{"id":6587,"date":"2017-09-23T19:13:18","date_gmt":"2017-09-24T02:13:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/?p=6587"},"modified":"2025-12-07T19:14:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T03:14:11","slug":"ca-attorney-general-candidate-judge-steven-bailey-interview-part-ll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/2017\/09\/23\/ca-attorney-general-candidate-judge-steven-bailey-interview-part-ll\/","title":{"rendered":"CA Attorney General Candidate Judge Steven Bailey Interview, Part ll"},"content":{"rendered":"

Katy Grimes, Flash Report]<\/em><\/p>\n

In\u00a0Part l of my interview<\/a>\u00a0with El Dorado County Superior Court Judge Steven Bailey, who recently retired from the bench to run for California Attorney General after nearly nine years on the bench, we\u00a0discussed<\/a>how the current and recent attorneys general have weaponized the office to use the law against political enemies.<\/p>\n

<\/span>\"\"<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Judge Steven Bailey<\/p>\n

Judge Bailey, who has been an attorney since 1990, is a contrast against Xavier Becerra, the\u00a0current Attorney General<\/a>\u00a0who has been a politician his entire career rather than practicing law. Becerra\u2019s law license was filed \u201cinactive<\/a>\u201d with the California State Bar Association until 1\/1\/2017.<\/p>\n

Judge Bailey is concerned\u00a0how law enforcement is being misused and put in the position of having to be mental health case-workers, thanks to\u00a0Proposition 47<\/a>\u00a0(2014) and\u00a0Proposition 57<\/a>\u00a0(2016), along with\u00a0Assembly Bill 109<\/a>\u00a0which allowed for the release of criminals back on street, as well as the decriminalizing of many felonies including theft and many sex crimes. \u201cCrime is out of control,\u201d Bailey acknowledged.<\/p>\n

Jails are Mental Health Institutions<\/strong><\/p>\n

Because of Propositions 47 and 57, county jails are mental health facilities, full of mentally ill convicted of crimes. \u201cHomelessness, mental health and drugs are interfaced,\u201d Bailey said. \u201cNot all, but a substantial portion we see revolving through the mental health system are.\u201d Bailey explained if they take enough drugs and they will end up mentally ill.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou and I would go to our doctor and ask for something for our depression. But there\u2019s a different group of people mildly to moderately mentally ill who think they can control their mental illness by taking a little meth or cocaine, which makes them feel good. Pretty soon they are addicted, still mildly or moderately mentally ill, committing crimes and living in the park,\u201d Bailey said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe pretend they are the homeless,\u201d Judge Bailey added.<\/p>\n

The Democrats\u2019 solution is to throw some money at the \u201chomeless\u201d and build some public housing. \u201cBut they are just going to tear the place apart, use drugs, and end back up on the street,\u201d Bailey said. He\u2019s seen it time and time again. \u201cThe 47,00 homeless on the street in Los Angeles revolve through the jails because they can\u2019t sustain. We give them psychotropic drugs to stabilize them, and let them back out on the street.\u201d<\/p>\n

Judge Bailey said California needs to do what Texas did; \u201cTexas was smart enough to\u00a0provide services to the moderately mentally ill,\u00a0through community based programs and privately based non-profits<\/a>, as opposed to relying on the government.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThey were able to take $1 billion the state was going to spend on a new prison, and put it on the streets,\u201d Bailey said. \u201cThey pared their prison population down in a responsible way. People did not commit crimes when they were properly medicated.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt seems to me that it\u2019s a lot cheaper to take care of them in the community rather than leave them in the jail a long period of time,\u201d Bailey added.<\/p>\n

Typically you don\u2019t hear an Attorney General talk about taking care of people but judges see these people coming through the courtrooms, and aren\u2019t able to help them.<\/p>\n

That is just one important issue what Judge Steven Bailey wants to change as California\u2019s Attorney General.<\/p>\n

Ballot Titles and Summaries<\/strong><\/p>\n

One of the big areas desperately needing reform \u201cis the group of people who write\u00a0ballot titles<\/a>,\u201d Bailey said. \u201cAll we\u2019re asking for is an AG who is focused on being honest and forthright. It\u2019s one of the basic things when you\u2019re trying to vote and understand these complex initiatives on ballot.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cAll we want is the AG to write fair, accurate titles and ballot summaries,\u201d Bailey added. \u201cI don\u2019t need them to focus group it. They don\u2019t need to join the other side because they don\u2019t like what someone is going to do.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bailey used Assemblyman Travis Allen\u2019s (R-Huntington Beach) repeal of the\u00a0gas tax initiative<\/a>\u00a0as an example of one of the most grossly dishonest political statements the Attorney General could write. Allenfiled an initiative to repeal<\/a>\u00a0the recently signed\u00a0$52 billion\u00a0gas tax and put it to a vote of the people in 2018. Attorney General Xavier Becerra\u2019s title says the effort to repeal the gas tax increase \u201cEliminates recently enacted road repair and transportation funding by repealing revenues dedicated for those purposes.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cTo be clear, the initiative is a direct repeal of the gas tax, yet\u00a0Becerra has omitted the words \u201ctax\u201d and \u201cfee\u201d from his ballot statement<\/a>,\u201d Assemblyman Allen wrote in a recent Sacramento Bee\u00a0op ed<\/a>. \u201cFurther, he falsely suggests that the initiative repeals existing transportation revenues, though the SB 1 tax increases have not yet gone into effect, and that the initiative will \u2018eliminate\u2019 guaranteed transportation \u2018revenues\u2019 when it leaves existing transportation funds in place and does not stop the Legislature from allocating more money for transportation improvements.\u201d<\/p>\n

Becerra\u2019s ballot title and summary also attempt to con voters into thinking\u00a0SB 1<\/a>\u00a0revenues are guaranteed solely for transportation and road repair, when it contains no such guarantees. It also further claims that the initiative will \u201celiminate\u201d an office that does not exist, the Independent Office of Audits and Investigations.<\/p>\n

The new gas tax law lacks sufficient safeguards for the money to be actually spent on road repairs and transportation (as verbally promised by its backers) and would allow money to be spent on other favorite projects of the left.<\/p>\n

Bailey added, \u201cThere is no way of addressing that partisan approach without replacing the people in the DOJ and electing an new Attorney General for California.\u201d<\/p>\n

Boom. It is past time to Drain the California Swamp..<\/p>\n

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