Had Gavin Newsom Funded Prop 36, LA Riots Would Likely Be Over

The more California Governor Gavin Newsom talks about his mismanagement of the Los Angeles riots, the more apparent it is to the national audience that he is incompetent.

Keep talking Gov. Newsom. Please.

People have been arrested for throwing a Molotov cocktails at police federal agents during the Los Angeles riots – some even charged with attempted murder.

I was at a business meeting Tuesday evening when Gov. Newsom’s “Major Address to Californians” was supposed to air. However grabbing a peak on my phone, what was released was a prerecorded video that didn’t have any audio. A new version of the same video with audio replaced it, where the governor continued to blame the President Trump for Newsom’s own leadership failures, and evident disdain for the California people.

Newsom complained that California National Guardsmen were being pulled from wildfire prevention and border protection. He’s called the President “unhinged.” He said President Trump “is attacking Democracy,” and is responsible for “3rd world lawlessness.”

“He chose theatrics over public safety,” Newsom said of the President. A little self-awareness by the governor would see how this statement is pure projection.

Except these “peaceful protests” would have been disbanded immediately had Gov. Gavin Newsom fully funded Proposition 36, giving police the authority once again to arrest violent criminals.

California voters overwhelmingly passed Prop. 36 in November 2024, along with all 58 counties, to make crime illegal again, mostly overturning the awful Prop. 47. Passed in 2014, Proposition 47 converted many drug felonies and all property crimes valued at $950 or less to misdemeanors, with little to no consequences. The growth of California’s drug-addicted homeless population, the epidemic of fatal fentanyl overdoses and smash and grab robberies are directly tied to Prop. 47, the Globe reported. Notably, the ACLU and groups funded by billionaire George Soros pooled roughly $10 million to fool state voters into passing an initiative called “The Safe Neighborhoods and Schools Act.”

But Gavin Newsom opposed Prop. 36, and worked against it. Even after its passage, Newsom did nothing to uphold voter’s clear wishes and fund it in the state budget. And now Newsom is wearing the Los Angeles riots like a hair shirt – as he should. And all of America is watching the California Governor’s meltdown.

The Los Angeles Mayor isn’t any better.

Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass continued to say city officials had it under control and didn’t need the National Guard and Marines to help return to order. She even said these are peaceful demonstrations.

It took Mayor Bass 5 days of chaos, anarchy, police attacks and looting small businesses to impose a curfew, 8:00pm to 6:00am. Anyone violating the curfew will be arrested, which really means if they catch anyone, a ticket will be issued along with a strong promise to appear.

Hundreds of rioters were arrested Tuesday evening at Newsom’s and Bass’s peaceful protests.

Rioters have been magically provided pallets of bricks, gas masks, and water bottles to throw at police, Fox LA reported. “They also reported that truckloads of bionic shields, which cost $60+ each, are being delivered to rioters. There is NOTHING organic about this. WHO IS FUNDING IT?” Nick Sortor reported on X.

The Coalition for Humane Immigrant Right—CHIRLA—is one of the key players in fomenting the violent response to immigration enforcement actions, California attorney posted to X. I wrote about CHIRLA in 2024 and their $34M in govt funding, and the bill they were sponsoring to give California taxpayer $$$ to illegal immigrants to help them purchase a home. I dug into their IRS filings: The the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights (CHIRLA), lists that it received $33,966,572 in government grants on its 2023 IRS Form 990, and $10,628,376 in “All other contributions, gifts, grants, and similar amounts not included above,” for a grand total of $44,760,434. And now we see they are funding LA riots.

In March, Newsom said he will protect us from “hate-motivated violence.” California’s Governor announced then that the state will give an additional $76 million to 347 community groups and faith-based organizations “to help protect them from hate-motivated violence.”

Where did that $76 million go? Don’t the hate-motivated riots qualify?

The California Governor’s Office of Emergency Services (Cal OES) administers the funds in the California State Nonprofit Security Grant Program, with awardees chosen “due to their high risk for violent attacks and hate crimes due to ideology, beliefs or mission with funding for security enhancements.”

So in March Gavin Newsom claimed he cares about Californians enough to award $76 million in state (taxpayer) funding to 347 awardees, of which “269 are ideology and spiritually-based organizations.” Some on the list are dubious.

And then there are the NGOs and nonprofit organizations funding and fomenting riots.

Remember, Gov. Newsom wrote on social media Sunday, “Don’t give Trump what he wants.”

Newsom criticized President Trump for exercising his constitutional authority and federalizing the California National Guard and sending them into Los Angeles to help restore order out of the anarchy and chaos. The President was forced to make this move because Gavin Newsom failed to address the anarchy and lawlessness in Los Angeles, and several Sanctuary California cities.

Monday, to Berkeley law professor John Yoo said:

“President Trump has the law firmly on his side, thanks to the Constitution.”

“There is a long and important tradition in our country, expressed in the Posse Comitatus Act, against using the military for domestic law enforcement. (BTW, readers of “Political Questions” likely know that Congress enacted the PCA to withdraw federal troops from the South and end Reconstruction as part of the deal to resolve the 1876 elections — but that is another story). But there are exceptions, such as protecting the national government and its operations and breaking up resistance to federal law, which are authorized by the Constitution itself or in the Insurrection Act. The Supremacy Clause of the Constitution makes clear that federal law is superior to state law; California’s officials and residents have no right to block the enforcement of federal immigration policy, no matter how much they disagree with it.” 

Yet Gov. Newsom claims that President Trump is “unhinged.”

Keep talking Gavin.