Why Not a Presidential Debate in California?

Unless the mother of all earthquakes strikes and the largest of the West Coast states tumbles into the sea (Steely Dan said it would happen, but it hasn’t), California is not an island.

More to the point, it’s not England in the summer and fall of 1940—an actual island fortress that was standing alone against Nazi tyranny (although historians love to debate just how alone Great Britain was in its darkest and finest hours).

One way to look at California: it’s not so much a detached land as it is the uppermost reaches of a liberal peninsula (not coincidentally, that’s San Francisco’s geography). In other words, the Golden State isn’t so much going it alone, sometimes, as it is first in line.

One such example: SB 206, the so-called Fair Pay to Play Act.

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