Gavin Newsom is slick.  He understands that he has to defend his record and the collapse of California.  So, now he has vetoed a couple of really bad bill.  How does he defend his record and California energy, crime, drug, illegal alien, education policies?

“As the ILA found out, “the data reveals Newsom is placing a high emphasis on moderate portrayal for issues relating to crime as well as on tax and fiscal policy. For example, while the average Democrat tax and fiscal ratings was a horrifying 1%, Newsom aligned with the limited government position a staggering 60% of the time – even slightly above Republicans who averaged a miserable 58%. However, on progressive priorities such as Energy and Environment, Newsom scored a mere 20%, closely aligning with Democrats who voted with the limited government position just 9% of the time.”

Gov. Newsom vetoed a bill which would have forced taxpayers to fund unemployment for illegal immigrants (AB 2847). And he vetoed a bill which would have required even more recycled mandates (AB 2784). Does this make him moderate? Probably not, but it’s clearly an attempt to improve his public optics.”

Yet Newsom still supports full benefits for illegal aliens, he supports California being a sanctuary State (and in another bill he supports the State of California kidnapping child for the purpose of making them transition, against the wishes of the parents—Newsom becomes to Father of all these kids!)

The Scheme to Label Gov. Newsom as ‘Moderate’ Exposed in New Report

California state lawmakers voting even more radical left as Newsom vetoes to appear moderate ahead of 2024

By Katy Grimes, California Globe,  9/26/23   https://californiaglobe.com/fr/the-scheme-to-label-gov-newsom-as-moderate-exposed-in-new-report/

Last November the Globe reported on the Center for Legislative Accountability’s annual California Lawmaker Scorecard, and as a surprise to no one, the California legislature earned a failing grade against other states’ conservative ratings.

The weakest issues for California state lawmakers are:

• Taxes, Budget and Spending
• Health Care
• Welfare and Poverty
• Education
• Government Integrity and Transparency

Not much has changed except to get worse.

Now there is a new analysis of the California Legislature by the Institute for Legislative Analysis (ILA), which includes “the most comprehensive Governor and state lawmaker scorecard ever produced.”  The ILA found “Democrats within the California state legislature vote in-line with the limited government principles of the U.S. Constitution a dismal 5.08% of the time – compared to the Republican average of 83.72%.”

The report is based on nearly 8,000 votes cast by lawmakers across 10 key policy areas and the legislative actions taken by California Governor Gavin Newsom last year.

“The analysis shows that the policy strategy deployed by California’s democratic lawmakers is enabling Gov. Newsom – a former progressive San Francisco mayor – to portray himself as a ‘moderate’ by vetoing many far radical left bills, while still signing countless other progressive priorities into law. As a result, the ILA found that Gov. Newsom’s legislative actions aligned with the limited government position 39% of the time based on ILA’s new Governor rating system – the first-ever Governor scorecard based upon bill actions across the 50 legislatures.”

Some of the bills Newsom signed include expanding prevailing wage mandates (AB 1851), forcing taxpayers to fund “scholarships” and training for abortion providers (AB 1918), expanding taxpayer funded legal services to illegal immigrants (AB 2193), unionizing the agriculture industry (AB 2183) – there are many more – this is just a smattering.

As the ILA found out, “the data reveals Newsom is placing a high emphasis on moderate portrayal for issues relating to crime as well as on tax and fiscal policy. For example, while the average Democrat tax and fiscal ratings was a horrifying 1%, Newsom aligned with the limited government position a staggering 60% of the time – even slightly above Republicans who averaged a miserable 58%. However, on progressive priorities such as Energy and Environment, Newsom scored a mere 20%, closely aligning with Democrats who voted with the limited government position just 9% of the time.”

Gov. Newsom vetoed a bill which would have forced taxpayers to fund unemployment for illegal immigrants (AB 2847). And he vetoed a bill which would have required even more recycled mandates (AB 2784). Does this make him moderate? Probably not, but it’s clearly an attempt to improve his public optics.

Read through the entire report – it’s interesting and thorough, and paints an accurate picture of the far-left leaning California Legislature, as well as those legislators who are champions of individual liberties, less government and lower taxation, and far-left leaning Governor Newsom, who is “reimagining” himself a little more moderate.

You can also see How Gov. Gavin Newsom’s Record Compares to Trump, DeSantis, Haley, Pence, Scott and Christie.

Here is the link for the California Limited Government Index scorecard for Gov. Newsom as well as individual Senators and Assembly members. Share your thoughts, please.

Gavin Newsom now has the ability to fine or jail parents who oppose pornography in the classroom.  He can also fine or jail someone who opposes government schools teach students to be racists.   The only good news is that this will push parents to take their children out of government schools.

“Under the new law, which will take effect immediately, the state will fine schools that block textbooks and school library books for discriminatory reasons. It will also charge districts for replacement textbooks when they fail to purchase curriculum aligning with state anti-discrimination laws. That provision was added to the legislation at the behest of the Newsom administration earlier this year when the Democratic governor was dueling with a conservative school board in Southern California.”

The bottom line is that is many districts this will cause chaos and a further distrust of government and the National Socialist Democrats.

Newsom to fine schools that ban books over race, sexual orientation

Gov. Gavin Newsom’s administration helped craft the proposal, which he signed into law Monday.

By BLAKE JONES, Politico, 09/25/2023   https://www.politico.com/news/2023/09/25/california-school-fine-book-bans-00118074

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Gov. Gavin Newsom on Monday signed a bill to curb book bans — his most concrete policy rebuke of attacks on instruction about race and sexual orientation that have taken root in more conservative enclaves of California.

Under the new law, which will take effect immediately, the state will fine schools that block textbooks and school library books for discriminatory reasons. It will also charge districts for replacement textbooks when they fail to purchase curriculum aligning with state anti-discrimination laws. That provision was added to the legislation at the behest of the Newsom administration earlier this year when the Democratic governor was dueling with a conservative school board in Southern California. The bill passed by a two-thirds margin despite opposition from Republicans and the California School Boards Association.

“Remarkable that we’re living in a country right now in this banning binge, this cultural purge that we’re experiencing all throughout America and now increasingly here in the state of California where we have school districts banning books, banning free speech, criminalizing librarians and teachers,” Newsom said in a video of him signing the bill posted on X (formerly Twitter). “We want to do more than just push back rhetorically against that, and that’s what this legislation provides.”

