Californians go to the polls tomorrow with more than just a presidential election in mind. A new referendum aims to reverse the 2014 progressive initiative Prop 47 that turned retail theft into a new industry in the Golden State. A decade of decline and crime later, Californians got so disgusted with the law that they forced a new proposition onto the ballot to stiffen penalties and enforcement against theft, over the objections of Gavin Newsom and the Democrat establishment in California.
Kamala Harris played a role in the passage of Prop 47 too, as the New York Post recalled three months ago:
As state attorney general from 2011 to 2017, Harris refused to take a position on two ballot initiatives that have come to define modern California — but her office wrote favorable descriptions for both, likely aiding their passage.
Proposition 47 downgraded…
