Newsletter: Essential Politics: Brown touts climate change ideas in San Diego

I’m Sacramento bureau chief John Myers, today’s Essential Politics host. Christina Bellantoni returns tomorrow, just in time for the GOP presidential debate in Boulder, Colo.

But this morning, we’re headed to La Jolla and the campus of UC San Diego for a visit by Gov. Jerry Brown to tout the university’s work on climate change.

This is the second and final day of the UC Summit on Carbon and Climate Neutrality, an event inspired by UC’s pledge to zero out the carbon footprint of its campuses by 2025.

It’s an understatement these days to describe Brown as passionate about climate change, and his 11 a.m. speech is expected just moments after UC researchers present what they’re touting as 10 “scalable solutions for slowing climate change that can be applied to California, the nation, and the world.”

We’ll have full details on our politics page, as well as any hints on how Brown might use the event to fine-tune his pitch for December’s United Nations’ global climate change summit in Paris.

SHOCKER: BIPARTISAN DEAL-MAKING IN D.C.

With all of the political drama flowing out of the nation’s capital in recent weeks, would anyone have seriously expected ... compromise?

And yet that’s what happened Monday, when congressional leaders announced a package that included a two-year government budget and an extension of the nation's debt ceiling through March 2017. — plenty of breathing room for both the next president and the next House speaker. Look for praise and criticism of the deal in the days to come.

AN EARLY ENDORSEMENT FOR KAMALA HARRIS

If ever there was an election where the Latino vote will be courted in California, next year’s race for the U.S. Senate is it. So it shouldn't come as any surprise that political tongues are wagging about the new endorsement of Atty. Gen. Kamala Harris for U.S. Senate by La Opinión, one of the most influential Spanish-language newspapers in the country.

It’s got to be a particularly bitter pill for Rep. Loretta Sanchez (D-Santa Ana), whose candidacy seems premised both on her appeal to Latinos and her existing power base in Southern California. Though there are other candidates in the mix, there’s a lot of speculation that the open Senate race could come down to an intraparty showdown between Democrats Sanchez and Harris.

And surprise, surprise: Team Harris issued its own news release before the ink on the endorsement editorial was even dry.

TODAY’S ESSENTIALS

— Live from New York, it’s ... Donald Trump? Democratic lawmakers are now joining the chorus of criticism over "Saturday Night Live’s" plan to have Trump host the show on Nov. 7. Trivia: Who was the last declared presidential candidate to host "SNL" during the campaign? The answer is in the story.

— “Wow.” That was the very first word uttered by a Los Angeles teacher when the door to the Oval Office opened on Monday and the guy with his hand on the doorknob was President Obama. Joy Resmovits has the story of the Marina del Rey teacher’s whirlwind trip to the White House.

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