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You'd think they could spend a bit to "buy" someone like Senator Atkins, who effectively killed SB50. https://www.latimes.com/politics/la-pol-ca-housing-single

• umeshunni 7y ago
  I was wondering the same thing. The California housing crisis is a political choice and fixing the politics that caused it might be more effective long term than stop gap patches like this.
• newsoul2019 7y ago
  Why can't they "grow their own" powerful politicians? Find somebody young, put them in all the right places with all the right people, and have them say all the right things. Shouldn't be hard with unlimited resources.
  • Zenbit_UX 7y ago
    Sounds like the plot to the departed.
  • csmattryder 7y ago
    The problem with humans is that Free Will stuff. Eventually the human says or does something unpopular and your investment is written off, along with the politician. Maybe this young upstart has already tweeted something in their more free-spirited days, just waiting to be scrolled onto. Much more effective to pump money into the political parties directly. They're going nowhere.
  • pessimizer 7y ago
    For that you have to know the right things, or to know someone who knows the right things. That requires a degree of empathy.
• BurningFrog 7y ago
  Episodes like this shows that politicians aren't as easily bought as many think. For better and for worse.