Steven Greenhut on California’s Divisive Ethnic Political Battles

Republican legislators in California had often
been criticized for being divisive, yet the fading of Republican
power has not led to an era of Kumbaya. In fact, the state Capitol
recently has been plagued by some of the ugliest and most divisive
political battles in years as Democrats fight one another over
ethnic-related issues. A new bill that recently passed a Senate
committee is likely to keep the hostilities boiling. Steven
Greenhut details “racially tinged” squabbling, including
allegations that one Asian-American assemblyman’s bill was killed
by Latino and African-American legislators purely as
retribution.

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