Scoop by Sophia Bollag: Gavin Newsom is threatening legal action against Half Moon Bay, site of a deadly mass shooting that exposed substandard farmworker housing, for delaying a project to house senior farmworkers. sfchronicle.com/politics/artic…

In today's CA Playbook: The CAGOP is not worried about the fallout from Kristi Noem's book. In fact, they're leaning into it.

Yesterday they sent out a fundraising text encouraging supporters to secure their copy of her book (yes THAT book) for the low cost of a party donation

Gavin Newsom’s top policy adviser is leaving his administration

Jason Elliott, the closest and longest-serving aide in Newsom’s office, will leave the administration in late June, he told POLITICO.

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Nice of Gavin Newsom to affirm Wes Venteicher story on why Newsom sees battering Big Oil as good politics:

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🚨💸 Gavin Newsom presenting May budget revise FRIDAY

Hot commodity: bilingual Chinese people ㊙️
Mayoral campaigns: add to cart, place order 💸

While Daniel Lurie 丹尼爾·羅偉 hires Han Zou, Mayor London Breed had a big show on Chinese media today about her Chinese staffer, and I heard Mark Farrell also wants to hire a Chinese reporter.

NEW: California Supreme Court sounded wary of killing a tax-limiting ballot measure before it goes before voters in November -- though they did press on the measure's potentially vast scope

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📢🤖 Hey IT pros in San Francisco for #RSAC2024 , it's not too late to get a ticket for tonight's event w/ Sen. Senator Scott Wiener

Join us at Manny's in the Mission district for Jeremy B. White's exclusive live interview w/ Wiener about AI regulation. RSVP here: eventbrite.com/e/from-sacrame…

HUGE news today for POLITICO California 🥳

We're adding TWO (2) ballot measure reporters to our ranks. Emily Schultheis and Will McCarthy, led by Sasha Issenberg will cover California's lively realm of ballot measure campaigns.

Give them a follow and read their latest coverage politico.com/news/2024/05/0…

Shakeup at the top of SF mayoral hopeful Daniel Lurie 丹尼爾·羅偉's campaign. @Trishala Vinnakota is out as campaign manager, replaced w/ veteran organizer Han Zou, as Mission Local reports

Lurie's team is now the most male-dominated of the major candidates missionlocal.org/2024/05/see-ho…

AI-generated news is here from San Francisco-based Hoodline. What does that mean for conventional publishers?

By Chase DiFeliciantonio

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Very excited to be back home in California to launch our new ballot measures team!

Super exciting day at POLITICO California w/ hiring of two new reporters dedicated to covering the state's ever powerful ballot-measure system

Also, what timing as Supreme Court begins hearing arguments on huge measure to restrict tax hikes. Emily Schultheis breaks it down in Playbook:

Taxes! Retail theft! Workers' redress!

Will California vote on this stuff, or will #CALeg make a deal? As our new ballot measure team of Emily Schultheis and Will McCarthy report, May is a make-or-break month for the ballot:

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Aaron Peskin, who announced a few weeks ago that he wouldn’t attend, previously said Together SF is “closely linked in an extremely partisan fashion” to one or more of his rivals. When asked for an update today, he texted a laughing reaction.

ICYMI, first in CA Playbook: San Francisco Mayor London Breed says she might back out of 1st mayoral debate. Her camp is concerned about close ties between Mark Farrell's camp & debate host TogetherSF Action

More: politico.com/newsletters/ca…

Powerful words by President Biden calling out antisemitism — often called the “oldest hatred.” Antisemitism was on the rise before 10/7 & Hamas’s massacre poured lighter fluid on it.

It manifests across the political spectrum & must be called out wherever it rears its ugly head.

Why is CA's homeless crisis so bad? Just look at today's POLITICO California Playbook.

The Gavin Newsom admin is celebrating Project Roomkey, which spent hundreds of millions of dollars on hotel rooms for the homeless.

The report they're touting found that two-thirds of Roomkey…

Only way Kristi Noem recovers is if she says she used an AR-15

Jobs, bias, deepfakes, the apocalypse: Artificial intelligence is leading #CALeg agenda this year.

California could set a national standard - hence dozens of bills driving debate about innovation v safety.

Come watch me ask Senator Scott Wiener about it in SF:

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