Chris LaBella | Research Fellow

Chris LaBella is a Research Fellow at California Policy Center, and a graduate of the University of California, Santa Barbara.

 

Latest by Chris LaBella

California Teachers Association is Losing Members

California Teachers Association is Losing Members

California’s political landscape is changing, and that’s cause for celebration. In 2018, the Supreme Court’s Janus ruling prohibited the collection of union dues from public employees as a condition of employment. Before that ruling, with few exceptions, no dues meant no job. By protecting a worker’s right to choose to financially support a union, Janus...

By Chris LaBella

The Butler Did It

The Butler Did It

In appointing Laphonza Butler to take Dianne Feinstein’s still-warm U.S. Senate seat, Gov. Gavin Newsom has picked his twin, someone of Cirque-du-Soleil-level flexible morality and connections to wealthy donors on all sides of most issues. In that regard, at least, she’s a perfect representative of California politics. She is “simply the best person that I...

By Chris LaBella