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It is Thursday, May 21st.

As long as I've been covering the entertainment business,

the politics of Hollywood have been

almost totally separate from the politics of the physical place where Hollywood is located.

Many of the big industry players, most of them Democrats and a lot of them transplants from

elsewhere. They raise money for Senate campaigns in Michigan or Pennsylvania, but largely

ignore state and local races here in L.A.

And for the most part, the feeling has been mutual.

California politicians have always taken Hollywood as a job creator for granted.

State production incentives, which have become so important in the business, have typically

hit a wall on the California legislature.

And local politicians have made it complicated and onerous and expensive to shoot in the

city, contributing to the exodus of jobs over the past few years.

But that's all kind of changing now, if you listen to the candidates, especially those

running for governor and mayor of L.A.

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