in the midst of Trump 2.0's mfg crisis in LA, the self-admitted liar Sarah Sanders piled on Calif Gov Newsom’s resistance to Trump’s deployment of the National Guard in LA despite mostly peaceful demonstrations. Newsom waited for a day before reminding Sanders that governors who live in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones.. “Your homicide rate is literally DOUBLE California’s,” he wrote. According to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention statistics, Arkansas has a homicide rate of 11.8 per 100,000 people while California’s is 5.9 per 100,000. Newsom delivered a similar clapback to Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.), a former Auburn coach who said Newsom should be locked up and that the “rule of law is nonexistent” in Los Angeles. “Alabama has 3X the homicide rate of California,” Newsom wrote back on X. According to DCDP, Alabama’s rate is indeed almost three times that of California.
Remember when the GOP was big on states’ rights, and how the Union was designed to be a great laboratory where different states could experiment with different policies? Now that Dems are in charge of certain cities, it's goons like Abbott/Patrick who are now taking over local control of everything from libraries to speed limits.
