Poison Pills or Suicide Pact?
California Dems Prop 47 Amendment Schemes Worse Than You Think
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There are seven lies making their way through the California legislature right now that may even be less true – if that is possible - than first surmised.
Terrified voters will amend the infamous Proposition 47 - which obliterated the very concept of crime - Gov. Gavin Newsom and Sacramento Democrats decided they would push a package of “criminal reform” bills to head off passage by voters of the “Homelessness, Drug Addiction and Theft Reduction Act’ that would greatly and thankfully amend prop 47.
Sensing that passing the “anti-crime” bills may not be enough, Democrats have been working assiduously (they’ve succeeded so far on Senate side) to insert language into each of the seven bills that would cause them to self-immolate if – and if the polls are correct – when the amendment proposition passes.
These amendments were dubbed “poison pills” not only by Republicans and victim’s advocates and proposition backers but also by some Democrats. Tuesday, one Democrat pulled his bill to keep it from being “poisoned” while another took her name off her bill.
And it should be noted that the bills proposed do not at all go far enough – or sometimes even in the same direction – as the amendment proposition.
But Assembly Speaker Robert Rivas is still incensed that the amendments are being depicted negatively, if truthfully.
“There are no poison pills,” Rivas intentionally lied recently.
The funny thing, he may have unintentionally told the truth as the poison pills could more accurately be described as a suicide pact that Democrats are trying to confuse California voters into signing.
Here’s the scenario Democrats are hoping – and willing to play a very unethical, very unpopular, even with a usually compliant media, game of hardball – for.
First, the bills pass with the embedded time bombs to make them go away if the amendment proposition passes. Newsom has not only said he will sign them, but his team is also aggressively pushing them and refusing to negotiate with the amendment proposition’s backers unless they drop it off of the November ballot.
In an email thread leaked to CBS News, Newsom’s chief of staff – one Dana Williamson – told backers that they would consider discussing the proposal if they push it to 2026 and nothing else:
Second, the passage of the bills allows progressive governor wannabe Attorney General Rob Bonta to re-write the title and ballot summary of the amendment proposition to include the fact that the “anti-crime” laws evaporate if it passes.
One can assume the ballot will read something along the lines of “Evil, evil, evil evil, your baby is gonna be eaten by a monster if you vote for this!!!!!”
Third, the voting public is so confused and rattled by the new language and the upcoming 843 zillion dollars that will be spent to defeat the amendment proposition that it will fail.
And fourth, once the nasty mass carceral proposition is done away with, they can then “re-visit” the “anti-crime” package of bills they passed and utterly gut them of any real impact.
Easy-peasy, easy-sleazy.
So why go through all of this mess? It is to take the decision out of voters’ hands and put it back under the control of the Sacramento Blob.
Bills – like the ones being put forth, poison pill or not – can be changed. But the original Proposition 47 cannot – unless it is done by the voters. It’s in the language of the proposition, presumably because its backers – like LA’s George Gascon and the Four Horsewomen of the Apocalypse at the Smart Justice PAC - put it there to purposefully make it as difficult as possible for the public to change.
And they could count on the legislature never ever trying anything on its own.
And that is why SacraDems are panicked. They have been forced into a position to at least try to sort of look like they might be kinda doing something about the state’s rampant crime problems but they want to make absolutely sure that what they say they are doing will never really take effect.
And that’s because all criminals are mere victims of an evil system.
And that’s why any real change to the society-degrading Prop 47 must be stopped at all costs.
And that’s why they want you to forget that if the repeal amendment passes , none of this matters because the amendments will go into effect anyway. No matter what- pass the repeal and prop 47 is just that: repealed
And that’s why the poison pills are not really meant for the bills – they’re meant for the people of California.