The Sacramento Bee: Several California Democratic lawmakers break with Gavin Newsom, endorse Proposition 36
By Andrew Sheeler
Several California Democratic lawmakers have thrown their support behind Proposition 36, the ballot measure to roll back the reforms of 2014’s Proposition 47, which raised the felony threshold for certain theft- and drug-related crimes.
This puts the lawmakers squarely in opposition to Gov. Gavin Newsom, who has attacked Prop. 36 as “drug policy reform” that “increases the size of our prison population by tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands, over the next decade at a profound cost to the taxpayers.”
So who’s coming out in favor of the November ballot measure, which is backed by major corporations including Walmart, Target and Home Depot?
Notably, it includes State Sen. Dave Min, D-Irvine, who is in a hotly contested race with Republican Scott Baugh to succeed outgoing Rep. Katie Porter in Congress. Porter, an Orange County Democrat, lost her bid for a U..S. Senate seat in the March primary.