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Rob Bonta

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Rob Bonta

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Rob Bonta is a recurring person in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 4 times across 4 issues between November 04, 2022 and March 13, 2025. The archive places it in contexts such as “Attorney General: Hochman (R) vs. Bonta (D); Rob Bonta is a partisan Democrat”; “Rob Bonta is the single most YIMBY person in the CA executive branch right now”; ""they’re more afraid of Rob Bonta and YIMBY Law than they are of the ALUC"". It most often appears alongside California, Bonta, Clara Collier.

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  • Category: People
  • Mention count: 4
  • Issue count: 4
  • First seen: November 04, 2022
  • Last seen: March 13, 2025

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My California Ballot 2022
November 04, 2022 · Original source
Rob Bonta is a partisan Democrat who seems to really like publicity stunts for Democratic causes. When Texas set a bounty for reporting illegal abortions, Bonta had California set a bounty for reporting illegal guns to troll Texas (he seems to think it is immoral and unconstitutional, but wants the Supreme Court to “call his bluff”). He has gone to all 58 counties of California telling them to fight hate crimes more, and constantly comes up with newer and showier ways of demonstrating how much he hates guns. More substantially, he has been a powerful advocate for increased housing and has successfully sued cities that oppose denser zoning.
Attorney General: Hochman (R) vs. Bonta (D)
Highlights From The Comments On My California Ballot
November 05, 2022 · Original source
Rob Bonta is the single most YIMBY person in the CA executive branch right now, for whatever that's worth to you. He set up the CA AG office's Housing Strike Force, and has used it to good effect.
Probably YIMBYs Should Vote For Bonta
If you support Newsom because he's being YIMBY, I really think you should support Bonta because he is backing Newsom's YIMBYism forcefully. I highly, highly doubt you'll see that sort of cooperation from Hochman, and without it a lot of this falls apart.
Highlights From The Comments On Last Week's Model Cities Post
September 11, 2023 · Original source
If I lived about 2-3 blocks further northeast, I would've been personally affected by this issue. I'm _just_ outside the 75 dB noise contour, and it's unclear whether the state ADU-streamlining laws would apply there. (I have just broken ground on an ADU, the design of which is taking advantage of some brand new rules letting you build at a slightly smaller setback if you're within half a mile of transit.) Our city planning department is kind of unsure what they should do with ADU applications under the contour. My impression is that they are inclined to just go ahead and approve stuff, because they're more afraid of Rob Bonta and YIMBY Law than they are of the ALUC. They'd just see if the ALUC notices / complains, but so far it hasn't come up.
OpenAI Nonprofit Buyout: Much More Than You Wanted To Know
March 13, 2025 · Original source
Meta, Facebook's parent company, [wrote] to California's attorney general, Rob Bonta, in December to ask him to step in.
California AG Rob Bonta is a former nonprofit coordinator with experience at the ACLU and other activist groups. He is a lifelong Democrat and close ally of Governor Newsom. He has a reputation for being Tough On Guns, sometimes veering into what I consider publicity stunts (when Texas passed a questionably-constitutional bounty for tips on illegal abortions, he tried to own the cons by proposing a questionably-constitutional bounty for tips on illegal guns).
Inline links: Rob Bonta
In late January, a group of 25 charities, including one started by the eBay founder Pierre Omidyar and his wife, piled on. The coalition urged Bonta "to take prompt legal action to ensure that OpenAI's assets are not illegally diverted for private gain."
Inline links: urged Bonta