In the News

November 13, 2020

SF Chronicle - "State Sen. Scott Wiener, D-San Francisco, said Tuesday that he plans to introduce a bill when the Legislature returns decriminalizing possession of psychedlics.

October 20, 2020

"QAnon isn’t simply a misinformation problem. It’s an outgrowth of our troubled times, when people who have survived decades of extreme income inequality are now suffering through a horrific pandemic.

October 6, 2020

"California has long led the way on environmental issues, and our state’s climate laws will likely serve as the template for domestic and even international climate policy under a future Biden administration.

September 21, 2020

The Guardian looks at how a QAnon, a conspiracy theory group, has infected the Republican Party, exploring a recent incident where Senator Wiener was targeted because of LG

September 21, 2020

"In January 2019, Scott Wiener, a California State Senator, introduced what he thought was an L.G.B.T.Q. Civil Rights Bill.

September 9, 2020

Late Monday, just before the legislative session expired, Senate Bill 145 passed the California State Assembly and the State Senate. But posts shared thousands of times claimed that the "pro-pedophilia" legislation had actually passed a day earlier and misconstrued its contents.The misinformation is the latest in a series of attacks on the legislation and the lawmaker who introduced it – state Sen. Scott Wiener, D-San Fransisco – by right-wing conspiracy theorists known as QAnon.