Mayor of Stockton Michael Tubbs Offers Election Endorsements

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Mayor of Stockton Michael Tubbs

Michael Tubbs is Stockton’s first Black mayor and the youngest in the city’s history. He was elected at age 26 and is now 30 years old.

He is running for re-election in 2020 and here are his endorsements on a few propositions:

Measure X: YES

Proposing special taxes on commercial cannabis businesses in unincorporated San Joaquin County.

Proposition 15: YES

Schools and Communities First. Adjusts the limitations on property taxes introduced by Prop. 13 in 1978.

Proposition 16: YES

Repeals Prop. 209 enacted in 1996, which banned affirmative action in the public sector based on race, sex, or ethnicity.

Proposition 17: YES

Allows people on parole with felony convictions to vote.

Proposition 18: YES

Allows 17-year-olds to vote in primary and special elections if they will turn 18 by the subsequent general election.

Proposition 19: YES

Shifts the property tax burden towards owners of inherited properties from older homeowners, disabled homeowners, and victims of natural disasters.

Proposition 20: NO

Adds more crimes to the list of violent felonies for which early parole is restricted, and require DNA collection for certain misdemeanors.

Proposition 22: NO

Exempts App-Based Transportation and Delivery Companies from Providing Employee Benefits to Certain Drivers.

Proposition 25: YES

Referendum to Overturn a 2018 Law That Replaced Money Bail System with A System Based on Public Safety Risk.

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BLACKPRESSUSA NEWSWIRE — Minnesota State Attorney General Keith Ellison acknowledges that the Floyd case five years ago involved a situation in which due process was denied, and five years later, the president is currently dismissing “due process. “The Minnesota Atty General also says, “Trump is trying to attack constitutional rule, attacking congressional authority and judicial decision-making.” George Floyd was an African American man killed by police who knocked on his neck and on his back, preventing him from breathing.

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Mural showing the portrait of George Floyd in Mauerpark in Berlin. To the left of the portrait the lettering "I can't Breathe" was added, on the right side the three hashtags #GeorgeFloyd, #Icantbreathe and #Sayhisname. The mural was completed by Eme Street Art (facebook name) / Eme Free Thinker (signature) on 29 May 2020. (Wikimedia Commons)

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“The president’s been very clear he has no intentions of pardoning Derek Chauvin, and it’s not a request that we’re looking at,” confirms a senior staffer at the Trump White House. That White House response results from public hope, including from a close Trump ally, Georgia Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene. The timing of Greene’s hopes coincides with the Justice Department’s recent decision to end oversight of local police accused of abuse. It also falls on the fifth anniversary of the police-involved death of George Floyd on May 25th. The death sparked national and worldwide outrage and became a transitional moment politically and culturally, although the outcry for laws on police accountability failed.

The death forced then-Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden to focus on deadly police force and accountability. His efforts while president to pass the George Floyd Justice in policing act failed. The death of George Floyd also put a spotlight on the Black community, forcing then-candidate Biden to choose a Black woman running mate. Kamala Harris ultimately became vice president of the United States alongside Joe Biden. Minnesota State Attorney General Keith Ellison prosecuted the cases against the officers involved in the death of Floyd. He remembers,” Trump was in office when George Floyd was killed, and I would blame Trump for creating a negative environment for police-community relations. Remember, it was him who said when the looting starts, the shooting starts, it was him who got rid of all the consent decrees that were in place by the Obama administration.”

In 2025, Police-involved civilian deaths are up by “about 100 to about 11 hundred,” according to Ellison. Ellison acknowledges that the Floyd case five years ago involved a situation in which due process was denied, and five years later, the president is currently dismissing “due process. “The Minnesota Atty General also says, “Trump is trying to attack constitutional rule, attacking congressional authority and judicial decision-making.” George Floyd was an African-American man killed by police who knocked on his neck and on his back, preventing him from breathing. During those minutes on the ground, Floyd cried out for his late mother several times. Police subdued Floyd for an alleged counterfeit $20 bill.