5 May 2021Washington, DC
Democrat Rep. Ron Kind (D-WI) has taken more than $110,000 worth of special interest-funded lavish trips, filings with the U.S. House Ethics Committee reveal.
Documents show that between March 2001 and August 2019, Kind took at least 14 trips valued at $110,665 all funded by special interest groups. He has taken trips everywhere from Tel Aviv to Geneva to Rome to Munich to Fort Lauderdale to New Orleans to Houston to Seattle and more, funded by various different special interest groups and corporations.
The documents, while filed with the House Ethics Committee as required by congressional ethics regulations, have not been publicly reported until now. Kind’s office declined to make the congressman available for an interview to explain his high-class globetrotting on special interest groups’ dimes, and would not provide a comment in response to these revelations. It’s worth noting that instead of doing her job and answering press inquiries about her b
Name droppers: Governor reappoints Social Services counsel
Gov. Gavin Newsom reappointed
Torene L.M. Schwab, 54, of Davis, as deputy director and chief counsel at the California Department of Social Services, where she has served in that role since 2015.
She held multiple positions at the California Department of Social Services from 2000 to 2015, including assistant chief counsel, senior staff counsel and staff counsel. She was an associate attorney at McDonough, Holland and Allen from 1995 to 2000 and at Burger and Plavan from 1993 to 1995. Schwab is a member of the American Association of Health and Human Services Attorneys.
She earned a J.D. degree from the University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law. This position does not require Senate confirmation and the compensation is $199,368. Schwab is a Democrat.