It was no surprise that presidential politics dominated the 2023 California Republican Party convention held this past weekend in Anaheim. It would have been hard for them not to, given the presence of four Republican presidential candidates all eager to make a dent in the party's largest-in-the-nation primary to be held next March.
Yet away from the raucous, boozy party atmosphere at former President Donald Trump's Friday lunchtime convention speech, or Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis' slightly more sedate dinner address later that evening, an arguably more consequential event for the Golden State was playing out.