Administration aides made Assembly Bill 1078 from Assemblymember Corey Jackson their main vehicle for addressing actions by a group of GOP-backed school board candidates who’ve leaned into cultural wedge issues since being elected last fall. Newsom has stopped short of endorsing more sweeping responses favored by some on the left, including counteracting a set of school board policies requiring staff to alert parents when their child is transgender or nonbinary.

The governor angered progressives and LGBTQ advocates over the weekend by vetoing a bill that would have given preference to gender-affirming parents in child custody disputes, but has followed up by signing less controversial bills mandating that schools have all-gender restrooms and train teachers on supporting LGBTQ students.

This latest signing stems from a viral moment that infuriated advocates — when two school board members in the Inland Empire suburb Temecula called slain San Francisco Supervisor and gay rights icon Harvey Milk a “pedophile” before rejecting curriculum mentioning him. Newsom threatened to fine the district before the law was even passed, but backed down when the board approved the books months later.

The new law, prohibiting schools from blocking books because of their representation of a certain race, gender or other identity group, is an uncommon incursion into California school boards’ ability to govern themselves. Boards did have to follow anti-discrimination laws, but those requirements lacked associated financial penalties that will now be imposed.

Backed by state schools Superintendent Tony Thurmond, the new law will allow the superintendent to determine whether a district has failed to comply with state curriculum laws, giving the official power to review complaints that would have first had to go through county boards of education in the past.

Even when other provisions opposed by the California School Boards Association were dropped, the CSBA pointed to that expansion of state power and kept up its opposition.

“That will remain as long as the bill authorizes unfettered state intervention before a school district is made aware of a complaint and has an adequate opportunity to review and remediate the issue,” CSBA spokesperson Troy Flint told POLITICO after the bill was amended into its final form.

Few other states have passed laws punishing book restrictions with fines. Illinois’ Democratic Gov. JB Pritzker earlier this year signed into law the nation’s first prohibition of book bans, which would fine public libraries for blocking content.

Omar Navarro, previously in jail for six months in San Fran from a stalking charge, is now being charged by the Feds.  Ashgari, Navarro’s treasurer and mother was indicted on six counts by the Feds.

“According to the indictment, from January 2018 through July 1, 2020, Navarro deposited over $100,000 in cash into his personal accounts, even though he had no other source of income aside from the campaign funds, and he frequently made deposits after Abel or Asghari cashed campaign checks. Navarro also formed a sham charity called the United Latino Foundation as another way to embezzle funds from his campaign for his personal use.

All three defendants are charged with one count of conspiracy. Navarro is charged with 13 counts of wire fraud, 26 counts of falsification of records, and three counts of prohibited use of campaign funds. Asghari is charged with six counts of wire fraud. Abel is charged with two counts of wire fraud.”

At this time he is in L.A. County jail on skid row in downtown L.A., being held on $500,000 bail.

As Republicans we need to stay away from these grifters, isolate them, not support them.  We have other grifters, past and present. Now is the time to say NO.  The GOP is better than this.

Four-Time Congressional Candidate (Omar Navarro) Charged in Long-Running Misuse of Campaign Funds

U.S. Attorney’s Office, Central District of California, 9/27/23  https://www.justice.gov/usao-cdca/pr/four-time-congressional-candidate-charged-long-running-misuse-campaign-funds

LOS ANGELES – Federal prosecutors today unsealed a grand jury indictment that accuses a Torrance man who was a candidate for a Los Angeles County congressional seat in four federal elections with misusing campaign funds, including funneling tens of thousands of dollars in campaign donations back to himself through his friends and family. 

Omar Navarro, 34, is charged in a 43-count grand jury indictment. He is currently in state custody on unrelated charges, but he is expected to be turned over soon to federal authorities.

As part of the case against Navarro, FBI agents today arrested Dora Asghari, 59, of Torrance, who is Navarro’s mother, and Zacharias Diamantides-Abel, 34, of Long Beach, who is a friend of Navarro, both of whom are accused of conspiring with Navarro to convert campaign donations to personal use.

Navarro unsuccessfully campaigned in the four most recent election cycles to represent south Los Angeles County residents in California’s 43rd Congressional District in the United States House of Representatives.

The indictment returned on September 14 and unsealed today alleges that Navarro, from September 2017 through July 2020, illegally funneled campaign cash to himself. The indictment outlines a scheme in which Navarro allegedly made payments from his campaign to various individuals – including Asghari and Abel – and then directed the transfer of cash back to himself for personal use.

Navarro also allegedly used campaign funds to pay for personal expenses, including trips to Las Vegas and wine country, as well as two criminal defense attorneys. According to the indictment, Navarro later falsely reported these expenditures as campaign expenses to the Federal Election Commission.

Asghari and Abel concealed Navarro’s misdirection of campaign funds by frequently cashing the checks rather than depositing them into their personal bank accounts. If they deposited the check, they often withdrew the funds shortly thereafter to share with Navarro.

In total, from December 2017 to June 2020, Abel and Asghari allegedly received $49,260 and $58,625, respectively, from Navarro’s campaign, according to checks he wrote or caused to be written to them. According to the indictment, Asghari also created a shell company to facilitate her receipt of these campaign payments and transfers back to Navarro and his own shell company.

According to the indictment, from January 2018 through July 1, 2020, Navarro deposited over $100,000 in cash into his personal accounts, even though he had no other source of income aside from the campaign funds, and he frequently made deposits after Abel or Asghari cashed campaign checks. Navarro also formed a sham charity called the United Latino Foundation as another way to embezzle funds from his campaign for his personal use.

All three defendants are charged with one count of conspiracy. Navarro is charged with 13 counts of wire fraud, 26 counts of falsification of records, and three counts of prohibited use of campaign funds. Asghari is charged with six counts of wire fraud. Abel is charged with two counts of wire fraud.

An indictment contains allegations that a defendant has committed a crime. All defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt in a court of law.

If convicted in this case, Navarro, Asghari and Abel would face a statutory maximum sentence of five years in federal prison for the conspiracy count and up to 20 years in federal prison for each wire fraud count in which they were charged. Navarro also would face up to 20 years in federal prison for each falsification of records count and up to five years in prison for each count of prohibited use of campaign contributions.

The FBI and IRS Criminal Investigation are investigating this matter.

Assistant United States Attorneys Frances S. Lewis and Thomas F. Rybarczyk of the Public Corruption and Civil Rights Section are prosecuting this case.

If you want to harm the environment, buy an EV.  Want to cause a fire in your garage, buy an EV.  Need to be caught miles from a non working recharge station, buy an EV.

