5:23 PM.

Meeting notes: Deborah Currier, Secretary Photo credit: John Loughlin

Notes from April Meeting – Voting Rights Club President Jonathan Wubbolding called the meeting to order at 4:05 PM. He thanked everyone for coming and asked any new members to stand and introduce themselves.

#Bryan Pease #Doug Case #Ed Harris #Jordan Beane #Lorena Gonzalez Fletcher #Lori Saldaña #Nathan Fletcher #omar passons #Parisa Ijadi-Maghsoodi

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dreowyn · 7 years

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‘Babies before booze’ CA bill would raise liquor tax to pay for tax-free diapers, tampons

Lorena Gonzalez Fletcher The woman who wants you to put “babies before booze” is also a big supporter of abortion mill and baby parts harvester/seller Planned Parenthood. I question Ms. Fletcher’s values. From Sacramento Bee: After Gov. Jerry Brown vetoed their bills last year to exempt diapers and feminine hygiene products from sales taxes, citing the cost to state and local revenues,…

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#Assembly Bill 479 #booze bill #California #diaper sales tax #excise tax #feminine hygiene sales tax #Gov. Jerry Brown #Lorena Gonzalez Fletcher #San Diego

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rjzimmerman · 5 years

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Excerpt from this LA Times story:

A bill submitted to the state Legislature on Thursday seeks to close the book on a centuries-old livelihood and vestige of old California: commercial trapping of native mammals for their pelts.

Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez Fletcher (D-San Diego) introduced the Wildlife Protection Act of 2019 in response largely to the concerns of wildlife advocates, who say fur trapping is cruel and anachronistic. Trapped animals are strangled, shot or beaten to death, with care taken not to damage pelts before skinning them.

Gonzalez Fletcher, however, said there were also financial reasons for shutting down the industry. “Not only does the cruel fur trapping trade decimate our increasingly vulnerable wildlife populations,” she said, “running this state trapping program doesn’t even make fiscal policy sense.”

The proposal argues that the roughly six dozen trappers still working in the state — down from more than 5,000 in the 1920s — cannot afford to pay the full cost of implementing and regulating their industry as required by law.

“Taxpayers are subsidizing this unnecessary commercial activity, because the cost of running this program isn’t even covered by the revenue from trapping license fees,” Gonzalez Fletcher said. “The revenue generated by the sale of trapping licenses only covers a fraction of the costs of even a single warden.”

The proposal points out that wildlife viewing in California has become a larger source of income than fur trapping. It argues that because individual trappers concentrate their operations in limited geographical areas, they run the risk of depleting targeted species in those areas. Depleting those species could impair an area’s ecology and diminish opportunities for wildlife viewing, the bill says.

A total of 68 trappers reported killing 1,568 animals statewide in 2017, according to the California Department of Fish and Wildlife. Among the 10 species reported taken were coyote, gray fox, beaver, badger and mink. Reported capture rates that year were highest for coyotes, followed by gray foxes, officials said. Of the animals lawfully trapped and killed, 1,241 were reported sold, generating an estimated $4,531 for trappers, or an average of $67 per trapper.

#trapping #fur #California

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jethomme · 6 years

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California Voters: Vote YES on Proposition 10--Fairness to Renters paying in excess of 30% of their income on rent.

Make it clear to greedy developers and unscrupulous landlords that the rent is too damn high! We’re counting on grassroots supporters to step up and vote for Proposition 10 on November 6. Your vote and your voice COUNT! Give the right of city self-determination back to each city government = local control. People on fixed incomes like retirees, veterans, and others require reasonable rents. Median home values have increased by 80% since 2011. More than half the renters in the state of California spend MORE than 30% of their income on rent (Haas Institute for Fair & Inclusive Society, UC Berkeley).

Vote for fairness, or do not be surprised at budding chaos.

