Good morning, it’s Wednesday, April 1 and you can expect a real Goldilocks kind of day — not too cloudy, not too sunny, just right.
In today’s newsletter, we’re making sense of Rob Bonta and Chad Bianco’s ongoing legal skirmish, plus the latest on the L.A. Zoo’s departed elephants and new data on L.A. restaurants.
1. Rob Bonta’s ballot-counting fight with Riverside Sheriff Chad Bianco, explained.
California Attorney General Rob Bonta has positioned himself as the leader of the state’s legal fight against President Trump, and likes to trumpet that his office has filed one lawsuit per week against the Trump administration.
He also takes on Trump’s proxies, and has lately been trying to keep Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco from conducting what Bonta calls a “misguided investigation” of purported election fraud in last fall’s approval of Proposition 50, which redrew Congressional districts to favor Democrats.
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