by Ryan Christie, HCRCC Secretary, Communications Chairman
California is an increasingly dangerous place to be, and the California Democratic Party’s sympathies seem to lie more with criminals than with law abiding citizens and police. On, August 15, the California State Assembly culled about 1/3rd of 830 Bills. Many of those were public safety bills, among them one to increase the severity of crime of making violent threats at schools and places or worship, and another that makes it a felony to possess fentanyl while armed. Probably the most significant is a bill, authored by Republican Brian Jones of San Diego, that would add stricter reviews before the release of sexually violent predators. After the bill was held, Jones remarked that Assembly Leaders were “now complicit in helping the Newsom Administration protect predators over families”. These bills were claimed to be held because of budgetary issues; a notion hard to believe when same session green-lit a potential reparations bill.
Why then, would the California Democratic Party rather pursue things such as a preposterous reparations bill rather than a public safety bill? It’s not hard to imagine. The Democratic Party has long since abandoned its blue collar base, opting instead to more or less focus on it’s affluent and socially radical base, whose lifestyles and priorities are a wide chasm away from the vast majority of the country. Ultimately, the neglect of the “common man” and of kitchen table issues could come back to haunt them come November.