Posted on 12/01/2016 7:43:06 PM PST by Mariner
Gov. Jerry Brown has tabbed Rep. Xavier Becerra to serve as California’s interim attorney general, selecting the Los Angeles Democrat to fill a vacancy opened by the imminent departure of outgoing Attorney General Kamala Harris to the U.S. Senate.
Assuming he wins confirmation by the Legislature – a strong possibility, given the 12-term Democrat’s role as a mainstay of Democratic and Los Angeles politics – Becerra would serve as California’s top law enforcement official through 2018, with an opportunity to serve for another eight years if he runs for the office. He would be California’s first Latino attorney general.
The election of Donald Trump as president has alarmed California Democrats and thrown into question the state’s liberal stances on issues like climate change and immigration. Brown’s choice of a liberal stalwart like Becerra reaffirmed the state’s future role as a pocket of resistance.
“Xavier has been an outstanding public servant – in the State Legislature, the U.S. Congress and as a deputy attorney general,” Brown said in an emailed statement. “I'm confident he will be a champion for all Californians and help our state aggressively combat climate change.”
Referring to himself as “the son of immigrants” who is motivated to “fight for working families like the one I grew up in,” Becerra said in a statement that he had accepted Brown’s offer and summarized his liberal bona fides.
“I have been part of some of the greatest debates confronting our nation, from opposing the Iraq War, to fighting to help Americans recover from the Great Recession, to launching the bipartisan immigration talks and helping write our nation’s health security law,” Becerra said, adding that “California right now is ahead of the country when it comes to clean energy, common sense treatment of immigrants, real health security and so much more.”
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“Come at us”.
Yes, since most people know Chicanos in CA are worth about half as much welfare as White meth-heads in the Appalachians.
“come at us”
Such eloquence.... moron.
After 20 January, it’s on, Cali.
WHAT MAKES YOU THINK WE WILL PAY THEM!!
tryin 2 B gangsta
“This constant GRADUAL descent will take us through the center of the Earth. We’ll pop out at China, or something.”
I checked this on a 5” tin globe I noticed while playing yatzee at a friends house - off the coast of SW Australia.
I suspect the Malasia flight splash target was the coordinates of Washington D.C. on the opposite side of the earth. (not really, but what a neat conspiracy theory)
No problem. Just tell them to pound sand when they need federal funds to help cover pension defaults.
Turn the federal money spigot off.
An attorney general who openly defies the law...
Be careful what you wish for, you might just get it.
Yup. While it is highly amusing that California is suddenly seeing the light of states’ rights and embracing secession - something they mocked Texas mercilessly for considering - the fact of the matter is that they supported Obama when he got his Supreme Court decision against Arizona that the Feds and only the Feds could enforce immigration law. The flip side they didn’t consider is that this means the states have no say in how the Feds enforce that law. Payback’s a stone cold bitch.
Also:
“States’ rights, states’ rights, we have the right to do what we want and defy you.”
“Yes, but you don’t have the right to do it with everyone else’s money - you can do what you want, but you’re going to be doing it with only the money your state has. No Federal funds for you.”
“We need some kind of shock and I think it might be coming”
In order to stay in ‘power’ demoncrats will do anything to protect their voting base—illegal aliens.
They will burn the state down and go trillions into debt if given the choice.
The demoncrats are an anti-American organized crime syndicate that needs to be RICO’d with extreme prejudice.
The left has essentially ceded California to Mexico...They’re working on Oregon and Washington.
They are the biggest security threat facing the future survival of America and the American people.
This lawless faggotry has got to stop.
Sounds like something a little punk-ass bitch Mexican would spout off with. Har!
we will decide when we come after you., xavier.
Figures Moonbeam would nominate Xavier Becerra to this position. The new Mexican state!
I hope Trump tells them to FOAD.
you can count on it buddy.
Send Federal troops into Kalifornia to enforce the law. Arrest this Becerra person and clap him in irons.
>>WHAT MAKES YOU THINK WE WILL PAY THEM!!<<
At the pump and cash register? You are going to drive to Nevada to gas up and buy groceries?
THAT is why California and its cities have some of the highest sales tax rates in the country. Because they can.
"Fighting for" simply means try to funnel as much Fed.gov debt and printed Federal Reserve dollars into Democrate supporters' pockets.
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