California’s Republican Party has zero influence over state politics. The Democrats control 60 out of 80 seats in the State Assembly and 30 out of 40 seats in the State Senate and have held every statewide office—Governor, Treasurer, Controller, Attorney General, Secretary of State, Insurance Commissioner, and Superintendent of Public Instruction—for nearly two decades. The last time any Republicans won a race for a statewide office was in 2006, when Arnold Schwarzenegger was reelected as governor, and Steve Poizner was elected as the state’s insurance commissioner. Democrats also control every major city, county, school district, and every other public bureaucracy.
Republicans are up against a tough coalition of special interests that control the Democratic Party in California: public sector unions, leftist billionaires, monopolistic corporations and public utilities, extreme environmentalists and the “renewables” industry, and trial lawyers. All of these special interests are united by the proposition that the more expensive and regulated the state becomes, the more power and profit they will reap.
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