'More Expensive'

Editor:

The democrat regime in Sacramento plans to use their super majority to “Trump-proof” California again (“Top Dems Say They Won’t Just ‘Trump-proof’ CA, They’ll Make it Affordable Again,” Dec. 5), rather than help the citizens of California. They convened a special session this month to earn more per-diem payments on top of their already lucrative salary and benefits. They announced they would make California “affordable” as well by spending more taxpayer money on housing, energy, homeless and improving public infrastructure. How any of that makes California more “affordable” is a mystery to me.

One item they aren’t interested in is making our great state safer by addressing crime. Our own Sen. McGuire worked with Gov. Newsom to keep Proposition 36 off the ballot. Fortunately, voters passed it overwhelmingly.

The article focuses on Sen. President Pro Tem McGuire and Assembly Speaker Rivas as the drivers in the Legislature of the effort to improve the lives of citizens hit hard with the most expensive electricity outside of Hawaii, the most expensive gasoline and diesel, the most homeless, the highest taxes and regulations in America. It fails to mention that there’s already a PG&E rate increase scheduled for next year and our wonderful California Air Resources Board has voted for rule changes that may add up to 90 cents per gallon to fuel costs.

Sen. McGuire has an interesting track record regarding President Trump. Twice he authored unconstitutional bills to keep him off the ballot in California. The first was vetoed by Gov. Brown. The second was signed by Newsom and then discarded by the courts. He is also a reliable vote to release criminals from prison early and to allow the most heinous criminals to return to court seeking to modify their sentences. And he never met a spending proposal he didn’t like, including giving Attorney General Bonta more money to fight the “dark red line.”

In reality, I expect California to become more expensive and our feckless attorney general infused with more taxpayer cash to file endless lawsuits against the federal government, and lose.

Dennis Scales, Fortuna