Partial list of endorsements follow:

Congresswoman Barbara Lee

Congresswoman Maxine Waters

State Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones

State Superintendent of Public Instruction Delaine Eastin (fmr)

State Senator Ben Allen

State Senator Connie M. Leyva

State Senator Kevin De Leon

State Senator Ricardo Lara

State Assemblymember David Chiu

State Assemblymember Laura Friedman

State Assemblymember Lorena Gonzalez Fletcher

State Assemblymember Mike Davis (fmr)

State Assemblymember Phil Ting

State Assemblymember Reggie Jones-Sawyer

State Assemblymember Rob Bonta

State Assemblymember Tony Thurmond

Berkeley Mayor Jesse Arreguin

Berkeley Rent Board Member Igor Tregub

Berkeley Rent Board Member Leah Simon-Weisberg

Beverly Hills Vice Mayor John Mirisch

Culver City Vice Mayor Meghan Sahli-Wells

Culver City Councilmember Daniel Lee

El Cerrito Mayor Gabriel Quinto

Emeryville Mayor Ken Bukowski (fmr)

Fontana School Board Member Mary Sandoval

Fowler Mayor Don Cardenas

Highland City Mayor Pro Tem Jesus Chavez

Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti

Los Angeles City Councilmember David Ryu

Los Angeles City Councilmember Gil Cedillo

Los Angeles City Councilmember Marqueece Harris-Dawson

Los Angeles City Councilmember Mike Bonin

Los Angeles City Councilmember Paul Koretz

Los Angeles City Councilmember Robert Farrell (fmr)

Los Angeles County Supervisor Hilda Solis

Los Angeles County Supervisor Janice Hahn

Los Angeles County Supervisor Sheila Kuehl

Los Angeles Unified School District Board Member George McKenna

Malibu City Councilmember Lou La Monte

Mountain View Mayor Lenny Siegel

Mountain View Councilmember Pat Showalter

Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf

Oakland City Councilmember Dan Kalb

Oakland City Councilmember Desley Brooks

Oakland City Councilmember Rebecca Kaplan

Redlands City Councilmember Eddie Tejeda

Richmond Vice Mayor Melvin Willis

Richmond City Councilmember Jovanka Beckles

Richmond Mayor Gayle McLaughlin (fmr)

San Francisco Supervisor Hillary Ronen

San Francisco Supervisor Sandra Lee Fewer

San Francisco Supervisor Jane Kim

San Francisco Supervisor Aaron Peskin

San Jose Councilmember Don Rocha

San Jose Councilmember Sergio Jimenez

Santa Barbara Community College Board of Trustees Vice President Jonathan Abboud

Santa Clara City Councilmember Nassim Nouri

Santa Cruz City Councilmember Chris Krohn

Santa Monica City Councilmember Kevin McKeown

Santa Monica City Councilmember Sue Himmelrich

Santa Monica City Councilmember Tony Vazquez

Santa Monica Rent Board Member Caroline Torosis

Santa Monica Rent Board Member Nicole Phillis

Tulare City Council Member Jose Sigala

Ukiah Mayor Phil Baldwin (fmr)

Vallejo School Board Member Ruscal Cayangyang

West Hollywood City Councilmember Lindsey Horvath

West Hollywood City Councilmember Lauren Meister

LOCAL GOVERNMENTS

City of Berkeley

City of Beverly Hills

City of Oakland

City of Palm Springs

City of San Francisco

City of Santa Monica

City of West Hollywood

City of Berkeley Rent Stabilization Board

Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors

Monterey County Board of Supervisors

San Francisco City/County Board of Supervisors

PUBLICATIONS

Los Angeles Times

Sacramento Bee

ColoradoBlvd.net

The Daily Californian

East Bay Express

Hoy Los Angeles

KnockLA

San Francisco Bay Guardian

Santa Maria Times

AFFORDABLE HOUSING PROVIDERS

Housing California

Affordable Housing Alliance

Affordable Housing Network of Santa Clara County

Berkeley Student Cooperative

Christian Church Homes

Council of Community Housing Organizations (CCHO)

East LA Community Corporation

Esperanza Community Housing Corporation

Marty’s Place Affordable Housing Corporation

Mission Economic Development Agency

Non-Profit Housing Association of Northern California (NPH)

Oakland Community Land Trust

Southern California Association of Non-Profit Housing (SCANPH)

Tenderloin Housing Clinic

Thai Community Development Center

TRUST South LA

Venice Community Housing Corporation

Women Organizing Resources Knowledge and Services (WORKS)

