California State Assembly Chamber. (Photo: Kevin Sanders for California Globe)
California’s Legislature Has Turned on the People
Malfunctioning Legislature now works against good governing and the will of the people
By Katy Grimes, September 3, 2024 8:44 am
Have you ever been stabbed in the back by a friend? You trusted them, supported them, and they turned on you. You never saw it coming. And you ask “what happened?”
California’s Supermajority Democrat lawmakers now work against governing the state, and work against the will of the people. Did you see it coming, or were you caught off guard?
These are just a few of their most recent policies that no voter ever asked for:
Criminal justice “reforms.”
Escalating crime, retail theft, sex trafficking, violent crime.
Hundreds of thousands of homeless drug-addicted vagrants living on California streets.
Reparations: granting preferential treatment and taxpayer-funded cash payments based on race.
Overturning the ban on affirmative action policies and practices despite voters reaffirming the ban in 2020.
Oil and gas ban.
State proposed takeover of oil and gas industry.
Price controls of oil and gas industry.
California to become the first state to ban natural gas heaters, water heaters, and furnaces by 2030.
All-Electric grid, electric appliances, electric car mandates, “carbon-free buildings” – that means all-electric.
Newsom administration saddles ratepayers with another $300 annually in electricity costs despite California’s highest electricity rates in the country.
Allow “worst of the worse” criminals serving a sentence of life imprisonment without possibility of parole to apply for early release.
Ballot measure in November to change the state Constitution to ban the practice of forced labor in jails and prisons,” calling it “slavery.”
New categories of grievances: Racial wealth gap. Racial terror. Racial trauma. Race-based traumatic stress.
Democrats plan to give “payback optional” $150k loans, funded by California taxpayers, to illegal immigrants for a downpayment on a home purchase.
University of California system to hire illegal immigrant students.
Employment Development Department to provide illegal immigrants unemployment benefits if they lose their job.
Prohibit local governments from requiring voters to show ID at polling places.
Climate change hysterics.
Insurance crisis.
These policies are evidence of elected lawmakers working for special interest groups, against governing for the people who actually elected them. This isn’t about running a state any longer, this is the willful betrayal of our Democracy.
Probably the most blatant policy issue aside from Gov. Newsom’s Venezuela-like State proposed takeover of California’s oil and gas industry, is the ballot initiative to amend Prop. 47, California Proposition 36, the Increase Drug and Theft Penalties and Reduce Homelessness Initiative. Prop. 36 will be on the November 2024 ballot, despite Democrats in the Legislature and Gov. Gavin Newsom’s attempts to kill it… and despite the important legal fixes Prop. 36 will make to California’s outrageous crime problems.
The Governor even threatened to place his own competing voter initiative on the ballot, despite the more than 900,000 signatures collected to place the initiative on the November ballot. Newsom recanted that idea under a lot of really bad press.
This is a failure of government when the people have to place so many policy initiatives on the ballot to correct detrimental laws.
Over the weekend the dysfunctional California Legislature met late into Saturday night, passing bills rapid fire. As Assemblyman Bill Essayli (R-Corona) correctly noted, this year’s session began in January. “There is zero reason Sacramento dems should have waited until last night’s constitutional deadline to pass hundreds of bills. It’s all by design to rush through terrible bills without public scrutiny. You get it yet?”
But it got worse. As reporters covering the late night session described, Democrats limited debate on each bill to 30 seconds, which was no actual debate at all. And then, according to a Capitol staffer, the Assembly Speaker cut off their mics even before the 30-seconds was up if they opposed the bill about to be voted on.
The Capitol staffer told the Globe that Democrats were even violating their own rules, which they had illegally passed that night by making new rules on the spot.
They also cut off Assemblyman Essayli when he made a counter motion pointing out their errors.
“The California Assembly silenced me and the 500k Californians I represent tonight! They would not let me debate or speak. These people are the enemy of democracy!” Essayli Tweeted.
With 62 Democrats and 17 Republicans in the Assembly (one vacant seat), the dangerous imbalance of one-party rule has lead to Democrats making up the rules as they go, while kicking voters to the curb.
This is no laughing matter. This is not representation.
One-party states include North Korea, China, the Soviet Union, Eritrea, Cuba, and the Nazi Party in Germany.
What is happening in California is horrific. And it is deliberate. Just think about what could happen to the rest of the country if California collapses.
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I totally agree with the premise of your article. Elected administrators (They are no longer leaders in my eyes) at all levels of government have turned their backs on the constituents that they are elected to represent. There are lots of different reasons as to why they have turned their backs, but the fact is they have. It now becomes incumbent on the represented to regain the power that has been subverted from us. We (collectively) have to get involved in our local communities and support commonsense candidates and vote. We can’t be intimidated by the thought that my vote doesn’t matter. We have to vote as if our very freedom is on the line because it is.
Are these administrators legitimately elected…or are most of them being installed with rampant Democrat voter fraud and rigged voting machines? Maybe the fact that they’re being installed is the reason that they’ve turned on the majority of California voters and instead follow the dictates of their deep-state globalist masters?
