DOI Commissioner

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Detectives at the Department of Insurance will have final veto authority over any candidate that Peace Officers of California (P.O.C.) considers endorsing for Insurance Commissioner.

Furthermore, if Detectives choose to support a candidate for Commissioner, they are free to create their own fund separate from P.O.C. to affect their election, prohibited at CAUSE / CSLEA. The Detectives can use their association’s name for political endorsements, something that is also prohibited at CAUSE / CSLEA, as long as it is in accordance with California law or regulation.

P.O.C.  knows that politics is a tough game. We have hired the State’s premier political strategists California Strategies and bargaining expert Marty Morgenstern to represent you. They are here to help guide us through the process and help us have an impact at the capitol. You need release time and dues money to make this work. If you do not believe how powerful our presence can be, we urge any of you to visit the Capitol with P.O.C. so you can see it for yourself. There will be many advantages to P.O.C.

The Detectives need two things to make themselves an effective force at the State Capitol. They need release time and affiliate dues. Detectives need to establish a team of Agents who can make the rounds at the Capitol, not once or twice a year, but two or three times, per month, minimum. The biggest problem that Detectives have is a lack of identity at the Capitol. It also hurts you that the “president” of the union is a Special Agent, but is unable to tell anyone exactly what it is that Detectives do because he has never actually worked as one. P.O.C. does not believe that union members need to use their own personal time to do union business or achieve union goals.

Every affiliate board member will sit on the Political Action Committee (PAC) of P.O.C. including the Detectives. We will publish votes on every issue and every expense of your dues money, something that is also prohibited at CAUSE / CSLEA. Your own Board member cannot or will not provide Detectives or P.O.C. with copies of vote approvals for approximately $60,000 in your dues money.