Wright campaign law violation update

     SOCCCD Trustee candidate Ryan Dack just sent me his opponent’s (James Wright’s) late filing of a 9-page “form 460” to which was attached a form 497 “contribution report.” Here’s that last document: 

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     Filed today, it reveals that Wright received over $2,000 ($3982.78, precisely the cost of a 200-word campaign statement) from the union on August 4th. As I explained yesterday, campaign laws require that a candidate file a 460 to reveal receipt of contributions of $2,000 or more. Wright had failed to do that—until today.

     For what it's worth, I think Dack is an attractive, energetic, and progressive candidate and, as such, a perfect replacement for James Wright and his tired and clueless ways. Tired and clueless: that could be said about most of the rest of the SOCCCD board of trustees. 

     It is time for a change.

10:30: Moody’s Forecasts Widespread Drop in Tuition Revenue; Trump Jr.: covid-19 deaths are at ‘almost nothing’; Mission Viejo yogurt shop brouhaha

✅Colleges Forecast Net Tuition Revenue Declines for Fiscal 2021 

—Inside Higher Ed 

     Median net tuition revenue will likely decline by 3.3 percent at private colleges and universities and by 0.9 percent at public colleges and universities in the 2021 fiscal year, according to a Moody’s Investors Service annual tuition survey of institutions it rates. 

     The data show negative net tuition revenue growth in both public and private sectors for the first time since 2009, when the tuition survey began…. 

✅Moody’s Forecasts Widespread Drop in Tuition Revenue. Here’s Why That Matters. 

—CHE 

✅The Coronavirus Humanities 

—CHE 

✅Trump Jr. said covid-19 deaths are at ‘almost nothing’ on a day more than 1,000 Americans died

—WashPo 

✅The virus is surging in every swing state 

—WashPo 

✅California may “shatter the total vote record” -- As the final weekend before Election Day approaches, approximately 40 percent of California’s electorate, or 8.5 million voters, have already cast their ballots—about double the number a week ago. As more in-person polling places open, experts say the state is on track to have more votes cast than ever before. Zachary Fletcher CalMatters -- 10/30/20 

✅Community backs Southern California yogurt shop owner after lawsuit threat over masks -- Mariana Tabla, co-owner of a Mission Viejo yogurt shop called Frapys, has become a rock star at least among people in the community who believe in wearing face coverings, which are recommended by county and state health officials. Erika I. Ritchie in the Orange County Register -- 10/30/20 

✅Biden’s Call for ‘National Mask Mandate’ Gains Traction in Public Health Circles -- As the nation heads into what public health experts are calling a “dark winter” of coronavirus illness and death, public health experts are coalescing around Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s call for a “national mask mandate,” even as they concede such an effort would require much more than the stroke of a presidential pen. Sheryl Gay Stolberg in the New York Times$ -- 10/30/20 

✅Coronavirus nearly 7 times more widespread in Orange County than reported, study shows -- While the screening, a collaborative effort between UC Irvine and the OC Health Care Agency, demonstrates that the coronavirus may be far more widespread — though less deadly — than official numbers indicate, researchers said more work is needed to understand the level of protection that antibodies provide and how best to address disparities in how the virus affects different populations. Luke Money in the Los Angeles Times$ -- 10/29/20

✅A Trump-Fueled Tsunami of Distrust Has Swamped Our Elections. Americans Are Voting Anyway. 

—Politico 

✅Trump Admitted Years Ago to a “Little Conflict of Interest” in Turkey. It’s Not So Little. 

Pressuring DOJ not to prosecute a Turkish bank for helping Iran “illustrates how compromised President Trump is.” 

—Mother Jones