Trumpcare:
GOP Plan Hurts Trump Voters Most By Paul Rosenberg, Senior Editor
“When you look at the Republican bill it should not be seen as a healthcare bill, because throwing millions of people off of health care is not health care legislation. What it should be seen as is a huge tax break for the wealthiest people in this country.” — Sen. Bernie Sanders
The House GOP leadership looks on as Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI), center front, submitted its health care bill to replace the Affordable Care Act, known as Obamacare. File photo.
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By Terelle Jerricks, Managing Editor
Voter turnout was 6 percent citywide and 13 percent countywide during the March 7 primary election. Turnout in Council District 15 was better than the city average at 9 percent, but not by much. Random Lengths analyzed the preliminary numbers and found that measures supported by the establishment won by huge margins. Measure H, a county sales tax for homeless services and prevention, for which Supervisor Mark Ridley Thomas and his son Assemblyman Sebastian Ridley-Thomas heavily stumped in the primary’s final days was one of those races. The City of Los Angeles’ Measure S, also known as the Neighborhood Integrity Initiative that aimed to change the city’s laws governing changes to the general plan, was defeated by the whole of city government in alliance with labor unions and civil rights organizations. In the case of the competing marijuana regulation ballot initiatives,
voters saw the proponents of the grassroots initiative Measure N abandon their effort when the city finally placed its own measure on the ballot. This was following the passage of the state’s Proposition 64 that legalized recreational use of the drug. In the case of the city ballot initiative Measure P, which aimed to amend the city charter to increase the maximum length of Harbor Department leases from 50 years to 66 years, in accordance with changes to state law, there was more at stake for Harbor Area residents. In 2015, then state Sen. Isadore Hall authored and successfully ushered Senate Bill 399, a bill that amended the State Tidelands Trust to allow legacy 50-year leases to be extended by 25 years and allow maximum lease terms of 66 years. At the time, it was believed that the legislation was
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Starring Windy Barnes-Farrell
Scourge of Low Voter Turnout
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Primary Election Breakdown:
The Local Publication You Actually Read
“I was the first & only potential GOP candidate to state there will be no cuts to Social Security, Medicare & Medicaid,” Donald Trump tweeted on May 7, 2015. “Huckabee copied me.” For once, Trump was telling the truth — except for lying about Huckabee. He did make that promise. In fact, he made it repeatedly, in various forms. “I am going to take care of everybody,” Trump told 60 Minutes in September 2015. “Everybody’s going to be taken care of much better than they’re taken care of now.” Trump also promised lower costs. “We’re going to replace it [Obamacare] with something that’s going to be great, that’s a lot less expensive for you, and a lot less expensive, frankly, for the government,” he told a rally in South Carolina the following month.
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