“We argue that [revenues] should be on the table this year,” said Scott Graves. “Particularly if they’re saying that they’re going to need to consider potentially deep cuts to ongoing critical services like health care, safety net, education, higher ed...”
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Sadly, the stairs near the rotunda have become one of my most reliable Capitol workspaces 🤦🏼‍♀️

The Capitol Correspondents Association of California has been asking for a journalist workspace for years.

It’s embarassing that we have to work on the floor in the capitol of the world’s fifth largest economy.

Criminal justice reformers & those organizing a ballot measure to change Prop. 47 are not satisfied by the Assembly retail theft bill package.

Reformers want more community-based crime solutions, & initiative-backers still think voters should weigh in

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Criminal justice reform groups are challenging CA’s death penalty in the state Supreme Court, calling it racist & unconstitutional.

Gavin Newsom has a moratorium on executions that lasts only until his term ends

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New from me: how does the movement for parents’ rights affect California families? What happens to a mother-child relationship when the child is trans and the mother is a Moms for Liberty activist? Meet Lily, the trans child of Beth Bourne.

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.Bill Essayli began attacking Moms Demand Action even before his bill presentation in Assembly Public Safety yesterday.

One opposition witness left the table in disgust after the assemblyman began disparaging the group during his closing remarks

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.Chris Holden is facing a $24,000 FPPC fine after 2017-18 donations to the Legislative Black Caucus's scholarship nonprofit were reported late when he was chair.

Caucus members will collectively help pay the fine

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Eytan is the nicest man in news! Honestly, you should trademark that, Eytan Wallace

Thanks to Capitol Weekly for having me!

The CA fast food council is meeting for the first time in Oakland tomorrow. Weeks after the Panera minimum wage carve-out scandal, it's still unclear which bakery restaurants will actually get the exemption.

TBD if the council will weigh in on this:

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Looked at Dem-on-Dem primary fights in 3 N. California races. IEs spent more than $8 million backing/opposing candidates in Sacramento, Stockton & Napa.

In Sac, IEs spent almost $1 million on Maggy Krell alone. She’s in the lead to advance to November

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CA Senate leader Mike McGuire (Mike McGuire) said today he's against Prop. 47 changes, citing the state's history w/ mass incarceration.

This puts him in line w/ Gavin Newsom, who also opposes reworking the measure

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McDonald’s franchise owners have spent more than half a million dollars on ads blasting Asm. Kevin McCarty & Chris Holden in their local primaries.

They aim to make an example of the lawmakers after legislative fights over fast food worker bills

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Sacramento voters are getting a ton of Assembly mailers — and interest groups are funding most of them.

They've spent more than $1 million on the election, most of which has been used to back 2 candidates

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California closes thousands of farmworkers’ housing each year. A lawmaker wants them opened

AB 2240 follows a The Sacramento Bee
investigation by Lindsey Holden Mathew Miranda
that found many farmworkers would stay in their units if they remained open.

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