{"id":437551,"date":"2026-08-19T19:18:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-19T19:18:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/437551\/"},"modified":"2026-08-19T19:18:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T19:18:10","slug":"supervisors-to-consider-lobbying-betting-app-proposal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/437551\/","title":{"rendered":"Supervisors to consider lobbying, betting app proposal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>County Board of Supervisors Chair Terra Lawson-Remer is proposing an &#8220;anti-corruption&#8221; measure that would ban post-employment lobbying and prohibit county officials from using betting platforms, such as Kalshi, for insider trading.<\/p>\n<p>According to a statement, Lawson-Remer&#8217;s proposal would direct officials to return within two months with options for:<\/p>\n<p>Establishing a two-year prohibition on former officials and employees lobbying the county, including alternatives to close a &#8220;strategic consulting loophole&#8221; allowing them to direct lobbying campaigns without personally contacting lawmakers;Banning officials and designated employees from trading prediction- market contracts tied to their duties or nonpublic information; andRequiring disclosure of prediction-market holdings and preventing former officials from trading on matters they handled while on the county payroll.<\/p>\n<p>Currently, there is no county ordinance prohibiting former officials from lobbying their former offices.<\/p>\n<p>Lawson-Remer cited several examples of why the county needs ethical safeguards, including:<\/p>\n<p>A U.S. Army soldier being arrested for allegedly making over $400,000 on Polymarket using classified government information;Nine Polymarket accounts reportedly making $2.4 million betting on recent U.S. military action in Iran;The U.S. Senate barring senators and Senate employees from participating in them;The U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform formally investigating potential insider trading on prediction-market platforms; andGov. Gavin Newsom banning state gubernatorial appointees from using confidential information to profit on prediction markets.<\/p>\n<p>Lawson-Remer stated the proposal &#8220;comes after a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kpbs.org\/news\/politics\/2026\/07\/16\/officials-probe-whether-white-house-teleprompter-operator-profited-off-trumps-words\" class=\"Link\" target=\"_blank\" data-cms-ai=\"0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">White House teleprompter operator<\/a> was placed on leave for reportedly making more than $100,000 betting on the contents of President Donald Trump&#8217;s speeches on Kalshi.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The White House had previously warned its staff against using nonpublic information on prediction markets,&#8221; Lawson-Remer added.<\/p>\n<p>Lawson-Remer said that public service &#8220;should never become a private payday.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You should not be able to cash in by selling access to your former colleagues or betting on confidential information the public does not have,&#8221; she added. &#8220;Trump&#8217;s Washington is showing us how quickly insiders can exploit new loopholes. San Diego should close them before the damage is done.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>During a news conference via Zoom last week, Lawson-Remer said San Diego County &#8220;relies on a state one-year restriction on direct lobbying contracts, but we don&#8217;t have our own post-employment lobbying ordinance.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Lawson-Remer added that if the board passes a formal policy, she would like it to take effect &#8220;as soon as possible,&#8221; she said. &#8220;At the same time, we (have to) make sure the rules are written correctly.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Lawson-Remer said spending time with her new baby has made her think about what&#8217;s happening in the world.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We all rely on each other and government to provide incredibly important functions to keep us safe,&#8221; when it comes to public health threats like the Tijuana River sewage crisis or wildfire safety.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You gotta know that you can trust the government, and that government&#8217;s working for people,&#8221; she added.<\/p>\n<p>The supervisors&#8217; regular meeting is at 9 a.m. inside chambers at the county Administration Building, 1600 Pacific Highway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"County Board of Supervisors Chair Terra Lawson-Remer is proposing an &#8220;anti-corruption&#8221; measure that would ban post-employment lobbying and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":437552,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[74,76,75],"class_list":["post-437551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=437551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437551\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/437552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=437551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=437551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=437551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}