If you have money to burn and lots of time on your hand, buy an EV.

“EVs are not zero-emission vehicles. As one of our contributors wrote in a well-researched, heavily sourced piece, life-cycle assessments show that the “manufacturing, charging, operating, and disposing of electric vehicles produces more of every major category of pollutants than conventional cars.” 

The EV manufacturing chain is an environmental malignancy. That same writer, James D. Agresti, president of Just Facts, has also noted “the ‘environmental implications’ of mining lithium to make batteries for electric cars ‘would directly counter the intent’ of ‘incentivizing electric vehicle adoption.’” He further makes the case by citing a Brookings Institution study, which “found that ‘continued reliance on China’ will ‘increase the risk that sourcing of critical minerals will cause or contribute to serious social or environmental harms.’”

Finally, if you want to cost 40% of UAW members their jobs, buy an EV and help the Communist Chinese Party.

10 Reasons Not To Own An EV

I & I Editorial Board, 9/26/23  https://issuesinsights.com/2023/09/26/10-reasons-not-to-own-an-ev/

From California to New York to Washington, Democrats are using the coercive force of government to herd Americans into electric vehicles. Here are 10 reasons why we should resist both this egregious abuse of power as well as the social pressure that demands we all go electric:

The mandates are an egregious abuse of power. Where do government officials, both elected and unelected, derive the authority to tell Americans what vehicles they cannot own and what vehicles they must own? There is none. Yes, there are laws intended to keep dangerous cars and trucks off the streets for safety reasons. But no automobile is a threat just because it burns gasoline or diesel. Dare we say that those who buy an EV are complicit in securing for the state a power it was never intended to have?

The mandates are an egregious abuse of power Part ll. The federal government oversteps its constitutional limits when it tells manufacturers that two-thirds of the vehicles they build must be electrified.

EVs are not zero-emission vehicles. As one of our contributors wrote in a well-researched, heavily sourced piece, life-cycle assessments show that the “manufacturing, charging, operating, and disposing of electric vehicles produces more of every major category of pollutants than conventional cars.” 

The EV manufacturing chain is an environmental malignancy. That same writer, James D. Agresti, president of Just Facts, has also noted “the ‘environmental implications’ of mining lithium to make batteries for electric cars ‘would directly counter the intent’ of ‘incentivizing electric vehicle adoption.’” He further makes the case by citing a Brookings Institution study, which “found that ‘continued reliance on China’ will ‘increase the risk that sourcing of critical minerals will cause or contribute to serious social or environmental harms.’”

EVs are fire hazards. All automobiles catch fire, but EVs burn hotter, longer, and take far more water to extinguish than a conventional car that’s burning. Firefighters use about 500 gallons of water to put out regular car fires. EV fires can require from 6,000 gallons to 20,000 gallons to get the job done. Oh, yes, the smoke from an EV fire is particularly toxic, not terribly dissimilar to that of Zyklon B.

EVs are destructive. Because their batteries are so heavy, EVs weigh more than conventional automobiles of similar size. This means they accelerate the damage to road surfaces. The excess weight also increases the pressure on tires and brakes, which in breaking down produce unhealthy particulate matter. Furthermore, their weight problem may overwhelm parking garages and cause them to collapse.

Slaves helped build that EV. The mining operations in developing countries that produce the raw materials needed for EV batteries “exploit child labor,” says author and energy analyst Ronald Stein, “and are responsible for the most egregious human rights violations of vulnerable minority populations.” Conditions have grown so dire that Washington “is cracking down on” EV components that have “links to Chinese Uyghur slave labor.”

Exorbitant insurance premiums. Because they can be totaled by a minor fender bender, and the concern over fires is growing, insuring already-costly EVs can be painfully expensive. When Nerd Wallet compared rates, it found the “national median rate for a 2023 Tesla Model 3 was $2,574 per year for full coverage insurance … almost 45% higher than the national median cost of car insurance.”

Crashing the grid. What happens when tens of millions if not hundreds of millions of EVs are charging on a system powered by renewable energy sources that cannot meet the increased demand? We become California, where, only days after the state Air Resources Board approved the governor’s unilaterally issued EV mandate last year, the grid operator asked the few EV owners (not even a million) to forgo charging their cars between 4 p.m. and 9 p.m. due to anticipated “supply deficiencies.” Or, worse, we become Venezuela, where blackouts are common.

Looking shallow. EVs provide almost unmatched opportunities for virtue signaling, and that is of course why a lot of people choose to buy them. It’s quite a spectacle of vacuity.

There are no solutions, economist Thomas Sowell tells us, only trade-offs, and the deal we’re being forced by government to make is a poor one.

We all knew it—Adam Schiff is a hypocrite.  And, he does know how to use your tax dollars to help his election.

“A POLITICO review of congressional earmarks and political contributions found that in addition to the money for homelessness and drug treatment, Schiff also steered millions to for-profit companies and raised tens of thousands for his House reelection campaigns from corporate executives and people connected to them. The review was mostly limited to publicly available data from the brief three-year window when corporate earmarks were disclosed.

Schiff said he doesn’t have a complete accounting of his earmarks.

Several of Schiff’s earmarks would be barred under reforms adopted in 2010. Among them, Schiff secured millions in funding for Smiths Detection and Phasebridge, Inc., defense companies based in his district. He steered $6 million to Smiths Detection for military warfare sensors between 2003 and 2006 and earmarked another $3 million to Phasebridge that was developing a radar frequency distribution system for the Navy in 2004.”

Does anyone believe he doesn’t have a record of earmarks—and the amount of money donated by each individual or corporation he helped?

The earmarks Adam Schiff delivered for donors

The Democratic congressman for years secured earmarks for defense companies while taking campaign donations from top corporate brass and Washington lobbyists.

By CHRISTOPHER CADELAGO, Politico,  9/25/23     https://www.politico.com/news/2023/09/25/adam-schiff-earmarks-00117716

Adam Schiff is unapologetically touting his commitment to earmarks for local causes — like homelessness and drug treatment programs — as he seeks the Senate seat long held by Dianne Feinstein. The 12-term House Democrat and darling of the anti-Trump left is even calling out his closest rival in the race, Rep. Katie Porter, for her opposition to pork-barrel spending.

But Schiff has offered an incomplete and potentially misleading account of his record on earmarks. A close examination of that record reveals that he secured generous earmarks for corporate beneficiaries early in his career, including at times for recipients who were also major donors to his political campaigns.

