Valuetainment - May 03, 2025


＂Criminals Matter MORE＂ - California BLASTED Over CONTROVERSIAL Welfare Fraud Plan


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9 minutes

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1,854

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157

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Misogyny

3

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Hate speech

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Summary

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California Democrats block bill to make sex trafficking of minors a felony again. They block a bill that targets the buyers of minors in the sex trafficking industry. Governor Gavin Newsom is getting involved in the latest fight over child sex trafficking.

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00:00:00.000 Let me read the next idea to you, folks.
00:00:02.540 California Democrats block Bill to make sex trafficking of minors a felony again.
00:00:09.720 They block.
00:00:11.500 California Democrats on Assembly.
00:00:12.860 Rob, is this the clip?
00:00:13.820 Yes.
00:00:14.200 Go for it, Rob.
00:00:15.320 News out of the state capitol.
00:00:16.620 Governor Gavin Newsom is getting involved in the latest fight over child sex trafficking.
00:00:20.800 Thanks for joining us at 4.
00:00:21.860 I'm Lisa Gonzalez.
00:00:22.640 And I'm Curtis May.
00:00:23.640 The governor's office is speaking up after lawmakers today blocked an effort to crack down on the buyers
00:00:28.360 of the child sex trafficking industry, specifically those who buy 16- and 17-year-olds for sex.
00:00:34.680 Let's get to KCRA 3 Capitol correspondent Ashley Zavala, who was first to report the governor's involvement.
00:00:39.880 Curtis, this is now the third time the governor's office has gotten involved in this kind of fight
00:00:44.120 between Democrats over this issue.
00:00:46.420 The governor signaling his support for that proposal to make it an automatic felony to
00:00:51.160 purchase a 16-year-old or 17-year-old for sex.
00:00:54.100 In a statement exclusively to us this afternoon, really just within the last hour,
00:00:57.960 the governor's office said, quote,
00:00:59.080 The law should treat all sex predators who solicit minors the same as a felony,
00:01:04.680 regardless of the intended victim's age, full stop.
00:01:08.440 This comes after the Assembly Public Safety Committee this morning blocked this proposal
00:01:12.480 from moving forward that targets the buyers of the child sex trafficking industry.
00:01:17.400 It's written by Assemblymember Maggie Krell, a Democrat who has spent the last two decades
00:01:22.420 working on this issue.
00:01:24.120 Now, before getting elected to the Assembly, she was a prosecutor for the California Department
00:01:27.300 of Justice, but Democratic leaders say they have concerns about possible unintended consequences
00:01:33.120 with this, how the automatic felony for the purchase of the teens could impact the LGBTQ
00:01:38.100 community, people of color, and older teens.
00:01:41.620 Here's what the chairman of the committee, Nick Schultz and Krell, had to say right after
00:01:46.040 the hearing.
00:01:46.460 People are forced to stand there.
00:01:47.740 People keep asking that.
00:01:48.640 Like, why can't Democrats immediately get on board with something like this?
00:01:52.600 Yeah.
00:01:52.920 So I would emphasize two things.
00:01:54.840 First of all, the exploitation of any children, as we heard in there in the comments I made
00:01:59.700 in the dais, it's already unlawful to do anything like that in the state of California.
00:02:04.440 What we're talking about is a very specific, narrow issue of whether or not the stiff penalties
00:02:09.360 that apply in, say, a human trafficking context should apply in a non-human trafficking context
00:02:14.360 involving a 16- or 17-year-old.
00:02:16.560 As you know, under Senate Bill 1414, which passed last year, that's a mandatory sex offender
00:02:22.180 registration.
00:02:23.360 And that doesn't mean that we shouldn't at least entertain that conversation, but how
00:02:27.080 that might apply to an 18- and 17-year-old in a relationship might be different from what
00:02:31.700 we might see, from what we think about people that are out here trying to get somebody off
00:02:36.420 the blade and exploit them.
00:02:38.500 So I think that these are important conversations we have to have.
