Sheila Kuehl is an amazing an sensible voice in California politics:
She is a termed-out State Senator who now sits on the California Integrated Waste Management Board.
She was the first openly gay or lesbian person to be elected to the California Legislature.
She was the first woman in California history to be named Speaker pro Tempore of the State Assembly.
In her fourteen years in the State Legislature, Sen. Kuehl authored 171 bills that were signed into law, including legislation to establish paid family leave, establish the rights contained in Roe vs. Wade in California statute, overhaul California’s child support services system; establish nurse to patient ratios in every hospital; require that housing developments of more than 500 units have identified sources of water; further protect domestic violence victims and their children; prohibit discrimination on the basis of gender and disability in the workplace and sexual orientation in education; increase the rights of crime victims; safeguard the environment and drinking water; and many, many others.
But her most important accomplishment has been one which has yet to bear fruit--
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