Earmarks have emerged as an unlikely source of intense debate in one of the nation’s most closely watched Senate primaries. Schiff’s sales pitch — that earmarks are essential to making Washington work for California — hearkens back to his early days in the House, before both parties raced to crack down on the practice. Porter said she views the spending items as a symbol of broken Washington and doesn’t file requests for them.

A POLITICO review of congressional earmarks and political contributions found that in addition to the money for homelessness and drug treatment, Schiff also steered millions to for-profit companies and raised tens of thousands for his House reelection campaigns from corporate executives and people connected to them. The review was mostly limited to publicly available data from the brief three-year window when corporate earmarks were disclosed.

Schiff said he doesn’t have a complete accounting of his earmarks.

Several of Schiff’s earmarks would be barred under reforms adopted in 2010. Among them, Schiff secured millions in funding for Smiths Detection and Phasebridge, Inc., defense companies based in his district. He steered $6 million to Smiths Detection for military warfare sensors between 2003 and 2006 and earmarked another $3 million to Phasebridge that was developing a radar frequency distribution system for the Navy in 2004.

Smiths Detection and Phasebridge both retained PMA Group, a lobbying firm founded and owned by Paul Magliocchetti, a former staffer for the late chair of the powerful House defense appropriations subcommittee, Rep. John Murtha, the Pennsylvania Democrat. Between 2004 and 2008, Schiff received $8,500 in contributions from PMA Group PAC and two of Magliochetti’s family members — his lobbyist son, Mark, and daughter, Jennifer, who worked as an assistant ticket director with a minor league baseball team in Florida. Donations from Magliocchetti’s children, in 2007, came on the same day. In 2011, Paul Magliocchetti was sentenced to 27 months in prison for making hundreds of thousands of dollars in illegal campaign contributions between 2003 and 2008 — among the largest schemes to evade donation limits ever uncovered. Mark Magliochetti was sentenced to 14 days in prison.

Schiff was not named in the Magliochettis’ legal cases. But his record on the issue is a reminder that even as he fashions himself as an anti-Trump combatant fighting on the frontlines for democracy, he’s spent years engaged in bipartisan Washington traditions.

“We were always concerned about the pay-to-play aspects and that’s something that every lawmaker must live with,” said Steve Ellis, president of Taxpayers for Common Sense, a nonpartisan budget watchdog, who has been analyzing earmarks for decades. “If you’re getting a campaign contribution and getting your earmark for that same company or for a client of that lobbyist, it has that perception.”

Schiff’s campaign downplayed the previously unreported connection to the Magliocchettis and other donations he received from companies for which he sought earmarks, saying the public has confidence in him.

“Californians know and trust Adam’s record of getting things done, and as a U.S. senator, he will do what it takes to ensure Californians’ tax dollars are put to work for them and their priorities,” Schiff spokesperson Marisol Samayoa said in a written statement.

“These contributions amount to less than one tenth of one percent of what Adam has raised over 20 years in Congress, and were driven by what was best for our troops and his constituents. It is ridiculous to suggest otherwise,” Samayoa added.

Changes to the earmark process followed rising spending and a series of congressional pay-to-play transgressions in the mid-2000s. Former Rep. Randy “Duke” Cunningham (R-Calif.) admitted to taking millions in bribes from defense contractors; disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff, who dubbed the appropriations panel a “favor factory,” went down in scandal and the Alaskan “bridge to nowhere” became a symbol of congressional excess.

Then-Speaker Nancy Pelosi took over the House in 2006 and imposed more transparency around the process. Congressional Democrats banned earmarks to private industry in 2010, and Republicans upped the ante in 2011 by instituting an across-the-board moratorium, under pressure from Tea Party conservatives who emerged following the financial crisis. Then-President Barack Obama also vowed to veto legislation that included earmarks and said officials had a chance to not only shine a light on a bad Washington habit that wastes billions of taxpayer dollars, but also take a step toward restoring public trust.

President Donald Trump agitated for the return of earmarks while in the White House. But the congressional moratorium wasn’t lifted until 2021, once again letting members direct money to projects in their districts and allowing House and Senate leaders to dangle carrots in front of them in exchange for support. Earmarks in their current incarnation, referred to as Community Project Funding, cannot go to benefit for-profit companies, and the requests must be posted online.

Now, Schiff is running for Senate on this sanitized version of earmarks, banking on the idea these locally directed spending projects have been rehabilitated with the public.

In a written statement, the congressman said he was proud to have brought millions of dollars back to his Southern California district to combat homelessness and the housing affordability crisis, provide mental health and substance abuse treatment and invest in military technology.

Schiff pointed out that Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass, herself a former House Democrat, has asked her former colleagues to request via earmark funding for homelessness and housing. Bass has endorsed Rep. Barbara Lee, a longtime House Democrat, in the Senate contest to succeed Feinstein.

“Our next senator must continue to fight for these resources — hundreds of millions over the course of a single Senate term — because California families need a leader who will deliver results, not mere talking points,” Schiff said.

He’s taken that stance one step further and singled out Porter over her opposition to earmarks; Schiff ran Facebook ads that link to a news report about Porter’s refusal to seek them. And he isn’t the only California candidate to do so. Lee also has questioned Porter for standing against earmarks.

But the Schiff-Porter rift has stood out given their dominance in fundraising and polls in the primary for the seat. Under the state’s election rules, the top-two finishers in March regardless of party, advance to the November runoff. Last week, a Porter senior adviser told POLITICO the congresswoman would not seek any earmarks if elected to the Senate.

Schiff’s moves prompted POLITICO to examine his own record of for-profit earmarks. In addition to the PMA Group dollars he raised, Schiff also received donations from other companies for which he secured earmarks. In fiscal year 2008, Schiff guided nearly a third of his earmarks to for-profit companies that were run by campaign donors.

— Schiff directed $1 million to Pasadena-based Eureka Aerospace, which was developing military technology to stop vehicles that ignored checkpoints. Eureka Aerospace CEO James Tatoian contributed $24,600 to Schiff between 2006 and 2016. Others in Tatoian’s household gave another $9,950 through 2020. His only other federal contributions in recent years went to former Republican Sen. Martha McSally of Arizona, a retired Air Force colonel and former pilot.

— Schiff channeled $1 million to Tanner Research Inc. of Monrovia for detecting IEDs. CEO John Tanner donated $15,800 to him from 2003 to 2012.

