Democrats in the California Legislature pass bills to block local policies on abortion, election rules and LBTQ rights.
The state Assembly during a floor session at the state Capitol in Sacramento on Aug. 29, 2024. Photo by Florence Middleton, CalMattersSome California communities are resisting progressive policies from Sacramento. Democrats in the Legislature say they are going too far and are responding with bills to shut them down.
Tensions over local control are nothing new in California politics, as anyone who has followed decades of debate about land use and housing development can attest. But the last few years have opened a new front of conflict around cultural grievances more typical of red states. when a student starts identifying as another gender. Such parental notification policies began sprouting up across California after the 2022 election, when RepublicansSeveral other measures are headed to the governor’s desk after receiving final approval from the Legislature last week, including Bauer-Kahan’sto streamline the permitting process for reproductive health clinics. Though California has positioned itself as an “abortion sanctuary” since the U.
The state Senate during a floor session at the state Capitol in Sacramento on Aug. 29, 2024. Photo by Florence Middleton, CalMatters Conservative politicians counter that they are simply reacting to a state government that has pushed much further left than their constituents by listening to the LGBTQ rights movement and other activists rather than the people who elected them. Essayli said the Democratic supermajority in the Legislature is over-representative of a progressive ideology compared to California voters, only 46% of whom are registered Democrats.
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