Three days before the scheduled end of the legislative session this week, Sen. Lena Gonzalez introduced legislation to limit Los Angeles’ controversial recent “mansion tax” on high-value real estate deals. She backed down just a day later.

“We wanted more time,” she said. “We wanted to do more due diligence … There were so many other issues on the docket.”

The California Legislature slogged through a marathon final week this week, extending its session into Saturday to push through a major package of climate and energy policies . The Saturday vote was needed because Gov. Gavin Newsom, Assembly Speaker Robert Rivas and Senate President Pro Tem Mike McGuire didn’t finalize their privately negotiated deal on how to extend the state’s cap-and-trade greenhouse gas emissions program u

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