Alan LoFaso

Fmr legislative chief of staff, tax/financial deputy, planning commission chair; Attorney; urbanist; opera lover. Sac Ethics Commissioner

[Alan LoFaso @alanlofaso]

@MikeOpera “Content not available”… says what you’re reposting. I think this is it. X trying to “protect kids” or a deeper censorship?

[Denver Int'l Airport @DENAirport]

WE'RE GETTING OUR PERSONALITY BACKKK. 🎨😈

Over the next couple of months, you’ll notice some familiar faces returning to the Great Hall. These exhibits were stored during construction and are now being reinstalled.

[Larry Levitt @larry_levitt]

Medicare for All advocates talk about universal coverage, no premiums and out-of-pocket costs, administrative savings, and eliminating insurance profits.

Opponents talk about higher taxes, more government control, and giving up your current insurance plan.

All of that is true.

[Larry Levitt @larry_levitt]

New: With enhanced ACA premium subsidies expired and Medicaid cuts phasing in, the Congressional Budget Office expects the share of the population uninsured to rise above 10% for the first time since the ACA was implemented.

[Alan LoFaso @alanlofaso]

You — the CD6 voter — have the power to end this torrent of meaningless press releases that will never result in any policy outcomes by electing @DrPanMD to the U.S. House of Representatives.

[Kevin Kiley @KevinKileyCA]

I am encouraging the University of California to bring back the SAT and ACT in admissions immediately. Lowering standards has been a disaster for education in our state. Many college freshmen now struggle with basic math.

[Liam Dillon @dillonliam]

A very useful resource from @AGRobBonta listing allowable rent increases — including in rent controlled cities — in California next year https://t.co/DPU9DieGjw.

[Alan LoFaso @alanlofaso]

@larry_levitt I’m sure you account for the fact that MCFA isn’t Medicare, but a label. (Bernie et al don’t really mean every American will have to buy a type of Medigap et al on the open market?) And isn’t the controversy about quality which is difficult to quantify?

[Alan LoFaso @alanlofaso]

@paulmitche11 It’s a negotiation. It’s disgusting but it’s politics. If someone fits the bill, the Maine Democratic Party should nominate a replacement that keeps faith with the progressive coalition Platner mustered that nominated him at the ballot. (But who is that…?)

[Alan LoFaso @alanlofaso]

@paulmitche11 Who are the three now unemployed liberal to progressive Democrats waiting in the wings?

[David Frum @davidfrum]

250 years after July 4, 1776, the successor of King George III pays taxes and publishes his returns. The successor of George Washington does not. https://t.co/CbIXDe8UQY

[Barack Obama @BarackObama]

America is a constant work in progress. Every generation must take up the unfinished work of the last and carry it further—protecting what’s right, fixing what’s wrong, and making our union a little more perfect. 250 years later, that’s more important than ever.

[Joe Biden @JoeBiden]

Two hundred and fifty years ago, a group of Americans signed their names to a piece of parchment and made a promise no nation had ever made before: that we're all created equal, endowed by our Creator with unalienable rights — life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

We're the only nation in history built not on ethnicity, or blood, or geography but on an idea. That's always been what makes us exceptional. We chose that path 250 years ago but that’s where the work began, not where it ended. Every generation has had to choose it again. At Valley Forge, at Gettysburg, on the beaches of Normandy, in the streets of Selma. Americans recommitted themselves to the principles on which our nation was founded.

Now it's our turn.

There's nothing guaranteed about our democracy. We have to fight for it, defend it, and earn it. Over and over, year after year. That's not a burden. That's what it means to be an American.

250 years in, we still haven't fully lived up to those words in the Declaration. But we've never walked away from them, and this July 4, I hope all of us can commit to one thing: that we never will. I don't believe we're as divided as we're told we are. I've bet my whole life on the American people, and I'm not stopping now.

Happy 250th birthday, America. Our story isn't finished. Let's keep writing it together.

[Alan LoFaso @alanlofaso]

@adlerben @JerryBrownGov I guess I’m “old school” and have thought this type of commentary is inappropriate in a staff analysis…

[J Street @jstreetdotorg]

The false choice has always been the problem.

You can fight hatred against the Jewish people.
You can stand up for Palestinian human rights.
You can do both at the same time.

A powerful message from @BradLander after last night's victory:

[Alan LoFaso @alanlofaso]

Cute spin… The indigenous inhabitants of Queens, Brooklyn, and the Bronx (and who’s he taking about?) get to vote for who represents them … where the false equivalency fails …

[David Frum @davidfrum]

DSA settler-colonialists seem to be successfully imposing their alien rule upon the indigenous inhabitants of Queens, Brooklyn, and the Bronx.

[Paul Mitchell @paulmitche11]

@kausmickey Data like this that explains how the late processed ballots lean more Dem and Young clearly shows how the later counted ballots in LA skewed younger and more Dem.

And not one single election data expert in the state refutes this.

We all agree. This wasn’t fraud.

[Alan LoFaso @alanlofaso]

@MikeOpera 😅Good take. The story in the USA is “Christians” trying to rebrand the rainbow as a Christian not a LGBTQ+ symbol…

[Alan LoFaso @alanlofaso]

@devinlavelle @paulmitche11 No.

[Alan LoFaso @alanlofaso]

@paulmitche11 @BerkeleyIGS @EmersonPolling How much of the probability analysis of a D vs D top two incorporates the issues with Democratic turnout? That seems to be the most salient variable at this juncture.

[Paul Mitchell @paulmitche11]

Message for Dems: call your mom. Tell her to return her ballot!

This ballot-clutching by Dems waiting for a sign from above is why turnout is below 2022 primary numbers right now.

Those driving it are women, 65+ and biggest drop among older white women.

[Democrats @TheDemocrats]

@StephenM shut up you ugly fuck