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What we’re seeing today is nothing less than the weaponization of the Justice Department to punish those who hold the powerful accountable.

Why would you keep a citizen in Uganda, which is a country that outlaws the LGBTQ community? Why?

California has never waited for Washington or anyone else to lead on kids’ health — we’ve been out front for years, removing harmful additives and improving school nutrition.

I will continue to be dismissive of outrageous claims like those. I will always support the outcomes of elections. That’s what our country has been founded on over the last 250 years.

This first-in-the-nation law builds on that work to make sure every California student has access to healthy, delicious meals that help them thrive.

It’s a movement that should unite all of us, regardless of political stripes.

a promise to our dedicated civil servants, both those forced to the sidelines and those still hard at work without pay.

Let’s make a major start by stopping a major debacle — the new jail construction to replace Rikers Island.

Now everyone’s jumping over each other — Louisiana, all these conservative states — trying to get in on this, which is sort of interesting and I think wonderful at the same time.

No one understood it when we started talking about Skittles. Somehow everyone got upset and offended.

Crime can not go up under the next administration, it just can’t.

As it comes to specific proposals on any restructuring that’s necessary, we’ll talk about it.

I believe that we need to have a strong police commissioner, No. 1. I have highly recommended that he retain Jessica Tisch.

But you are a citizen of Uganda, running for mayor. Why wouldn’t you say, “I am going to give up my citizenship?” Because I will not be a citizen of a country that would kill gay people.











