State’s governor and Legislature need to listen more closely to voters on crime, taxes and government overreach
Gov. Gavin Newsom speaks in Los Angeles, on Sept. 25. Voters recently rejected a number of measures backed by Newsom and Democratic leaders.The state Legislature will convene a new two-year session on Dec. 2, and hopefully lawmakers have been reading the messages California voters sent them on election day.
That was heard with their landslide approval of Proposition 36, which will increase punishment for repeated theft and hard drug offenses, including deadly fentanyl.Sponsored by the California District Attorneys Association and bankrolled by big box retailers, the measure partially rolls back the sentence-softening Proposition 47 that voters approved overwhelmingly 10 years ago.
Marty Wilson, chief political strategist for the California Chamber of Commerce, says Proposition 36 was prominently touted by all the candidates his organization helped, including in one heavily Democratic Los Angeles district. “It wasn’t about right or left,” says longtime Democratic consultant David Townsend. “It was a ‘duh’ moment. If you go in and steal, you should go to jail.”
Also part of the criminal accountability message was the voters’ rejection of Proposition 6, which would have banned prisons from forcing inmates to work. The goal made sense: Prisoners are sentenced to time behind bars, not forced labor.
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