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Laurel Rosenhall
@LaurelRosenhall
California politics correspondent for The New York Times. Previously with @latimes @calmatters @sacbee_news. Tell me things: laurel.rosenhall@nytimes.com
Jul 18, 2021 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Who's trying to replace @GavinNewsom? A few GOP politicians, a reality TV personality, a YouTuber, a retired detective, a cannabis advocate, and even a new-age shaman

Not running: a prominent Democrat or a superstar a la @Schwarzenegger

calmatters.org/explainers/new… 41 candidates is less than one-third of the 135 who ran to replace Gray Davis in the 2003 recall.

Newsom effectively helped shrink the field by signing a law requiring all candidates submit 5 years of tax returns calmatters.org/politics/2021/…
Jul 13, 2021 • 8 tweets • 5 min read
Before CA lawmakers granted prison guards a $5k bonus & an 8% raise over the next 2 years, the guards’ union made a few charitable donations.

Recipients included two nonprofits run by the very legislators who were preparing to vote on the pay hikes.
calmatters.org/politics/2021/… This week, political watchdog @CA_FPPC is considering new rules that would require more disclosure in certain cases when officials ask interest groups to give $$ to nonprofits. fppc.ca.gov/about-fppc/hea…
It comes after this investigation I did last year:
calmatters.org/projects/calif…
Oct 21, 2020 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
The National @NAACP has released its 2020 policy positions to guide voters' decisions in state and local races.

It does not endorse specific ballot measures, but the positions contrast with some endorsements made by the California @NAACP

THREAD

naacp.org/latest/naacp-r… National NAACP urges "each state and municipality to reject monetary bail requirements."

California NAACP opposes #Prop25, which would outlaw the use of monetary bail.
Sep 1, 2020 • 8 tweets • 3 min read
I've done a little more research since my last tweet raising q's about this, so here is a short thread... On July 27, after a handful of lawmakers and Capitol staff got COVID-19, the Assembly passed a rule allowing members to vote by proxy during the coronavirus pandemic
Mar 3, 2019 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
This woman’s grief is so powerful. #StephonClark ‘s fiancée Salena Manni says “my family’s world was turned upside down” by his killing. Mother of #StephonClark says: “The death certificate says ‘homicide,’ it does not say ‘accidental murder.’” (Worth noting that the medical definition of homicide is different from legal definition.)
Jan 8, 2019 • 11 tweets • 4 min read
You know it's the end of an era when the one and only @DanCALmatters says he's letting go of his @JerryBrownGov archive. Luckily for all of us it's going to the state library for good keeping. But first, a few highlights. THREAD ⬇️ Walters clip, 1977: "The combined result of those policies has been a rapidly increasing dependence by California on low-sulphur crude oil from Indonesia, an authoritarian military dictatorship whose regime has had a lengthy and close business relationship with the elder Brown."