
Bass Stacking Committees With 83% Democrats Is Deplorable
Last I checked, Republicans are in a tough spot in the State Assembly. There are 51 Democrats, and 29 Republicans (well, 28 right now while the 72nd is vacant — it will elect a Republican shortly). That means that Democrats hold just over 63% of the chamber — bad news for taxpayers for sure.
That said, I took it pretty cynically when I ready Torey Van Oot’s morning post over on the SacBee’s Capitol Alert blog — where she wrote about Assembly Speaker Karen Bass appointing a Select Committee on Prison Re-Entry. Torey penned…
Assembly Speaker Karen Bass announced Friday the membership of a select committee created to examine ways to ease the strain the transition from prison into society can have on former inmates and their communities. … Read More