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Dan Walters

@DanCALmatters

Political columnist for https://nitter.cf/t.co/JGrHReYc0I

 Sacramento, CA
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Joined December 2011
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For the record: Fresno man deported by ICE had previous illegal crossings calmatters.org/justice/2026/…
For the record: Fresno man deported by ICE had previous illegal crossings

For the record: Fresno man deported by ICE had previous illegal crossings

Luis Arreguin had been deported five deported before his recent immigration arrest in Fresno County, according to federal authorities.

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New column: California's campaign drama entices political junkies, but serious issues get short shrift calmatters.org/commentary/20…
California's campaign drama entices political junkies, but serious issues get short shrift

California's campaign drama entices political junkies, but serious issues get short shrift

Political drama and predictable posturing were at play in the races for governor and for L.A. mayor. Polls show voters like known candidates.

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CalMatters has won numerous awards for its comprehensive and nonpartisan coverage of California politics. Nobody, not even donors, can dictate tone of its coverage.
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@CalMatters is a propaganda organization that should lose its non profit status. @DanCALmatters is a good journalist and I can't believe he'd remain with such a fake news outlet.
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New column: California turf war between universities and community colleges needs a rational resolution calmatters.org/commentary/20…
California turf war between universities and community colleges needs a rational resolution

California turf war between universities and community colleges needs a rational resolution

New laws expanding bachelor's degrees community colleges can offer contain so many conditions, they added to the conflict among the schools.

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New column: Sacramento-area community college tries to fool voters by claiming bond won't raise taxes calmatters.org/commentary/20…
Sacramento-area community college tries to fool voters by claiming bond won't raise taxes

Sacramento-area community college tries to fool voters by claiming bond won't raise taxes

Los Rios Community College District's ballot language saying $1.1 billion in bonds will cause "no increase in tax rates" isn't aboveboard.

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New column: Despite lame duck status, Newsom could take a final shot at utilities' liability for wildfires calmatters.org/commentary/20…
Despite lame duck status, Newsom could take a final shot at utilities' liability for wildfires

Despite lame duck status, Newsom could take a final shot at utilities' liability for wildfires

At the end of the legislative session, a bill failed that Newsom hoped would reduce utilities' financial hit when their gear starts fires.

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Prop. 39 is very unlikely to win so I guess your apocalyptic prediction will be tested.
Ya dont know what ya dont know (@mbcd1977) profile pictureYa dont know what ya dont know@mbcd1977Oct 27
Replying to @DanCALmatters
@DanCALmatters If 39 doesn’t pass Walters, then California is destined to die by its own hand of purely unadulterated stupidity, plain and simple. Fraud will reign supreme just as it has been … and nobody has the balls to do anything about it … at least no democrat
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Milwaukee Brewers are leading World Series 2-0 over Tampa Devil Rays and are ahead 10-0 in tonight’s game. Robert Gasser, who grew up in El Dorado Hills, is pitching a shutout for the Brewers so far.
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New column: Californians' support for cutting carbon emissions wanes as new climate warnings arrive calmatters.org/commentary/20…
Californians' support for cutting carbon emissions wanes as new climate warnings arrive

Californians' support for cutting carbon emissions wanes as new climate warnings arrive

Affordability challenges are clashing with climate change impact, causing a slowdown in California's major emissions reduction program.

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New column: Why the fate of California's wealth tax could be decided well after the election calmatters.org/commentary/20…
Why the fate of California's wealth tax could be decided well after the election

Why the fate of California's wealth tax could be decided well after the election

Prop. 40 faces a gauntlet to succeed, including surviving two poison-pill propositions. Then it will probably be challenged in court.

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After 66 years in journalism I doubt whether I'm going to switch jobs
iceforlife (@iceforlife01) profile pictureiceforlife@iceforlife01Oct 21
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You should get a real job. You are a terrible JoUrnAliSt.
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If you are refewrring to me. I'm much too old to be a boomer.
Breaking the Change (@mboettcher21) profile pictureBreaking the Change
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Holy fuck another boomer telling us what is right and wrong. STFU!!
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New column: Trump's crackdown on immigrant voting in California is a ploy to influence election calmatters.org/commentary/20…
Trump's crackdown on immigrant voting in California is a ploy to influence election

Trump's crackdown on immigrant voting in California is a ploy to influence election

President Donald Trump wants California to segregate 20,000 ballots, claiming they may come from noncitizens. Federal officers charged 28 suspects with voter fraud this week.

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We're No. 1 in poverty, unemployment, housing shortage, homelessness, income disparity and living costs. We're near the bottom in academic test scores, have not had a balanced budget in at least a decade and our tax burden is one of the highest. Those are simple, provable facts
Rani (@Rani_Rant_Fest) profile pictureRani@Rani_Rant_FestOct 20
Replying to @1DemocratZ @DanCALmatters
I hate ALL Cal Media...not just Dan. The California derangement syndrome is fuckin insane. This state overperforms in every category yet the media thinks its sole fuckin mission to focus where we are NOT perfect. Fuck that. No state is better than California. NOT 1.
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The hate must be in your soul because it's not in mine. My mother lived to 107 so expect me to be around for quite a while
Rani (@Rani_Rant_Fest) profile pictureRani@Rani_Rant_FestOct 20
Replying to @DanCALmatters
Wouldn't be a Tuesday without a Dan Walter's hate article. You are a miserable fuck. Just move already.
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In politics everything good or bad starts with money Thus the phrase "follow the money"
Joe Mathews 乔·马修斯 (@joemmathews) profile pictureJoe Mathews 乔·马修斯
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This column is the epitome of Sacramento thinking. Judging a huge, highly consequential governorship (with lots of good and bad) through the narrow window of budget and spending... The people of California never figure in the analysis.
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New column: Gavin Newsom's legacy: Big promises undercut by costly mismanagement calmatters.org/commentary/20…
Gavin Newsom's legacy: Big promises undercut by costly mismanagement

Gavin Newsom's legacy: Big promises undercut by costly mismanagement

Gov. Gavin Newsom presided over growing budget deficits and debt, unemployment payment scandals, bungled COVID closures and other mismanaged state efforts.

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They killed people with their big rigs, and California let them keep driving calmatters.org/investigation…
They killed people with their big rigs, and California let them keep driving

They killed people with their big rigs, and California let them keep driving

The California DMV has the authority to take away drivers' licenses, but a CalMatters investigation finds it routinely does nothing after fatal crashes.

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New column: New California laws arise from latest legislative skirmishes in endless 'tort wars' calmatters.org/commentary/20…
New California laws arise from latest legislative skirmishes in endless 'tort wars'

New California laws arise from latest legislative skirmishes in endless 'tort wars'

Tort wars are among the Legislature's oldest conflicts, pitting lawyers who file personal injury lawsuits and their allies against business interests and their insurers.

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New column: California's ballot propositions fuel its longstanding tax-and-spending war calmatters.org/commentary/20…
California's ballot propositions fuel its longstanding tax-and-spending war

California's ballot propositions fuel its longstanding tax-and-spending war

Until Proposition 13, California voters let elected officials decide taxes and spending options. Now, 48 years later, money matters dominate the ballot box.

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