00:02:41.240 I don't think we're doing enough to protect children from sex trafficking.
00:02:44.680 I think that's pretty clear.
00:02:46.000 It's clear from the survivors.
00:02:47.580 It's clear from driving down to the blade right now.
00:02:49.760 If you needed more reason, like, keep piling up.
00:02:53.840 Just what is California being?
00:02:56.940 By the way, this is not funny.
00:02:58.460 Tell me, I thought honestly...
00:02:59.600 The jokes are stopped.
00:03:00.020 I have no jokes here.
00:03:01.040 No, I know you're not.
00:03:02.680 Don't do it.
00:03:03.200 I'm just saying...
00:03:03.880 No, I don't.
00:03:04.520 Guys, it's unbelievable to me.
00:03:07.200 I'm sitting here, because I want to talk about the RFK situation.
00:03:11.680 The fact that they're saying, no, 16- and 17-year-olds, it's not going to be a felony.
00:03:15.680 Then what is it going to be?
00:03:16.480 A misdemeanor?
00:03:17.200 And by the way, did you see the quote there?
00:03:18.520 It came from Governor Newsom's office.
00:03:20.940 It didn't come from actual Gavin Newsom.
00:03:22.640 It didn't say, said the governor.
00:03:25.020 It came from his office.
00:03:26.380 Because his office has two parts.
00:03:28.060 He has the Office of Public Policy and Office of Legislative Affairs.
00:03:31.580 So, and it came from Governor Newsom's office.
00:03:35.200 So, Gavin Newsom can say, well, it came from my office, and there's people looking into that.
00:03:38.960 I didn't.
00:03:39.720 I personally...
00:03:40.880 That's exactly...
00:03:41.540 That's escape. 0.77
00:03:41.860 You have to catch these nuances that are coming out.
00:03:44.000 But the strategy in California is decriminalize everything.
00:03:47.540 It's not your fault.
00:03:49.120 It's not your fault.
00:03:49.880 The only thing that I can take from California is that the only felony that the government of California has committed is the crime of not having common sense.
00:04:00.160 And that just seems to be a reoccurring theme of whatever's going on in California, which takes me back to my original point.
00:04:04.980 If there's one thing you could say about Florida is, at the very least, we have common sense here.
00:04:08.900 And leadership on down is just like, nope, this is the where.
00:04:12.560 Woke goes to die.
00:04:13.460 This is how we're doing.
00:04:14.300 This is how we're taking care of our police.
00:04:15.920 This is how we're taking care of children.
00:04:17.220 This is what's going on here.
00:04:18.200 We're not going to have kids doing social media at young ages, whereas you have California with just like wokeness gone wrong.
00:04:25.940 And here's just another example of just the mind-bending exercises you have to go through to understand what California is like.
00:04:31.940 What is that, Rob?
00:04:32.560 This is one of the members of the LGBTQ community who is an assemblyman who voted against the bill explaining why this bill would target members of the gay community.
00:04:42.860 Can you zoom in on his fingernails real quick?
00:04:45.040 Are you able to do that?
00:04:46.280 Yeah.
00:04:46.720 Can you go a little bit more?
00:04:48.200 Go zoom in a little bit more.
00:04:48.960 They're very polished.
00:04:49.620 His fingernails?
00:04:50.300 They're very polished.
00:04:51.120 By the way, those eyebrows were done by, I want to say, no, those are legit.
00:04:59.700 Zoom out a little bit.
00:05:00.520 Those are legit.
00:05:00.980 Did you throw up a Wu-Tang sign?
00:05:01.400 No, no, I mean, he's straight up.
00:05:02.640 I'm a good-looking guy.
00:05:03.540 But go out.
00:05:04.560 I want to hear this.
00:05:05.120 So what's it say?
00:05:05.680 So Assemblyman Gonzalez is concerned that anti-trafficking bill overlooks the LGBTQ community.
00:05:10.840 Again, I mean, when you say stuff like this, you know what you tell me?
00:05:15.240 If you want us to baptize your kids in the eyes of LGBTQ community, bring them to California. 1.00
00:05:25.280 It's very simple.
00:05:26.220 That's all I see it as.
00:05:27.440 If you want your kids to be overly exposed to certain things prior to them being at the proper age, bring them to California.
00:05:35.300 And by the way, for some of you guys that are watching this, if you're all for it, move to California.
00:05:39.060 It's a beautiful state.
00:05:39.900 If you want your kids to not be protected from dumb policies like this.
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