Not all of their actions were gutsy
Los Angeles Times
|October 20, 2025
Legislators did right thing with housing and oil drilling, but not high-speed rail.
ALLEN J. SCHABEN L.A. Times
A ROOFER works on a new home in Irvine.
Some witty person long ago gave us this immortal line: “No man's life, liberty or property are safe while the legislature is in session.”
Humorist Will Rogers usually is credited wrongly. Mark Twain, too, falsely.
The real author was Gideon J. Tucker, a former newspaper editor who founded the New York Daily News. He later became a state legislator and judge, and he crafted the comment in an 1866 court opinion.
Anyway, Californians are safe from further legislative harm for now. State lawmakers have gone home for the year after passing 917 bills. Gov. Gavin Newsom signed 794 (87%) and vetoed 123 (13%).
I’m not aware of any person’s life being jeopardized. Well, maybe after the lawmakers and governor cut back Medi-Cal healthcare for undocumented immigrants to save money.
One could argue — and many interests did — that what the Legislature did to increase housing availability made some existing residential neighborhoods less safe from congestion and possible declining property values.
But kudos to the lawmakers and governor for enacting major housing legislation that should have been passed years ago.
Public pressure generated by unaffordable costs — both for homebuyers and renters — spurred the politicians into significant action to remove regulatory barriers and encourage much more development. The goal is to close the gap between short supply and high demand.
But legislative passage was achieved over stiff opposition from some cities — especially Los Angeles — that objected to loss of local control.
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