The left coast goes lefter: even Gray Davis gets swept along. (Gazette).

CALIFORNIA GOV. GRAY DAVIS' signature on legislation that would bring far more power to the state's legendary farmworker union has capped and brought into focus a stunning year of progressive accomplishment in the Golden State. Together, a very liberal Legislature and a very calculating governor have enacted the most extensive renewable energy requirement in the country, the first law to fight global warming, the first law authorizing state funds for stem-cell research on fetal and embryonic tissue and the first comprehensive paid family-leave program.

But nothing is more dramatic ...

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