Gavin Newsom just got publicly humiliated. Newsom and group of elected Democrats in Sacramento have been campaigning for months to kill a ballot initiative called Prop. 36. Prop. 36 would rollback an earlier crime-related proposition called Prop. 47. If that sounds familiar that’s because Prop. 47 is viewed by many as partially responsible for the rise in open drug use and rampant property crime California has been experiencing for the past several years.
The effort to get Prop. 36 on the ballot was funded by a bunch of big retailers who were on the wrong end of California’s crime problem. But from the start of this year. Newsom and his gang of Democrats set out to sabotage Prop. 36 first by negotiating to keep it off the ballot and, when that failed, by offering a bunch of supposedly tough-on-crime bills which they claimed would do exactly what Prop. 36 would do only better. Why…