TENANT/HOUSING RIGHTS ORGANIZATIONS

Housing NOW! California

Tenants Together

Affordable Homeless Housing Alternatives

Alameda Renters Coalition

Anti-Eviction Mapping Project

Arcata Lazy J Homeowners Association

Asian Law Alliance

Berkeley Tenants Union

Beverly Hills Renters Alliance

Bill Sorro Housing Program (BiSHoP)

California Coalition for Rural Housing

Causa Justa / Just Cause

Chinatown Community for Equitable Development

Coalition for Economic Survival

El Comite de Vecinos del Lado Oeste, East Palo Alto

Comite de la Esperanza

De Rose Gardens Tenant Association (DRGTA)

East Bay Housing Organizations

East Palo Alto Council of Tenants Education Fund

Equity Housing Alliance

EveryOne Home

Fair Housing Advocates of Northern California

Gamaliel CA

Glendale Tenants Union

Golden State Manufactured-Home Owners League

Homes for All

Homeless Student Advocate Alliance

Housing 4 Sacramento

Housing Long Beach

Housing Rights Committee San Francisco

Hunger Action Coalition Los Angeles

Inquilinos Unidos

Isla Vista Tenants Union

LiBRE (Long Beach Residents Empowered)

Los Angeles Community Action Network (LA CAN)

Los Angeles Tenants Union

Manufactured Housing Action

Mountain View Tenants Coalition

Oakland Tenants Union

Orange County Mobile Home Residents Coalition

Pasadena Tenants Union

People of Color Sustainable Housing Network

People Organized for Westside Renewal (POWER)

Poverty Matters

Property Owners for Fair and Affordable Housing

The Q Foundation

Renters of Moreno Valley

Sacramento Housing Alliance

Sacramento Tenants Union

Sanctuary of Hope

San Diego Tenants United

San Francisco Anti-Displacement Coalition

San Francisco Tenants Union

Santa Ana Tenants United

Santa Monicans for Renters Rights (SMRR)

Shelter for All Koreatown

Sonoma County Manufactured-Home Owners Association

Sonoma Valley Housing Group

South Pasadena Tenants Union

Strategic Actions for a Just Economy (SAJE)

Students United with Renters

Union de Vecinos

United for Housing Justice (SF)

United Neighbors In Defense Against Displacement (UNIDAD)

Uplift Inglewood

Urban Habitat

TENANT LEGAL SERVICES

Advancing Justice – Asian Law Caucus

BASTA

California Rural Legal Assistance Foundation

Center for Community Action & Environmental Justice

Centro Legal de la Raza

Community Legal Services in East Palo Alto

Crow & Rose, Tenant Lawyers

East Bay Community Law Center

Eviction Defense Center

Eviction Defense Network

Inner City Law Center – Los Angeles

LA Center for Community Law & Action

Law Foundation of Silicon Valley

National Lawyers Guild – Los Angeles

Public Advocates

Public Counsel

Public Interest Law Project

Western Center on Law and Poverty

LABOR & WORKERS RIGHTS

California Labor Federation

AFSCME California People

AFSCME Local 3299

AFT Local 2121

AFT Local 1521

Bay Area Labor Committee for Peace & Justice

California Faculty Association

California Federation of Teachers

California Nurses Association

California Teachers Association

Central Coast Alliance United For A Sustainable Economy (CAUSE)

Employee Rights Center San Diego

Humboldt and Del Norte Counties Central Labor Council AFL-CIO

International Union of Painters & Allied Trades Local 510

Jobs with Justice San Francisco

Koreatown Immigrant Workers Alliance

Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy

Los Angeles Black Worker Center

Oakland Education Association (OEA)

National Union of Healthcare Workers

Painters & Allied Trades 36

Pajaro Valley Federation of Teachers Retirees

San Bernardino and Riverside Counties Central Labor Council

SEIU California

SEIU Local 1021

SEIU Local 99

SEIU Local 221

SEIU Local 521

SEIU Local 721

SEIU Local 2015

SEIU USWW

UC Student-Workers Union UAW Local 2865

United Automobile, Aerospace, and Agricultural Implement Workers of America UAW Local 5810

UFCW Local 770

Unite HERE Local 11

Unite HERE Local 2850

Unite HERE Local 2

United Educators of San Francisco

United Taxi Workers of San Diego

United Teachers of Los Angeles (UTLA)

