California’s Unelected Tyrants

California’s Unelected Tyrants
Then-California Air Resources Board Chair Mary Nichols (C) speaks as California attorney general Xavier Becerra (R) and California Gov. Gavin Newsom (L) look on during a news conference in Sacramento on Sept. 18, 2019. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images
Edward Ring
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Zeroing in on “unelected tyrants” in a state as dysfunctional and regressive as California is not easy. There are too many targets. Even California’s elected state legislators, as they cook up and pass countless tyrannical intrusions into our lives and livelihoods, are themselves “elected” only so long as they pledge obeisance to a powerful coalition of special interests that have turned California into a one-party state.

Edward Ring
Edward Ring
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Edward Ring is a contributing editor and senior fellow with the California Policy Center, which he co-founded in 2013 and served as its first president. He is also a senior fellow with the Center for American Greatness. Ring is the author of two books: “Fixing California: Abundance, Pragmatism, Optimism” (2021) and “The Abundance Choice: Our Fight for More Water in California” (2022).
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