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After brief moderation, California’s Newsom swings back to left with ICE protests
“…When Newsom ran for governor in 2018 and for re-election in 2022, his platform included progressive causes like universal healthcare, climate change policy, criminal justice reform, and expansion of social welfare programs.
While presumably well-meaning, Newsom’s tenure as governor has exacerbated many of the state’s challenges like prolific homelessness and rising crime. As of 2023, California is home to over 180,000 homeless people, including over 10,000 veterans. Public safety has taken a demonstrable hit since California’s passage of Proposition 47, which, in addition to making drug possession no longer a felony, also classifies five property offenses for which the dollar value is less than $950 as misdemeanors: 1) theft, 2) receiving stolen property, 3) shoplifting, 4) check forgery, and 5) writing bad checks. Before the passage of the proposition, these offenses could be charged as either felonies or misdemeanors.
Prior to his term as California’s governor, in San Francisco, where Newsom was mayor from 2004 to 2011, shoplifting and property crimes spiked, with police reporting a 15% increase in theft-related incidents from 2022 to 2024.
Additionally, it is increasingly harder for residents of the Golden State to purchase a home. California’s median home price has surged to over $900,000, pricing out many middle-class families. Newsom’s policies have also increased taxes and regulatory burdens on businesses…”
The effects of bad policies bordering on banal stupidity. I blame the voters who have chosen pie-in-sky nonsense instead of reality over and over for decades.
You can’t make it up.
They think you are stupid.
Remember this Democrat/garbage media stunt? Yeah, it got memory holed:
What a pathetic jerk Van Hollen is.
Just another Democrat fool.
“…Legal immigrants, who waited their turn and struggled to become Americans, have little in common with those who broke the law to arrive in our country ready for someone to take care of them — and are increasingly angered by politicians who coddle the criminals…”
A huge blindsided slap in the head for Democrats and garbage media, who refuse to acknowledge this condition.
