The most dramatic event of this year’s just-ended session in the Democratic-dominated California Legislature was a bizarre, unanimous GOP victory.
California lawmakers sent Gov. Gavin Newsom a controversial bill Wednesday to increase penalties for child sex traffickers.There was public outrage — and intervention by the two powerful Democrats: Gov. Gavin Newsom and new Assembly Speaker Robert Rivas . Their arm-twisting saved the bill. The Assembly Public Safety Committee brieflySB 14 finally reached the Assembly floor Sept. 11 and passed 80-0, but only after Republicans rubbed the Democrats’ noses in it.
The Senate later agreed to Assembly amendments that protected trafficked victims from being targeted by prosecutors, a stated liberal fear. And the measure was sent to Newsom on a unanimous vote. The Legislature passed three bills, two whose author was Sen. Susan Talamantes Eggman , who grew up watching her aunt Barbara suffer from mental illness. Her aunt never received adequate treatment and struggled on and off the street, then was gang-raped and soon died of AIDs.
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