pocket the money in secret, not in public. red or blue, they both do it. They won't call each other out because they would both lose.

Yes that seems to be happening all the time. We hear about giving illegal immigrants 150k assistance (not available to Americans) to buy homes a day after it passes. Something aint right in the state of CA. (for reference, that bill was also killed by Newsom 2 weeks later) It is kind of eye opening to see that they're doing this and saying it out loud. I encourage everyone to vote Red for CA legislators this year. It is awful the kind of one-sided "democracy" CA is becoming.