Take Two translates the day’s headlines for Southern California, making sense of the news and cultural events that affect our lives. Produced by Southern California Public Radio and broadcast from October 2012 – June 2021. Hosted by A Martinez.
This week on State of Affairs:
Jack Pitney, Roy P. Crocker professor of politics at Claremont McKenna College on legislature's team effort to fight harassment:
This is an issue that crosses party lines, it crosses jurisdictional boundaries.
On the merits of the issue, it's very confusing to have two different sets of rules — especially because you have so many staffers that switch between the two chambers. But it would also look bad politically for one chamber to have tougher and more responsible rules than the other. That would create political problems for the chamber that didn't have the strict rules. As Marisa [Lagos] pointed out, very wisely they chose two women to lead this panel — Laura Friedman from the Assembly and Holly Mitchell from the State Senate.
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