California attorney general pick pledges affront to Trump
Source: Associated Press
Jonathan J. Cooper and Don Thompson, Associated Press
Updated 6:58 pm, Thursday, December 1, 2016
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) The longtime Democratic congressman slated to become California's next attorney general immediately took a combative stance against Republican President-elect Donald Trump's incoming administration after being named to the post Thursday, promising to defend the state's liberal stances on recreational marijuana, climate change, health care, immigration and criminal justice.
"If you want to take on a forward-leaning state that is prepared to defend its rights and interests, then come at us," U.S. Rep. Xavier Becerra said hours after he was appointed by Gov. Jerry Brown.
Becerra, 58, said he was "stunned" to be selected by the Democratic governor to succeed newly elected U.S. Sen. Kamala Harris. But he said he pledged during his telephone interview with the governor to build on some of the issues that Brown hopes to preserve as part of his record when he is termed out of office in two years.
That includes keeping California "the clean energy superpower of the country," protecting otherwise law-abiding immigrants even if they are in the country illegally, and building on Brown's changes that reduce mass prison incarceration, Becerra said. He also will seek to protect the state's broad implementation of President Barack Obama's health care law that Trump has pledged to unwind.
Read more: http://www.chron.com/news/education/article/Rep-Xavier-Becerra-nominated-for-California-10647125.php
pbmus
(12,418 posts)I can always escape to California when trump land folds...
Raine
(30,540 posts)still_one
(91,965 posts)yuiyoshida
(41,765 posts)and frankly if it became its own country, I WOULD VOTE FOR IT.
La Lioness Priyanka
(53,866 posts)msongs
(67,199 posts)La Lioness Priyanka
(53,866 posts)Tikki
(14,539 posts)to follow through with some of the same issues that affect their people.
Jerry ROCKS Xavier ROCKS!! and KAMALA is out there for the fight....
TRAVEL BLUE and BUY BLUE
Tikki
ailsagirl
(22,842 posts)SCantiGOP
(13,856 posts)We need more people like this in office.
LenaBaby61
(6,965 posts)We ain't perfect...
BUT...
There's nowhere I don't think I'd rather be .....
Tikki
(14,539 posts)Tikki
roamer65
(36,739 posts)NBachers
(17,007 posts)A strong regional alliance will help protect our political, economic, and social values. It will also maintain a free zone against the fascist regions in other parts of the country.
Tikki
(14,539 posts)I believe the East Coast Blues could do the same thing.
TRAVEL BLUE BUY BLUE
NBachers
(17,007 posts)SunSeeker
(51,378 posts)denbot
(9,894 posts)Bring it on, you Cheeto stained shit gibbon!
NBachers
(17,007 posts)Fire, earthquakes, or other natural disasters. I will be watching closely to see what kind of response the federal government comes up with
NBachers
(17,007 posts)Fires, earthquakes, or other natural disasters may happen during the Trump catastrophe. I will be closely monitoring the government response.