The biography of San Francisco's newly elected district attorney reads like a shallow parody authored by a right-wing Andy Borowitz. Consider, for example, the following facts about Chesa Boudin, the 39-year-old attorney who narrowly won the race to become the city's top prosecutor:
Nearly 80,000 Californians collected six-figure taxpayer-funded pensions in 2018, as retirement costs leave half the state's cities at "high risk" of serious financial distress, according to an analysis.
Rusty Hicks, the chairman of the California Democratic Party, on Tuesday slammed Democratic presidential candidates Sen. Elizabeth Warren (Mass.) and Joe Biden for their decision to skip the upcoming nominating convention.
Top executives at Dignity Health, the nonprofit health care provider that stuck its own employee with a $900,000 bill for her premature baby, have donated extensively to Democratic candidates and committees over the years.
"The fact is there is no more money. Period," says Chicago mayor Lori Lightfoot. She's talking about the teachers' strike that has paralyzed her city's public schools—enrollment 360,000—for the past week. The public employee union is demanding more: more money for salaries (only eight states pay teachers more than Illinois), more support staff (Illinois ranks first in spending on administrators), more teachers per student. Their cause has attracted national attention. Elizabeth Warren joined the picket line.
Residents of Cupertino, Calif., and the surrounding enclaves populated by wealthy liberals will soon have the opportunity to attend a government-sponsored "poverty simulation" designed to educate participants on "the reality of a Silicon Valley that grows in disparity as much as prosperity."
Senator Ben Sasse (R., Neb.) on Friday condemned San Francisco's travel-ban ordinance meant to cut city-funded travel and company contracts with 22 pro-life states.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D.) will force California State universities and the University of California campuses to provide abortion pills for students by 2023.
The biography of San Francisco's newly elected district attorney reads like a shallow parody authored by a right-wing Andy Borowitz. Consider, for example, the following facts about Chesa Boudin, the 39-year-old attorney who narrowly won the race to become the city's top prosecutor: 
