Cops, anti-tax and business groups don’t get their way as often as defense attorneys, civil rights groups and unions in the CA Legislature.
Get the news that matters to all Californians. Start every week informed.Fast food workers and Service Employee International Union members march in 2022 to the Capitol to deliver postcards and petitions in support of legislation. Unions tend to get their way in the California Legislature, according to a new CalMatters Digital Democracy analysis. Photo by Fred Greaves for CalMatters.
The results reflect the priorities of a liberal Legislature where Democrats have held super majorities in both chambers since 2018, said Ken Cooley, a former moderate Democratic Assemblymember from Sacramento County. Unions feature prominently, accounting for five of the 25 most successful organizations. They got their way on bills at least two-thirds of the time.
Defense attorneys and social justice and civil liberties organizations also got their way more often than not. Around two dozen lawmakers hail from the San Francisco Bay Area, which may account for why the San Francisco Public Defender, the Bay Area Council and County and City of San Francisco also had success rates that put them in the top 25. that imposes an 11% excise tax on guns and ammo to fund violence prevention programs. That law takes effect July 1.
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