"I am very grateful that the Korean American Community have attended the Open House at our new District Office," said Asm. Sharon Quirk-Silva. "The Korean American people are very supportive and their interest in community policy is truly admirable."
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Assemblywoman Sharon Quirk-Silva requested the audit a little over a year ago - after the U-C audit disclosed more than 170 million dollars were not disclosed and kept hidden. Quirk-Silva says for her, this is all about transparency. "When the legislature is asked to invest more dollars because the emphasis is they don't have enough money and they raise tuition and you see there is actually a pretty healthy reserve slash surplus, I think we should be aware of that," said Assemblywoman Sharon Quirk-Silva.
A wonderful piece shared by CAL Matters discussing how the new rules in California Assembly has led to a mass censorship and limited the hearing of bills.
The public deserves to have their voices and legislative ideas heard. For the sake of our constituents and all Californians, we should not be censoring what comes before the Legislature.
This path is sure to lead us down a dark road that is anything but democratic.
Assemblywoman Sharon Quirk-Silva (D-Fullerton), who previously proposed the concept through her Assembly Bill 1295, said in a statement Thursday that “these men and women are our hidden neighbors; they come from all over Orange County and need shelter and medical care in order to find stability and hope.
As a state legislator from Orange County, Sharon Quirk-Silva is at the center of the region's big, contentious conversation about homelessness.
But for her, it's personal.
Her younger brother, Raymond William "Billy" Jaso, died last year after living on the streets and crashing with relatives for many years. He struggled with alcohol addiction. In October he was fatally hit by a car. He was 53.
It was something of a turning point for Quirk-Silva.
"We can't continue to see people die on our streets," she said through tears at a recent meeting of Orange County's Medi-Cal insurer, CalOptima.
As a public official, Quirk-Silva has wrestled with the fallout of homelessness for almost a decade. In 2011, while she was on Fullerton's City Council, a schizophrenic homeless man named Kelly Thomas, died at the hands of Fullerton police officers. The incident caused a national public outcry and led to the recall of three city councilmembers.
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“California taxpayers should not be unwitting donors to criminal actions of bribery and tax evasion,” said Assemblywoman Sharon Quirk-Silva. “My bill will prohibit such deductions, and will go after those who have already been able to profit from these illicit tax deductions.”
The measure brought to the Assembly, removes the ability of those involved in providing these payoffs, to be able to recover a portion of the bribe from California taxpayers by means of a tax deduction. Deceit and bribery have no place in our college admissions process.