SCRAMBLE: The state of California is pressuring utilities to award $633 million in contracts to “LGBT” businesses

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🗓️ 18 June 2026

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Mike gets a tutorial on The Dwight D. Eisenhower National System of Interstate and Defense Highways.

Inside California’s Gay-Certification Program

The state is pressuring utilities to award $633 million in contracts to “LGBT” businesses.

The scheme operates through the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC), which regulates privately owned utility companies. California utilities spent more than $43 billion in 2024 on contractors—fuel suppliers, surveyors, engineers, and others—whose work helps deliver water, gas, electricity, and internet service to California’s 39 million residents.

In 1986, Governor George Deukmejian signed Assembly Bill 3678, which required certain CPUC-regulated utilities to submit annual “plans” for buying goods and services from woman- and minority-owned companies. Two years later, CPUC created its “Supplier Diversity Program,” which would enforce the law and set contracting “goals” for large utilities.

After hours of public comment and sometimes heated debate at the Minneapolis Parks and Recreation Board meeting on Wednesday, board members voted to begin decommissioning the Minnehaha off-leash recreation area.

All but one board member supported the decision, which is part of the Minnehaha Regional Park long-term plan.

The board heard from dozens of people, including many dog owners who said they have been using the park for more than 30 years.

Members of the Indigenous community argued the land is a sacred Dakota site with thousands of years of history.

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