As some may know, Thursday the parent company of The Sacramento Bee filed for bankruptcy. The next day, the Bee published its rather confusing mess of an endorsement for Jeff’s rival for Congress, Ami Bera. If you persevere through that endorsement essay, you will find a head-scratching number of contradicting statements.

But for those of you without a subscription, the Bee claims Bera is focused on the issues most important to our district, but then notes he’s never passed a single piece of his own legislation in four terms. They claim Bera is a smart leader, but then complain he has no proactive ideas to address Sacramento’s most pressing issues. They also claimed Bera is protecting and strengthening Obamacare when Bera tells nearly every town hall that he is no fan of the Affordable Care Act and thinks the free market is the best option for meeting American health care needs.

But beyond that endorsement, Jeff – a former newspaper and magazine journalist – remains profoundly disappointed at how professionally derelict the Bee’s election coverage has been. They’ve spotlighted not one policy difference between any of the candidates. Never once noted all the money Bera has raised from the very opioid companies Sacramento County is suing or the more than $150,000 raised in just 2019 from many of the most fined and disliked corporations in America. They never once called Jeff with a question, for a comment or in follow-up to any his campaign’s dozens of calls, story pitches and news releases.

It’s all added up to an inexplicable news blackout of Jeff's 8-month campaign as the first Democrat to ever primary Ami Bera.

Simply put, the Bee has provided absolutely no informational value to any district voter. For this reason, the newspaper has earned its new sobriquet – "the Bankrupt Bee" – in more ways than just its obvious financial one. This includes refusing to run a single OpEd essay submitted by Jeff. But now Jeff has released those six essays. Call them his Federalist Papers. They are literally the essays the Bankrupt Bee does not want the public to read. See a link to each below.

So this primary season, remember this: The Bankrupt Bee desperately wants us to re-elect the corporate-backed, do-nothing Ami Bera. So what should we do? Do the opposite and vote for the hard-working, district-funded, pro-voter Jeff Burdick.

After all, who’s The Bankrupt Bee to give useful advice? They’re bankrupt.