By Dan Walters
CalMatters

The California Legislature deals with thousands of bills every year, and many are perennials that reflect long-running economic, ethnic and cultural conflicts.

Warring interests try to gain the upper hand vis-à-vis their rivals. Regardless of the outcomes in any one legislative session, inevitably they clash again while augmenting their lobbying with efforts to bend public opinion and influence legislative elections.

Examples of the syndrome abound. There’s the perpetual jousting between personal injury attorneys…