Latest line: A good week for Connerly, bad one for Daimler
Ward Connerly
Former UC regent and advocate of Proposition 209, the 1996 ballot measure that curbed affirmative action, seems headed for another win as a new poll finds only 31% support Prop 16 to reinstate such programs.
Daimler
German automaker agrees to pay $286 million to California to settle charges that it put software on thousands of Mercedes Benz and other diesel vehicles that enabled them to evade air pollution emissions limits.
Gavin Newsom
Governor’s approval rating among likely voters hits 60% in new poll, up from 43% a year ago. But with coronavirus, record wildfires, homlessness and huge deficits to deal with, would you want his job?