In the article “Uber Sends Lobbyists to Help Reshape California Laws” by Alison Vekshin it states that “The San Francisco company's lobbyists are pushing lawmakers to exempt its drivers from obtaining commercial licenses before they can ferry passengers” (1). According to Vekshin “Uber has spent almost $1 million since 2013 on lobbyists in California” (1) in order to push for the legislation they want passed. As well Vekshin states that Uber is “backing legislation that would let the companies charge split fares for shared rides and a bill that would exempt its drivers from having to get commercial license plates” (2). This is a threat to interest groups that support taxicab and limousine companies because it is stealing business from those …show more content…
Some of the things that Plouffe would do as a lobbyist to try and accomplish Uber's goals would be to use his own relationships and contacts to help promote the bills that would benefit Uber. In “Uber Sends Lobbyists to Help Reshape California Laws” Vekshin states that Plouffe was “manager of President Barack Obama's 2008 campaign, as chief adviser and board member” and that “Plouffe gets celebrity treatment at the Sacramento capitol, with lawmakers stopping him to snap photos” (1). This is very beneficial to Plouffe because with his celebrity like status he is able to take advantage of his popularity with the lawmakers to influence them in siding with him. An example of one of the ways Plouffe could influence lawmakers would be taking them to a nice, payed for, dinner to discuss Uber’s goals with them. This helps for Plouffe to build a relationship with the lawmakers, which will make them more likely to side with Uber’s interests. The main committee in the senate that would consider the legislation that Uber wants would be the committee for transportation and housing. According to its page its jurisdiction is “Bills relating to the operation, safety, equipment, transfer of ownership, licensing and registration of vehicles, aircraft, and vessels” (para 1). Uber wants its drivers to be exempt from having to obtaining commercial licenses before they can ferry passengers, this would fall under the licensing and registration of vehicles quoted above. The main committee in the assembly would be the transport committee and just like the senate it has jurisdiction over licensing and registration of
Title 24 California is the 24th portion of the California Code of Regulations (CCR). CCR are the newest rules that have been handed from the California Legislature in 1978. Before that time, the state was regulated by administrative codes. Nevertheless, it's significant to see that regulations are much diverse from laws. Like a method to increase the present regulations, the legislature wanted to include more requirements to apply the existing regulations of California.
Thank you for contacting me about Sanctuary Cities. I appreciate knowing your thoughts on this issue. The concept of sanctuary cities received widespread public attention when Juan Francisco Lopez-Sanchez, an undocumented immigrant and repeat drug offender, murdered Kathryn Steinle in San Francisco. Currently, an estimated 340 cities across the country permit illegal immigrants to stay in the United States without the possibility of being arrested or deported back to their home country.
Ronald “Ron” Villanueva is a Virginia House of Delegate member, representing the 21st district, which includes parts of Virginia Beach. Delegate Villanueva is a proud Republican who was the first Filipino American elected to the Virginia State House. Delegate Villanueva has been in office since 2010. Delegate Villanueva while first being elected by 14 votes in 2009, has been elected by over ten percent of the vote since his first election.
They seem as a neutral middle ground defending, and offending, both sides of the scheme. In the midst of this, there’s also a conspiracy to impeach Poke. With the water getting muddier we can’t accurately call who’s winning this argument, both sides seem to be throwing shade at each other and no one seems
At 5:30PM on Wednesday July 29th, hundreds of bike riders gathered at Waller and Steiner streets and launched an unusual demonstration in which they scrupulously followed law. They did so by coming to a full and complete stop at every stop sign and red light. The protest was a response to SF police Captain Jon Sanford’s recent crackdown on bike riders who ignored stop signs or traffic signals. Soon after the protest, supervisor John Avalos proposed a policy to let cyclist treat stop signs as a yield signs. I support Avalos’ policy because it brings not only order and safety on the road, but also economic and social benefit to San Francisco.