— Schiff got an $800,000 earmark for Orbits Lightwave Inc. for an ultra stable coherent laser project. Yaakov Shevy, Orbits Lightwave’s co-founder and president, donated $2,500 to him over his time in Congress and executive Katrin Saroukhanian gave $1,200 from 2007 to 2010.

— Schiff also secured $492,000 for Superprotonic for solid acid fuel cell research. Co-founder Calum Chisholm of Pasadena and executive Sami Mardini of Duarte combined to donate $1,500 to Schiff in 2007 and 2008.

In response to questions, Schiff’s spokesperson Samayoa said the for-profit earmarks Schiff received went to worthy causes like weapons systems to protect troops and to foster economic growth and innovation.

“At the heart of it, earmarks are a way for a member of Congress to literally bring home the bacon and take care of their communities,” said Murshed Zaheed, a Democratic strategist in California and earmark supporter who worked for Rep. Louise Slaughter and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid during the height of the debate over targeted member spending.

“If Adam Schiff brought home earmarks that benefited his communities, that’s great. I also think Schiff and everybody else should be transparent about their earmarks. If you got nothing to hide, you got nothing to hide.”

POLITICO could not analyze many of Schiff’s earmarks or possible corresponding donations because the public record of dollars that flowed to companies is extremely limited. Schiff’s campaign declined to provide the list of earmarks from between 2001 and 2007, contending they didn’t have one. Schiff refused a Los Angeles Daily News request to reveal his projects when pressed in 2007.

California lawmakers and their aides at the time gave several reasons for the secrecy, including not wanting to offend requestors they couldn’t accommodate, and Schiff himself in 2006 contended it was time for more disclosure by bemoaning “late-night, backroom deals.”

It’s those memories of the days of rampant earmarking that Porter has tried to tap into, relentlessly attacking earmarks since they arose as an unlikely point of tension in a Senate race in which the contenders mostly align on policy. She argued that instead of “neutral experts” identifying where the needs are greatest, earmarks allow elected representatives to choose projects for their own reasons.

That puts her in the camp of earmark abolitionists, who view them as bad policy and optics.

On October 1 you will see a massive outbreak of smash and grabs, muggings and petty thefts.  On that day L.A. County implements no cash bail.

“”Our communities have not been shy about telling us how nervous they are about this change,” Sheriff Robert Luna told the board, saying crime victims who see offenders immediately released from custody are left with little confidence in the criminal justice system. He said he respects the need to respect constitutional rights of arrestees, but zero-bail can demoralize deputies and police officers who work hard to make arrests, only to “watch the offender walk away with a citation as the victim looks on in disbelief.”

You read that right, no arrest, just a citation.  Seriously, like illegal aliens, do you really think these criminals will show up for trial or a hearing?  They may be crooks but they are not dumb.  They know nothing will happen to them.

Debate Over Zero Bail System Intensifies in Los Angeles County Amid Safety Concerns

Westside Current,  9/26/23  https://www.westsidecurrent.com/news/debate-over-zero-bail-system-intensifies-in-los-angeles-county-amid-safety-concerns/article_3a287b2c-5cc2-11ee-ad40-d3fca2991b37.html

LOS ANGELES – Law enforcement officials and some residents continued to express safety concerns Tuesday about the imminent implementation of zero bail in Los Angeles County, but backers of the plan told the Board of Supervisors that misinformation about the system is leading to unfounded perceptions that crime will increase and criminals won’t be held accountable.

“Our communities have not been shy about telling us how nervous they are about this change,” Sheriff Robert Luna told the board, saying crime victims who see offenders immediately released from custody are left with little confidence in the criminal justice system. He said he respects the need to respect constitutional rights of arrestees, but zero-bail can demoralize deputies and police officers who work hard to make arrests, only to “watch the offender walk away with a citation as the victim looks on in disbelief.”

But Supervisor Holly Mitchell said the zero-bail system taking effect Sunday does not mean criminals are escaping punishment for their offenses.

“It’s really dangerous for us to conflate bail with accountability,” Mitchell said, adding later: “Bail means I have the resources to pay my way out of jail.”

The zero-bail system, officially dubbed by the Los Angeles Superior Court as Pre-Arraignment Release Protocols, or PARP, will take effect Sunday. The system will largely eliminate the existing cash bail system for all but the most serious of crimes. Most people arrested on suspicion on non-violent or non- serious offenses will be either cited and released in the field or booked and released at a police or sheriff’s station with orders to appear in court on a specific date for arraignment once they are actually charged with a crime. Arrestees in such cases who are believed to present a heightened threat to the public or flight risk will be referred to a magistrate judge, who will review the case and determine if the person should be held in custody pending arraignment or released under non-financial restrictions or monitoring.

Once a person is charged and appears in court for arraignment, a judge could then change the defendant’s release conditions.

The new system is borne from long-held criticism that cash bail favored the rich, meaning well-heeled people arrested for even the most serious of crimes could pay their way out of jail, while low-income people languished behind bars for far lesser offenses. The new system is based not on cash, but on the risk an offender presents to public safety or the possibility the person might fail to appear in court.

The county implemented a zero-bail system during the COVID-19 pandemic in an effort to prevent crowding in jails. Then in May, a Los Angeles judge issued a preliminary injunction essentially reinstating the system by ordering an end to cash bail by the Los Angeles police and sheriff’s departments.

The Los Angeles Superior Court in July announced plans for the PARP system, with Presiding Judge Samantha Jessner saying, “A person’s ability to pay a large sum of money should not be the determining factor in deciding whether that person, who is presumed innocent, stays in jail before trial or is released.”

But the idea of zero-bail has generated public safety questions — with some county supervisors noting Tuesday their offices have been swamped with calls from residents concerned about the system, particularly following a recent wave of mob-style smash-and-grab burglaries and reports of arrestees being quickly released and reoffending.

Some residents spoke at Tuesday’s meeting in opposition to the zero- bail system, saying the county should “think this through before implementing” it. Another claimed the system implemented during the pandemic “didn’t work” and that other jurisdictions that have tried it saw jumps in crime.

But others spoke in favor, calling suggestions that crime will increase “fear mongering” and accusing opponents of manufacturing statistics in an effort to “sustain the current policies that do not work.”

A report prepared by the county last year analyzing the impacts of the pandemic-era zero-bail policy concluded that “rates of failure to appear in court and of rearrest or new offenses remained either below or similar to their historical average.”

The Judicial Council of California also released a recent report finding that a risk-based zero-bail system actually led to increased public safety, with a 5.8% drop in people being rearrested for misdemeanors and a 2.4% decrease in people being rearrested for felonies.

