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Is this the right place to post this? I noticed State and Local was for "late night" but OTOH the Presidential late night is still going on...
Anyway...Nathan Hochman replaces Gascon as California's DA.
I am a Democrat but voted for Hochman. I don't usually walk in lock-step with my party although I do primarily vote for Democrats just ideologically. However, this time around, Gascon, I felt, had an EXCELLENT idea, with horrible execution. He is very, very right about CA needing prison reform. Our prisons are bursting at the seams but recidivism is ridiculous anyway. Per capita CA is nowhere near at the top for crime but *in total,* just having so many people, crime definitely adds up and is an issue. Between former props passed by voters (hopefully to be somewhat offset by our now passing Prop 36) and Gascon just dropping the ball by seemingly randomly giving violent criminals a pass, rather than enacting actual reform of some type or other...we are suffering now on both non-violent and violent crime.
We had some progress lowering violent crime but it feels like a blip and other types of crime are just going through the roof...somewhat literally as property crime is in there.
Gascon had time to put a plan in place but didn't.
So I voted for Hochman. My husband and I were pretty much Arnie and Maria on that one but we discussed it and dropped it and there you have it...
And Hochman won the election.
Any other Californians out there who have an opinion on this? I don't see it being talked about.
Anyway...Nathan Hochman replaces Gascon as California's DA.
I am a Democrat but voted for Hochman. I don't usually walk in lock-step with my party although I do primarily vote for Democrats just ideologically. However, this time around, Gascon, I felt, had an EXCELLENT idea, with horrible execution. He is very, very right about CA needing prison reform. Our prisons are bursting at the seams but recidivism is ridiculous anyway. Per capita CA is nowhere near at the top for crime but *in total,* just having so many people, crime definitely adds up and is an issue. Between former props passed by voters (hopefully to be somewhat offset by our now passing Prop 36) and Gascon just dropping the ball by seemingly randomly giving violent criminals a pass, rather than enacting actual reform of some type or other...we are suffering now on both non-violent and violent crime.
We had some progress lowering violent crime but it feels like a blip and other types of crime are just going through the roof...somewhat literally as property crime is in there.
Gascon had time to put a plan in place but didn't.
So I voted for Hochman. My husband and I were pretty much Arnie and Maria on that one but we discussed it and dropped it and there you have it...
And Hochman won the election.
Any other Californians out there who have an opinion on this? I don't see it being talked about.