Move to drop opposition to abortion, same-sex marriage from state GOP platform diverts attention from focus on crime, homelessness and quality of life issues
This isn’t to say California party leaders and prominent Republicans — or even all platform committee members, for that matter — necessarily support abortion rights or same-sex marriage.State GOP officials have long focused on California’s high taxes and concerns about its business climate. But there’s been a move to sharpen focus on pocketbook issues and other matters that affect the daily lives of residents, rather than engage in ideological cultural battles.
How successful this has been is debatable. Democrats continue to hold supermajorities in the Assembly and state Senate, effectively shutting Republicans out of most policy-making, and they hold all statewide constitutional offices. ”... I’m not going to get drawn into issues which in California are not changing any time soon. California elections in 2024 are not going to turn on social issues which have been settled either in the courts or the ballot box — they are going to turn on the top of mind issues at the center of the state’s declining quality of life.”
There was a similar feeling about the legalization of same-sex marriage, which resulted from court rulings overturning California’s voter-approved ban on gay marriage underProposition 8, which couldn’t pass in California today, is still on the books, even if it has been made moot by the courts.
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