Twenty years at Capitol Weekly – Plus, Frank Torres of UNAC

CAPITOL WEEKLY PODCAST: We’ve got a jam-packed episode this week: Podcast cohost Tim Foster marks TWENTY years at Capitol Weekly. Then we speak with Frank Torres, the new Director of Political and Legislative Advocacy for the United Nurses Associations of California/Union of Health Care Professionals. Finally, we tell you who had the Worst Week in California Politics, and for the first time ever, the #WWCA ‘winner’ is not human!

:54 What’s on Capitol Weekly

2:50 Twenty years at Capitol Weekly!

4:28 A California version of Roll Call

5:44 “I was happily working as a construction worker”

8:20 “Shane [Goldmacher] was the first person to identify Paul Mitchell as someone we should be talking to”

10:18 Tom Hoeber

14:00 Frank Torres

14:44 Following the budget

16:35 The difference between UNAC/UHCP and California Nurses Association

18:56 Nurse staffing

21:32 AB1400

22:25 Impact of Immigration policy

22:33 Addressing healthcare worker shortfall

26:10 Origin story

28:19 The Karen Bass campaign

30:31 Al Checchi reference

31:06 #WWCA

37:00 Adam Gottlieb shout out