California Politics Reporter @Sacbee_news. 2024 @NYTimes Local Investigations Fellow. VA native. Not to be trusted with fragile objects. [email protected].
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So a non-answer on Prop 45,then?
Asked @XavierBecerra how he’ll be voting on Proposition 45, the controversial CEQA initiative on the November ballot.
Here’s his answer:
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JUST IN: A federal judge in California has barred DHS from conducting field interrogations of people they identify as potential noncitizen voters based on data sources that have proven unreliable and could improperly identify citizens. storage.courtlistener.com/re…
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This video captures settlers beating Heidi. They clubbed her, kicked her. Pulled her up off the ground to beat her more. Robbed her of all her equipment. If she didn’t have a helmet—and if she was Palestinian—she could be dead.
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The evolution of Kimberly Guilfoyle: From California political ties to US ambassador sacbee.com/news/politics-gov…
Academics have played an unusually prominent role in the Prop. 40 billionaire tax. A quartet of professors designed it and are now stumping for it.
Critics argue they're pushing a dangerous ivory tower experiment.
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This is insane.
The betting on @Kalshi on the outcome of the LA Mayoral contest has exceeded $100,000,000!
That’s one… hundred… million… dollars.
Crazy.
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A federal watchdog found California Volunteers mismanaged $11M in AmeriCorps grants, creating “significant risk” that federal funds would “be misused, wasted or subject to fraud without detection.” They're recommending that the feds claw some $$ back:
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Hilton really ramping up the attacks on Becerra, saying he’s “nothing but a pathetic puppet of the Sacramento machine, a pointless pipsqueak who will be nothing but a figurehead and a rubber stamp for the same old cronies who ruined our state.”
Never seen a campaign event venue quite like Steve Hilton’s stop at West Sacramento’s White Cactus Event Hall.
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Joe Gebbia, entrepreneur, AirBNB co-founder, and co-owner of the San Antonio Spurs, cuts an $8 million check to the committee backing California's Voter ID Prop 39
NEW F497
Californians for Voter ID, Yes on 39
$8,000,000 From Joseph Gebbia West Lake Hills, TX
cal-access.sos.ca.gov/PDFGen…
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Absolutely bonkers story from WHRO about a fake newspaper website, including nondisclosure agreements, no bylines, ties to personal injury lawyer, and freelance assignments that consisted of ambulance chasing. whro.org/virginia-center-for…
ICYMI: The influencers behind the complaints against Tom Steyer and Nithya Raman have also lodged one against Steve Hilton.
The focus is on right-wing media figures who were paid by the Hilton campaign.
w/ @LiaOffLeash sacbee.com/news/politics-gov…
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Took a usual departure from my usual politics coverage to write w/ my colleague Graham Womack about Sacramento writer William Vollmann, who’s dying of terminal cancer, has a book out this month and is giving his first public reading Saturday sacbee.com/news/local/articl…
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Brutal oped in CA’s most conservative newspaper blowing up
Republican Steve Hiltons decision to air a hyper-sexualized ad of young women
“I say again: no wonder California is a one-party state”
Opinion: Golden Ticket in ruins after Gates blasts Hilton for ‘sexualization of young people’ ocregister.com/2026/10/02/go…
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The influencer ad wars in the #CAgov race continue.
Becerra backers accuse Steve Hilton campaign of hiding payments to influencers, w/ @BPaves sacbee.com/news/politics-gov…
A great read.
Got to thing the DeMaio model (one-man fundraising/organizational structures disconnected from parties) is going to be more widely adopted in this era of institutional distrust + fragmented media.
He may be the most hated man in Sacramento — and the future of the California Republican Party.
Make time for @wrmccart deep dive on @carldemaio, the man who could achieve a MAGA victory in California
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Becerra backers accuse Hilton campaign of hiding payments to influencers sacbee.com/news/politics-gov…
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Tribal advocates say Newsom apologized for state history, then vetoed their bills sacbee.com/news/politics-gov…
Never seen an ad quite like this one from Republican Steve Hilton. youtube.com/watch?v=LGrG_zcV…
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Earlier today @CAgovernor reflected on his "awkwardly healthy" relationship w/ the CA press corps dating back 20 years after signing AB 2222, which will throw a lifeline to struggling news orgs: sacbee.com/news/politics-gov…
