Commentary: Newsom, Hegseth, Becerra who's in the hottest water? Our columnists discuss
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Set us as preferred SACRAMENTO — Change, it seems, is in the air.And not just because the days are shorter, the nights are cooler and the leaves are blazing in bursts of yellow, red and gold.Gavin Newsom’s eight-year reign in Sacramento is nearing its end.
The era of Xavier Becerra will soon begin.President Trump, if not exactly humbled — Trump doesn’t do humble — has been soundly repudiated in an election blowout of epic proportion.Democrats, with much to prove, are preparing to take over Congress and promise to bring a new assertiveness and agenda to Washington.After taking it all in, our columnists Mark Z.
Barabak and Anita Chabria offer some thoughts, looking forward, backward and sometimes askance.Barabak: Let’s start with our headline-grabbing governor, who’s once more drawing national attention.This time for his sweeping decision to commute the death sentences of all 548 inmates on California’s death row.I’ll confess to a certain ambivalence about the bold and politically risky move.
(If, that is, anything short of utter certitude is allowed in this line of work; I may risk losing my pundit’s license.)On the one hand, I respect Newsom for taking a principled stand.On the other, I think our columnizing colleague, George Skelton, may have been onto something when he suggested the governor should have put the matter on the ballot and gone forth to make his case to voters, as opposed to acting unilaterally.All power to the people!Gov.
Gavin Newsom’s decision to commute every California death sentence involved a mafia murder, warm socks and an unexpected meeting in a San Quentin prison cell.Chabria: Haven’t I read a couple columns in this paper about the horror of California’s proposition process, that puts literally everything and anything in front of voters instead of being handled by the lea...