Gavin Newsom Goes After Robert F. Kennedy Jr.: 'He's Being Used' By Conservatives

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/gavin-newsom-robert-f-kennedy-jr-used-by-conservatives_n_64fbc325e4b06deaa9849702

#GavinNewsom #RobertFKennedyJr #Conservatives #CaliforniaPolitics #VaccineDebate #MediaBias #Politics #News

If you're in California, it's worth reaching out to the state assembly speaker and asking him to pass SB253, a bill to require the biggest firms (those doing more than a billion dollars a year in business) who operate in California to disclose their emissions, including indirect ones caused by the use of their products.

This bill has already passed the state senate, and the assembly vote will be close.

https://climate100.nextgenpolicy.org/take-action-to-pass-sb-253/

#California #ClimateAction #CaliforniaPolitics #Climate

Data brokers collect and sell your personal info and you've probably never heard of many of these companies. California could make it easier to delete this data but privacy advocates say it will be a "steep battle" as businesses push back.

LA Times Queenie Wong

https://t.co/zYTEXkiI4b

#tech #privacy#siliconvalley #California #californiapolitics #bigbrother

As schools explore policies around gender, the extent to which state law grants privacy rights has come under a spotlight. Legal realities are nuanced, igniting a heated debate likely to move its way through the courts
LA Times Priscella Vega

https://t.co/Bd7jqgr5gr

#Education #Gender #politics #californiapolitics

NEW: It may be easier to picture Nancy Pelosi surrounded by suits and wingtips than beads and sandals. But she's a genuine tie-dyed in the wool Deadhead.

We talked about Dead & Co, the book she's writing, her fashion advice to Bob Weir and more!

https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2023-08-27/nancy-pelosi-grateful-dead-life-after-house-speaker-healing-power-of-music

#GratefulDead #Dead&Company #Pelosi #Congress #California #CaliforniaPolitics #Music

NEW: Speaking of debates...

In 1967, Ronald Reagan and Robert F. Kennedy debated under circumstances much like today's prospective Gavin Newsom-Ron DeSantis throwdown.

The winner might surprise you.

https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2023-08-23/republican-presidential-debate-desantis-newsom-reagan-robert-kennedy

#debate #gopdebate #GavinNewsom #rondesantis #California #Politics #CaliforniaPolitics

Divestment of state pensions has failed in the California legislature again, due to the assembly rule which allows committee chairs to kill bills by refusing to schedule a hearing.

https://capitalandmain.com/one-person-stopped-californias-divestment-from-fossil-fuels-again

#USPolitics #California #Climate #CaliforniaPolitics

NEW: Democrat Ami Bera was a first-time congressional candidate. GOP strategist Rob Stutzman worked to beat him. Attacks flew like fists in an old Western.

Now, at a time partisanship runs bone-deep, they're friends.

My look at a political odd couple

https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2023-08-02/democratic-congressman-ami-bera-republican-strategist-rob-stutzman-odd-couple-friends

#California #Politics #CaliforniaPolitics #congress

Whether from lack of patience or intentionality, the policy trademark of California’s governor has become increasingly apparent. Newsom has a penchant for manufacturing a sense of urgency and giving lawmakers as little time as possible to act

LA Times Taryn Luna

https://click.email.latimes.com/?qs=dc0027566979527a884a0ef2745ca7bd74732d2c22f514c68b7ed5d0a3637aaeb4058238966c0076d161d788fe87ba736c9181954a55aec4

#california #californiapolitics #gavinnewsom

After acute health problems that kept her away from Washington for months earlier this year, Sen. Dianne Feinstein is now engaged in a legal effort to gain more control of the finances from her late husband’s trust.

LA Times Benjamin Oreskes on family feud breaking into the open

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-07-18/sen-dianne-feinstein-asks-court-for-greater-control-of-her-late-husbands-finances

#Feinstein #California #Californiapolitics #Senate

Hype and hope spring eternal, so every four years talk surfaces that this time will be different, that California will finally wield its weight and play the kingmaking role that has so long eluded its many millions of voters.

Nah.

Not gonna happen

https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2023-07-09/california-2024-presidential-primary

#California #Politics #CaliforniaPolitics #CaliforniaPrimary #2024Campaign

NEW: Every four years talk surfaces in California that this presidential campaign will be different and the state and its millions of frustrated voters will finally play a king-making role.

Don’t count on it.

https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2023-07-09/california-2024-presidential-primary

#California #CaliforniaPolitics #Politics #Presidentialpolitics #2024Campaign

Do Californians want to replace their 90-yr-old US senator with a 76-yr-old freshman?

LA Times Ben Oreskes

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-07-09/questions-about-rep-barbara-lees-age-trail-her-as-the-76-year-old-runs-to-replace-a-90-year-old

#politics #california #californiapolitics #senate #2024Election

Donald Trump has described Adam Schiff as ‘shifty,’ ‘sick, ‘corrupt.’ Politically, he helped make the congressman what he is today.

This week’s rebuke from the House GOP raised Schiff’s political stock even further, boosting his US Senate campaign

https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2023-06-23/adam-schiff-house-republican-censure-trump-california-senate

#Schiff #California #CaliforniaPolitics #congress #senate #2024campaign

NEW: Adam Schiff’s censure by House Republicans was a huge gift to his California U.S. Senate campaign.

In politics these days what a candidate accomplishes is increasingly less important to partisans than who they antagonize.

With enemies like Trump and his acolytes, Schiff might well ask, who needs friends?

https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2023-06-23/adam-schiff-house-republican-censure-trump-california-senate

#Schiff #Politics #California #CaliforniaPolitics #Congress #Senate #2024Campaign

Adam Schiff censured by the House, receiving another in-kind contribution from the Republican Party boosting his 2024 bid for California US Senate seat

LA Times Owen Tucker-Smith

https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2023-06-21/house-republicans-censure-adam-schiff-senate

#AdamSchiff #Schiff #California #Politics #CaliforniaPolitics #Congress

NEW: Texas Gov. Greg Abbott is caught in an increasingly nasty feud with his fellow Republicans. So how better to flex some political muscle than packing a bunch of hapless migrants off to California?

Never mind the people being used as pawns.

www.latimes.com/politics/story/2023-06-20/greg-abbott-migrants-los-angeles-texas-politics

#immigration #texas #california #californiapolitics #texaspolitics #gregabbot #danpatrick

Gavin Newsom says Fox News, host Sean Hannity are on a ‘doom loop about California’

https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article276491206.html

#CaliforniaDoomLoop #GavinNewsom #FoxNews #SeanHannity #CaliforniaPolitics #MediaBias #Politics #News

Railroad industry sues to block new locomotive pollution rules in California | AP News

>The railroad industry on Friday sued to block new environmental rules in California, arguing they would force the premature retirement of about 25,000 diesel-powered locomotives across the country long before their zero-emission counterparts are ready to take their place.
https://apnews.com/article/california-railroad-trains-lawsuit-emissions-locomotives-139ef09e80173b25b1abfb800bf98205 #railroad #USPolitics #uspoli #californiapolitics #California

@markzbarabak

The American political press is a disaster, and its misreporting of the #Feinstein situation has been among its most egregious failures.

Reporting on calls for Feinstein's retirement, without noting that this would end the Dems' control of the Judiciary Committee, borders on outright lying.

#USPol #CaliforniaPolitics #Congress