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).
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August 14th, 2009 at 12:00 am
Another reason to thank Mike Reynolds, the NRA and CCPOA for bypassing
these committees in 1994 with the “Three Strikes” initiative passed by voters
as Prop 184, and later upheld by the Courts.
Thanks to that measure, the warehousing of career criminals has lowered
California’s crime rates for a Decade.
August 14th, 2009 at 12:00 am
If Kamilla Harris or Gavin Newsom become the nominees of the Democratic Party, I will enthusiastically campaign for the Republican nominee even if I have to fake my enthusiasm for the Republican.
August 14th, 2009 at 12:00 am
Come on….everybody is entitled to a job..what is one more activist in our midst.
Dan Walters, a crusty writer for the Sacramento Bee, sees endless budget mayhem for many years into the future due to, of course, spending too much. No governor can change much in California’s finances, so do not get hot and bothered by RINOS getting election zeal promising laying off 30,000 gov. workers, holding the line on Prop. 13 and related usual PAP.
No governor will have any power….the courts, administrative types and gov. workers will have the power….
The future should include agressively placing initiative after initiative out there to reign in out of control pensions,benefits and salaries of all government workers including security. Also, initiatives to neuter coastal commission ilk, AQMD, CEQA and any greenhouse stuff I missed to preserve and attract real jobs not ball cap and apron service jobs attracting unskilled workers with no career path futures.
If that Toyota plant closes up north, the movie and tv industry in the south continues to move to friendly tax states what will be left…
The water whackos already have killed untold amount of agriculture in central California where water is shut off for farmland acerage equating to the size of Rhode Island. All this economic havoc and personal misery caused by providing water to smelt fish; thousands and thousands of of farm workers are out of work, local tax bases are destroyed etc. Family farms in operation for many generations on the verge of dust bowl extinction.
What does this have to do with the article topic….just keep letting these administrative jobs going to commissars, enviro freaks and peace whackos and criminal enablers….there will be no chance to turn California around even at the grass roots level….