She picked a fight with her own voters.

CA-14 is home to more than 42,000 registered Indian-American voters — high-turnout, high-information, concentrated in Fremont and the south county. Wahab authored the bill that detonated that coalition.

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Bill

SB 403 (Wahab)

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Veto

October 2023 · Gov. Gavin Newsom

CalMatters

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Bloc

42,000+ registered Indian-American voters in CA-14

CalMatters

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Aftermath

Recall talk in Fremont, 2023–2024

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SB 403 (2023): add “caste” as a protected class under ancestry in California civil-rights and employment law. [CalMatters]

Wahab’s pitch: hidden hierarchy in the tech workforce. [CalMatters]

Hindu and Indian-American groups treated it as community profiling. The caste system, in the Western ear, is glued to Hinduism. They said the bill stigmatized them as a class. [Times of India][American Kahani]

Bill passed Senate and Assembly. Newsom vetoed it, October 2023: existing law already covers ancestry and discrimination. [CalMatters][Times of India]

Recall talk followed in late 2023 / early 2024, driven in part by Fremont residents who had just voted for her in 2022. [Ballotpedia][American Kahani]

Lofgren later appeared with Hindu advocacy groups that had fought the bill. This is now a federal problem, not a Sacramento memory. [Ballotpedia]

Her spin

Moral courage. Hidden hierarchy. Civil rights.

The record

You do not get to blow up a bloc this large and call it moral courage. You own the veto and the recall petitions.

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