Emily Schultheis
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Reporter @politico, taking a break from California ballot measures to cover the German election in Berlin / say hi: eschultheis (at) politico (dot) com
Los Angeles / Berlin
Joined February 2008
In this week’s @politico Berlin Bulletin, we looked at Friedrich Merz’s taboo-breaking gambit and the question facing conservatives across Europe: Does shifting to the right help fend off the far right, or further fuel its rise? With @NetteNostlinger:
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Should Germany ban the far-right AfD party? The parliament will debate that question today — but the proposal's backers, more than 120 lawmakers from four different parties, don't have a majority to pass it.
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RT @POLITICOEurope: A taboo-breaking gambit from Germany’s likely next chancellor to crack down on migration with the help of far-right law…
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Elon Musk's comments at an AfD campaign rally last weekend, about Germany needing to "move on" from its "past guilt," tapped into one of the most taboo stances in German politics. With @NetteNostlinger:
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RT @lundayfunday: The German election may have hit a turning point: Conservatives have long shunned collaboration with the far-right AfD —…
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Friedrich Merz, the likely next chancellor of Germany, said he'd be willing to pass new migration legislation with votes from the AfD — a further weakening of the "firewall" between mainstream parties and the far right. Our story from Berlin:
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Four days after George Whitesides was sworn in as a freshman member of Congress, massive wildfires broke out across LA County and in his district. Here's what Whitesides, who has worked on wildfire prevention policy, has to say about what comes next:
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RT @Elex_Michaelson: #BREAKING L.A. County apparently ACCIDENTALLY sent an evacuation warning to millions of people. "It was issued in er…
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RT @SupJaniceHahn: I have been informed the evacuation warning that many of us just received on our phones was mistakenly issued countywide…
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California’s system of direct democracy was inspired by Switzerland’s more than a century ago. But what can the Golden State’s ballot-measure world still learn from Swiss direct democracy? I spent time there this summer to explore:
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The movement to remove slavery exceptions from state constitutions has won in eight states in the last four election cycles, but is charting its path forward in the wake of an unexpected loss in California this November.
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“The average American voter is angry. And angry voters are not interested in new ideas. They want their problems fixed.” On how the red wave impacted this year's slate of nearly 150 ballot measures across the country, with @Lawrence_Ukenye @ZhangMona
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RT @Lawrence_Ukenye: Minimum wage increases stalled in Mass. and Calif. while voters in red states approved pay raises and even paid sick l…
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Today's edition of Ballot Measure Weekly, complete with analysis of the two uncalled statewide measures, a Q&A with the strategists who helped pass a sales tax to fund homelessness programs in LA, and updates on local-level measures across the state
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California deals criminal justice reform a punishing blow. With @TylerKatzen and @lindseymholden
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I wrote on Sunday about how Californians came to embrace Prop 36, and why it did so much better than a similar measure on the ballot four years ago:
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