Someone who has a grasp on American politics like no other is David Koch and his brother Charles. The bigger of the two players is David with a fortune of 25 billion dollars. He and his brother run Koch industries which sell familiar products like Brawny paper towels and Dixie Cups. Those are just a couple of the products that they sell of course, but where they make a killing is in oil and gas. The Koch brother bring in over 100 billion dollars in annual revenue, most of it coming from their oil and gas business.
Topic: Why we should Microchip our pets General Purpose: To persuade my audience to get their pets’ microchipped Specific Purpose: After listening to my speech my audience will understand why the benefits outweigh any reasons not to get their pets’ microchipped Central Idea/ Thesis: Today I want to persuade you all to get your pets’ microchipped because it’s safe, effective, and has many advantages Introduction: Good morning everyone. I am here today to tell you why you should make the decision to get your pets’ microchipped.
(Semuels, California's business… article, 2010)& lecture) Other big cooperation's such as lobbyists and attorneys are known for having a tax break. (Semuels, California's business… article, 2010)The outcome of California Proposition 13 is property tax decreases while income and sales tax increases, business and cooperation tax break, tangles finances between the state and locality. (lecture) The property tax reduction affected revenue by 60%, and county and city funding declined in government.
This section of the contract allows workers to have other jobs or priorities, which makes them none exclusive to the company. Many of the workers enjoy this flexibility and provide transportation services on the side as a “side-job”. Uber has a vast number of drivers around the world because it gifts them with great flexibility. This is one of the reasons why Uber has become a giant profit making company in the world while they have been only around for less than a decade. More importantly, regarding the second Criteria of the Doyle Test, the drivers’ agreement specifies “you,(the driver), retain the sole right to determine when, where, and for how long you will utilize the Driver App or the Uber Services” (section 2.4).
Find yourself frequently drunk at 2 am in the morning wishing you had a ride. Well, you could move to Evesham Township, a small town located in New Jersey. According to the NYDaileyNews, this little town has decided to team up with Uber to offer free rides to anyone drinking in at least 19-alcohol serving establishments. The town is funding this program from donations from non-profit organizations and small businesses. “We began working
They can help politicians with political strategy for getting legislation through. Lobbyists are politically savvy people, and they can offend be useful consultants. 3. They can help formulate campaign strategy and get the group ’s members behind a politician’s reelection campaign.
Putting seat belts on the buses has been up for debate for a long time,so what is holding the congress back from making it a law? The answer is according to NHTSA they believe that large buses have been proven to be very safe and doubt that adding seat belts would add any improvement and would just be more expenses,but they have many benefits to the safety of people. Buses should have seat belts to reduce the amount of injuries/deaths,improve behavior, and shows good safety habits. Having seat belts on buses could be very beneficial to reducing the amount of injuries. There have been many accidents in the past few years that could have had a better outcome if seat belts were a law for buses.
The taxi drivers’ union rejects the arguments of the editorial published in Maclean’s and wishes to point out the weak evidence suggested from the article’s, Enough with the Uber bashing already, following: the editors of Maclean’s claim that Uber eliminates municipal oversight, but provides evidence that is weak because it is only being supported from the Uber company’s oversight rather than a government institution which could impose a fair tax for both businesses, the second claim that background checks for Uber drivers are not the problem and provides weak evidence by diverting the topic then implying that transactions which happen online between consumer and driver keep consumers safe, lastly the criticism of Uber is motivated by turf
In just a few years there are going to be limited because of the new app called Uber. Taxi driver have evolved a lot over many years starting from a small business to this big industry that it is now. Many people put their hard earned money in these companies and it took many years to get a profit after putting up to $20,000 into the businesses to get it started. You need many cabs or cars have to hire drivers and pay workers so in just a little time in a high pedestrian area you will easily makes a profit. There are many video games based off the simulation of being a taxi driver this job is very hard for some people.
The sharing economy 1. Sharing economy is when you share or lend your property to other people so they can benefit from it, and in return you get paid for it. In this outline we’re going to look at three different texts which have different views on the sharing economy.