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For California's Powerful, Following the Law Often Means Writing It Yourself

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The assumption behind our representative government is that we all have the same influence when it comes to governing and writing laws. But that assumption isn't quite true. Thousands of laws are written every year at the state capital. Politically powerful groups -- to get what they want -- often quietly just write the laws themselves.

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