Earlier this year, California was 1 of 10 states without a minimum age to marry - with the signing of AB1267, it's now 18...no exceptions!! Assemblymember Pellerin sponsored this bill, which involved a "Gut-and-Amend" of a bill that she wrote that had been passed by the Assembly, but was languishing in committee in the State Senate...she changed all of the words & the name on the bill, thus "gutting-and-amending", it it passed the Senate, then came back to the Assembly where it also passed. The Governor hosted a signing ceremony with survivors & the author(s) of the bill in the Governor's office, singing it on the back of a large bear outside his office; shout out to the Girl Scouts of Northern California had come to Sacramento with Taylor Swift-style bracelets to raise awareness of the bill. At the signing ceremony, taking a line from Warren Zevon's "Werewolves of London", was Governor Newsome's hair perfect? A: "I've never seen it not perfect!" (and she said she "crushed it" with her hair! Deep dive into the Assemblymember's staff, with offices in Santa Cruz, San Jose & Sacramento - as a committee chair, Gail gets additional staff, with staff tailored to the geography of each district, so Gail may get more than some given that her district includes both San Jose & Santa Cruz. As a former county clerk, discussion of Alaska senate race with a 2nd "Dan Sullivan" recruited to be on the ballot: "People get recruited all the time." "There's always confusion", recounting a Bay Area race with 2 people on the ballot with similar names. In Santa Cruz to get out the vote. Discussion of walk in vote centers, and "naked voting", where you fill in your ballot at home, then walk it in in person, so that the elections officials do not have to open the envelope or match signatures, saving time...more streamlined.

An interview on "The Bushwhacker's Breakfast Club" with "Dangerous Dan" Orange & ""Miles-the-Mentee" (Miles Hewitt), airing Friday mornings on KZSC Santa Cruz, California. 2026 is Bushwhacker's 37th year on the air! Thanks for listening!

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