# 2 CALIFORNIA If most lawmakers in Sacramento and the reliably generous
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lawyers who write campaign checks to keep them there can be likened to the Symbionese Liberation Army of the Berkeley - radical 1970s, then most California voters can be likened to the Stockholm syndrome - suffering heiress Patty Hearst, coming to
love their captors even as hundreds of new laws — many of them designed speci cally to expand civil liability on business and property owners — are enacted each year.