Newsom and legislative leaders Rivas and McGuire act as three haughty islands, distant from voters and each other.
The end of California’s legislative session for the year was marked by implosions of last-minute complex bills to address long-ignored problems.Gov. Gavin Newsom, Assembly Speaker Robert Rivas and Senate Pro Tem Mike McGuire emerged at the end of this year’s legislative session, which ended Saturday, as independent autocrats as opposed to a functioning team of Democrats. They disagreed. They proposed big reforms at the last minute. Too often they failed.
And then within mere days of the close of session, Democrats unveiled complex pieces of legislation. Its centerpiece was Assembly Bill 3121 by Assemblymember Cottie Petrie-Norris, D-Irvine. It proposed to give one-time refunds of electricity bills, estimated in the $30 range, to the millions of customers of these for-profit utilities. But it would have done so in the most destructive of ways, by diverting funds from existing programs intended to support schools and low-income Californians.
It turned out that the leadership meltdown over this bill was just the beginning. Following through on his threat, Newsom on Saturday called an immediate “special session” to ram through yet another last-minute idea, this one a mandate of the state’s oil refineries to amass more reserves to avoid price spikes during production slowdowns.
All Rivas and McGuire have done is replicate Newsom’s style of bad governance. They have become their own islands. None of them seem to care what the other two think. They are bereft of the civic mindedness of putting the public first, leaving egos at the door and making some really tough decisions. They all have come to prefer island living.
Good governance is an endangered species in Sacramento. With the threesome of Newsom, Rivas and McGuire, it is on the verge of extinction.
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