Reckless parole board members appointed by Newsom get confirmed on party-line vote, transcript rejected from being read
SACRAMENTO, Calif. – In the Senate Chamber today, Senate Democrats voted to approve the reappointment of five presiding commissioners on the state’s board of parole hearings. This demonstrates yet again the utter disregard the governor and legislative Democrats have for crime victims. They consider holding convicted, heinous, violent criminals accountable for their crimes as some sort of an ideological betrayal or disloyalty to Governor Newsom.
Conversely, California Senate Republicans are calling for a wholesale turnover of the parole board that is consistently and carelessly placing criminals’ rights over those of their victims. The first duty of government is public safety. Commissioners granting parole to child rapists and other violent criminals sentenced to life in prison (without the chance of parole due to the heinousness of their crimes) is a dereliction of the parole board’s governmental duty.
