Should she eke out a surprise win to become California governor in the expected recall election this fall, how would transgender former Olympian Caitlyn Jenner address the Golden State s crippling lack of affordable housing? Or solve its perennial shortage of water, with parts of the state already under drought declarations?
Voters wondering what her stances are on those and other policy issues won t find any answers on Jenner s gubernatorial campaign website she launched April 23. There isn t much there other than a photo of her driving an open-top sports car with a canine passenger and a pitch for donations to her neophyte political bid.
The Palm Springs Human Rights Commission recently recommended the removal of former Mayor Frank Bogert s statue from the front of City Hall, citing his involvement in the forced ouster of families of color, during the mid-1960s, from tribal land known as Section 14.
Political activist David Weiner launched a petition to remove the statue in June amid nationwide efforts to address racial injustices following Floyd s death.
Middleton said she wants Palm Springs to continue with its efforts to address racism.
“We all need a time of healing, and we have had far too many generations of people who have grown up with vastly inequitable opportunity. I want to see us do everything that we possibly can to ensure that the generation of young people in our schools today do not fall victim to the kind of racism and bigotry that has been far too prevalent in our country,” she said.
Police warn of homeless people, inmates being brought to quarantine in Palm Springs
Police in Palm Springs are warning that dozens of homeless people and some inmates are being brought into the city and released.
County officials said the people are brought here to quarantine or isolate as part of a county-funded public health program. But city leaders are upset they had no idea it was happening.
Last week, officers discovered about 30 people had been bused in from outside the Coachella Valley, PSPD Chief Bryan Reyes told city council. Who knows how many have been coming into our city, Reyes said. It s a little disturbing.
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Bucking other LGBTQ leaders who have beseeched California Governor Gavin Newsom to name gay Equality California Executive Director Rick Chavez Zbur as the state s next attorney general, members of a Bay Area group for out Asians and Pacific Islanders have thrown their support behind Assemblyman Rob Bonta (D-Oakland), a straight ally.
In a letter signed by Gay Asian Pacific Alliance Chair Michael Nguyen, GAPA s political action committee notified Newsom that it emphatically endorses and supports Bonta being named the next attorney general for the Golden State. Nguyen noted Bonta s being the Legislature s first member of Filipino descent and his background of being a Yale Law School graduate and former deputy city attorney in San Francisco.