A former California State Senator and “expensive pal” of Kamala Harris as soon as launched laws that might impose extra lenient punishments for baby pornography possession.
The California Democrat, Mark Leno, had a number of seemingly pro-pedophile coverage positions.
In accordance with a Los Angeles Each day Information op-ed, Leno “oversaw the demise” of laws to shut loopholes that allowed “hard-core intercourse criminals,” together with baby molesters, who had been dedicated to Atascadero State Hospital to go residence early. After SB 864 requiring a stricter dedication to Atascadero handed within the California State Senate unanimously, Mark Leno was reportedly one among three “ultraliberal” legislators to kill the laws in committee.
The op-ed continues to state that Leno’s AB 50 “supplied an ‘exemption’ from felony expenses if a suspect was caught with lower than 100 items of kid pornography. In a creepy all-time low, Meeting Democrats voted for Leno’s plan to go mushy on baby porn.”
Former Home Speaker Kevin McCarthy, who was serving as an Meeting Republican chief throughout the interval, reportedly said that underneath the exemption a compact disc with 1,000 pictures would have counted as only one piece of kid pornography. And it wasn’t simply Republicans who had been towards this pro-sex predator invoice. Longtime Democrat and political analyst Pat Caddell additionally described the laws–particularly the “100 exemptions for baby porn”–as “insane.”
When Leno introduced his retirement from the California Legislature in 2016, Kamala Harris notably counseled his “safe a greater future for California’s most weak youngsters” and declared herself a pal in a statement from her office as Lawyer Normal. In a tweet posted the following day, Harris thanked Leno for “14 years of passionate & collaborative service.”
Leno and Harris have maintained a detailed relationship for over twenty years, in accordance with each of their social media posts and previous information articles.
(Kamala Harris/Mark Leno- Picture Credit score/ https///www.flickr.com/photographs/lynnfriedman/9162410777 — Lynn Friedman “Mark Leno and Kamala Harris Share an Emotional Second at Metropolis Corridor In the course of the First Authorized Homosexual Marriage Carried out in 2013.”)
In 2003, Leno campaigned with Harris throughout her run for San Francisco District Lawyer.
“With much less identify recognition than Hallinan and Fazio, Harris is taking her message to the streets. Saturday, she campaigned by way of the Castro with queer leaders together with Assemblyman Mark Leno, Alice B. Toklas LGBT Democratic Membership co-chair Theresa Sparks, Hank Wilson and Martha Knutzen,” The San Fransisco Examiner wrote in 2003.
