Progressive groups, labor and civil rights organizations do well, while anti-tax, business and police fare poorly, according to a CalMatters Digital Democracy analysis.
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.LAist is facing a budget shortfall, but our mission to provide fact-based journalism is stronger than ever. We cannot do this important work without your member support today.
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.
The public defenders often joined the ACLU to fight — and usually succeeded in killing — a spate of tough-on-crime bills from moderate Democrats and Republicans last year, though many ofCooley, the former Democratic lawmaker, said the recent success of progressive groups and unions could reflect a Legislature that in 2023 saw a huge influx of rookie Democratic lawmakers entering the Assembly and Senate.“That would tend to pump the numbers up,” he said.
Thad Kousser, a political science professor from UC San Diego, said it’s not much of a surprise to see lawmakers siding with their local counties and cities on issues. A protester holds a sign on the steps of the state Capitol calling on Gov. Gavin Newsom to sign bill AB316, which would require a human operator in all autonomous vehicles in Sacramento on Sept. 19, 2023.Meanwhile, police, business and anti tax groups dominated the list of the 25 least successful organizations that took a position on at least 25 bills this session.
The Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association had the lowest success rate of any organization that took a position on 25 or more bills. Despite spending $3.6 million on lobbying in California last year, just 29% of the 31 bills went the anti-tax group’s way.that would have required the Legislative Analyst’s Office to write ballot initiative summaries instead of the partisan Attorney General’s Office.
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