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This editorial doesn’t pull any punches on Jane Kim’s terrible ideas. “If Prop C is an example of how Kim would operate as insurance commissioner, voters should run screaming.” www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/arti...
Endorsement: Ben Allen for California insurance commissionerOPINION: In a race with no Republican, some California voters may see an opportunity to take a chance on a radical candidate for state insurance commissioner. That would be a terrible mistake.www.sfchronicle.comJane Kim, the current front-runner for the state insurance commissioner, would make this already unsustainable problem even worse. She wants you to subsidize fire insurance for rich people who choose to live in the urban-wildland interface where wildfires do the most property damage.
Urban Land Rent 🇸🇴🚰This is the first time I’ve ever seen a CA publication speak plainly about both the stakes (and the basic distributional politics involved) The FAIR plan is a ticking time bomb and the primary problem is it promises to insure uninsurable property for rich people. www.latimes.com/business/sto...
As a historian who's worked in many archives, this makes me feel physically ill.
A penitent who is loudDestroying the physical copies of these documents - if this is really happening - would be an extremely on the nose bit of narrative.
This is absolutely, 100 percent the story behind the Platner disaster.
Jane Coastonalso, working class is no longer a class, but a cultural signifier. if you work as a nail technician, you're working class, but no one pitches their entire political campaign at you.