Sacramento killed two bipartisan lobbying transparency bills without a hearing, while a separate bill that could expose journalists who cover taxpayer-funded immigration nonprofits to $4,000-per-violation fines is now one committee vote from the Assembly floor. Across California, the same pattern keeps surfacing: SFMTA promised 465 affordable units it never had funding for, SFUSD approved an ethnic studies curriculum through a review designed to rubber-stamp it, and Berkeley courts blocked a disease-ridden homeless encampment cleanup for sixteen months. The throughline is governments and institutions that resist accountability while the costs land on everyone else.
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