Warehouse Worker Resource Center

POLITICAL ORGANIZATIONS

California Democratic Party

Green Party of California

Peace and Freedom Party of California

Our Revolution

AAPIs for Civic Empowerment Education Fund

Alhambra Democratic Club

Americans for Democratic Action Southern California

Bernal Heights Democratic Club

Bernie Sanders Brigade

California Progressive Alliance

Chicano Latino Caucus of the California Democratic Party

Democratic Socialists of America

Democratic Socialists of America East Bay

Democratic Socialists of America Los Angeles

Democratic Socialists of America Orange County

Democratic Socialists of America Peninsula

Democratic Socialists of America Pomona Valley

Democratic Socialists of America Sacramento

Democratic Socialists of America San Diego

Democratic Socialists of America San Francisco

Democratic Socialists of America Santa Cruz

Democratic Socialists of America Silicon Valley

Democratic Socialists of America Ventura County

East Area Progressive Dems

El Dorado County Democratic Party

Feel the Bern Democratic Club Los Angeles

Green Party of Santa Clara County

Harvey Milk LGBT Democratic Club

Humboldt County Democrats

Inland Empire for Our Revolution

International Socialist Organization

Los Angeles County Democratic Party

Napa County Green Party

NorCal4OurRevolution

North Valley Democratic Club

Our Revolution

Our Revolution East Bay

Our Revolution Progressive Los Angeles

Our Revolution Santa Ana

Our Revolution Ventura County

Party for Socialism and Liberation – SF

Peninsula Young Democrats

Progressive Democrats of America California PAC

Progressive Democrats of America San Fernando Valley

Progressive Democrats of the Santa Monica Mountains

Richmond Progressive Alliance

San Bernardino County Young Democrats

San Diego Central Committee of the Peace and Freedom Party of CA

San Diego County Peace and Freedom Party

San Francisco Berniecrats

San Francisco County Democratic Party

San Francisco Latino Democratic Club

San Luis Obispo County Democratic Party

San Luis Obispo County Progressives

San Pedro Democratic Club

Santa Monica Democratic Club

Socialist Alternative Los Angeles

Socialist Party of Ventura County

Stonewall Democratic Club

UC Berkeley Young Democratic Socialists of America

Wellstone Democratic Renewal Club

West Hollywood-Beverly Hills Democratic Club

CIVIL RIGHTS/LIBERTIES ORGANIZATIONS

ACLU of California

ACLU of Northern California

ACLU of San Diego and Imperial Counties

ACLU of Southern California

Advocates for Black Strategic Alternatives

African American Cultural Center

American Indian Movement Southern California

APGA Tour

API Equality – LA

Black Community Clergy & Labor Alliance

Brotherhood Crusade

CARECEN

Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights Los Angeles (CHIRLA)

Committee for Racial Justice

Council on American-Islamic Relations California (CAIR)

Dellums Institute for Social Justice

Fannie Lou Hamer Institute

Institute of the Black World 21st Century

Latino Equality Alliance

Los Angeles Urban League

MLK Coalition of Greater LA

Muslim Public Alliance Council (MPAC)

National Action Network Los Angeles

National Urban League

Services Immigrant Rights and Education Network (SIREN)

Showing Up for Racial Justice (SURJ) Bay Area

Showing Up for Racial Justice (SURJ) San Jose

Southern Christian Leadership Conference of Greater Southern California

United Native Americans

Urban League of San Diego County

Youth Justice Coalition

HEALTH ORGANIZATIONS

Access Support Network San Luis Obispo & Monterey Counties

AIDS Healthcare Foundation

APAIT (Special Service for Groups)

Asian Pacific Islander Forward Movement

Black Women for Wellness

Latino Health Access

San Francisco Human Services Network

Sierra Foothills AIDS Foundation

St. John’s Well Child & Family Center

Women Organized to Respond to Life-Threatening Diseases (WORLD)

SENIOR ORGANIZATIONS

California Alliance for Retired Americans

Monterey County Area Agency on Aging

Senior and Disability Action

Social Security Works

FAITH INSTITUTIONS & LEADERS

Rev. James Lawson

AME Ministerial Alliance – NorCal

Bend the Arc – Southern California

Berkeley Fellowship of Unitarian Universalists Social Justice Committee

California Church IMPACT

Cheryl Ward Ministries

Christian Church Homes

Church Without Walls – Skid Row Los Angeles

Clergy & Laity United for Economic Justice – Los Angeles (CLUE)

