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State-Sanctioned Voter Suppression, Brought to You by America’s Leading Corporate Citizens Mar 17, 2021 Having failed to enable the takeover of the U.S. federal government by force, Republican legislators are now relying on new state-based voter suppression laws to rein in Black voters, among others. This new push for voter suppression laws has exposed last year’s corporate-supported voter drives as little more than a game of whack-a-mole. The real power rests with the elected officials who make election law, and now some unwanted attention is now turning on the corporate donors who helped put them in office. State-based voter suppression bills rise from the ashes of failed insurrection ....
Monday, January 18, 2021 | Sacramento, CA California Secretary of State Alex Padilla talks during a news conference on Jan. 28, 2019, at the Capitol in Sacramento. Padilla has been named Newsom s pick for U.S. Senate. Photo by Rich Pedroncelli, AP Photo Lea este artículo en español. After Joe Biden picked Sen. Kamala Harris as his vice presidential running mate in August, the parlor game of choice for California’s most politically plugged-in was: Who will Gov. Gavin Newsom pick to fill her vacant Senate seat? Alex Padilla California’s secretary of state, a Democrat from Pacoima, loyal Newsom ally and a Latino in a state that has never had a member of that largest ethnic group serve as senator was a top pick among the predictions of insiders. The governor announced his choice in late December and made the appointment official today. ....
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2. Leaving behind an ethically dicey $35 million bill With mammoth turnout expected in an election like no other, staff inside the Secretary of State s office spent the summer of 2020 scrambling to inform voters about the what, when, where and how of voting. That s why they inked a contract in September with the political consulting firm, SKDKnickerbocker, to run a statewide PR campaign called Vote Safe California. The total tab: $35 million. That contract got Padilla into hot water with Republicans. SKDKnickerbocker has longstanding ties to the Democratic Party and was a client of president-elect Joe Biden, then a candidate in the election the firm had been hired to promote. GOP members of Congress launched an investigation and the conservative Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association took Padilla to court. ....