Win. That budget vote yesterday is a little bit of foreshadowing of the problems republicans will have hashing this out amongst themselves. I think were unified on a lot of issues but not unified how to approach those issues, if youre not unified on both, you wont get things done. Theres a civil war in the gop. Also this hour, face to face, the president met today with interior secretary ryan zinke even as questions mount about how and why a Small Company from zinkes hometown scored a 300 Million Contract to rebuild puerto ricos electrical grid. Two house panels are investigating whether that company, White Fish Energy acted inappropriately in getting this deal. Earlier today, on this network, a whitefish spokesman defended the contract. The conspiracy theories, i get peoples questions, they are very legitimate. You buy experience. That is why whitefish is there and white fish is getting work done. 38 days after hurricane maria, more than 73 of puerto rico remains in the dark. So, obvi
Hoover Lee, a Hawaii-born gay Chinese American activist and champion of global LGBTQ human rights, died February 11 at California Pacific Medical Center in San Francisco. He was 83.
His friend Edgar Poma said that Mr. Lee s death was due to several health issues but was not COVID-related.
Mr. Lee was a founding member of the Association of Lesbian and Gay Asians; one of the original organizers of the Gay Asian Pacific Alliance; founder of the Asian and Pacific Islander Caucus of the Harvey Milk LGBTQ Democratic Club; and coordinator and community organizer for many successful progressive political campaigns and causes. If there was ever to be a founding father of the gay Asian movement in San Francisco it would be Hoover Lee, Lawrence Wong, a gay man and former elected official, wrote in an email to the Bay Area Reporter. Hoover was active as an openly gay man as a member of straight groups like the Organization of Chinese Americans and the Chinese American Democratic Club. But