David Slayton, the CEO of Los Angeles Superior Court, told the Board of Supervisors those percentages may seem small, but they represent an “impactful reduction in re-arrest rate.”

Echoing Mitchell’s comments, Slayton flatly denied that the new system means there are no consequences for crime, noting that people who fail to appear in court, re-offend while on release or violate their release conditions will be subject to arrest and jail.

“There are consequences for illegal behavior,” he said, noting that the idea of bail has always been to ensure people show up in court, not to punish people, and a risk-based decision on pre-arraignment detention serves the same goal.

Mitchell noted that while it might be upsetting if a person released on zero bail commits a new crime, its equally upsetting when that crime is committed by a person who posted cash bail solely because they had the money to do so.

Supervisor Janice Hahn conceded the concern circulating among the public about the new system.

“This new bail schedule certainly is an attempt at justice reform, which I think we’ve all been pushing for, but it is so different and it is certainly causing a concern and anxiety out there, not only with law enforcement … but also from our communities,” she said. ” … And I can’t be the only one whose having my office inundated with calls and when I’m out publicly I have people approaching me who are very concerned about this.”

Supervisor Kathryn Barger also said her office is hearing from concerned constituents.

“Residents don’t feel safe. One only has to turn on the TV each morning and hear what happened the day before, whether it be a smash-and-grab, a carjacking, a burglary, an armed robbery … and people what to know how this is going to impact crime on the street.”

Barger said she fully understands the problems with cash bail, but it’s a matter about how to explain to the public what the new system is working to accomplish, and “how are we going to make sure that criminals out there don’t feel there are no consequences.”

The board asked court officials to return in about six months to report on the impacts of the program.

This is another “give us the money joke scam”.  Here is how it works.  Government passing laws telling people they can steal up to $950 without a consequence.  DA’s announce it was your upbringing, not your criminality that causes you to steal—s- you need to be understood, not punished.  Then the criminals realize that if a private citizen or cop tries to stop them, the citizen or cop, not you, are in trouble.  So we get a rash of crime.

Then government say crime is out of hand, so give us money to create studies, hire therapists, promote boxing clubs and tutoring services—and a new corps of well paid anti-crime specialists.  Crime continues, but a new class of rich is created. 

This is like the Mafia.  The break windows in the neighbor, then set up shop as a window repair company.

$15.6 million approved to combat smash-and-grab thefts in Los Angeles County

by: Vivian Chow, KTLA,  9/26/23  https://ktla.com/news/local-news/15-6-million-approved-to-combat-smash-and-grab-thefts-in-los-angeles-county/

County officials approved a $15.6 million grant to combat the rising number of smash-and-grab thefts targeting Los Angeles County retailers.

The funds were approved unanimously by the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday.

Funding will be given to the L.A. County Sheriff’s Department’s recently created Organized Retail Theft Task Force.

The task force will be comprised of one lieutenant, three sergeants and thirty detectives focused on preventing and tackling organized retail theft including smash-and-grabs, catalytic converter thefts, and cargo thefts.

The task force will also collaborate with other law enforcement agencies, the District Attorney’s Office and local businesses, officials said.

A recent study from the National Retail Federation found that organized retail crime has increased in the U.S. by 26% since 2000.

• A group of smash-and-grab robbers ransacked a Pasadena store and escaped with over half a million dollars worth of jewelry on August 29, 2023. (KTLA)Read More »
• A group of flash mob robbers raiding a Nordstrom at the Westfield Topanga mall on Aug. 12, 2023 and video of a group of thieves ransacking a Nordstrom Rack in Riverside on July 10, 2023. (TNLA, Riverside Police Department)
• Video shows the thieves rushing through the main floor of the Topanga Mall Nordstrom grabbing tens of thousands of dollars’ worth of items, and then running out the door. Aug. 12, 2023. (TNLA)
• A group of thieves who were caught on camera robbing a Nike store in East Los Angeles were arrested on August 17, 2023. (California Highway Patrol, Citizen)
• Things took a turn when the employees “engaged the suspect” according to El Monte police, and a struggle ensued. (Instagram/@SGV)
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• Nearly $200,000 worth of stolen merchandise from Victoria’s Secret and CVS stores were recovered while suspects tried to sell the items in downtown L.A. (Los Angeles Police Department)
• Nearly $200,000 worth of stolen merchandise from Victoria’s Secret and CVS stores were recovered while suspects tried to sell the items in downtown L.A. (Los Angeles Police Department)
• A group of thieves who were caught on camera robbing a Nike store in East Los Angeles were arrested on August 17, 2023. (California Highway Patrol)
• Security cameras captured burglars ransacking a Beverly Hills wig shop and escaping with almost $200,000 worth of wigs meant for cancer patients. (The Wig Fairy)
• Thieves seen smashing display cases at Jewelers On Time in Newport Beach, and making off with hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of watches on Sept. 8, 2023. (KTLA)
• Security video captured a mob of thieves ransacking a Nordstrom Rack in Riverside and escaping with thousands of dollars worth of designer handbags. (Riverside Police Department)
• Smash-and-grab suspects seen fleeing at the Northridge Mall after stealing bag loads of items from Macy’s on Sept. 10, 2023. (RMG News)
• The thieves crashed through the front of the jewelry store with a car and began smashing display cases. July 1, 2023. (La Verne Police)
• Security video captured two suspects walking into a store, assaulting employees and stealing merchandise in San Bernardino. (San Bernardino Police Department)
• Video captured a mob of thieves swarming a Nordstrom in Canoga Park as they cleared out the store during a destructive robbery on August 12, 2023. (TNLA)
• A group of flash mob robbers raiding a Nordstrom at the Westfield Topanga mall on Aug. 12, 2023 and video of a group of thieves ransacking a Nordstrom Rack in
• At least five suspects caught on surveillance cameras breaking into Yonder Coffee, one of two businesses burglarized on Sept. 13, 2023.

A group of flash mob robbers raiding a Nordstrom at the Westfield Topanga mall on Aug. 12, 2023 and video of a group of thieves ransacking a Nordstrom Rack in Riverside on July 10, 2023. (TNLA, Riverside Police Department)Read More »

“Unfortunately, this trend holds true in Los Angeles County,” county officials said. “At the same time, [retailers] have been faced with an increase in organized retail theft, including smash-and-grab robberies that have recently become more brazen and violent.”

