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Stop the demolition!
Stop the demolition!
Stop the demolition!

California lawmakers are bulldozing ahead with a costly demolition of the East Annex and a plan to block public access to the West Steps and destroy Capitol Park.

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Preserve our right to assemble on the West Steps and to exercise our constitutional freedoms.

Now is not the time to burden taxpayers with a $1.4 billion debt for the next 30 years. It’s time to increase public safety and save the historic West Steps.

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September 9, 2025

Politics, Power, and Hypocrisy: Why California Voters Are Losing Faith

The California Globe

By Hector Barajas

The Capitol Annex Project is another example of this arrogance. What was sold to the public as a $543 million renovation has now exploded to more than $1.1 billion.

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September 9, 2025

Secrecy, cost overruns plague California’s billion-dollar Capitol annex project

CalMatters

By Richard Cowan

For more than half a decade, advocates of the state Capitol have sounded the alarm about the $1.1 billion Capitol annex project. This venture is a textbook example of how not to run a public works project.

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August 13, 2025

California was a model for transparency. Now the Capitol operates in the dark

CalMatters

By Dan Walters

The Legislature has exempted the project from CEQA and refuses to release details on what is being built or its costs, despite the state’s chronic, multibillion-dollar budget deficit

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Stop the Billion Dollar Demolition and Rebuild Project
Save Our Capitol Trees
Stop the Blockade of the West Steps and Plaza

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Save Our Capitol!

Save Our Capitol! is working to preserve the historic Capitol and its surrounding Park, including hundreds of irreplaceable trees. Alternatives exist to make the new Annex safe and compatible without spending more than $1.2 billion to excavate the West Steps, build a new parking garage, and rebuild the Annex with an all-glass facade.

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