I'm very excited about @Portantino's #SB691, which will require early screening and intervention for children at risk of dyslexia-- something already required in 40 other states! I urge my reps @SenMariaEDurazo and @asmcarrillo to vote YES on SB 691.

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“This is… a major test for the state’s Public Records Act, which allows public agencies to withhold information only under extreme circumstances. If records can be withheld for obvious political purposes in this case, the PRA might as well be junked entirely.”.

Thank you for covering this and investigating! Where’s the @latimes? @sdut? @sfchronicle? Any elected leaders curious about what’s going on? @Portantino? @laurafriedman43? Is anyone still concerned about CA student performance or is it just EdSource now? Exasperated!.

RT @jasonfurman: Worth remembering the vicious abuse that @ProfEmilyOster & others who made this argument were subjected to. Then think ab….

That’s just a recipe for permanent stalemate on an issue.

I say disturbing because I guess it’s just frustrating if people are making bad arguments because those feel rhetorically powerful or are the best ones they have— but it’s disturbing if they aren’t able to see how they’re entirely missing the substance of the disagreement.

The discussion around loan forgiveness is a particularly striking example of a disturbing trend: I can’t tell if people genuinely don’t understand those who disagree with them, or if they’re just happy making flimsy arguments that don’t engage at all with the disagreement.

Woah.

Just wanted to note for the record: I was able to have a conversation with a field rep for @nithyavraman yesterday and I am very grateful she took the time!.

Woah. Haven't received an email from NOM in like 10 years-- also been a while since the phrase "avowed lesbian" has hit my inbox. Can't believe Brian Brown is still at it. Takes me back to my internship @freedomtomarry. Thank goodness I know @evanwolfson is still at it, too!

I know it's silly to air this all here, but there's a tad more to it than poor constituent services: LA is experiencing many crises and it's hard not to feel utterly hopeless about what you can do about it when you can't even successfully engage with your local elected official.

📞 Call field rep. No answer. 📞 Call field rep again, leave VM. No answer. 📧 Email field rep about missed meeting. ❌ As of today- 50 days since first outreach- no reply. So can put me in touch w/ @nithyavraman? (Or if you see this, Councilmember, 👋!). Oh, one more thing. .

📞July 15th: called back field rep, left VM. 📧 July 15th: emailed field rep requesting a scheduled call. 📧 July 19th: sent follow up email to field rep. Reply! . ⭐ We schedule a call for 3pm on July 29th. Wonderful! But 3pm on 7/29 rolls around and. .

📧 June 15: sent email to office address. No reply. 📧 June 27th: sent follow up email. No reply. 📞 July 1st: called and left VM on office line. No reply. 📬 July 8th: sent snail mail to office address. REPLY!. ⭐ July 13th: A nice field rep left a VM on my cell!. But then. .

I read an @latimes article on June 14 about a vote @nithyavraman had taken that troubled me. I am trying to be more proactive about challenges facing my community so I reached out to her office asking for more information and expressing my concern. This is what followed. .

Can anyone help me get in touch with Councilmember @NithyavRaman (@nithyavraman)? I'm a constituent that is embarrassed to have to make a public Twitter plea like a disgruntled airline customer, but my prior attempts have failed so I am a bit desperate. A little backstory. .

The responses to this by the Pod Save corner of the Internet are wild.

The headline doesn’t match the story at all. This is a story of the nearly universal agreement that high crime and homelessness is making it difficult to run safe businesses in LA— including those mere blocks away from City Hall and police HQ! Nobody seriously disputes that.

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