“These brazen organized retail theft sprees are hurting business communities across the county and retail companies are losing billions of dollars annually,” said L.A. County Sheriff Robert Luna.

County leaders said the new grant will help root out the criminal organizations behind the brazen thefts while working to prevent and reduce these types of crimes.

“Our Retail Theft Task Force through our Major Crimes Bureau is focused on reducing these crimes by targeting these crews and aggressively pursuing not just those who commit the theft, but everyone in the criminal chain,” Luna said. “This Organized Retail Theft Grant will allow us to continue to investigate retail theft crimes and provide dedicated staff and equipment necessary to continue to combat these thefts.”

Earlier this month, state officials announced they would be sending over $267 million to 55 cities and counties to specifically crack down on arrests and prosecutions for organized retail crime.

“The shameless smash and grabs need to be stopped,” said L.A. County Supervisor Janice Hahn. “These are not petty thefts — these are organized violent operations that rob businesses of thousands upon thousands of dollars in merchandise, physically damage stores, and traumatize retail workers.”

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It is not the hoax of climate change, stupid.  It is the lack of government management of the forest that cause the large number and added intensity of forest fires.

““Our findings support the idea that large-diameter fuel build-up is a strong contributor to fire severity,” said Audrey Odwuor, a Ph.D. candidate in the UCI Department of Earth System Science and the lead author of the new study. 

Researchers have known for decades that an increasing number of trees and an increasing abundance of dead plant matter on forest floors are the things making California wildfires more severe – but until now it was unclear what kinds of plant debris contribute most to a fire.

When you make it a crime to cut tress or clean the forest you get intense forest fires.  Government and the media, along with the grifter academics need to stop lying about the root cause of forest fires.  The public knows climate change is a hoax—take responsibility for YOUR inaction.

UC Irvine scientists reveal what fuels wildfires in Sierra Nevada Mountains

UCI News,  9/25/23  https://news.uci.edu/2023/09/25/uc-irvine-scientists-reveal-what-fuels-wildfires-in-sierra-nevada-mountains/

The work could help improve California’s wildfire management efforts

Irvine, Calif., Sept. 25, 2023 — Wildfires in California, exacerbated by human-driven climate change, are getting more severe. To better manage them, there’s a growing need to know exactly what fuels the blazes after they ignite. In a study published in Environmental Research Letters, Earth system scientists at the University of California, Irvine report that one of the chief fuels of wildfires in California’s Sierra Nevada mountains is the decades-old remains of large trees. 

“Our findings support the idea that large-diameter fuel build-up is a strong contributor to fire severity,” said Audrey Odwuor, a Ph.D. candidate in the UCI Department of Earth System Science and the lead author of the new study. 

Researchers have known for decades that an increasing number of trees and an increasing abundance of dead plant matter on forest floors are the things making California wildfires more severe – but until now it was unclear what kinds of plant debris contribute most to a fire.

To tackle the question, Odwuor and two of the study’s co-authors – James Randerson, professor of Earth system science at UCI, and Alondra Moreno from the California Air Resources Board – drove a mobile lab owned and operated by the lab of study co-author and UCI alumna Francesca Hopkins at UC Riverside, to the southern Sierra Nevada mountains during 2021’s KNP Complex Fire. 

The KNP Complex Fire burned almost 90,000 acres in California’s Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks. In the fire’s smoke, the team took samples of particulate matter-laden air and analyzed the samples for their radiocarbon content at UCI’s W.M. Keck Accelerator Mass Spectrometer facility with co-author and UCI Earth system science professor Claudia Czimczik.

Different fuel types, explained Czimczik, have different radiocarbon signatures, such that when they analyzed the smoke they discovered radiocarbon values associated with large fuel sources like fallen tree logs.

“What we did was pretty distinctive, as we were able to identify fuel sources by measuring the wildfire smoke,” said Czimczik. “Our approach provides what we think of as an integrated picture of the fire because we’re sampling smoke produced over the course of the fire that has been transported downwind.” 

The team also saw elevated levels of particulate matter that is 2.5 microns in diameter or less, which includes particles that, if inhaled, are small enough to absorb into the bloodstream.

The preponderance of large-diameter fuels is new in western forests. “We’re really in a situation that’s a consequence of both management strategies and climate warming since European-American settlement began in California,” Odwuor said. “These fuels are building up on the forest floor over periods of decades, which is not typically how these forests were maintained.”

It’s information that, according to Odwuor, could help California better manage its wildfires. 

“The knowledge that large-diameter fuels drive fires and fire emissions – at least in the KNP Complex Fire – can be useful for knowing which fuels to target with fuel treatments and what might end up in the smoke from both wildfires and prescribed fire,” said Odwuor. “The idea is that because we can’t control the climate, we can only do our best to manage the fuels, which will theoretically have an impact on fire severity and the composition of the smoke.”

But the solution isn’t as straightforward as removing trees from forest floors, because, among other things, they provide habitat for wildlife. That, and “once you get them out, where do you send them? There are only so many mills in California that can handle all the wood,” Odwuor said.

Where the new knowledge could be helpful is with prescribed burns, wherein teams burn tracks of forest in a planned fashion with the aim of reducing the amount of fuel available for future wildfires. 

“We’re hoping to build some urgency for these management strategies,” said Odwuor. 

The Pirates are back—and I do not mean the one’s that play baseball in Pittsburg or in theme parks like Disneyland.  Add to the street gangs, the drug cartel, organized crime, we now have people stealing from boats and ports.

• “PBurglars have been raiding yachts and houseboats in the Oakland-Alameda Estuary in a surge one resident compared to the pirate movie “Captain Phillips.”

They steal anything of value, then either sink the ships or dump the remnants of plundered boats miles away in the Oakland Harbor or along its shorelines, said Dan Hill, who lives on his boat like many other families in the 800-foot waterway.

Each “attack” can cost the owner thousands to tens of thousands of dollars, Hill said.

You are not safe in your home, in the streets, in your car, in a grocery or drug store.  Now you are no longer safe in California when at a port or on your boat.  Thank you Gavin for assuring that 24/7 no California, anywhere is truly safe.

Seabound bandits terrorize San Francisco Bay; some residents blame surge of nearby homeless camps

Alameda Police Chief Nishant Joshi said Alameda PD teamed up with Oakland PD and the Coast Guard to crack down on boat-riding thieves in the area of the Oakland Harbor

By Chris Eberhart Fox News, 9/27/23  https://www.foxnews.com/us/seabound-bandits-terrorize-san-francisco-bay-amid-surge-homeless-camps

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• PrintBurglars have been raiding yachts and houseboats in the Oakland-Alameda Estuary in a surge one resident compared to the pirate movie “Captain Phillips.”

