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Is it hasta la vista, baby, for Paramount Pictures in LA?

Could be, thanks to a reckless anti-merger lawsuit led by California Attorney General Rob Bonta.

The iconic Hollywood studio has vowed to decamp to Tennessee, Texas or Georgia — unless Bonta agrees to negotiate by Oct. 1.

Talk about public officials losing the plot.

Bonta needs to stop stalling, grandstanding and politicizing the proposed Paramount Skydance-Warner Bros. merger. And he needs to do it now.

The federal government in June approved the union.

Bonta, on the other hand, has led a group of 12 blue-state attorneys-general who’ve moved to block the pairing, or delay it long enough to let a future US president intervene. 

While Bonta, et al, insist their stance is legal and not political, why is it then that only Democratic AGs have sued to stop the deal?

Is the problem, for these partisans, really that industry consolidation would hurt........

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