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California Politics Reporter @Sacbee_news. 2024 @NYTimes Local Investigations Fellow. VA native. Not to be trusted with fragile objects. ben.paviour@sacbee.com.

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Freelance journalist and writer. Former politics editor for The Cambodia Daily.

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As a Sacramento teen, Xavier Becerra had drive, smarts and a steely poker face

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By Ben Paviour Verified
| Capitol Alert Verified
Xavier Becerra, center, in his C.K. McClatchy High School senior yearbook. It was not hard to find Xavier Becerra at Sacramento’s C.K. McClatchy High School in the mid-1970s. Every lunch, Becerra and half a dozen friends would around a picnic table, huddled over a deck of cards. Becerra was the one with long, wavy hair, flared pants and a poker face that his old friend Steve Franco will never forget.
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Poll: Voters lean ‘no’ on California voter ID measure, split on billionaire tax Original

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By Ben Paviour Verified
| Capitol Alert Verified
A voter deposits their ballot in the box outside the Placer County Clerk-Recorder-Elections Office in Rocklin on Tuesday, Oct. 28, 2025. A poll released Friday by UC Berkeley’s Institute of Governmental Studies shows voters aren’t sold on a proposed billionaire tax or a voter ID initiative set to appear on their ballots this November.
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California’s billionaire tax puts divisions among Democrats on the ballot | Opinion

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| San Luis Obispo Tribune Verified
Supporters of the Proposition 40 billionaire wealth tax hold signs at a meeting of the California Democratic Party’s resolutions committee on Saturday, August 1, 2026 at the Sheraton San Diego Resort in San Diego, CA. Ben Paviour The Sacramento Bee The ballot measure to introduce a one-time tax on the state’s billionaires, known as Proposition 40., has taken off because of one very simple idea: Everyone wants to eat the rich. This movement has ignited a sense of defiance across California.
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