Posted on 03/08/2023 4:44:23 PM PST by lowbridge
California assemblywoman Mia Bonta (D.), the wife of California’s attorney general, on Tuesday unilaterally killed a bill that would raise sentencing for violent crimes committed with guns.
Bonta was one of several Democrats on the assembly’s public safety committee who voted to sink the proposal, from freshman Republican assemblyman Bill Essayli. But in a highly unusual move, Bonta went beyond a simple no vote and blocked Essayli’s request to revise and reintroduce his legislation. The Democratic majority did not intervene, allowing her to table the bill for the rest of the session.
Bonta’s maneuver comes as violent crime, including homicide and rape, is spiking statewide. As the state’s top cop, Rob Bonta aligns with progressive prosecutors like Los Angeles’s George Gascon, whose "progressive" policies have led to a rise in crime. Rob Bonta has largely dedicated his office’s resources to investigating law enforcement and promoting social justice.
A legislative staffer for the assembly told the Washington Free Beacon that he had never seen a member block a bill from reconsideration in 10 years of working in the state capitol.
Essayli’s bill would have required California judges to add jail time on sentences for criminals who used guns in commission of a violent crime. The proposal would have partially repealed a 2017 state law giving judges the option to dismiss such "sentencing enhancements," and a newly enforceable 2022 law requires judges to drop additional jail time "if it is in the furtherance of justice to do so."
Law enforcement and victims’ advocates urged lawmakers to pass the bill, describing murders and violence they claimed were on the rise because of the state’s "soft-on-crime" policies.
(Excerpt) Read more at freebeacon.com ...
Common Sense they has none or brains
I think the lawyer’s lobby is behind this. Keep releasing them makes work for lawyers.
The exodus from CA is going to gain momentum.
These two will continue to rake in their taxpayer salaries, and then retire on giant pensions for life.
So they want to crack down on guns, but be lenient on gun crimes? The world is insane.
For the life of me I can’t figure out HOW Democrats conclude/think that passing legislation to turn criminals loose on all of us helps their standing in the national electorate.
Even my very few local friends (who are liberal/democrats) are dismayed with one prim and proper and young CPA type stating, under her breath...., “Austin’s a “shithole”. And, that’s coming from a life long resident not a recent arrival.
“For the life of me I can’t figure out HOW Democrats conclude/think that passing legislation to turn criminals loose on all of us helps their standing in the national electorate.”
They don’t give a @#$% about the electorate, because they have mastered the art of THE STEAL.
not by coincidence does she hail from the same Oakland district as Elihu Harris. Elihu was chairman of the Assembly Judiciary Committee before term limits were implemented, and killed every crime bill that was introduced.
These two should qualify as domestic terrorists.
Now where did they get that weird idea? 🤓
Hope she meets some of those she kept out of jail. What a piece of shit. So is her husband.
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