Re: Are California Democrats actively trying to make themselves irrelevant?

In news:[email protected], Siri Cruz <[email protected]> typed:

> On 17/5/25 19:52, Leroy N. Soetoro wrote:

>> After a month that saw prominent state Democratic leaders take absurd
>> stances on bills to improve early childhood literacy and housing
>> availability, Assembly members on Thursday argued for more than an hour
>> about whether it should be a felony to purchase 16- and 17-year-olds for
>> sex.

> Tacky though it may be, 16 and 17 are having the Sex. One will
> reach 18 first. They will not stop having the Sex. Do we really
> want to imprison them for something they got away a month
> earlier? How to target the law for what we want without
> imprisonning the innocent.

>> Assembly Democrats overwhelmingly voted to strip AB379 by Assembly Member
>> Maggy Krell, D-Sacramento, of its key provision - to toughen penalties for
>> offenders convicted of purchasing 16- and 17-year-olds for sex to match
>> the punishments for those convicted of purchasing kids 15 and younger.

> It is possible to bypass the legislature with an initiative law.

Sober up and read it again.