Capitol Weekly’s Top 100: Greg Totten

49. Greg Totten

As the CEO of the California District Attorneys Association, Greg Totten may be one of the most consequential names on this year’s list. The DAs, of course, have been on a mission to reform Proposition 47 and Totten in particular has resisted any efforts by Gov. Newsom and the Democrats to keep their proposal off the November ballot. And Totten’s stubbornness won out: the DAs’ measure, Proposition 36, will in fact be before voters this fall, and it’ll be on the ballot with no rival measure from the legislature. That was no small feat, but Totten has been adamant that California voters are far more inclined to reform Prop. 47 this time around than they were in 2020. Time will tell, but if he and the DAs can succeed with their Californians for Safer Communities campaign backing Prop. 36, they might change the state.