Capitol Weekly
Nonpartisan, nonprofit news outfit targeting California government and politics. Editor Rich Ehisen. What could possibly go wrong?
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- With gifts to state officials capped at $630, no legislator should be accepting free tickets to Super Bowl 60, which start on secondary markets at more than $6,000. But that hasn’t stopped them from taking a lot of free tickets to other sporting events capitolweekly.net/for-many-law...
- Paging @paulmitche11.bsky.social and Asm. Tangipa
- With 9 major Dem candidates splitting the blue vote, GOP candidates Chad Bianco & Steve Hilton have emerged as front runners in the race to replace @cagovernornewsom.bsky.social. Pollsters say they could capture the two runoff slots, shutting Dems out of the runoff capitolweekly.net/beyond-the-g...
- PODCAST: The race to replace @governor.ca.gov has taken up most of CA’s political oxygen so far this year, but there are other statewide races coming up, including Lt. Governor, State Insurance Commissioner, and – potentially – a slew of Ballot Measures. capitolweekly.net/beyond-the-g...
- Quote of the week: “F*CK ICE. F*CK TRUMP. – Assemblymember Mark Gonzáles (D-Los Angeles) on Jan 24th shortly after the shooting of Alex Pretti by federal ICE agents in Minneapolis capitolweekly.net/capitol-brie...
- .@governor.ca.gov filed a civil rights complaint against Dr. Oz the former TV host and current administrator for Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, claiming that in a recent video Oz implied the Armenian American community was connected to health care fraud capitolweekly.net/capitol-brie...
