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Facing backlash from developers and construction lobbyists, those bills never took.

Newsom attended a lobbyist’s birthday party at the upscale restaurant after he had pleaded with Californians to stay home and avoid multifamily gatherings.

While this policy has been proposed perennially going back years, gun lobbyists see the current Congress as their opening to push the policy through the Republican Congress and onto the president’s desk.

Jim Demers, a lobbyist in Concord — the state capital — and a longtime Democratic activist, said California’s governor stands as decent a shot as any Democrat thinking of running.

Dozens of representatives from all of the major entertainment industry unions trekked to Sacramento to support the legislation, as did studio executives, their lobbyists and the Motion Picture Assn. trade group.