State Senator Scott Wiener is angling for Nancy Pelosi’s congressional seat but a New York Times magazine investigation links Wiener’s 2022 “Safer Streets for All Act” to a boom in the sex-trafficking of children in California. In other news: Newsom matches Trump in the theatrical use of National Guardsmen, the Los Angeles school teacher who called for armed resistance to immigration enforcement, the “Wealth Tax” makes a California comeback, and how I Love Lucy changed television and the world. Bonus: Lance Christensen discusses some 800 bills now turned into law, as Gavin Newsom force-feeds Californians already choking on regulation. Music by Metalachi.

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Show Notes:

Bill-O-Rama with Lance Christensen:

SB 414 (Ashby) – Regulating charter schools to death (cf AB 84, Muratsuchi) – VETOED
SB 848 (Perez) – Stop passing the trash teachers bill from the Senate Ed Chair – SIGNED
AB 1454 (Rivas) – Holding school districts accountable for literacy scores now that AB 1454 (Rivas) passed
AB 1370 (Patterson) – NDA prohibitions for the legislature (Zavala interview) – SIGNED
SB 237 (Grayson) – Allowing more oil drilling in CA – SIGNED
AB 1207 (Irwin) – Continuing cap and tax program – SIGNED
Is cap and tax slowly dying to accommodate need for massive increase in electrical production to provide for more AI, datacenter capacity? (CalMatter's piece)
AB 628: A Costly New Mandate For California Landlords – SIGNED
AB 1264 that eliminated ultra processed foods for kids, but is still gung-ho on sterilizing and mutilating them (Gov press release) – SIGNED

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