How to prevent the Californication of America

"California, here we come," used to be a positive expression. Now, it means something far worse for Americans in other states, after passage of two soft-on-crime propositions.

Gascon also continues to support the perverse Propositions 47 and 57 – two soft-on-crime California laws that are perhaps most alarming to imagine at the national level.  Republican Mike Garcia represents California's 25th Congressional District in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Last year, during a four-hour town hall in Los Angeles County, a small business owner told me about his store that was broken into four times within the span of just a few months. He called the police each time, but nothing was being done.