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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Reconquista using our own laws...
I’d say that I’d pay real money to see that happen here in this case, but God knows with the taxes out here, I’ve ALREADY paid. Just waiting for SHOWTIME, now.
Xavier Becerra is working for Mexico.
Here’s hoping Trump has a plan to turn the water on again in California. Too much is sent out to sea or reserved for bait fish or other nonsense. Farmers are suffering because of extremists dreams.
The very minute that man defies a federal order, he needs to be put in prison.
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New POS same as the old POS.
Xavier Becerra for prison.
‘Come at us!, What an idiotic thing to say!
Shades of Little Rock in ‘57 and Birmingham in ‘63. Suddenly Dems are rediscovering the 10th Amendment. It seems that they are for centralized administration, but against centralized authority (see De Tocqueville), a truly bizzarro formulation.
Xavier is the BEST LIAR the left has!!
Horse caca.... He will fight for only the dark skin latino (damn I hate that word) wetback influence that Californification is known for, ignoring the White influence that made California the great State that it is.
This a$$wipe is a racist through and through. Just go back and listen to some of his speeches.
I can not wait until Senator Sessions gets a hold of him and his weakling boss.
Then Arizona should have threatened a water and power blockade.
Now that is what I am talking about..... Time to tell this Xavier pissant who pays the bills in California
“I hope Trump cuts off Calif IMMEDIATELY after being sworn in.”
I’m here too. Been here all of my now 76 years, and I want this state to GO UNDER! It may be costly for me personally, but going bankrupt is absolutely the only way for California to regain it’s former position as #1 in the nation. The RATS have made this place last place in nearly every quarter.
“Just an FYI, I’ll all for state rights and hate the over reaching feds, but there are only a few things the feds should be doing, and protecting the border is one of them. They can get out of every other state business but they need to protect the border or else you do not have a country.”
Agreed, but when it comes to the First AND THE SECOND Amendments, the Federal Government should be supreme. Federal Law should protect both amendments, and to that end National Right To Carry Legislation should be passed and signed into law preempting EVERY STATE GUN LAW! I am damned tired of states like California running rough shod over the 2A!
“”Fighting for” simply means try to funnel as much Fed.gov debt and printed Federal Reserve dollars into Democrate supporters’ pockets. “
Yeah, that’s one of the four or five “political terms” when used in my presence causes my sphincter to tighten appreciably. One of the others is “comprehensive immigration reform.” And calling new taxes an “investment.”
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