A Field poll study sampling 950 registered California voters shows that the state's Tea Party-affiliated voters follow what's going on most of the time in government more than Democrats and voters classified as "Non-partisans/others."
Apparently, $4 billion in unexpected new revenue for the State of California materialized out of thin air right in time to be counted for the budget that just passed. But Gov. Brown and the Democrats didn't get the sales tax extension that they wanted, so sales tax will drop one percentage point and car registrations one-half of a point on July 1.
In two separate cases Monday, the Supreme Court struck down laws in California and Arizona as violations of the First Amendment: a California ban on violent video games and an Arizona campaign finance law that publicly finances "matching funds" for political candidates whose opponents outspend them beyond a certain threshold.