Yesterday I discussed a plan by California Democrats to protect Prop. 47 from the voters. Prop. 47 is the law passed in 2014 which reduced a bunch of drug and theft crimes to misdemeanor status. There have been complaints ever since that Prop 47 is at least partly responsible for the rise in property crime and public drug use in the state.
But the Democrats who supported Prop. 47, including Gov. Gavin Newsom, are going all out to keep it from being overturned. Democrats have proposed a whole series of new laws to address property and drug crimes but they have threated to add an “interoperability clause” to the bills that would cause them to evaporate if Prop. 47 is repealed. Republicans have called it a poison pill and they are right. Today the SF Chronicle had an excellent opinion piece on the topic titled “California Democrats being shady about squashing Prop 47 reform.”
