SACRAMENTO, California — California’s next governor, long-serving House speaker and architect of the wealth tax proposal dominating its politics are among the heavy-hitters convening today for live interviews in Sacramento.
POLITICO’s The California Agenda: Sacramento Summit begins at noon, at the precipice of landscape-altering transitions including the end of Gavin Newsom’s eight-year tenure, the election of his replacement and the impending retirement of Nancy Pelosi, the state’s most influential member of Congress. The featured leaders will preside over a financially imperiled health care system, a marquee Hollywood merger, the next phase of California’s native artificial intelligence industry and a climate agenda endangered by rising energy costs.
Politics Bureau Chief Jonathan Martin will open the day interviewing Pelosi as she serves her final months in office and becomes increasingly involved in elevating her chosen successor…