Gavin Newsom’s Data Center Plans May Cost Him the Native Vote
For Native people in the Golden State, it’s going to be an autumn of mixed messages from the governor’s mansion.
For Native people in the Golden State, it’s going to be an autumn of mixed messages from the governor’s mansion. This month, Gavin Newsom will decide whether a bill confers California’s 109 Native nations with a government-to-government seat at the table on water policy, the same month it’s anticipated he’ll sign data center legislation—a pair of bills named S.B.
886 and S.B. 887—that gives them no seat at all.The Karuk Tribe, one of the water bill’s (also known as A.B.
First reported by The New Republic.
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