Stockton Mayor Caught Working Full Time Job in New York

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NEW YORK- On January 6, 2020, the mayor of Stockton, California was interviewed while working his full time job…in New York. Despite being the only full time member of Stockton’s City Council being paid a full time salary with benefits, Michael Tubbs is working a full time job as Co-Chair for billionaire Michael Bloomberg’s Presidential campaign. Stockton residents were surprised …

List of Hypocrite Legislators Taking Money From Corporation Profiting Off Immigrant Detention Centers

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By MOTECUZOMA SANCHEZ CALIFORNIA- Immigration has been a point of contention in today’s national politics. One of the key battle grounds has been California and specifically the Central Valley where the agricultural industry as well as many others rely heavily on immigrant labor, both legal and illegal. In the midst of the National and statewide debate, certain politicians and the …

Fact Checking Immigration Raids in Stockton

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STOCKTON- Many people have reached out to us, sending pictures of posts declaring immigration checkpoints are taking place around Stockton. Not a single photograph has been sent to us of any actual checkpoints or raids or ICE, which is the enforcement division of the Department of Homeland Security. While President Trump did announce ICE would be conducting enforcement beginning last …

Trump Cuts Nearly $1 Billion From California High Speed Rail

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CALIFORNIA- The US Department of Transportation’s Federal Rail Authority released a letter today announcing they will be cutting $928 million from the California High Speed Rail Authority meant to be used for the delayed and maligned project. The original plan was meant for a train that would connect the Bay Area to the Central Valley down to Bakersfield. The Rail …

Mayor Tubbs Complies Halfway With Lawsuit Demand Then Denies He Ever Blocked Anyone

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STOCKTON- Within hours of community advocate Motecuzoma Sanchez announcing his lawsuit in federal court against Mayor Michael Tubbs for violation of his First Amendment rights, Tubbs unblocked Sanchez, 209 Times, and several others from Twitter. Multiple people reached out to us exclaiming that they had been blocked by Tubbs for the last six years after questioning one of his votes …

Central Valley Planned Parenthood Clinics At Risk Of Losing Federal Funding After Trump Signs Law

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President Trump has signed House Joint Resolution 43 into law. The new law takes aim primarily at Planned Parenthood and any organization that provides abortions or referrals for abortions. At stake is $286 million in federal that now expected to be redirected from women’s healthcare providers to religious groups. The funds from grants under Title X fund organizations that serve four …

Trump Wants Billions Back From California After Newsom Says High Speed Is Cancelled

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CALIFORNIA- In a Twitter war made for 2019, President Trump says the federal government will be cancelling $929 million is federal grants meant for California’s High Speed Train from San Francisco to Los Angeles. He also says he wants a return of the more than $2.5 billion already spent. Today the U.S. Department of Transportation sent a letter stating, “In …

Trump’s AG Calls Tubbs’ Bluff on Stockton’s Sanctuary City Status.

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By Motecuzoma Sanchez  August 3, 2017 Stockton, CA – Stockton is being targeted by president Trump’s Attorney General Jeff Sessions as one of several cities to lose federal funding to fight crime for being a “sanctuary city” for undocumented immigrants as announced in a new memo for the Justice Department. The catch is- Stockton is not even a “sanctuary city”.  …