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THE BUZZ: In the waning days of the Trump presidency, Speaker
Nancy Pelosi and Republican leader
Kevin McCarthy managed to agree on the president’s culpability but not on the proper response.
The Californian leaders have long represented opposite poles of Trump-era politics:
Newsom keeps politically connected picks in medical watchdog role past deadline
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Asif Mahmood at a campaign appearance in 2018 in Los Angeles. Gov. Gavin Newsom nominated Mahmood to the regulatory Medical Board of California in 2019 and has allowed him to stay on for months past a deadline for the state Senate to confirm him.Nick Ut / Associated Press 2017Show MoreShow Less
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Richard Thorp, a former California Medical Association president nominated by Gov. Gavin Newsom to the regulatory Medical Board of California. Newsom has allowed Thorp to stay on for months past a deadline for the state Senate to confirm him.Medical Board of CaliforniaShow MoreShow Less
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SACRAMENTO, Calif., Jan. 13, 2021 /PRNewswire/ Consumer Watchdog renewed its call for Governor Gavin Newsom to withdraw the nomination of Dr. Richard Thorp, former president of the doctors lobby, to the Medical Board of California. The Medical Board s job is patient protection, said Consumer Watchdog board member Tammy Smick, who lost her son to medical negligence, in a letter objecting to Dr. Thorp s confirmation. It is outrageous that a past president and member of the California Medical Association, a political organization with a long record of active opposition to reasonable physician oversight, is even being considered for this critical public safety post.