Welcome to my non-campaign, work website. If you are looking for my new Sheila Kuehl for LA County Supervisor 2014 website, click here and sign up to endorse, contribute, volunteer or just check out "Why I'm Running" "My Life In Pictures" and "County 101". Enjoy! The site you are currently visiting is my work website, designed to give you some information about my past and present work. In 2008, I termed out of the California state legislature after eight years in the Senate and six years in the Assembly. Throughout 2009, I was a member of the California Integrated Waste Management Board. In 2010, I began a new project, Kuehl Consulting, and was pleased to be asked to serve as the Founding Director of the Public Policy Institute at Santa Monica College, as well as producer and host of eight Legacy television shows detailing the history of the city of West Hollywood, and co-author of "Safe At School", a policy white paper addressing how to keep schools safe for LGBT youth, produced for the Williams Institute at UCLA Law School. In 2010 and 2011, former Assemblymember Patty Berg and I co-facilitated a new Institute For Elected Women: California, bringing together over fifty former women Senators and Assemblymembers to conduct trainings for women newly elected to the State Legislature. In 2011, we began to offer the model to a number of other states. Also in 2011, I continued my tenure as Director of the Public Policy Institute at Santa Monica College, where we established the only AA in Public Policy awarded at a California community college, and where we presented six new community programs on current issues in public policy. I also continued as the host of "Get Used To It", a national cable show, originating in West Hollywood, on LGBT issues and people. I began work with Planned Parenthood of California, helping to develop legislation expanding access to early, non-surgical abortions in California, and continued working with the Williams Institute at the UCLA Law School, helping to draft model state codes on marriage, civil unions and domestic partnerships. In 2012, I was honored to serve as a Regents' Professor at the School of Public Affairs, Graduate School of Public Policy at UCLA. My class, "Making Policy Through Legislation and Rules" met for ten weeks and provided a continuing forum for graduate and undergraduate students to consider and discuss more than thirty areas of public policy. Each student was required to present a 25-page paper setting out a new area of public policy for adoption. I also continued my work with the Public Policy Institute at SMC, Planned Parenthood, and the Williams Institute. For more details, please hit the "Kuehl Consulting" button at the left. Get Used To It, which, for eighteen years, provided a continuous dynamic history of the evolving LGBT movement in California and in the United States, was discontinued by the City of West Hollywood. I will gather information about where episodes may be accessed and seen and report here in the future. I also continue, as well, to speak at meetings and conferences. In 2013, I continue to serve as Founding Director of the Public Policy Institute at Santa Monica College. I am also very pleased to announce that, in 2014, I will run to replace Los Angeles County Supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky, who is termed out. I am beginning my campaign, fundraising, contacting folks for endorsements, setting up a website and a million social media connections (oh brave new world), and generally letting folks know why I think I would be a good choice for this seat. If any of you wants to let me know of your early support, rumors, intel or suggestions, please feel free to email me here at kuehl.website@gmail.com. Thanx! This site is intended to help you learn about me--my past, present and future.
It is also a place to read current essays, learn how to subscribe to my essays, if you wish, and contact me. Best not to use the "email Sheila" button at left, but rather to send an email to kuehl.website@gmail.com.
It has long been my intention and my privilege to spend my life in public service. My bio shows a good deal about how I went about that, but there is still much to do. I hope that you will enjoy the website. Thanks for visiting.
