Daniel Weintraub

Father. Native Californian. Principal at Weintraub Public Affairs. Former Chief of Staff to Sen. Steve Glazer and scribe for LA Times, SacBee and OC Register.

[Daniel Weintraub @DMWeintraub]

Well give Pence credit for not pandering to the “populist” vote.

[American Bridge 21st Century @American_Bridge]

Just moments ago, presidential hopeful @Mike_Pence said what’s on every Republican politician’s mind: “I don’t really buy into the rich need to pay their fair share.”

A Republican in the White House means even more tax cuts for the rich.

[Daniel Weintraub @DMWeintraub]

Proud to have helped @Steve_Glazer create the California Veterinary Emergency Team to care for animals in disasters. Here’s an update on the program from KCBS. https://t.co/TUmor0B0Zv

[Daniel Weintraub @DMWeintraub]

⁦@DanCALmatters⁩ I took this shot on my first day of work in the Senate. My office window was on the top floor, second from the left above the East Steps. Until KDL took it away on his way out of the Pro Tem job. That’s one of those stories you’re talking about!

[Daniel Weintraub @DMWeintraub]

I don't see anything in the SCOTUS opinion that would prevent universities from giving a preference to applicants who are descended from slaves -- as long as the schools were "color blind" about the race of those applicants.

[Daniel Weintraub @DMWeintraub]

@DanCALmatters

[Daniel Weintraub @DMWeintraub]

@mehdirhasan The whole thing is just stupid. If his defense is going to be that he was lying -- "bravado" -- he doesn't need to say that the document he claimed was the plan to attack Iran was just "building plans." It could have been anything. But he can't even keep his lies straight.

[Daniel Weintraub @DMWeintraub]

He is such a terrible liar — and yet….

[Maggie Haberman @maggieNYT]

Trump, aboard his private plane, had a new explanation for what he was waving at Bedminster -- "building plans." Via @semafor https://t.co/MWM5R9Cbng

[Daniel Weintraub @DMWeintraub]

Huge news. https://t.co/mgzPmxsLkT

[Daniel Weintraub @DMWeintraub]

Your GOP: Making the world safe for AR-15 pistols.

[Craig Caplan @CraigCaplan]

219-210: House voted to repeal the ATF's pistol brace rule reclassifying pistols as short-barreled rifles if they have a stabilizing brace attachment. This joint resolution now heads to the Senate. White House opposes it and said President Biden will veto it.

[Daniel Weintraub @DMWeintraub]

The Constitution requires legislators to pass a budget by June 15, not a budget they know the governor will sign. Their budget deal is real and reflects their values, not the governor's. Calling it a "sham" because the governor hasn't blessed it seems harsh. Separation of Powers.

[CalMatters @CalMatters]

Commentary:

The California Legislature will be playing charades this week, passing a budget bill to meet the June 15 constitutional deadline even though it’s not the real budget. It will, however, protect lawmakers’ paychecks. https://t.co/XzuWgm4HYR

📝: @DanCALmatters

[Daniel Weintraub @DMWeintraub]

Far-right Republicans were holding McCarthy — and the House — hostage in part to force a vote on their legislation to end federal regulation of pistols modified to be used like AR-15 rifles. McCarthy relented. Why wasn’t that in the headlines? https://t.co/4Rv5qi6ffV

[Daniel Weintraub @DMWeintraub]

It's odd that the city at the heart of that court case -- Boise -- has no homeless camps on its streets or in its parks. Maybe someone should find out how they've done it.

[Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias]

Great piece from @rmc031 on the court case that made it hard for western cities to deal with tent camps.

I note the asymmetry — they said you can't ban sleeping on the street but it's fine to keep banning small lot homes, midrise apartments, etc

https://t.co/RYsRgNpFg6

[Daniel Weintraub @DMWeintraub]

If not wanting U.S. Military bases to be named for soldiers who fought against the United States is political correctness "run amok," sign me up.

[DeSantis War Room 🐊 @DeSantisWarRoom]

DESANTIS: "I also look forward to, as President, restoring the name of FORT BRAGG to our great military base in Fayetteville, North Carolina... It's an iconic name and iconic base, and we're not gonna let political correctness run amok."

[Daniel Weintraub @DMWeintraub]

But you get the feeling that if they could somehow blame Biden for the fires they would be singing a completely different tune about the health danger posed by the smoke.

[Matthew Gertz @MattGertz]

Fox guest: There's just no health risk...We have this kind of air in India and China all the time, no public health emergency... this doesn't kill anybody, this doesn't make anybody cough, this is not a health event... particulate matter is just very fine soot, they're innocuous.

[Daniel Weintraub @DMWeintraub]

Great piece. One thing the transphobic crowd has never explained is how forcing a trans man to use the bathroom of his birth gender (the women’s room) makes women safer, or even makes them feel safer. Wouldn’t it be the opposite? https://t.co/aaSfbeZ65z

[Daniel Weintraub @DMWeintraub]

Biden has done a terrible job of shifting the discussion from "the debt," which most Americans oppose without really understanding it, to spending on specific, popular programs, which most Americans do understand and wouldn't want to cut.

[New York Times Opinion @nytopinion]

Will President Biden, at the last minute, unveil an effective counter to G.O.P. debt ceiling blackmail? @PaulKrugman isn’t counting on it. https://t.co/38LfjBgrzF

[Daniel Weintraub @DMWeintraub]

Have the Lakers said yet whether Davis was evaluated for a concussion? As a Dubs fan I don’t won’t his injury to affect the outcome but it doesn’t seem like the media have pressed the Lakers on this issue. https://t.co/4rJjJmf6cE

[Daniel Weintraub @DMWeintraub]

Dems need to stop talking about default and hostage taking and leverage and start talking about the five or ten least popular things in the GOP bill. The public doesn’t care about process. People do care about losing services. That’s how we saved the ACA. https://t.co/5AXsdNXsto

[Daniel Weintraub @DMWeintraub]

The funny thing about this fight is that DeSantis is fighting against the concept of privatization and in favor of government control of land use and infrastructure. You go Ron! https://t.co/hoHoyiPQBx

[Daniel Weintraub @DMWeintraub]

The tragedy in the right-wing critique of the US involvement in the war is that they are giving anti-war dissent a bad name. It's a time-honored and crucial piece of the American tradition. But in this case Fox & Co. are using disinformation to pursue purely partisan motives.

[Michael Weiss @michaeldweiss]

It's not even that this was the one document doctored by pro-Russian Telegram users, inverting Ukrainian and Russian casualties. (I have the original, which shows Russian losses are greater.) It's that Carlson's team knows it and still let him run with this lie.