SACRAMENTO - Today, Gavin Newsom is taking a victory lap for signing a bill package to address retail theft. Strangely, he glossed over his effort to sabotage the drug, homelessness and theft reforms in Prop. 36 by jamming poison pills into these very same proposals.
“Gavin Newsom doesn’t deserve an ounce of credit for fighting the crime crisis,” said Assembly Republican Leader James Gallagher. “For his first five years in office, he ignored and downplayed rising crime. He is only acting now because he knows the people of California are fed up with the lawlessness and are taking matters into their own hands with Prop. 36.”
Gavin Newsom wants to have his cake and eat it too, taking credit for signing bills that he was trying to kill barely a month ago. Californians are sick and tired of rising crime, and they are sick of Newsom’s hypocrisy. While these bills are a win for Californians, they almost didn’t happen because Newsom wanted to play politics with public safety.
