Opinion: Soft corruption is the norm in California state government
It didn’t take long for newly elected Assemblyman Joe Patterson to learn the facts of life in California’s Democratic Party-dominated Legislature.
“It didnt [sic] have to be so early in my #caleg career that one of my bills – where I have appeared all over national news – would be taken. I mean, can we wait for year 2 at least?” Patterson tweeted late last month. Then-Assemblyman Kevin Kiley got a crash course in hostile amendments — those forced upon you buy the tyranny of the majority.
While union activists routinely serve as Democratic lawmakers and negotiate with themselves, the quid pro quo is no more obvious than over in Gov. Gavin Newsom’s side of the building. And then there’s behested payments, which don’t have the same pesky limits as campaign contributions. In 2020, powerful corporate donors gave $226 million to charities at Newsom’s “behest,” which was an increase of about $214 million from the year before, according to the Los Angeles Times. And over the past three years one of those lucky charities was run by Newsom’s wife, which received $1.
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