I could watch this video on X a hundred times in a row and never get tired of it.
https://x.com/billessayli/status/1830140650932842895
Attention Dem Assembly speaker and the usual suspect henchmen: Assemblyman Essayli is not out of order. YOU’RE OUT OF ORDER.
Full support for Asm Bill Essayli. Also again such appreciation for Katy Grimes who (again) have given any Californians not paying close attention to these Dem-Marxist fascists the record of a COMPLETELY UNACCEPTABLE PROCESS, in which they flout their OWN rules, never mind the crap laws that are funneled through this way, shutting up substantive debate and comment — that the Dems just so happen to disagree with —- in order to do so.
And what Katy Grimes has so appropriately listed —- all that is destructive to California and thoroughly rejected by its residents —- is only from the past YEAR, for crying out loud. Every Californian should be hopping mad and hot as hell that this is taking place. What’s more, it has been taking place for a long, long time. As Globe readers know.
Every Democrat Assemblymember is on the ballot this November. You must VOTE OUT, wherever possible, the Democrat incumbent. Then we can begin to call the meeting to order in a big way in Sacramento.
The State of the State:
234 State Agencies. Not including law enforcement and Fire Fighters
Over 250,000 state employees, not including sub-contractors
A bloated budget with a undisclosed growing deficit.
Thousands of homeless.
Hundreds of underperforming schools.
The message to the California tax payer, Just Shut up and pay your taxes!
No California Legislatures, YOU ARE OUT OF ORDER!
Wake up little California froggies, the water is past the boiling point, you are cooked!
p.s. the good news, a ban on plastic bags!🤡🤡🤡🤡
Oh yes, Cali Girl, at LEAST a ban on plastic bags! (*eye roll*)
The uniparty turned on the people many decades ago. The difference now is that it can no longer be ignored.
Government has primarily existed to loot and pillage the citizens while patting them on the head and telling them how much they care.
The Federal government works the same way.
Poorly sourced information. A link to the actual committee meetings would have given your very public temper tantrum some credibility. I don’t agree with these decisions, but your take on this makes me cringe. I can’t take you or the CAGlobe seriously.
My question of you then is all well within California and its government? The lack of a link to a committee meeting verses a written account of said meeting says what? Written and oral accounts of events is acceptable journalism. I would appreciate an answer to my question about the current state of California’s government. Thank you
The supreme Court of California disenfranchised the voters from their money and their fate; there was no pushback. thus and now we have taxation without representation. the legislators on a spree to destroy California at the expense of those possessing any extractable wealth.
revolution
And it’s been that way since 2000 when they got their majority. PLEASE do not toss in Arnold, he was a grave disappointment.
Let’s not forget the California Legislature just banned Voter ID in the state.
The Democratic Party is a totally corrupt party.
While I appreciate the foundation of your article Katie, you’ve stated something that is not correct, I quote “These policies are evidence of elected lawmakers working for special interest groups, against governing for the people who actually elected them. This isn’t about running a state any longer, this is the willful betrayal of our Democracy.” That sentence has a big problem “this is the willful betrayal of our Democracy.” We ARE NOT a Democracy, we are a Constitutional Republic! Until every citizen and you in the media, recognize the accurate language and meaning of our foundation and our Constitution, our government will NEVER be right. More FACTS: California was the only state to be invited to join the Union of States because of the discovery of gold. The only California Constitution ratified by Congress was in 1850 when California became the 31st state of the Union of States. California was never a territory after they gained independence from Mexico, California was an independent nation, the California Republic. The language in this original constitution made California a FREE state. California has never been a slave state; this is known as the Comprise of 1850. This language of the original California Constitution was the foundation of the 13th Amendment to the US Constitution; isn’t that interesting, how could reparations even be considered in a state that was NEVER a slave state? In 1879 our original ratified constitution was replaced with another constitution that was never ratified by Congress but is used today. It has had over 900 constitutional amendments. Reynolds vs. Simms in the 1960s made it worse for We the People in California, it allowed for mob rule, no longer are state Senators representing the county and the people they reside in, now they represent population, which allows for counties like Los Angeles to have 10 Senators, while in Rural areas one Senator may represent 15 counties. How is that serving the people? Look to the Constitution again, Article IV, Section 4, the United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government, and shall protect each of them against Invasion; and on Application of the Legislature, or of the Executive (when the Legislature cannot be convened) against domestic Violence. We are guaranteed a bicameral legislature. All three of these guarantees have been broken to We the People who reside in California. Stop saying democracy, we are NOT we are a Constitutional Republic. Now you know how to respond when you hear these untruths.
The U.S. Is Both a Republic and a Democracy: America is a democracy, in that it’s not a monarchy or a dictatorship. America is not a direct democracy, but a representative democracy is a form of democracy. According to UCLA Law Prof. Eugene Volokh, “But claiming that we’re a republic and not a democracy strikes me as inconsistent both with modern usage and with how the leading lights of the Framing Era and early Republic generally treated the terms.”