After years of being strung along by California Democratic leadership, reparations activists came away from last week’s end of the legislative session empty handed.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom, left, applauds newly sworn-in California Assembly Speaker Robert Rivas, D-Hollister, at the Capitol in Sacramento, Calif., Friday , June 30, 2023. Rivas is replacing current Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon, D-Lakewood, who has held the position since 2016. The California Legislature is broken and there doesn’t seem to be anyone with any power willing to fix it.
It’s actually a common theme. For example, California Democrats by and large say they support single-payer healthcare, and yet it not only routinely dies, but usually without a final vote. Sen. Steven Bradford, the Democratic author of the bills, told KQED that Gov. Gavin Newsom’s office requested amendments to gut one of the bills and replace it with a $6 million plan to have the California State University system “study” the issue.
Did Newsom even read the task force’s 1,100 page report after it was released last year? No, he said, he “devoured” it. You know, just devouring a weighty tome on reparations policy like it’s “Harry Potter.”Highlighting the point last week was Corona Republican Assemblyman Bill Essayli, who tried repeatedly to call the bills up for a vote only to be ignored by the Democratic supermajority.
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