TENTATIVE AGREEMENT REACHED IN MARRIOTT HOTEL STRIKE IN SAN FRANCISCO

SAN FRANCISCO - A tentative agreement has been reached in the Marriott hotel strike in San Francisco that is impacting 2,500 workers.

Housekeepers, dishwashers, bellmen, and cooks have been on the picket line nearly two months calling for better wages, affordable health care, and safe workloads.

"We can confirm we have a tentative agreement. We look forward to welcoming our associates back to work," said a Marriott International spokesperson.

Workers could be back to work by Wednesday.


https://www.google.com/amp/s/abc7news.com/amp/business/tentative-agreement-reached-in-marriott-hotel-strike-in-san-francisco/4821235/

INSIDE THE GOP'S CALIFORNIA NIGHTMARE

Rep. Steve Knight’s (R-Calif.) campaign went into election night thinking another tough victory was at hand.

Knight ground out a win in 2016, in a district President Donald Trump lost, despite relentless Democratic attacks linking Knight and his party’s leader. But Democrat Katie Hill swept him out of Congress by more than 8 percentage points in 2018.

“We never had any indication, any poll, that we’d see anything close to the margin we got,” said Matt Rexroad, a Republican consultant who worked on Knight’s race.

It was one of several nasty midterm shocks for California Republicans: Internal polling described to POLITICO showed Knight and Reps. Dana Rohrabacher and Mimi Walters — all of whom lost — narrowly leading their Democratic opponents at the end of the campaign. Not only did the GOP get crushed in California, the party also got taken by surprise by the intensity of the backlash in the nation’s largest state, where Republicans projected confidence nearly all year before watching Democrats flip a whopping six House districts — and possibly a seventh.

The nightmare results were the end result of a toxic brew of overconfidence and presidential unpopularity, as some Republicans failed to recognize and reckon with the unprecedented negative reaction to President Donald Trump in districts from Orange County to California’s agriculture-heavy Central Valley.



https://news.immitate.com/2018/12/01/inside-the-gops-california-nightmare-politico/

David Bowie - Blue Jean (VIDEO)

FL-15: Ross Spano acknowledges possible 'violation' of campaign finance law

Newly elected congressman Ross Spano has acknowledged that his campaign financing "may have been in violation" of federal law.

In a filing with the Federal Elections Commission which Spano released publicly Saturday afternoon, he acknowledged borrowing $180,000 from two people he has described as personal friends from June through October this year, and then lending his campaign $167,000 in roughly the same time period.

When he made the loans to his campaign, Spano said on campaign finance reports that the money came from his "personal funds."

But under federal campaign finance law, a loan made to a candidate with the intent of providing money for a campaign must be considered a campaign contribution, not the candidate's personal funds.

Any such loan must adhere to campaign contribution limits — $2,700 each for the primary and general elections, far less than the loans Spano acknowledges having received.

Several election law experts have said that if Spano's loans to his campaign came from money from money borrowed from friends, it appears to violate campaign finance law.

The purpose of the law, those experts said, is to prevent one or more wealthy individuals from single-handedly financing a candidate for office.

At the time of the loans, Spano "believed he was acting in full compliance with the law" as did the two lenders, "based on the consultations they had at the time," stated a letter to the Commission that was released Saturday afternoon.


https://www.tampabay.com/florida-politics/buzz/2018/12/01/ross-spano-acknowledges-possible-violation-of-campaign-finance-law/

TX-22: Pete Olson rumored to resign early next year.

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Honest Question to San Francisco DUer's regarding Nancy's speakership

Is it really to San Francisco's benefit to be the Speaker's home district, or is it better to have someone working full time on the city's behalf?

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