Emily Schultheis
California Reporter at POLITICO
Reporter @politico covering ballot measures in California and beyond | LA via DC, Vienna and Berlin | say hi: eschultheis (at) politico (dot) com
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4 days ago |
politico.com | Will McCarthy |Emily Schultheis
Bay Area leaders have warned that the region's transit system will soon run out of money at its current service level. | Getty Images FINAL DESTINATION — A group of transit unions, operators, and advocates calling itself Bay Area Forward is launching a last-ditch pressure campaign to rework a 2026 ballot measure designed to help rescue the Bay Area’s struggling transit operators, Playbook has learned exclusively.
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6 days ago |
politico.com | Emily Schultheis
“It’s a fundamental change to the culture of county government because it’s pulling the executive authority out of the Board of Supervisors. And the question is, how do you do that?” said Raphael Sonenshein, who headed a Los Angeles city charter reform commission in the 1990s and is now executive director of the Haynes Foundation.
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1 week ago |
politico.com | Emily Schultheis |Holly Otterbein |Robbie Gramer
“Just like domestically, you see one step forward, two steps back sometimes,” said Matthew Bartlett, a GOP strategist and State Department appointee in Trump’s first administration. “The thought of Trump and MAGA is sometimes more powerful than the reality.” He said, “His thumbprint can help push in certain regions and countries, but there can also be some pushback.” Trump’s election to a second term in November emboldened far-right movements abroad.
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2 weeks ago |
politico.com | Emily Schultheis |Will McCarthy |Tyler Katzenberger
Gov. Gavin Newsom drew the ire of those who backed two 2024 ballot measures, Propositions 35 and 36, in his May revised budget proposal. | AP WHAT BALLOT MANDATE? — Supporters of last year’s two most popular statewide ballot initiatives found that spending tens of millions of dollars to qualify and pass their proposals wasn’t enough to keep the measures’ most high-profile critic, Gov. Gavin Newsom, from disregarding them in his latest budget proposal.
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2 weeks ago |
yahoo.com | Emily Schultheis
HUNTINGTON BEACH, California — Southern California’s newest political movement meets on Saturday afternoons with paperback novels and lawn chairs outside the local public library.
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RT @cturzer: The US president is attacking his closest allies. His calculation: Germany and other Western countries are weak and must compl…
Germany's parliament voted today to loosen its debt brake and allow for more borrowing, long a controversial topic in German politics. In 2023, I wrote about the so-called black zero — and efforts to change it — for @thedialmag and @ForeignPolicy: https://t.co/gMYMWf97Wm
If you didn’t get a chance to read it earlier this week, check out our election postmortem:
The inside story of how 31 days made Friedrich Merz chancellor — and changed Germany forever. https://t.co/5gunrp9TBm