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Meanwhile out of sight from the peasants.
Theirwives nieces went along too, I would imagine.
Amid COVID-19 travel warnings, California lawmakers fly to Hawaii:
Some state lawmakers are attending a conference in Maui despite California issuing travel warnings because of a spike in COVID-19 cases. Above, the state Assembly last year.
(Robert Gourley / Los Angeles Times)
By PATRICK MCGREEVY STAFF WRITER
NOV. 16, 2020 5:27 PM UPDATED NOV. 17, 2020 | 2:42 Pm
SACRAMENTO — Legislators from California and other states are gathering for an annual conference in Maui this week despite a spike in COVID-19 cases in the Golden State that resulted in travel warnings by health officials.
More than half a dozen California lawmakers are among the 50 people attending a policy conference sponsored by the Independent Voter Project, a nonprofit group, at the Fairmont Kea Lani Hotel in Wailea, with some legislators’ travel expenses picked up by the hosts. The four-day conference, at which panel participants discuss various issues including how to reopen states safely amid COVID-19, began Monday.
The annual gathering, which has seen up to 25 California lawmakers in attendance in past years, has faced criticism because it is partly financed and attended by special interests, including businesses and labor groups, that lobby legislators.
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