They steal anything of value, then either sink the ships or dump the remnants of plundered boats miles away in the Oakland Harbor or along its shorelines, said Dan Hill, who lives on his boat like many other families in the 800-foot waterway.

Each “attack” can cost the owner thousands to tens of thousands of dollars, Hill said.

Some in the tight-knit boating community have talked of arming themselves as jurisdiction question marks and eroding law enforcement staffing levels complicate the issue. 

“It’s probably the most popular boating area in San Francisco Bay,” Hill told Fox News Digital of the Alameda side of the estuary. “The weather’s great. It’s a lovely little place that the people love going to. It’s protected. It’s beautiful.”

But since the summer, he and many other residents believe the homeless encampments in and around Oakland overtook the estuary and wreaked havoc on their daily lives.

“We’re in this little, lagoon area, where the water comes in. There’s a condo complex, beautiful parks,” Hill said. “We started to see homeless people camping out there. That’s never happened before.

“That being said, these guys are finding old abandoned boats, stealing them and anchoring out illegal boats. And they’re taking dinghies (small recreational boats) and riding around and stealing s— off people’s boats.”

Hill described his personal run-in with some of the harbor bandits after he chased them across the harbor. 

“Our friend confronted this guy because he looked super suspicious, and he called me and said they are coming your way,” Hill said. “We saw him come by, and I jumped in my dinghy with my wife, and we chased him. 

“He was much faster than us. We lost him. Turns out it was the boat stolen from the Alameda Community Sailing Center, which had four boats stolen from them.”

Alameda Community Sailing Center didn’t return Fox News Digital’s call.

Alameda police’s response to thefts

Alameda Police Chief Nishant Joshi said his department is taking a “regional approach” by partnering with Oakland PD and the Coast Guard, which has a base in the Oakland-Alameda Estuary, to increase patrols and crack down on these crimes.

“In the waterways, it’s very difficult to draw a line,” Joshi told Fox News Digital in an interview Monday. “There are no roadways or fence lines, so we all have a shared interest, much like crime as a whole, to deal with this as a regional approach.”

WATCH: SURVEILLANCE FOOTAGE OF THE HARBOR BANDITS

The partnerships are vital, the police chief said, because Alameda doesn’t have its own marine unit and lost about 30% of its police department from years of attrition.

While they replenish their ranks, Alameda Police are working with Oakland PD, which has a marine unit, to make sure there are eyes on the area around the clock.

“We have officers that are trained to handle marine patrols, and we stepped up a standing additional patrol in our marinas,” Joshi said.

Where are the bandits coming from? 

The city of Alameda is an island with a population of just under 80,000 and is rated as one of the best suburbs to live, according to niche.com.

“Living in Alameda offers residents an urban suburban mix feel, and most residents rent their homes,” niche.com says. “In Alameda, there are a lot of bars, restaurants, coffee shops, and parks … The public schools in Alameda are highly rated.”

It’s a stark contrast to its neighboring city of Oakland, which is where many residents believe the thieves are coming from.

The city has been crippled by an “exploding” homeless crisis that a neighborhood advocate told Fox News Digital in a previous interview had made it “unlivable.” 

Hill said going from Alameda to Oakland is “like stepping into a third-world country.”

Joshi said he didn’t know for sure if that’s the case, but he’s heard that theory from many residents.

“We’ve not done a deep dive into identifying what particular group in society is committing these crimes,” Joshi said. 

“But I do think that certainly that anyone who is in a challenged position will turn to crime when they’re desperate.”

Results of the crackdown

There isn’t enough information to statistically show what effects the increased patrols and crackdown have had.

Joshi said he believes there was a recent arrest on the Oakland side but none on the Alameda side. 

The Oakland PD didn’t return Fox News Digital’s calls and emails for more information and interview requests. 

Hill said he hasn’t personally seen the increased patrols, but the theft “seems like it’s calmed down a bit.”

But it took months of table pounding at municipal meetings, letters and calls to officials and amplifying their voices through social media and news outlets to get to this point.

Hill, who moved to Alameda with his family a few years ago, said it was a hassle to get law enforcement involved at first. It was a “frustrating” situation for months. 

You know crime is bad when an original National Socialist Democrat starts complaining about crime.

“On Tuesday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Your World,” Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA) stated that “crime is a huge issue and we need to have better law enforcement” in some cities in California and “You can’t just break into a Target or Walgreens and not have consequences. You can’t just engage in carjacking and not have consequences.”

Khanna said, “Well, there’s no doubt that in certain cities in California that crime is a huge issue and we need to have better law enforcement. You can’t just break into a Target or Walgreens and not have consequences. You can’t just engage in carjacking and not have consequences. People do have to be arrested if they commit these crimes, and they have to be held accountable.

Yet he still does not call for the repeal of Prop. 47 and 57.  He does not call for the end of no cash bail.  Rhanna does not call for the Recall of Gascon in L.A, Price in Alameda or called for the recall of Boudin in San Fran.  He is an opportunist.  The good news is that he still has his Second amendment rights—which he wants to take away from you. 

Khanna: Some California Cities Have ‘Huge’ Crime Issue Because They ‘Aren’t Enforcing the Law’

IAN HANCHETT, Breitbart,  9/27/23    https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2023/09/27/khanna-some-california-cities-have-huge-crime-issue-because-they-arent-enforcing-the-law/

On Tuesday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Your World,” Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA) stated that “crime is a huge issue and we need to have better law enforcement” in some cities in California and “You can’t just break into a Target or Walgreens and not have consequences. You can’t just engage in carjacking and not have consequences.”

Khanna said, “Well, there’s no doubt that in certain cities in California that crime is a huge issue and we need to have better law enforcement. You can’t just break into a Target or Walgreens and not have consequences. You can’t just engage in carjacking and not have consequences. People do have to be arrested if they commit these crimes, and they have to be held accountable. In Silicon Valley, we have $10 trillion of market value. We have a lot of businesses. And we have — we enforce the law. We have basic public safety in San Jose, in Fremont, and other safety [sic], which makes it some of the best areas to raise families. And I believe that should be the standard around California.”

He added that in his district, there is public safety and “we value our police officers. We value public safety.” And touted Sunnyvale as one example of a model for the whole state in his district.

Khanna concluded, “There are some of the cities that aren’t enforcing the law, and it’s wrong.”