2018 CA Senate race: on Budget & Economy

Kamala Harris: Prosecuted fewer foreclosure fraud cases than smaller states

Her Mortgage Fraud Strike Force opened in 2011, employing twenty-five lawyers and investigators with a budget of more than $2 million to go after foreclosure fraud. The strike force managed to prosecute just ten cases in three years, an East Bay Express investigation in 2014 found. It had filed fewer lawsuits than attorneys general in smaller states with fewer victims, and even fewer than some county district attorneys. Yet California led the country in terms of such scam operations.

Michael Eisen: We need to fight together in unison against all budget cuts

Eisen: Scientists, don't just complain about NIH, NSF and other budget science cuts. The whole budget is a travesty and must be fought in unison.

Q: On a practical level, to do that, don't we need to point out the biggest problems with it?

Eisen: It's a strategy to pit groups against each other--it's the premise that we need budget cuts that's the problem.

Michael Eisen: We need to fight together in unison against all budget cuts

Twitter Question: I agree, tho on a practical level, to do that, don't we need to point out the biggest probs w/ it? Yes, many besides sci cuts.

Eisen: It's a strategy to pit groups against each other--it's the premise that we need budget cuts that's the problem.