Today’s announcement that Justice Kennedy is retiring overshadowed one of the Supreme Court’s final decisions of the term, Janus v. AFSCME. The Court in Janus held that requiring non-members of public sector unions to pay their “fair share” of dues to pay for collective bargaining violates the First Amendment. The decision was not a surprise; this decision was …
I live in the Congressional District CA-13, and my Congressional Representative is Barbara Lee. I don’t think there’s much sunlight politically between me and Ms. Lee. Barbara Lee speaks for me, as the saying goes. But what exactly does Barbara Lee say? She has a safe seat and a quiet voice, and that bothers me. …
Earlier this month, I wrote about the word queerspawn, and what I thought about it. I’m working on a replacement name for the offspring of gays and lesbians that doesn’t conjure infection or insects (“spawn”). Although I’ve only seen the word used affectionately by COLAGs (not a good replacement, I’ve decided), it reminded at least two …
Last July, I wrote this column on Creating Your Own Political Giving Strategy. Wow, time flies. Stacey Abrams, the candidate who sparked me to write that won her Georgia Democratic primary, and may be the first female African-American governor in the US. Stacey was one of very few candidates I gave to in the past …