You have to scratch your at the appointment by Speaker Karen Bass of ultra-left win San Francisco Democrat Tom Ammiano (pictured left) to serve as Chairman of the Assembly Public Safety Committee. While it is not that surprising that Bass made a change in the leadership of this key committee, given that the now-former Chairman was Juan Arambula, a Central Valley Democrat who quit the party of Obama and is now registered DTS, it is eyebrow raising that the Speaker tapped someone so clearly to the far left of public sentiment on law and order issues to replace him.
But wait, there’s more. Believe it or not we have a downtown San Francisco "dream team" of criminal leniency because in the State Senate, the Chairman of the Public Safety Committee is non other than Mark Leno (pictured right, who was rather famously called out by former Assemblyman Todd Spitzer a few years back here on this site for making the case for Leno’s leadership of a pro-criminal majority on the Assembly Public Safety Committee.
Both Ammiano and Leno represent a left-wing culture that, in principle, does not believe that individuals are resposible for their own actions. When someone commits a criminal act, invariably a major contributing factor to this would be the fact that this criminal is actually… a victim! Yes, in the work of these lefties, the primary cause for someone turning to a life of crime is that "society" has walked away from these folks. Yes, heading up these key committees are liberals who want to end the death penalty, who advocate for early release of convicted felons, are leaders in the efforts to legalize drugs, and more (you can’t make this stuff up).
I suppose, as a Republican, I should take heart at the partisan assistance that is given to our party by placing these radical leftists in a position drag all Capitol Democrats into the "pro-criminal" camp with them. But the tragedy here is for the safety of Californians, who deserve to have lawmakers overseeing these issues who actually believe in the notion of individual responsibility, and in the ideas of deterance and punishment.
Below I will dedicate this video to Ammiano’s appointment — as undoubtedly the news of his appointment will have the inmates dancing in their cell blocks.
In closing, and at the risk of combining a little bit of levity into a blog post that is a pretty serious one, am I the only one who thinks that Ammiano, at least in his photos, bears a striking resemblance to comedian/actor Martin Short (pictured right)? I think he does. I wonder if Short gets mistaken for Ammiano when he visits San Francisco?
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