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'The difference is QAnon': how a conspiratorial hate campaign upended California politics

The Guardian

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 LGBTQ civil rights legislation he wrote. September 2020

Misinformation Is ‘Its Own Pandemic’ Among Parents

The New York Times

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. At the time, California law gave judges discretion on whether to put a 19-year-old man on a sex offender registry if he had vaginal sex with a 16-year-old girl, but if that 19-year-old man had anal or oral sex with a 16-year-old boy, he would automatically be registered as a sex offender. Wiener’s bill sought to fix that discrepancy..." - The New York Times, September 2020

Senator Wiener’s Statement on Project Homekey Grant for Permanent Housing for Homeless in San Francisco

September 21, 2020

SACRAMENTO - Today, Senator Scott Wiener (D-San Francisco) released the following statement as the California Department of Housing and Community Development announced that San Francisco would receive $44,840,003 in grant funding to create permanent housing for for those experiencing homelessness or at-risk of experiencing homelessness. This funding will allow the city of San Francisco to acquire a hotel and convert it into 232 units of permanent housing for some of the most at-risk individuals in our community.

Fact Check: California's SB-145 Eliminates an Inequality in Sex Offender Registration

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.