Jeremy B. White
@jeremybwhite
Senior California politics+policy reporter for POLITICO. Friend to cats; lover of words, Nationals, my daughter, and @JanelleBitker. Chisme: [email protected]
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https://politico.com/newsletters/californiaplaybook 25-01-2010 16:40:12
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California's prison population has driven politics for years, from SCOTUS order to penalty-slashing initiatives. Inmate numbers have steadily declined. A new ballot initiative could add thousands back. Lindsey Holden takes a look: politico.com/newsletters/ca…
"The LAO estimates the state would likely incarcerate 2,000 to 5,000 more people in prisons under Prop 36 by reinstituting tougher sentences for crimes like shoplifting and drug possession that are currently misdemeanors." / Lindsey Holden politico.com/newsletters/ca…
ICYMI: California’s criminal justice shift captured in polling: Prop 36 to reup theft/drug penalties is overwhelmingly ahead, and majority of votess have turned on Prop 47, the sentence-slashing 2014 initiative that 36 would roll back, per Public Policy Institute of California
.Gavin Newsom on poll finding huge lead for Prop 36, raising drug/property crime penalties: “I was wondering what state I was living in” Newsom endorsed the earlier initiative, Prop 47, that this would roll back
Republican opposition researchers had these stories on Mark Robinson during the primary, but they decided to sit on them because they knew Trump would be endorsing. They also knew these allegations would not stop that endorsement. If I am quick to believe the story from Andy Kaczynski it
NEW: The political evolution of billionaire VC Ron Conway, the Godfather of Silicon Valley. How he went from a political puppet master in San Francisco to a Dem powerbroker working w/ Nancy Pelosi to get Biden off the ticket after the debate vs. Trump. theinformation.com/articles/the-s…