Buffy Wicks
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Oct 16, 2026
Bella RossHOST
Howdy.
Scott LewisHOST
Our special guest today, co-host and guest, assembly member Chris Ward.
Chris WardGUEST
Great to see you all.
Scott LewisHOST
Welcome to the new studio.
Scott LewisHOST
Then we'll get into, like, stuff that you're particularly interested in.
Chris WardGUEST
Great.
Scott LewisHOST
Uh, what it was like being an assembly member this year, and the future of California.
Scott LewisHOST
No big deal.
Anna PalmerHOST
Punchbowl News is gonna be back in California.
Anna PalmerHOST
We've got an event, uh, with Buffy Wicks.
Anna PalmerHOST
She's a figure certainly known in DC, uh, and now is leading up, uh, the Appropriations Committee at the California Assembly, uh, as well as State Senator Steve Padilla.
Anna PalmerHOST
This is gonna be on October 22nd, uh, at 1:30 PM Pacific Time.
Matt PearceGUEST
That passed out of the Senate, uh, in 2024 with a super majority.
Matt PearceGUEST
There was Assembly member, uh, Buffy Wicks, had introduced, uh, a bargaining code bill.
Matt PearceGUEST
It's basically like collective bargaining between the local news world and Google and Meta.
Matt PearceGUEST
And that one is very similar to policies that were pursued in Canada and Australia, um, that have brought in some money there.
7 MINS LATER
Megan GreenwellHOST
Were you writing drafts of the bill, sending them to them, and then revising from there? Like, I, I don't actually know how this works.
Matt PearceGUEST
You know, politics is really funny because I, [laughs] I always knew that, like, special interests write regilist- legislation.
Matt PearceGUEST
Um, I mean, this was largely, uh, based on language that, you know, we kind of just copy/pasted, uh, and suggested to our, um, uh, authoring, uh, uh, legislator, Assembly Member Christopher Ward, who introduced this, uh, earlier this year.
Matt PearceGUEST
The thing is, I mean, we suggested the language, and we were, like, technically the bill sponsor.
Ahmad AndersonGUEST
The partnerships, like I mentioned, like...
Ahmad AndersonGUEST
Senator Jesse Arguello, who's also the chair of the Housing Committee in the Senate, or who's endorsed me, or Buffy Wicks, who in the Assembly is chair of the Appropriations.
Ahmad AndersonGUEST
Having those partnerships, having the partnerships with Eric Bader, Stephen Bader for the Economic Development Agency for East Bay, having those relationships... on a foundation of having a partnership with my endorsed, who's endorsed me, John Giermundi, is important to be able to say, I want the Craneway so we get rid of the pickleballers.
Ahmad AndersonGUEST
Okay, but now you couldn't take it over because we don't have the money that you didn't hold the person who was in the building accountable for taking care of the maintenance.
Laura KlivansGUEST
There are groups that represent places that, you know, need to build, like hospitals or some housing organizations, and some building industries, like the workers.
Laura KlivansGUEST
Also, notably, Buffy Wicks, she's a California Assembly member, and she is one of the people who championed change last year to CEQA.
Laura KlivansGUEST
That has exempted housing that is already on, like, developed areas from CEQA review.
Ericka Cruz GuevarraHOST
Hmm.
Laura KlivansGUEST
measure?There are groups that represent places that, you know, need to build, like hospitals or some housing organizations and some building industries, like the workers.
Laura KlivansGUEST
Also, notably Buffy Wicks, she's a California assembly member, and she is one of the people who championed change last year to CEQA.
Laura KlivansGUEST
That has exempted housing that is already on, like, developed areas from CEQA review.
Ericka Cruz GuevarraHOST
Hmm.
Guy MarzoratiCORRESPONDENT
The way this got on the ballot is kind of a long and winding road, but I'll start at the end.
Guy MarzoratiCORRESPONDENT
This measure was placed on the ballot by the state legislature in a bill written by Democratic Assembly member Buffy Wicks from the East Bay.
Buffy WicksSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Thank you, Mr.
Buffy WicksSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Speaker and members, I rise to present ACA 22.
Guy MarzoratiCORRESPONDENT
Now, the twist to this is that Buffy Wicks opposes this.
Guy MarzoratiCORRESPONDENT
She opposes the measure that she wrote to get this on the ballot.
Guy MarzoratiCORRESPONDENT
And the reason for that is that the measure she wrote was really a way to get anti-tax groups to remove a different proposal that they had already qualified for the ballot.
Buffy WicksSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Politics is about choices, and we often must navigate challenging decisions.
Jason ElliottGUEST
I worked for years when I was inside state government to bring that policy forward, to do the politics and the policy.
Jason ElliottGUEST
And thank God for Buffy Wicks and Scott Weiner.
Jason ElliottGUEST
Amen.
Jason ElliottGUEST
Yeah.
Jason ElliottGUEST
The legislature did that.
Jason ElliottGUEST
They found their courage.
Jason ElliottGUEST
And thank God for Scott Weiner and Buffy Wicks.
Jason ElliottGUEST
But, you know, the courage of a couple of legislators is not a statewide housing policy.
Guy MarzoratiGUEST
The way this got on the ballot is kind of a long and winding road, but I'll start at the end.
Guy MarzoratiGUEST
This measure was placed on the ballot by the state legislature in a bill written by Democratic Assemblymember Buffy Wicks from the East Bay.
Buffy WicksSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Thank you, Mr.
Buffy WicksSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Speaker and members.
Buffy WicksSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
I rise to present ACA 22.
Guy MarzoratiGUEST
Now, the twist to this is that Buffy Wicks opposes this.
Guy MarzoratiGUEST
She opposes the measure that she wrote to get this on the ballot.
Guy MarzoratiGUEST
And the reason for that is that the measure she wrote was really a way to get anti-tax groups to remove a different proposal that they had already qualified for the ballot.
Katie DeBenedettiCORRESPONDENT
Rodriguez led a tour of the racetrack for a group of local officials this week.
Katie DeBenedettiCORRESPONDENT
He was joined by East Bay Assembly member Buffy Wicks and Berkeley Mayor Adena Ishih, among others, who shared what they hope to see here.
Dana CroninHOST
I would love to see sports fields as part of it.
Dana CroninHOST
We have a real deficit of, um, kids' sports fields.
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