Political Stories – Top stories Democrats in California Legislature to take on Trump by wading into immigration debate — With President-elect Donald Trump’s campaign rhetoric on illegal immigration still fresh on their minds, legislative Democrats have readied a pair of proposals they believe will offer some immigrants additional legal help. LA Times article Dan Walters: Sometimes there are political fireworks when the Legislature […]
Guests: State Senator Fran Pavley, Rob Lapsley, President of California Business Roundtable, Nathan Alonzo Government Relations Manager – Fresno Chamber of Commerce, Danielle Bergstrom, Director of Gov’t Affairs – City of Fresno and Former State Sen. Majority Leader and current California Air Resources Board Member, Dean Flores
Political Stories – Top stories Jerry Brown picks Rep. Xavier Becerra as California attorney general — Gov. Jerry Brown has tabbed Rep. Xavier Becerra to serve as California’s interim attorney general, selecting the Los Angeles Democrat to fill a vacancy opened by the imminent departure of outgoing Attorney General Kamala Harris to the U.S. Senate. Sacramento Bee article; LA […]
Political Storie – Top stories Morally torn over state executions, will Gov. Jerry Brown ever permit one? — Although he has served as governor longer than anyone else in California history, Jerry Brown has never been forced to make one of the weightiest decisions governors face: whether to spare a convicted criminal from execution. CALmatters article Supreme Court […]
Political Stories Top stories Election day gave Democrats total dominance over California Legislature, but it’s unclear what they can do with it — History hasn’t been kind to dreams of unbridled political dominance under the state Capitol dome, the kind of power that Democrats now hold after winning a supermajority of seats in both houses of the California Legislature. […]
Political Stories – Top stories California Democrats got their supermajority. Now what? — Broadening the path to long-sought deals on affordable housing, transportation infrastructure and climate change, California Democrats have again captured a two-thirds supermajority in both houses of the Legislature. Sacramento Bee article; LA Times article Joel Fox: Kevin McCarthy: California’s connection to new Washington power — Election results […]
Political Stories Top stories Donald Trump alleges widespread voter fraud in California. There’s no evidence to back it up — President-elect Donald Trump not only alleged widespread national voter fraud in a series of messages posted on Twitter on Sunday, but took the time in one tweet to target the ballots cast in California as an example of the problem. Trump called […]
Guests: Experts from CA’s Legislative Analyst Office: Brian Uhler and Carolyn Chu, Merced Sun Star and Modesto Bee Editorial Board Editor Mike Dunbar, California State Univ., Fresno political science Professor Jeff Cummins and Former Visalia Times Delta Editorial Page Editor Paul Hurley.
Political Stories Top stories John Myers: Revamped primaries changed California politics, but not like everyone thought – California has now conducted 469 regularly scheduled races under the top-two primary — elections for governor, Congress and every seat in the Legislature. The bottom line: changes, yes, but likely only on the margins. Myers column in LA Times Dan Walters: How […]
Top stories How the American electorate is changing – A decade ago, New Mexico ushered in a demographic trend that is likely to shape American politics for decades to come. In 2006, it became the first state in the nation whose voting-eligible population switched from being majority white to “majority minority.” California has since joined that group, […]
