Ben Shapiro

The California Attorney General is the state's chief law enforcement officer.

The current AG is a man named Rob Bonta, who was appointed by Gavin Newsom, and now he's been elected in his own right.

Bonta describes himself as an activist elected official.

He has litigated against the Trump administration on immigration, on environmental policy, on transgender protections.

He's been aggressive on every issue that really gets the progressive donors excited.

How about that question of the $2.3 billion in potentially mismanaged homelessness funds?

Well, on the question of the contractor, Alexander Sufer, who allegedly used $23 million in homeless services money

through a nonprofit called Abundant Blessings for his own personal enrichment.

On the question of an entire homelessness bureaucracy that a federal judge's audit is found to be essentially unauditable, the AG's office has basically done nothing.

This is what one party rule produces at the state level.

The AG is not a watchdog.

The AG is a member of the Democratic Party he is supposed to be watching.

The incentive to investigate fellow Democrats or prosecute political allies, well, it doesn't exist.

So the waste compounds, the fraud compounds, the homeless population compounds, as stated this past week, L.A.

held that mayoral primary.

In one of the most reliably Democratic cities in the most reliable Democratic state in the country, a large percentage of primary voters voted for a Republican because, you know, they're done.

But the odds in that mayoral election still increased.

nevertheless lean in Karen Bass's favor.

The structural advantages of decades of demographic change, one-party registration, one-party media, one-party institutional support, those don't often flip in a single cycle, if they ever flip at all.

The question is whether 72,000 people on the street, $2.3 billion unaccounted for, a mayor who wasn't even present during the worst fire in city history, and a new Republican candidate polling decently in the primary qualifies as a genuine catastrophe.