Most recent essays: You Asked For Essays on the Props - Here's An Analysis of Prop 39: Ending Corporate Tax Choices by Sheila Kuehl November 3, 2012 This is the tenth in a series of essays analyzing the Propositions appearing on California's November ballot. This essay analyzes Prop 39, which would end the ability of multi-state corporations to choose the more favorable way of figuring their California corporate tax liabilities and require all multi-state businesses to calculate their California income tax liability based on the percentage of their sales in California, period. You Asked For Essays on the Props: Here's Analysis of Prop 36 (Three Strikes) by Sheila Kuehl October 28, 2012 This is the eighth in a series of essays analyzing the Propositions appearing on California's November ballot. This essay analyzes Prop 36, which would change sentencing for those who commit a non-serious, non-violent felony, after having served time for two, prior, serious or violent felonies (the so-called Third Strike). There are a few exceptions, but, generally, current prisoners could apply for re-sentencing if their third strike was non-serious and non-violent. You Asked For Essays on the Props: Here's An Analysis of Prop 35 (Trafficking) by Sheila Kuehl October 25, 2012 This is the seventh in a series of essays analyzing the Propositions appearing on California's November ballot. This essay analyzes Prop 35, which would greatly increase penalties for sex trafficking, somewhat increase penalties for labor trafficking, define child porn as trafficking, require registration as a sex offender and require email and website information on convicted traffickers. Not everyone, however, is convinced this is the right way to go. Please see the last paragraph for concerns of anti-trafficking advocates and attorneys. You Asked For Essays on the Props: Here's An Analysis of Prop 34 (Death Penalty) by Sheila Kuehl October 23, 2012 This is the sixth in a series of essays analyzing the Propositions appearing on California's November ballot. This essay analyzes Prop 34, which would abolish the death penalty in California in all cases and, for those crimes that would have drawn the death penalty, substitute a sentence of life imprisonment without possibility of parole. The proposition would also apply retroactively to those now under a sentence of death in California. You Asked For Essays on the Props: Here's An Analysis of Prop 33 by Sheila Kuehl October 19, 2012 This is the fifth in a series of essays analyzing the Propositions appearing on California's November ballot. This essay analyzes Prop 33, which would alter the factors considered in setting auto insurance rates in contravention of the provisions of Prop 103, adopted by the voters in 1988. You Asked For Essays on the Props: Here's An Analysis of Prop 32 by Sheila Kuehl October 17, 2012 This is the fourth in a series of essays analyzing the Propositions appearing on California's November ballot. This essay looks at the "neither rich nor poor can choose to sleep under the bridges of Paris" trickery of Prop 32, which purports to create an even-handed prohibition on using employee deductions for political giving. However, since unions do this and corporations do not, the proposition is designed to set up a false sense of equal treatment that hamstrings unions but continues to allow unfettered corporate giving to independent expenditures, super pacs, etc. You Asked For Essays on the Props: Here's An Analysis of Prop 31 by Sheila Kuehl October 11, 2012 This is the third in a series of essays analyzing the Propositions appearing on California's November ballot. This essay describes the many provisions of Prop 31, which sets out seven changes to the structure and process of state government, including giving counties, cities, school districts, college districts and special districts a unilateral ability to alter the ways in which state-funded programs apply to them, unless the Legislature vetoes their proposals. The proposal does not provide any new revenue, but takes the position that requiring such changes as two-year budgeting and spend as you go processes will help fix perceived problems in state governance. You Asked For Essays on the Props: Here's An Analysis of Prop 38 and What Happens if Both 30 and 38 Pass by Sheila Kuehl October 9, 2012 This is the second in a series of essays analyzing the Propositions appearing on California's November ballot. This essay describes Proposition 38, which amends state statutes (not the Constitution) to increase state income tax for any Californian earning more than $7316 a year, and allocates the increased revenues to K-12 education, state debt and early childhood education. This essay also addresses (at the end) what happens if both the tax measures, Propositions 30 and 38, should pass. The First in a Series on the Props: Prop 30 by Sheila Kuehl October 8, 2012 This is the first in a series of essays analyzing the Propositions appearing on California's November ballot. This essay describes Proposition 30, which amends the state Constitution to temporarily increase (or restore, if your memory goes back to the first half of this year) the state sales tax, increase state income tax for those earning more than $250,000 a year, bar the use of any of the new funds for administrative costs (but allow local school boards to decide how to spend their share) and guarantee a portion of the new revenue for "public safety services". These will go to cover the increased costs caused by "realignment" of the incarceration of low-level, non-violent offenders to the counties, along with new duties related to parolees and substance abuse treatment. The essay also sets out the budget cuts that will automatically ensue should the measure fail. Read archived essays. |
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