If California has long been a bellwether for national liberal politics, Senator Scott Wiener has been something of a bellwether for California politics.
READ MORE >On October 10, 2025, Governor Gavin Newsom signed SB 79, authored by Senator Scott Wiener, marking a landmark moment in California’s housing reform landscape.
READ MORE >California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed legislation Monday that caps the out-of-pocket costs for insulin at $35 a month per person under many insurance plans.
READ MORE >State Senators Scott Wiener and Jesse Arreguin just introduced a new bill that would ban law enforcement agents from being masked on the job, a move seemingly targeted at federal ICE agents who’ve been wearing gaiters while performing recent raids.
READ MORE >State Sens. Scott Wiener, D-San Francisco, and Jesse Arreguín, D-Berkeley, announced Monday that the budget blueprint drawn up by Assembly and Senate budget negotiators would reverse a $1.1 billion cut in transit funding that Gov. Newsom proposed last month.
READ MORE >Sen. Scott Wiener (D-San Francisco) has introduced Senate Bill 363, the Health Insurance Accountability Act, which intends to provide “critical transparency and accountability for health insurance companies for baseless denials of coverage for medically necessary care,” Wiener’s office said in a news release.
READ MORE >San Francisco Sen. Scott Wiener and Mayor Daniel Lurie will announce today the reintroduction of a state bill that allows local police to enforce fencing operations of suspected stolen goods on Mission Street and the rest of the city.
READ MORE >Hundreds of people rallied in San Francisco on Friday in support of transgender youth and their families against the sweeping anti-trans rhetoric set by the Trump administration
READ MORE >During his seven years in the Legislature, no elected official in California has proposed more ambitious policies to streamline housing construction than Wiener.
READ MORE >Gov. Gavin Newsom on Sunday announced that he will sign the Climate Corporate Data Accountability Act, Sen. Scott Wiener’s greenhouse gas emissions disclosure requirement bill.
READ MORE >Long before Scott Wiener became California’s leading housing iconoclast or a regular target for scathing Fox News diatribes, he was an introverted New Jersey teen with enviable choices for college.
READ MORE >Of the thousands of threatening and hate-filled messages that state Sen. Scott Wiener has received over the last three years, one stands out as the most visceral.
READ MORE >Under a measure introduced by state Sen. Scott Wiener, companies that bring in at least $1 billion in revenue and do business in California would have to annually report their greenhouse gas emissions to the public.
READ MORE >Can Scott Wiener convince the state that his bill will reduce the “sheer misery” drug use is causing now?
READ MORE >I’m a gay, Jewish Democrat — the perfect target for an internet cult obsessed with pinning pedophilia on gays, Jews and Democrats.
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