LA Taxpayers Fund Karen Bass's Campaign 6-to-1. Her Rival Got More Of It.
California UndergroundAugust 20, 202600:00:00

LA Taxpayers Fund Karen Bass's Campaign 6-to-1. Her Rival Got More Of It.

Los Angeles is legally matching Karen Bass's campaign donations 6-to-1 with public money — but the LA mayor's own rival has pulled in more of that taxpayer cash this cycle, and the Supreme Court has already ruled twice on whether any of it is constitutional. This week we walk through how the public matching-funds program actually works, why a 2003 law just rewrote which tires you can buy, and why the bullet train's own CEO says California's rules are strangling the project he's trying to build.

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