How Assemblyman Chad Mayes made me believe politics can still be a noble profession (via latimesopinion)
Assemblyman Chad Mayes of Yucca Valley represents the Marines in Twentynine Palms, the crystal-gazers in Joshua Tree, the rainbow-flaggers in Palm Springs, the monied elite of Indian Wells and other desert dwellers like me. Mayes is fairly conservative. I’m fairly progressive. We have about as much in common as Chihuahuas and chalupas.Like a lot of people, we’re both tired of the intractable polarization that too many pols call “standing on principle.
In 2017, as Republican Assembly leader, he voted with then-Gov. Jerry Brown and the Democrats to extend the state’s cap-and-trade program, a regulatory effort to address climate change. Mayes was one of only seven Assembly Republicans to support the measure, and it did not endear him to his GOP colleagues —Hardly a tree-hugger, Mayes wasn’t in love with cap-and-trade, but he was willing to compromise.
In announcing his recent divorce from the GOP, Mayes said he “cares more about governing and making decisions to make people’s lives better than I do about furthering the party. As an elected official, your job isn’t representing parties, it’s representing people.”In January 2017, I requested a printed directory from Blue Shield of the medical providers in my new preferred provider organization. By law, insurers must send the directory within five business days of receiving a request.
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