Congregational Church of Palo Alto

Congregations Organized for Prophetic Engagement (COPE)

Congregations Organizing For Renewal (COR)

First AME Church – Los Angeles

Greater Long Beach Interfaith Community Organization (ICO)

Holman United Methodist Church – Los Angeles

Inland Empire African American Pastors

Interfaith Communities United for Justice and Peace

Interfaith Movement for Human Integrity

Jewish Center for Justice

LA Voice – PICO Affiliate

Lutheran Office of Public Policy – California

McCarty Memorial Christian Church – Los Angeles

Multi-faith ACTION Coalition

Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC)

Oakland Community Organizing – PICO Affiliate (OCO)

PACT: People Acting in Community Together – PICO Affiliate

PICO California

Poor People’s Campaign of California

Sacramento ACT – PICO Affiliate

Sojourner Truth Presbyterian Church

Unitarian Universalist Faith in Action Committee

STATEWIDE, REGIONAL & LOCAL ORGANIZATIONS

ACTICON

Advancement Project California

Alliance for Community Transit – Los Angeles (ACT-LA)

Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment (ACCE Action)

Allies for Life

All Peoples Community Center

ANSWER SF

Asian Pacific Environmental Network (APEN)

Associated Students of UC Santa Barbara

Block by Block Organizing Network

Brave New Films

California Bicycle Coalition

California Calls

California Environmental Justice Alliance

Californians for Justice

California for Progress

Californians for Safety and Justice

Californian Latinas for Reproductive Justice

California Partnership

California Reinvestment Coalition

Chicano Latino Caucus of San Bernardino County

Chispa

Coalition to Preserve LA

CDTech

Central Hollywood Neighborhood Council – Los Angeles

Committee to Defend Roosevelt

Communities for a New California

Community Coalition

Consumer Watchdog

Courage Campaign

Creating Freedom Movements

Crenshaw Subway Coalition

D5Action

Dolores Huerta Foundation

The East Oakland Collective

East Yard Communities for Environmental Justice

Ensuring Opportunity Campaign to End Poverty in Contra Costa County

Environmental Health Coalition

Friends Committee on Legislation of California

The Fund for Santa Barbara

GLIDE Foundation

The Green Scene TV

Ground Game LA

The Hayward Collective

Historic Highland Park Neighborhood Council – Los Angeles

Hyde Park Organizational Partnership for Empowerment

Indivisible SF

Inland Empire United

Inland Empowerment

InnerCity Struggle

Justice House

Kenwood Oakland Community Organization

Korean Resource Center

LA Forward

Latino Economic Development Center

Latinos United for a New America

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability Central Valley

League of Women Voters of California

League of Women Voters of Los Angeles

Liberty Hill Foundation

Livable California

Los Feliz Neighborhood Council – Los Angeles

Million Voter Project

Mission Neighborhood Centers, Inc.

Mobilize the Immigrant Vote

Neighbors United – San Francisco

9to5 Los Angeles Chapter

North Bay Organizing Project

Orange County Civic Engagement Table

Organize Sacramento

Pasadenans Organizing for Progress

People for Mobility Justice

Places in the City

PolicyLink

Pomona Economic Opportunity Center

Progressive Alliance – San Bernardino County

Progressive Asian Network for Action

Public Bank LA/Revolution LA/Divest LA

Rampart Village Neighborhood Council – Los Angeles

Right Way Foundation

Rubicon Programs

RYSE Youth Center

Sacred Heart Community Service

Sero Project

SF Neighbors United

The Sidewalk Project

Sierra Club of California

Sierra Club of San Gorgonio Chapter

Silicon Valley De-Bug

Skid Row Coffee

Sociedad Organizada de Latinas Activas

Solidarity – Bay Area

SolidarityINFOService

Southeast Asian Community Alliance

South of Market Community Action Network

STAND LA

Strategic Concepts in Organizing and Policy Education (SCOPE)

University of California Student Association

Urban Tilth

Velveteen Rabbit Project

Wilshire Center Koreatown Neighborhood Council – Los Angeles

Working Partnerships USA

Xochipilli Latino Men’s Circle

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