Well, he went there. “He” being none other than the irritant-in-chief Gov. Gavin Newsom - the schmarmy beta-male who presides over the single greatest waste of natural resources and abuse of humanity called the State of California.
Newsom’s press office posited on X that the State of Alabama has a higher crime rate than California.
Using his stern look (you know, the one that says, “I’m trying to be a tough guy, but I don’t know how, so I’m overplaying it because I’m a drama queen”) Newsom pretended that California is tough on crime in the same way that Alejandro Mayorkas pretended the border was secure as millions streamed across it.
Katherine Robertson, Alabama’s deputy attorney general and current candidate for attorney general, responded immediately:
Crime rates in Alabama are hi